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  • Apple sued over false accusations in Apple Store thefts by impostor

    robertwalterrobertwalter
    This is not the first time Apple Corporate Security has a questionable news report. Wouldn’t be bad for A C S personnel, practices and contractors to get a bit of management review love.
    killroyPeza

  • NHS admits contact tracing app won't work on older iPhones

    robertwalterrobertwalter
    Mr Lewis sounds like one of those dolt Project leaders that will push through in a bad idea to maintain his empire even though better concepts With fewer problems and better overall performance and compatibility are further advanced and are close at hand. 

    Drains batteries?  Of course not. 

    Doesn’t work on older phones?  Nbd those aren’t significant anyway. 

    Big thing seems to be folks should update their s/w. Apparently he hasn’t seen the high uptake rates of iOS 13, not to mention that 11, 12 and 13 combined cover near 100% of BLE iPhones already (5S and up). Since his s/w requires iOS 11 or later, he's essentially covered regardless of Update status. This also puts paid to his “haven’t got around to covering all phones yet”, but TBH this probably applies more to android than iOS. 

    It has been reported NHS has been studying adopting the Swiss tracking app. 

    Frankly any national app that don’t intercommunicate with other apps should be junked. That WHO, EU, CDC, etc haven’t worked on an Apple/Google-based global solution is frankly astounding, and pretty incompetent. 

    Today the Swiss government expanded its testing phase for its app to wring out the last of the bugs. Prior to this it was in small scale testing inside the Ranks of the Swiss Army. (TBH, the app will probably be ready for release before the Swiss Parliament gets a law in place to allow public roll out - at last word, such law was targeted for early June.)
    rossb2PetrolDavewatto_cobra

  • The road to Steve Jobs' resignation, and the rise of Tim Cook as his successor

    robertwalterrobertwalter
    GeorgeBMac said:
    DAalseth said:
    Jobs was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the fall of 2003. In an extreme example of Jobs' stubborn nature, he first fought his disease with alternative medicine, as well as a special diet.
    And if he hadn't done that, he might be here still. Get yourself checked for cancer. If the find it do EXACTLY what your doctor says. Radiation, Surgery, Chemo, Immunotherapy, whatever. \Don't let the scam artists on the web fool you. Fighting cancer is the hardest thing you'll ever have to do. But there is a way to beat it. And that is NOT with diet, meditation, acupuncture or any of that other BS.
    Actually, it's your own body that is the primary defense against cancer.  Not the doctors.   That's why the doctor's are using immuno-therapies more and more.   But, in the case of Pancreatic cancer, the prognosis is bad either way.
    If you have cancer, it kinda proves that your body has failed at that primary task and swift proven outside intervention is necessary. 

    Jobs degraded, shortened, complicated and ultimately ended his life by being arrogant enough to think he was a better doctor than the top medicine he could afford. 
    DAalsethelijahgronnwilliamlondon

  • China arrests 22 suspects for selling Apple user data on black market

    robertwalterrobertwalter
    ZooMigo said:
    This should serve as a good reminder. If you have not yet enabled two-factor authentication, do it now. Last week I received messages of two attempts to log into my icloud account. Wasn't me.
    Warning to those w/o 2FA enabled.

    I received two different forms of a purported Apple message ("somebody tried to log in" and "we locked your account") last week (one in junk folder the other in inbox). Since I've had 2FA turned on since day 1, I knew these were likely phishing attempts. I checked the sender's domain and it was not apple.com. 

    I forward all good spoof mails to:
    [email protected] ,
    [email protected] ,
    as well as my email provider (you can google yours.). If the mail involves Apple I add 
    [email protected] .
    HBW1

  • Apple responds to latest WikiLeaks CIA document dump, says iPhone and Mac exploits fixed

    robertwalterrobertwalter
    SpamSandwich said:
    Interesting that such old hacks are being revealed now. 
    Hopefully all hacks are equally old; even so, of the known hacks, it seems Macs older than 2012-ish have unfixable vulnerabilities. 
    cornchipwatto_cobra