It's Bigger Inside
Spry's Internet in a Box, via Sean Gallagher, writing at Ars Technica.
Spry's Internet in a Box, via Sean Gallagher, writing at Ars Technica.
In a privacy reversal, Apple Inc.'s (NasdaqGS:AAPL) Spotlight search utility now mingles your search queries with millions of others, and forwards those sweet, sweet nuggets of data to Microsoft Corporations' (NasdaqGS: MSFT) Bing search engine.
While, on the surface, this data collection does not appear to violate any of http://www.apple.com/privacy, it is quite simply a terrible decision, and certainly muddies the waters for MAC OS X users world wide.. Simply astonishing...
Apple's statement, culled from the Spotlight application on Yosemite, otherwise known as Apple Mac OS X 10.10:
About Spotlight Suggestions & Privacy
When you use Spotlight, your search queries, the Spotlight Suggestions you select, and related usage data will be sent to Apple. Search results found on your Mac will not be sent. If you have Location Services on your Mac turned on, when you make a search query to Spotlight the location of your Mac at that time will be sent to Apple. Searches for common words and phrases will be forwarded from Apple to Microsoft's Bing search engine. These searches are not stored by Microsoft. Location, search queries, and usage information sent to Apple will be used by Apple only to make Spotlight Suggestions more relevant and to improve other Apple products and services.If you do not want your Spotlight search queries and Spotlight Suggestions usage data sent to Apple, you can turn off Spotlight Suggestions. Simply deselect the checkboxes for both Spotlight Suggestions and Bing Web Searches in the Search Results tab in the Spotlight preference pane found within System Preferences on your Mac. If you turn off Spotlight Suggestions and Bing Web Searches, Spotlight will search the contents of only your Mac.
You can turn off Location Services for Spotlight Suggestions in the Privacy pane of System Preferences on your Mac by clicking on “Details” next to System Services and then deselecting “Spotlight Suggestions”. If you turn off Location Services on your Mac, your precise location will not be sent to Apple. To deliver relevant search suggestions, Apple may use the IP address of your Internet connection to approximate your location by matching it to a geographic region.
Information collected by Apple will be treated in accordance with Apple’s Privacy Policy, which can be found at www.apple.com/privacy.
News, via Renee Yao [with guest writer Mark Voelker, technical lead at Cisco] writing at Cisco Blogs, of the newly released OpenStack 2014.2 (aka Juno). Fundamentally, OpenStack open-source software targets the creation of cloud compute infrastructure, both private and public. Absolutely Outstanding.
In an astonishing announcement, and one that I thought might never materialize in my lifetime, Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks has revealed a new fusion reactor, slated for market deployment within a decade. Not to be outdone, the University of Washington has also announced a new tokamak concept reactor that promises inexpensive energy, in fact, 'cheaper than coal'. Absolutely Outstanding.
News [via Lucian Constantin writing at PCWorld] of the latest compromised advertising networks... In this case, Right Media (now Yahoo Ad Exchange), The Rubicon Project, and OpenX - all three broadcasting their nasty bits, now infecting unknown numbers of clients... Hence the necessity of proactive ad-blocking with browser extensions such as AdBlock.
News, via John Ribeiro, writing for PCWorld, of the acceptance of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s (SSNLF) KNOX device product line within the National Security Agency's Commercial Solutions for Classified program.
Glenn Fleishman, writing at MacWorld, regales us with a sort of iCloud Omnibus; in which, the Good Mr. Fleishman tells of Cupertino's take on the security of the remote storage behemoth's infrastructure (also known as Apple Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: AAPL) iCloud).
Writing for The Guardian, Dominic Rushe and Paul Lewis have certainly embarked upon a problematic path to tread... Focusing their combinatorial scrutiny on the entity known as Whisper, we discover the kernel of truth denoting what the company is offering up.
Well now, this is the first time I have read advice like this from a web designer. no less.
Because, you will, me-buck-o, be-a war fighting sans guerre électronique...
Astonished to find this well-written investigative piece by Vince Lattanzio, writing for NBC 10, in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania [covering Philadelphia and the NBC affiliate in the City of Brotherly Love]. In an effort to detail the the Department of Homeland Security's Forensics Investigation Laboratory many of the tricks of the trade - so to speak- are illustrated for all, including an EMF blocker container to examine miscreant-owned mobile devices without the possibility of remote data destruction.
via Geekologie comes this look at Google Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: GOOG) street view in Abu Dhabi...
Readers who have examined this weblog during the thirteen years plus of it's publication, know of my Interest in Matters Turing and Bletchley; Alan Turning & Bletchley Park, that is... With those Foci in mind, here is a fascinating serial scrutinizing the history of Bletchley Park, the nearly seventy-year-old locale of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) (now known as GCHQ). Today's MustRead.
Not to be undone by the well reported Bourne Again Shell vulnerability of two weeks past, now, via, Robert Lemos, writing at ArsTechnica, comes this sordid tale of poor punctuation coupled with input validation issues. In which, the vulnerability at hand, opens up a logical path within the Microsoft Corporation (NasdaqGS: MSFT) Windows in-built shell, where all the badness is vectored...