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  • Apple strikes again: Which developers got 'Sherlocked' at WWDC

    shaminoshamino
    While many may consider it a bit unfair when a mega-corporation like Apple releases a free product that eliminates the market for a small company's product, I am not the least bit bothered when they're going up against another mega-corporation like Google or Microsoft.

    Big companies should compete with each other.  That's pretty much the only thing that keeps them from resting on their laurels.

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  • Ring will require police & fire departments to make public requests for video footage

    shaminoshamino
    I wish all the people accusing me of not having read the article would themselves read it.  The very first line makes it very clear:

    Amazon is changing how law enforcement agencies can obtain footage from Ring, with the changes making clear that the agencies are no longer allowed to contact users directly.

    "no longer allowed to contact users directly" means they can't ask me.  It doesn't say that they can knock on my door but not send an e-mail or any of the other things that people here are assuming.

    It later says

    If users choose, they can still directly contact law enforcement agencies.
    How magnanamous.  I have Amazon's permission to voluntarily send my own surveillance footage to law enforcement.  As if Amazon somehow has the right to prevent that.

    If this isn't what the new policies actually say, then the AppleInsider author needs to be more accurate.

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  • Ring will require police & fire departments to make public requests for video footage

    shaminoshamino
    So police are no longer allowed to ask you for footage from your own camera that you paid for?

    I think this is about the clearest statement ever that when you buy a cloud-connected device, you don't actually own it.  You paid for it, you installed it, you use it, but when push comes to shove, it still belongs to Amazon because they have the final say over what you are allowed to do with it.
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  • Some iPhone users report high battery drain following iOS 14.6 update

    shaminoshamino
    We see articles like this for every iOS release.  Most people see a spike in battery usage, probably due to things like optimizing the file system or re-indexing search databases, but that returns to normal in a day or two.  And every time, some people report excessive usage that never seems to go away while others with identical hardware report no such problems.  And people speculate about what's going on, but never come to a satisfactory conclusion.

    As the article says, this release isn't much different from any other release.

    At any time, there are some people whose batteries are failing or are close to failing.  I personally suspect that the extra load from a system update is sometimes enough to push these devices over the edge, or at least push them far enough that their owners take notice - even if what they're noticing is something that's been gradually degrading for several months or more.
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  • Researchers successfully use AirTag network to send messages

    shaminoshamino
    This has very little to do with Air Tags.  Apple already announced that they've opened the Find-My network to third party products.

    As such, anyone implementing the protocol can drop a message on the network, which can be received by any device connected to the corresponding Apple ID.

    I don't see this as a way to break into anything, but it could be an interesting kind of dead drop.

    As for using it to exfiltrate data from an air-gapped system, that would be a very poorly implemented air-gap.  If you're shielding equipment in a Faraday cage, then you shouldn't be allowing people to bring personal electronic devices into the cage.
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