How right u all r! Case-of-point: I was once 1 of those experts of sorts. Spending over 18yrs of computer engineering in various calibers, conducting or facilitating the documenting, using, testing, troubleshooting, analyzing, designing, integrating, & certifying, throughout the SW/HW areas of focus that encapsulate the DODs C5ISR Systems. And loved it till fate forced me into Disability Retirement in 2014. Now, truth be told the DOD always had, (much like Apple had till recently) the mindset that with all our knowledge & experience, combined with highly classified, Data Encrypted Comms, SW, & HW that our systems were nearly a impenetrable Sandbox environment; some of which have very recently become today’s commercially used protocols and standards. Yet we still had some of the occasional frustrating anomalies, ghost-in-the-machine, bad builds, code crashes, backward compatibility problems, (commercially known as Legacy Systems), bit & memory packet collisions, buffer overruns, freq. channel sharing entanglements, etc. At the DOD Level, faults are troubleshot from the bit channel in a ram module, to the msg type, cadence, timing & frequency of tx/rx requirements, up through data comm channels and into each component, accessories, pc, server, radio, system, system of systems, & even weather conditions. I text all that experience w/my program management experience. Which is the knowledge this level of product, programming, integration, compatibility, testing, documentation, & personnel training has never nor will ever happen commercially. So know w/certainty that no company sells a product not already rife with code, DB/Folder/File compiled structural integrity issues, component compatibility collisions, etc. So slow the finger roll to point to user when I can just as often, (& rapidly increases, concurrent to lower quality built components, standards, QA/QC invisibilities, minimal testing, documentation, or support personnel training (grossly defunct of SW Threat settings or capabilities nor current Security threat knowledge - AND yet the LARGEST, FASTING GROWING THREAT to the PC Manufacturers #1 customer base!!! Personally let down in this area by 3 separate Apple Stores & w/both call ins to LvL 1 Tech personnel. Solid jump w/LvL 2 Tech. OH, by the way, my 45yrs hands on experience was w/Windows systems until little over year ago when made an ALL IN Buy of an Apple MacBook Air 13 Pro, 11in iPad, and IPhone 16Pro. So, been Long, Slow, Troubling, help limited, migration. Worse still I brought an infected Samsung S21 via Verizon Hacked Account & Masked Sim & Phone transferred directly into new iPhone 15Pro Max w/esim. And that built my 1st Apple created cloud account & original mac air build. Then Apple rebuild of my Mac in Nov. 2025 still provided built Folder/File discrepancies, inconsistencies, & functional anomalies, more still when used to format my then new iPad, with its own albeit very few (mainly Safari) functional integrity & inaccessible settings. But Bottom-Line= Bad guys write the game scripts, companies use 3rd parties who use 3rd parties, who use 3rd parties & unless u were born in a barn & died a recluse hermit, then like 90.99% (arbitrary #) of the planet, will have a plethora of personal/private data points published or leaked to the web. There, Readily available to be bought & sold, used & abused: until the Good Lord has seen enough abuse & has mercy on us all (Amen)! This, maybe even more so for prideful experts that never consider it happening to them. And when it does, realizing that ‘U DON’T KNOW WHAT U DON’T KNOW, TILL U DO’. That painful lesson + Arrogance, Ignorance, & a yr+ long effort closing, repairing, & creating a nearly new footprint (nearly being items I had control to chg). This life-altering cut + an uncanny gift, or now a curse, for spotting slightest anomalies in discussions, docs, files, folders, code; causes me (2yrs later) a paranoia, a small fear even, of all web accessible technologies; more so now w/AI! Its been near impossible to find landline or Ham Rdo support services w/anyone these days :(
