Security Bits — 4 April 2021 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 the excellent Motherboard reporting last time that showed how easy it was to hijack the SMS messages destined for a US cellphone number, the […]
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Transferring Ownership of a Weather Station Using Meteobridge – a Tale of Adventure
In the Beginning Meteobridge Showing Davis Vantage Vue Display Many years ago, Steve bought a Vantage Vue Weather Station from Davis Instruments. This weather station transmitted over radio frequency to a base station with a display inside our house so we could see the temperature, humidity, rain, wind direction, and speed. He was delighted with […]
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Everything is Fiddly – Ray Robertson on RV Hotspots & Life
The text below is a transcription by otter.ai of a voice-only input by Ray Robertson. I have done minor editing to correct technical terms, but I’ve preserved the conversational story-telling feeling by not editing for grammar or sentence structure. Velocity 2 Mobile Hotspot So I really wish I could talk as fast and clearly is […]
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Morphic at CSUN – Gregg Vanderheiden Interview Transcript
At the CSUN, assistive tech conference, I had the pleasure of talking to to Gregg Vanderheiden, who’s a Professor and Director Trace R&D Center at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. He was at CSUN to talk about a project called Morphic. This is an interesting solution to a problem many […]
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Siteimprove at CSUN – Andy Waselchuk Interview Transcript
During the CSUN Assistive Tech conference I spoke with Andy Waselchuk in business development from a company called Siteimprove (siteimprove.com), and he talked about how they work with companies to analyze their web presence for accessibility and SEO, and provide training for on how to fix their problems. I was intrigued and asked Andy to […]
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Parallels Toolbox in 2021 – And Still It Keeps on Giving
Parallels Toolbox In July of 2017 I told you about a tool called Parallels Toolbox for macOS and Windows from the people who make the virtual machine software Parallels Desktop. This app really is what it says on the tin, a toolbox of little utilities. I’ve not noticed any particular app inside Parallels Toolbox as […]
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Interaction with Home Assistants for People with Dysarthria
I find the whole topic of assistive tech fascinating, as you may have gathered by now. I know a lot more about assistive tech for the visually impaired than the other fields, and I’m trying to push myself to expand my horizons. At the CSUN Assistive Tech conference, I saw a talk that was way […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 21 March 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. An interesting timeline of the Microsoft Exchange mega-attack discussed last time (Editorial by Bart: it really begs the question ‘what took Microsoft so long?’) — krebsonsecurity.com/… Bloomberg Report that when Parler (the social media […]
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Everything is Fiddly – Dictation on my Walk
I dictate reminders to myself all the time while I’m on my walks. I wear AirPods, so I interrupt my podcast listening by saying, “Hey S-lady” and then “Remind me to …” I used to say “Remind me to… when I get home” but geofencing is not at all reliable, so I pick a time […]
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Learn Screenium 3 Basics at ScreenCastsOnline
Two weeks ago I told you about an incredibly powerful and yet surprisingly inexpensive screencasting app called Screenium. I walked you through the features to explain the capabilities, but I also explained that this tool is far too powerful to explain in text how to make a screencast with Screenium. I told you that in […]
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