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 […]
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NC #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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Security Bits – 25 July 2019
Followups The Zoom webcam/webserver issue We now have confirmation that the vulnerability was also present in the RingCentral and Zhumu apps — www.imore.com/… Apple have rolled out an additional automatic security update to address the issues with these apps — www.macobserver.com/… Related Opinion: John Gruber addresses the question Isn’t [Apple’s response] “nonconsensual technology” too? in […]
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Security Medium 0 (more of a Followup) — 3rd-party Parental Control Apps Return to iOS Editorial by Bart: I’ve seen some very lazy reporting on this story, and I think the context and nuance are important, hence giving this apparently simple story the ‘Security Medium’ treatment. To understand what happened this week, it’s important to […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #740 Digital Honk, Copy/Paste Plain Text on iOS, Tech on Travel, Security Bits
I can’t thank Bart and Allister enough for their help with the shows while we were vacationing in Chile. You may have received a version of Allister’s show that had the oddest digital honking noise on Sandy’s review – I’ll explain in this show what we think happened. Then I’ll answer a dumb question about […]
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Followups Facebook has replaced the infamous study app that breached Apple’s Enterprise Developer Program rules and got them into so much trouble a few months ago with a new app that is not side-loaded, is explicit in what it does, and is Android only (Editorial by Bart: I’m guessing they couldn’t get a useful spying […]
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I had the great pleasure of being on the actual radio with Rich Stroffolino. We’re off to a Chilean total eclipse of the sun so we need you to help out Allister Jenks and Bart Busschots with audio recordings. I review Soulver as a very inventive way to take notes with math in them. Tom […]
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Followups 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 Thanks to a letter sent to Facebook by US Senator Richard Blumenthal we now know that Facebook’s controversial VPN tracking app collected data on 187K users, and that 31K of those were in the US, and 4.3K of those were teens. The remaining users were in India — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Security Medium — […]
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