I forgot to tell you I got to be on the SMR Podcast last week and this week I got to be a guest on Daily Tech News Show. But things weren’t all rosy on DTNS as my computer woes continued. I’ll walk you through what went wrong this week, how Steve and I diagnosed […]
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Security 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 readingNC #746 Why Some CarPlay Isn’t Wireless, iPad mini Keyboards, Fixing Slow Mac mini, Tiny Tip on System Preferences, 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 Tuesday, August 27, 2019, and this is show number 746. Thank you so much for waiting for Steve and me to get back from visiting my family in Michigan. […]
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 […]
Continue readingNC #744 Tabliss, Freeplane, Clipboard Managers & Keyboard Maestro, Security Bits
Bart talks tech of bicycles on Chit Chat Across the Pond, Caleb Fong tells us about Tabliss for Firefox and Chrome, Ed tells us about the open source mind mapping app Freeplane and I’ll tell you how Dave Hamilton helped me automation chapter marks in Hindenburg and tried to convince me that clipboard managers are […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 10 August 2019
Security Medium 1 — Human Review of Voice Assistant Recordings The Guardian newspaper started what turned out to be a far-ranging controversy be reporting that when Apple said they kept anonymised Siri recordings for analysis, that analysis included grading by human beings. Specifically, by outside contractors.
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Dorothy’s Process to Search for the Best Secure Email Service
Intro Hello, NosillaCastaways. This is macLurker, also known as Dorothy, Allison’s gym buddy. For a long time, I have been wanting to change my primary email service & name. I’ve had it for years and years. It’s long since been sold into the dark web. It’s time to wipe the slate clean and start over. […]
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FIDO2 — Why Do We Care?
DISCLAIMER I’m not a FIDO expert. I understand the principles and the concepts, but I have no experience with the minute details. I’ve done my best to read as much as I can, and I believe everything here is accurate, but I may have made the odd mistake, and if I have, I apologise! The […]
Continue readingNC #742 CameraBag/CameraBag Pro, Sound Absorbing Blanket, Dyson Fan, Security Bits
I’ll tell you about an awesome image editor called CameraBag Pro that’s available in Setapp, then I’ll tell the story of the products I’ve bought to try to deaden the sound in my new studio – from a sound-absorbing blanket to a Dyson fan. Bart is back with a great Security Bits where oddly we […]
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