For those of you who don’t pay attention to the tech blogs over the weekend, or ever, and use one of these Apple products, go check for a software update today. That’s right, today, as soon as possible. Or at least before you go connecting to public wifi or anything like that, ok?
Make sure you’ve got the latest iOS version..
If you want the details on is latest security flaw, you can get it here.
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Should we be overly concerned with the information people might be inadvertently sharing on social networks when many still haven’t learned about the dangers of using a cell phone in public? That story reminds me of the time we were taking the train to Chicago and one of our fellow passengers spent part of the…
I have said before that I think the biggest reason that customers and “regular” people don’t straight up demand businesses get better at security and privacy is that they don’t really understand it. This is closely followed by the fact that “regular people” aren’t necessarily damaged by these data leaks or anything else all that…
So which is the worse email fail. The other day, after replying back and forth with someone for part of the morning, over lunch I got 4 error messages from the remote email server that my messages hadn’t been delivered. The ones that had already been replied to. That same night, the US Postal Service…
At first blush, the idea of scanning images synced up to iCloud for child sexual abuse materials against the hash list of known CSAM images seems like a good idea. As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse myself, I want tech companies to takes some initiative to deal with this issue. They also want to scan images on kids’ phones using AI to see if kids are getting into any trouble with sending or receiving sexual material. Again, that sounds like a good thing. But, as the EFF points out, this all requires a backdoor, and backdoors, once created, almost never remain used for just one purpose.
Cross posted from the Child Abuse Survivor site The tech world is alive with news that Google has helped locate and charge a predator based on scanning their email for child pornography images. Obviously, this is a case of a stupid criminal, if you’re going to share illegal images, using a cloud service provider that…
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RT @mikemac29: Update Your iPod iPad and iPhone: For those of you who don’t pay attention to the tech blogs over the weekend, or… http://…
Thanks for the heads up, Mike.