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  • Apple hit with class action suit over MacBook, MacBook Pro butterfly switch keyboard failu...

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    I've got a late 2017 MBP and while it appears I'm one of the very few, rare people that likes the new keyboard, this is a legitimate concern.  I'm a neat freak while using my MBP and always keep the keyboard clean and don't use it as a dinner plate.

    However, that doesn't mean that I'm giving Apple a free pass here.  Paying $700 to repair/replace a keyboard on a fully-functioning "pro" laptop is downright extortion and I feel that Apple truly should be ashamed of themselves for introduction a design that could actually be defective.

    I'm watching this one closely.  I don't think I'll really experience that problem, but it does bring a level of concern as this could affect the resale value of my machine if/when I upgrade.
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  • Samsung reports weak demand for OLED displays used in iPhone X

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    iPhoneX sales are the best yet of any of Apple's iPhones.  So what this report actually means is that the crap Android phones using these displays are tanking and the media is making it sound like it's Apple's fault.

    I guess it was a slow day for the spin-crew, so might as well fabricate another iHating article.
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  • iPhone unlocking firm Grayshift faces extortion demands after data breach

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    fastasleep said:
    sflocal said:
    This article sounds more like click-bait dramatics than actually damage.  Sounds like the box has a built-in web server and all a user has to do is communicate via a browser instead of having to install some kind of software on their computers.  

    This is not even anything remotely close to having access to the actual code which makes this hardware work unless the actually code is a bunch of php, java, javascript, etc.. which to me would just not make sense.

    There is way more to this story that is not being discussed, and I'm beginning to think it's another one of the media's "Let's be the first to post, and retract later" antics.  I'm a software engineer and there's just too many holes in this story to come to any kind of conclusion just yet.  
    How do you know what code lives where and what they got? There is a web interface to interact with the box itself, but if you have the source code for the box itself you could just build your own box. 
    Source code and binary/compiled code are two different things entirely.  It makes zero sense that uncompiled, readable source code would exist in an end-product that can be removed and used elsewhere.  It's like Apple publishing source code in a folder inside an iPhone itself.  Zero sense.

    If the device has an embedded web server, then I can see someone hacking into the web server and lifting UI "source code" which has nothing to do with the actual (compiled) code that is installed on the device itself.  That compiled code is what interfaces to the iPhone.

    Even if the hackers were somehow able to lift the firmware binaries from the device, that is not the actual source code.

    This article is making assumptions, and it sounds like it was written by someone that has little knowledge about how systems work.
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  • iPhone unlocking firm Grayshift faces extortion demands after data breach

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    This article sounds more like click-bait dramatics than actually damage.  Sounds like the box has a built-in web server and all a user has to do is communicate via a browser instead of having to install some kind of software on their computers.  

    This is not even anything remotely close to having access to the actual code which makes this hardware work unless the actually code is a bunch of php, java, javascript, etc.. which to me would just not make sense.

    There is way more to this story that is not being discussed, and I'm beginning to think it's another one of the media's "Let's be the first to post, and retract later" antics.  I'm a software engineer and there's just too many holes in this story to come to any kind of conclusion just yet.  
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  • Facebook says Cambridge Analytica may have collected data on up to 87M people

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    Wow.
    Keep on using Facebook guys.
    I took the liberty a few weeks ago to download my entire Facebook activity to see what the big deal is.  I'm a fairly heavy user of Facebook for nine years so I was really curious to see what "personal" information was out there.

    It's entrenched in the user settings, but one can download "everything" about you to maintain transparency.  I was actually surprised as to what was in there that would concern me.  Nothing.  Seriously... a lot of was data about what I did on FB, what I liked, the sites/ads I interacted with, etc... 

    There was no "personal" information that would necessarily concern me.  Equifax was by far, much more damaging than anything Facebook has on me.

    The FB data on me was junk.  Seriously.  If people are up in arms about this kind of data, then people have way too much time on their hands.  The fact that FB makes money on this kind of data was more surprising to me than anything else. 

    Typical media and political witch hunt as far as I'm concerned.  

    People and the feds should be much more harsh with Equifax as that data can genuinely cause damage to my financial life.  If people want to know that I liked a George Takei post, go right ahead.
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