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LastPass is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Users of the beleaguered password manager have had their data stolen yet again, adding another chapter to what has become one of the most damaging ongoing security sagas in consumer tech. If you're still holding on to that account, this week's news may finally be the nudge you need to move on.
Meanwhile, a lot of people have wondered whether services like DeleteMe actually deliver on their promise to scrub your personal information from data broker sites. Wired put it to the test, and the answer is complicated. The service does make real progress, but the brokers keep repopulating your data, turning privacy into an endless game of whack-a-mole rather than a solved problem.
And in an interesting hardware story, Commodore has dropped the price of its Callback eight-zero-two-zero flip phone by one hundred dollars, down to three hundred ninety-nine, by switching to recycled post-consumer memory chips and unbundling the earphones. It's a creative response to surging global memory prices, though it does raise honest questions about what buyers are actually getting for their money.
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