As you have undoubtedly heard, a U.S. House of Representatives committee called the CEOs of Apple, Alphabet (Google), Facebook, and Amazon to testify before them this week. Steven Goetz texted me in Telegram that it was really good TV. I was head down working on something during the day so I didn’t get a chance […]
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NC #791 Lory Gil on CCATP, Juice Watch, Dumb Question on Database vs. Spreadsheet, Tom Merritt on Apple’s App Store Policies
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, July 5, 2020, and this is show number 791. This is going to be a rather unusual NosillaCast in terms of the format. We’re going to start with […]
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CCATP #639 — Lory Gil on All Things Apple
Lory Gil of iMore On this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, I was joined by the most awesome Lory Gil, managing editor of iMore and co-host of MacBreak Weekly on the TWiT network. Lory and I had an absolute blast talking about all things Apple. We talked about the supposedly seamless interface […]
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Security Bits — 26 January 2020
Feedback & Followups Following on from Apple’s introduction of support for FIDO2 in iOS 13, Google now allow you to use an iPhone as a hardware security token — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… 
Following on from YouTube’s recent $170 million fine for breaching COPPA, a bi-partisan bill has been introduced in the US House of Representatives named […]
Security Bits – 20 October 2019
Security Medium 1 — Apple Card is not Magic A story made a lot of news this week because it involved a physical Apple Card being skimmed. It underlines the fact that people do not understand that when they fall back to using the physical card or entering the virtual number into a website manually, […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 8 September 2019
Followup Apple draws a line under the ‘Siri Grading’ kerfuffle with a a public letter apologising for not reaching their own high standards, explaining how Siri protects user privacy, and outline some changes to how grading will be carried out in future — www.apple.com/… Apple send as little as possible data to Siri, using on-device […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 27 August 2019
Followups GitHub joins WebAuthn club — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Human Review of Voice Assistant Recordings: Facebook got humans to listen in on some Messenger voice chats — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Microsoft have humans review your conversations, and they’re not up for changing that fact: Microsoft won’t shift on AI recordings policy — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Humans may have been listening to […]
Continue readingNC #745 Search for Secure Email Service, Apple iPhone Case Warranty, AppleCard with Denise
It’s an all-female cast this week with Dorothy telling us about her quest for a new secure email service, Sandy talking CarPlay in cars on Chit Chat Across the Pond and Denise talking AppleCard with me. I even do a quick bit on the show about how Apple didn’t honor the warranty on the iPhone […]
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Apple Doesn’t Honor Their Warranty on iPhone Cases
You know I’m a huge believer in AppleCare and that it has saved me more times than I can count. Who can forget the five 12.9″ iPad Pros and four keyboards Apple replaced for me? In all cases, I haven’t had to pitch any kind of fit to get them to honor the warranty when […]
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WWDC Adjacent – Why AltConf is Cool
AltConf for WWDC Getting into Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference is really hard. First of all, there’s a lottery system to even be allowed to get a ticket. If you get lucky, you’ve earned the joy of paying $1600 to attend the event. Of course, if you’re a developer, this is a unique opportunity to […]
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