If you use an iPhone, here's a couple of Gotchas

[thewayne]

First, if you've upgraded to the latest iOS, v9, go to Settings/Cellular, and scroll all the way down. You'll see an option called Wi-Fi Assist. You'll probably want to turn it off. Last week I received a text that I was 3/4ths through my 10 gig monthly data plan, and I couldn't remember doing anything that could account for a huge spike in my

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[silveradept]

Endlessly incentive malware makers only need to find one way in, and, admittedly, porn and bad copies of development tools are pretty good vectors for it.

[porsupah]

WiFi assist looks fairly innocuous, although I'm not sure where I'd encounter a situation with weak WiFi - personally, I'm either at home (with two stations - mine in the next room, and the roomie's downstairs. Not out of any necessity, just I like being on 5GHz, and he likes having his own =:) or out and about, so I know what conditions will be like.

Presumably this kind of unanticipated switchover's more of a thing for people routinely using outside WiFi setups? (I don't even bother with "free WiFi" - at best, it's liable to be flaky, and at worst, it'll either require registration or just outright won't work. That, versus just continuing to use the same cellular signal as usual - it's not a difficult choice, other than the times there isn't one, landing me right back in the mess mentioned. Unfortunately, I know a few very nice pubs that seem to exist in cellular black holes =:)

The Xcode hack was admittedly quite ingenious. The improved speeds Apple's promising in China should hopefully avoid any large-scale repetition of that