56 posts tagged ‘Privacy’
Security Research on Private Cloud Compute
mjtsai,
Apple (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): In the weeks after we announced Apple Intelligence and PCC, we provided third-party auditors and select security researchers early access to the resources we created to enable this inspection, including the PCC Virtual Research Environment (VRE). Today we’re making these resources publicly available to invite all security and privacy researchers […]
Leaky macOS VPN After System Update
Mullvad VPN (Hacker News): We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it. We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.In this scenario the macOS firewall does not seem to function correctly and is disregarding firewall rules. Most […]
Autoenshittification, YouTube, and Disenshittify or Die
Cory Doctorow (July 2023, Hacker News): Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket.[…]The car manufacturers got so desperate for chips that they started buying up washing […]
A 'Cookie Pledge' Claims It'll Free You From All Those Annoying Cookie Popups
Gizmodo,
Tired of dealing with popups begging you to accept cookies? Blame the EU. In 2018, Europe unleashed a groundbreaking privacy law called the GDPR that, among a billion other things, makes websites ask permission before tracking you with cookies. A lot of companies switched their whole systems over rather than building… Read more...
AirDrop Log Dehashing
Lawrence Abrams (MacRumors): A Chinese state-backed research institute claims to have discovered how to decrypt device logs for Apple’s AirDrop feature, allowing the government to identify phone numbers or email addresses of those who shared content.[…]To get around censorship in the country, people turned to Apple’s AirDrop feature, which doesn’t require cellular service and uses […]
The Boeing 737 MAX and Alaska Airlines Flight 1282
Luke Bodell (via Hacker News): In August, the FAA issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) warning MAX operators about using the engine anti-icing system in dry air. The AD came about following in-flight testing, which found that deploying the anti-icing system for longer than five minutes under specific conditions led to overheating and damage to the […]
How to Be Optimistic About Technology Now
Nick Heer: If you measure your level of optimism by how much course-correction has been working, then 2023 was a pretty hopeful year. In the span of about a decade, a handful of U.S. technology firms have solidified their place among the biggest and most powerful corporations in the world, so nobody should be surprised […]
It’s not all doom and gloom: When cybersecurity gave us hope in 2023
TechCrunch,
A funny — but true — joke at TechCrunch is that the security desk might as well be called the Department of Bad News, since, well, have you seen what we’ve covered of late? There is a never-ending supply of devastating breaches, pervasive surveillance and dodgy startups flogging the downright dangerous. Sometimes though — albeit […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.