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2024-02-06 Zoom Security Does not Look Good—  Alternatives?

2023-12-29 Invasion of Privacy? Google settles $5 Billion Consumer Privacy Lawsuit

2022-11-21 Apple Analytics Personally Identifies You While Marketing the Piss Out of “Privacy”?

2022-02-15 A Bit More Privacy For WiFi on your iPhone

2022-01-11 Kudos to Apple for its Mail Privacy Protection Feature

2022-01-11 Kudos to Apple for its New “Private Relay” Feature

2021-08-26 Can’t Apple Release a macOS that is Reliable?! Kernel Panics

2021-08-05 Apple replacing industry-standard end-to-end encrypted messaging system with infrastructure for surveillance and censorship — iPhone as spyPhone

2020-12-28 Apple Punished Employee for Approving App That Was Critical of Beijing, Lawsuit Alleges

2020-11-27 Apple Spyware in macOS Big Sur Cannot be Disabled (“sneak.berlin: Your Computer Isn’t Yours”)

2020-07-23 A Troublesome Security and Privacy Flaw: Apple Mail Auto-Complete + How to Delete Unwanted Recipients

2020-04-03 Popular Video Conferencing App 'Zoom' is Rife with Security Bugs and Maybe Infiltration by Chinese Communist Party

2020-04-02 Malware on iPhone? Unwanted “Congratulations Apple iPhone user” Popup Malware Erases Existing Site from Browser History + Improper Security Certificate

2020-02-03 macOS Catalina 10.15.3: Privacy Tab Does not Work — Files and Folders Inoperable

2019-11-17 Apple iOS 13: Can the Privacy Mode Banner be Dispensed With?

2019-01-30 Apple Revokes Facebook’s Enterprise Certificate

2019-01-28 Apple Core Rot at its Finest: the Apple Facetime Bug Clown Show

2018-05-20 Adding Features/Functionality Always Decreases Security, Never Underestimate the Power of the Dark Side: Siri and Alexa et al Exploits

2018-03-28 Apple’s Tim Cook Weighs in on Facebook

2018-03-24 Concussion

2018-03-16 Privacy: When Your Computer is Repaired, Does the Facility Scan your Private Information too? BestBuy’s GeekSquad Gets Paid to Scan and Report to the FBI

2018-02-24 Apple Throws Chinese Users Under the Bus

2018-01-12 Apple and Privacy: are there Bedrock Principles Based on Inviolable Philosophical/Moral Principles, or Rather, Concretized Pragmatic Range-of-the-Moment “whatever works” Policies?

2017-10-16 Mobile Phone Companies Sell your Name and Location Data

2017-05-09 Tired of Being Tracked and Bombarded with Ads? Ghostery

2017-03-07 Wikileaks Reveals Many Things... like Televisions as Covert Listening Devices

2017-01-10 macOS BloatWare (and what feels like SpyWare)

2016-11-18 Apple iPhone Secretly Uploading Call Logs when iCloud is Enabled?

2015-12-19 A Troublesome Security and Privacy Flaw: Apple Mail Auto-Complete + How to Delete Unwanted Recipients

2015-09-19 A Big Privacy Lie: Anonymization

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Blog posts

2024

2024-02-06 Zoom Security Does not Look Good—  Alternatives?

2023

2023-12-29 Invasion of Privacy? Google settles $5 Billion Consumer Privacy Lawsuit

2022

2022-11-21 Apple Analytics Personally Identifies You While Marketing the Piss Out of “Privacy”?

2022-02-15 A Bit More Privacy For WiFi on your iPhone

2022-01-11 Kudos to Apple for its Mail Privacy Protection Feature

2022-01-11 Kudos to Apple for its New “Private Relay” Feature

2021

2021-08-26 Can’t Apple Release a macOS that is Reliable?! Kernel Panics

2021-08-05 Apple replacing industry-standard end-to-end encrypted messaging system with infrastructure for surveillance and censorship — iPhone as spyPhone

2020

2020-12-28 Apple Punished Employee for Approving App That Was Critical of Beijing, Lawsuit Alleges

2020-11-27 Apple Spyware in macOS Big Sur Cannot be Disabled (“sneak.berlin: Your Computer Isn’t Yours”)

2020-07-23 A Troublesome Security and Privacy Flaw: Apple Mail Auto-Complete + How to Delete Unwanted Recipients

2020-04-03 Popular Video Conferencing App 'Zoom' is Rife with Security Bugs and Maybe Infiltration by Chinese Communist Party

2020-04-02 Malware on iPhone? Unwanted “Congratulations Apple iPhone user” Popup Malware Erases Existing Site from Browser History + Improper Security Certificate

2020-02-03 macOS Catalina 10.15.3: Privacy Tab Does not Work — Files and Folders Inoperable

2019

2019-11-17 Apple iOS 13: Can the Privacy Mode Banner be Dispensed With?

2019-01-30 Apple Revokes Facebook’s Enterprise Certificate

2019-01-28 Apple Core Rot at its Finest: the Apple Facetime Bug Clown Show

2018

2018-05-20 Adding Features/Functionality Always Decreases Security, Never Underestimate the Power of the Dark Side: Siri and Alexa et al Exploits

2018-03-28 Apple’s Tim Cook Weighs in on Facebook

2018-03-24 Concussion

2018-03-16 Privacy: When Your Computer is Repaired, Does the Facility Scan your Private Information too? BestBuy’s GeekSquad Gets Paid to Scan and Report to the FBI

2018-02-24 Apple Throws Chinese Users Under the Bus

2018-01-12 Apple and Privacy: are there Bedrock Principles Based on Inviolable Philosophical/Moral Principles, or Rather, Concretized Pragmatic Range-of-the-Moment “whatever works” Policies?

2017

2017-10-16 Mobile Phone Companies Sell your Name and Location Data

2017-05-09 Tired of Being Tracked and Bombarded with Ads? Ghostery

2017-03-07 Wikileaks Reveals Many Things... like Televisions as Covert Listening Devices

2017-01-10 macOS BloatWare (and what feels like SpyWare)

2016

2016-11-18 Apple iPhone Secretly Uploading Call Logs when iCloud is Enabled?

2015

2015-12-19 A Troublesome Security and Privacy Flaw: Apple Mail Auto-Complete + How to Delete Unwanted Recipients

2015-09-19 A Big Privacy Lie: Anonymization

2015-01-09 Possible Work-Around for Spotlight Privacy/Security bug of Indexing Spam Email

2015-01-09 Spotlight Builds in a Feature Spammers Could Only Dream About

2014

2014-11-05 When the iPhone and Three Nearby Computers all Ring for a Phone Call, and is this a Privacy Issue?

2014-10-20 Search Terms in OS X Yosemite Get Sent to Apple

2013

2013-10-11 There is no 'Free Lunch': Your Likeness and Endorsement by Google (or Facebook)

2013-05-23 The Implications of a Centralized App Store and Centralization in General: Single Point of Failure

2011

2011-04-27 Update on Apple Tracking Data on iPhone, iPad