Month: January 2019

Josh Constine: We asked Guardian Mobile Firewall’s security expert Will Strafach to dig into the Facebook Research app, and he told us that “If Facebook makes full use of the level of access they are given by asking users to install the Certificate, they will have the ability to continuously collect the following types of […]

Love it. Want it. So very Westworld. Goodness I hope someone makes this a reality. One device for everything. That’s the dream, shit, we had that in the 90s. Well, not that you could take those everywhere, mostly just that you could only afford to have one.

On one hand, this is a clever way for them to go about finding these vulnerabilities. On the other: no thanks.

Good synopsis.

Only surprising part is that it took this long, I guess.

Love these suggestions.

Roger McNamee: The people at Facebook live in their own bubble. Zuck has always believed that connecting everyone on earth was a mission so important that it justified any action necessary to accomplish it. Convinced of the nobility of their mission, Zuck and his employees seem to listen to criticism without changing their behavior. They […]

Only people who will be shocked by this are the ones who wasted money on these.

Abhimanyu Ghoshal: The ruling is significant because it runs counter to previous interpretations of the law in cases requiring access to data locked on personal devices. With that, biometric methods for unlocking phones are now being viewed similar to alphanumeric passcodes in the eyes of the law in the US.

Interesting, as it’s not the toolkit or setup I would have expected.

This should surprise no one, and yet I am guessing this will surprise most.