Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Social Media companies continue to work to curb abuses on their platforms: Twitter will soon show a warning when you try to like a misleading tweet — www.imore.com/… 🇰🇷 Facebook continues to run afoul […]
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Security Bits — 22 November 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Allison mentioned the RIAA’s attack on the youtube-dl open source YouTube downloader library in a previous show. GitHub have now reversed their decision to uphold the RIAA’s DMCA takedown requests — daringfireball.net/… related: […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 8 November 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Connecting COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Across Europe is Starting to Work — www.macobserver.com/… Deadline is December 8 for App Store Privacy Labels — www.macobserver.com/… Apple will require privacy “nutrition labels” from developers starting December […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 25 October 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. COVID 19 Apps Update 🇺🇸 Apple updates COVID-19 app with new questions and recommendations — www.imore.com/… 🇺🇸 Washington D.C. Rolls Out App-Free COVID-19 Tracking System — www.macobserver.com/… Zoom Rolls Out End-to-End Encryption for Video […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 10 October 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Social Media Updates Facebook bans QAnon across its platforms — www.nbcnews.com/… Instagram has improved it’s anti-bullying protections a little — about.instagram.com/… Deep Dive — T2 Jailbreak Update – The Other Shoe Drops Last week […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 4 October 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. COVID apps continue to roll out 🇺🇸 Pennsylvania launches contact tracing app built on Apple and Google tech — www.imore.com/… 🇬🇧 (🏴 🏴) — NHS COVID-19 app released in England and Wales — www.imore.com/… […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 13 September 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Recently we were alerted by Allister Jenks and Joe Preiser in our slack at podfeet.com/slack to a problematic idea I had on the last Security Bits. We were talking about how choosing an alphanumeric […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 30 August 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Pennsylvania has announced plans to release an Apple/Google-based COVID app in September — www.imore.com/… Which U.S. states are using Apple’s Exposure Notification API for COVID-19 contact tracing? 9to5mac.com/… 🇦🇺 Australia’s non-Google/Apple COVID app […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 16 August 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. COVID Exposure Notification/Contact Tracing apps continue to roll out: 🇺🇸 Virginia releases first Apple and Google-powered COVID-19 app in U.S. — www.imore.com/… 🇺🇸 North Dakota, Wyoming, and Alabama follow: Three more U.S. states launch […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 12 July 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇮🇪 COVID Exposure Notification Apps Continue to Roll Out: Ireland launches COVID-19 app using Apple and Google’s technology — www.imore.com/… Aside: I’m really impressed with how the Irish health authorities explain the privacy protections […]
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