Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Correction: — the microphone cut-off switch in the new iPad Pros is not a physical disconnect, but it is completely independent of iOS and can’t be affected by malware because it’s in the T2 […]
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NC #778 Audio Hijack Sessions, Sketchup, Programming is My Happy Place, Security Bits
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, April 5, 2020, and this is show number 778. Steve and I are so pleased to announce that we have not one, but two new baby granddaughters. Our […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Cloudflare’s WARP VPN Enters Beta for macOS, Windows — www.macobserver.com/… Related: WireGuard, the new and very promising open source VPN protocol that powers WARP VPN has reached 1.0, and has been added to the […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #776 Fasetto, Neofect, Tesla Unexpected Surprises, Ring, Barnacle, Memoji Live Show, Security Bits
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, March 22, 2020, and this is show number 776. California says Podcast is an essential service so the show will go on. mp3 download
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 22 March 2020
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 iOS clipboard security weakness discussed in the previous instalment, security researchers have now observed many popular iOS apps periodically polling the clipboard for no apparent reason, and it’s not known […]
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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, March 8, 2020, and this is show number 774. mp3 download
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Developments in the Avast Browser History Data Sales story: Avast kills off Jumpshot, the subsidiary that sold all your Web data — arstechnica.com/… 🇨🇿 Czech Authorities to Investigate Avast Over Sale of Users’ Browser […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🧯Intel have released a fix for yet another named bug in performance-enhancing features of their CPUs. This one is named CacheOut because it involves cache evictions. The key takeaway is that like the other […]
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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, January 26, 2020, and this is show number 768. This week’s show is going to be a blast. We’ve got an interview about an AI-based baby monitor and […]
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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 […]
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