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Backblaze updates Cloud Backup 7.0 with macOS Catalina support
The auto updates are actually quite broken and the lead up to this release has been a poorly communicated mess (see https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/de1179/macos_610338_manual_vital_upgrade_prompt_lack_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf ).
I really hope backblaze up their game as a result of this. I really don’t care if my backup app looks nice on high resolution displays or not, but it hugely worries me that they don’t seem to feel it necessary to apply normal engineering practices like issuing change logs or having the app tell users when auto updating is failing.
(That said, they’re still miles ahead of crashplan - I evaluated crashplan for our company and quickly realised it is a security nightmare we shouldn’t touch with a barge pole.) -
'Sign in with Apple' may only limit tracking, not eliminate it
luxuriant said:The OpenID Foundation has pointed out that Apple's technology bears a lot of similarities with OpenID Connect, but has serious gaps affecting security and development.
Given its membership (https://openid.net/foundation/sponsoring-members/) I regret that I have to take any pronouncement from this source with a large grain of salt.
Luckily the foundation published the full technical details of how they differ from the standard implementation here:
https://bitbucket.org/openid/connect/src/default/How-Sign-in-with-Apple-differs-from-OpenID-Connect.md
You're very welcome to review that and form a considered opinion as to whether or not Apple has issues in their implementation of OpenID Connect that could cause security and interoperability issues or not.