Basic settings include a selection of colors for on-screen buttons and background colors.

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In this world, there are no scripts because anything that could be scripted has already been automated and made available to the end-user, who now finds it inconceivable that they should have to contact companies to change basic information, like notification settings or credit card information.

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Those include vulnerability to denial of service attacks, which overload servers with thousands of simultaneous requests for data, as well as basic hacking tactics like guessing the password of users who fail to change default settings.

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