Apple is about to announce a new feature. They are going to start scanning everyone’s iPhone for banned content. Seriously. It uses neural networks and machine learning, so I am sure it will be cool. According to respected cryptography professor Matthew Green, it is going to scan everyone’s devices for child porn (now referred to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security Company Founder Charged with Hacking Georgia Hospital An indictment unsealed this week in a Northern District of Georgia court accuses Vikas Singla, 45, with 18 separate counts of aiding and abetting a 2018 cyber attack against the Gwinnett Medical Center in Georgia. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is (or maybe now was) the COO of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If You Thought the FTC Was Toothless Before, Just Wait I always complained that the FTC’s penalties were way too meek. Now I understand why, but it has just gotten MUCH worse. 99.99% of the blame goes to Congress. Initially, the FTC could not bring lawsuits against businesses at all. All they could do was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you were using your phone and visited a web site when a message popped up that said something like “we want to sell your data to anyone we want and you get nothing for that – do we have your permission to do that?” – what would your answer be? Well, if you are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since the beginning of Apple-time (or is it i-time?), Apple has always bundled security fixes into iOS upgrades. This means that a user could not install a security update without also upgrading the OS. In general, Apple has always forced users to upgrade their iPhones and other mobile devices. This tends to make Apple products […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since Apple doesn’t make a lot of money by selling your data to others (or selling targeted ads to others based on data that it captures), it loves poking Google in the eye about its data collection practices. Apple required “privacy nutrition labels” by vendors, including themselves, for all new releases of software distributed in […]
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