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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First, what are cookies? For those who don’t know, they are small text files, often encrypted, placed on your phone or computer by web sites so that they can track your actions. Cookies come in two flavors. FIRST PARTY cookies are cookies placed on your device by the website that you are visiting. THIRD PARTY […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Gives Up On Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) ASLR is a security technique that has been used for years to make it harder for hackers to FIND code in memory to compromise it. There is a problem in the rendering engine in the Chromium project that breaks ASLR and Google says that they won’t […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have reported before, retailers don’t really care whether the smart devices that you buy are secure. Home Depot is one of those vendors and when asked about dumb smart devices, they said: “We require all vendors to follow applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards”. Of course, there are virtually no laws, regulations or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The average car or light truck has somewhere between 50 and 200 computers in it, depending on the model. Those computers both create data and consume data. Sometimes that fact can be quite useful. In 2017 the body of a mechanic, Ronald French, was found in a cornfield in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. For more than […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple is preparing to add a new prompt to iOS that requires users to opt-in to tracking by app developers like Facebook. It used to be that you could opt-out — if you could find the place to do that. Facebook is going to have its own screen telling you how wonderful it is to […]
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