Hi, this is Bart Busschots from Bartificer Creations guest-hosting the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias, and for today, a more than slight Irish accent 
Today is Sunday, April 20, 2025, and this is show number 1041. Happy Birthday, Allison & Steve! Happy […]
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Security Bits — 20 April 2025 (Solo) 
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Rather aptly for this solo show, NosillaCastaway MildDeamons perfectly expressed the reason I much prefer recording with Allison on the NosillaCast Slack when he posted: > “I really enjoy it (and I think most […]
Continue readingA Lexicographical Loop with ‘nym’ Words (Bart Busschots)
Indulge me while I embrace the intentional openendedness of the Nosillacast name to share some geeky fun from a different type of language to the ones I normally drone on about — human language! In my school days languages were by far my weakest subjects, and I’d go so far as to say I developed […]
Continue readingHow I Fell in Love with Kagi (Bart Busschots)
I’ve been advocating the follow the money philosophy for over a decade now — your data, and hence you privacy, are valuable, so you need to choose carefully who you entrust them to, and the best way to figure out who is and who isn’t trustworthy is to understand how they pay their bills. Once […]
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Security Bits — 16 March 2025 
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 
The UK’s secret campaign to compel Apple to break its iCloud Advanced Data Protection feature is reportedly continuing apace (still without official confirmation), with a hearing having apparently taken place in a […]
Security Bits — 2 March 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Yet another reminder that developers are in the attacker’s sights: VSCode extensions with 9 million installs pulled over security risks — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Microsoft’s prompt and very effective response to proactively disabled the plugin in […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 2 February 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Updated Advice from Bart: back in 2019 I recommended the anti-malware not-for-profit DNS provider QuadNine (9.9.9.9) on the NosillaCast, I had been using it on my router since then, but not anymore, their service […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 19 January 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Following on from Apple’s choice to settle a US class action suit over privacy breaches caused by accidental Siri activations, Apple released a press release confirming my interpretation of the case, and verifying that […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 3 January 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The recently disclosed massive hack of western telecommunications firms that lead the US FBI & CISA to issue advice to switch to E2EE VoIP and messaging apps like Signal over SMS & phone […]
Security Bits — 21 December 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Following the FBI earlier in the month, and following the revelation that 8 major US telcos were compromised by the Chinese government, the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has joined the […]