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  • Apple debuts new MacBook Air with Apple Silicon M1 chip

    sailorpaulsailorpaul
    Anyone know how corporate remote access tools like Citrix Receiver work on this new M1 model?

    That’s a key requirement for our teams.  Many have been holding out waiting for this
    watto_cobra

  • Arlo launches wire-free video doorbell with square aspect ratio

    sailorpaulsailorpaul
    No HomeKit, no sale.   

    Also, a wired unit would not have a battery life problem
    watto_cobra

  • University of California San Diego launches Apple-Google framework COVID-19 app

    sailorpaulsailorpaul
    appleinsideruser said:
    JFC_PA said:
    appleinsideruser said:
    But surely the unique code removes the privacy of the exposure system?
    How?

    The health department did the test so they know who the patient is. The key-code releases the patients device to start the anonymized process from their phone’s stored data, which is also anonymized. Utilizing unique Bluetooth exchanged tokens. 
    Thank you for that. However I recall reading there is extra data sharing at that moment. I don’t recall the specifics. I guess it links the patient to the phone, which were previously unconnected... I feel there is more that I’m forgetting, but if nobody else is suspicious here, that’s reassuring.
    No, your own individual phone is the only device that knows that unique anonymous Bluetooth token belongs to you. 

    The only thing the positive test result phone knows is that what it was somewhere near that unique anonymous Bluetooth token. There is no, repeat no, connection between the two phones

    The health department sends out a message that essentially says “notify these unknown tokens”.   No idea who they are – – but they’ll recognize their unique token when it comes by

    Your phone quietly in the background recognizes the code — out of the many that roll-on past from the health department.   Your phone tells you and nobody else
    JinTechappleinsideruser

  • Apple's smart 'AirTags' tracking device outlined in patent filing

    sailorpaulsailorpaul
    Like it. Want it. (A bunch of them.) 
    Hurry up.
    watto_cobraDnykjpRfC6fnBs

  • Virginia launches first COVID-19 exposure notification app in US using Google-Apple API

    sailorpaulsailorpaul
    Arrrgh.  @heavypound is correct.   I appolgize and retract my early morning statement that we would try this in California for employee clusters -- self-reporting is not supported.  This app requires a six digit pin from VPH (virgina public health) upon confirmation of a positive test result.  

    1.  That is what I get for reading fast before dawn, before coffee and not attempting to submit a "positive" as a test.  

    2.  THE GOOD:  news coverage says that interoperability between countries (which also implies US states) is now automatically built into the API after feedback from EU countries.

    3.  THE BAD:  we are doing things state-by-state.
    caladanianwatto_cobra