I mean, I get it if you don’t like the default keyboard on your iPhone or Android device, but do you really want to be sharing everything you type with “random” company? “Third-party keyboards are so dangerous because they want to be “smart”. Keyboards aren’t content to just live entirely on your phone and allow…
Free WiFi is not a safe place – Siciliano says in his line of work he’s been seeing an increase in hackers prying on people using free Wi-Fi on their smart phones. Because the free Wi-Fi doesn’t encrypt your data, hackers can use a scanning tool to duplicate a person’s device by cloning their IME…
There’s a lot of interesting things in this article, you should read it. This one, however, is one that I want to specifically mention: “Notifications are unnecessary and they’re poison. If we enable them, we are asking our phones to interrupt us. Don’t do it.” This is true. It’s also hard to get people to…
Uh-oh, could this be #FakeNews coming from the government itself? Shame…. “And while that may look like Pai was busy trying to do a good thing, Apple was forced to issue a public statement pointing out that the chipsets Pai wants turned on — don’t actually exist:” https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170929/12370138315/trumps-fcc-boss-blasts-apple-refusing-to-turn-fm-iphone-chipsets-that-dont-actually-exist.shtml
Turns out, it probably isn’t too difficult to put together some pieces of your identity using the “anonymous” data that is tracked by various companies. Lots of interesting things in this post by Chris Dale about various sources of data and how they will start to show up in the legal world as eDiscovery, but a…
I’m not going to get into whether the 6 game suspension was fair or not, or the criminal investigation that was dropped, etc. At least not here. I do, however, want to thank Deadspin for being one of the only sports sites to not just repeat verbatim what the NFL had to say about the…