The phones have turned on us. Our little pocket pals seduced us with cheap long distance, unlimited texts, endless apps. Now they beep and shudder and flash with strange numbers at all hours of the day. We answer, and our beloved iPhone (or Android, or bedside landline) impales our eardrum with a cruiseline ad.
How Phone Spam Turned Our Favorite Devices Against Us
Northwest Herald, Northwest Herald
Tue, 03/19/2019 - 11:48am
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