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By default, the iPhone sends SMS messages that are longer than 160 characters as an MMS. While many plans include unlimited SMS texts, they normally charge for MMS messages.
To avoid such costs, head to the Settings-> Messages and disable "MMS Messaging"
Operation Remove Philips Hue Bridge is underway.
#raspberrypi #Privacy #InfoSec #privacymatters #cybersecurity
Attached: 1 image Philips Hue will soon force users to create a Hue account and sign in to continue to use the app and control the smart lights. The best security model to protect smart devices is to keep them disconnected from the internet, or at least keep this option available. #Privacy #InfoSec #privacymatters #cybersecurity
Privacy lawsuit update: Apple lawyers responded with a bunch of references to various #Apple privacy statements, a motion to dismiss hearing set for 3/21/2024
The new feature introduced in Final Cut Pro 10.7 to automatically scroll the timeline is not enabled by default. You can enable it in the settings.
Friday #security tip: if you use different accounts for iCloud and App Store so that you separate your App Store activities from iCloud identity, well I have bad news for you.
App analytics requests sent by the App Store, Podcasts, and iTunes Store contain two fields in the headers:
iCloud-DSID: the ID of your iCloud account
X-DSID: the ID of the account you use for the App Store
So, they're associated with each other 👀.
#Privacy #iOS #Apple #infosec #cybersecurity #PrivacyMatters
Privacy Nutrition Labels are a great idea, but the lack of a mechanism to verify what's on them makes them unreliable. They can be inaccurate or misleading. Here's an example: Apple's own Podcasts app states that search history isn't linked to the user's identity, but experiments show that every search performed in the app sends a request to Apple servers with the user's iCloud ID associated with search keywords, as shown in the screenshot. Perhaps this data is discarded, but in theory the data is enough to build a search history that is linked to a particular user. And this's not what the privacy label says.
🔔UPDATE: the 21+ class-action lawsuits filed against Apple for data privacy breaches related to harvesting usage data have now been consolidated in one lawsuit including 12 counts. A notable change to the case is that the plaintiffs now include two minors (A. H. and E. M.). This allowed the lawsuit to add an allegation related to children's online protection:
"Defendant engaged in unlawful business practices by violating Cal. Penal Code § 632, California’s Constitution, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act"
Link to the case document:
#Apple #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Security #InfoSec #MyskStudy
In Re : Apple Data Privacy Litigation: AMENDED COMPLAINT (Consolidated) against Apple, Inc. Filed by Julia Cima, Katie Alvarez, Francis Barrott, Ashley Popa, Barry Robinson, David Sgro, Elizabeth Kelly, Bruce E. Puleo, Jarell Brown, Elena Nacarino, E. M. (a minor), Quincy Venter, Dottie Nikolich, Carlina Green, A. H. (a minor).
Signal is testing using usernames as an alternative to sharing phone numbers. The new feature is currently available for testing. The announcement includes a nice remark about distributing #iOS apps for testing:
"Well! This isn’t as easy as clicking a link"
https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866
(Edit: added a link to the announcement)
Hey, all! If you’ve been following along with the commit messages across our repositories, it’s no secret that we’ve been working on bringing Usernames to Signal for a while now. After rounds of internal testing, we have hit the point where we think the community that powers these forums can help us test even further before public launch. To do so, we’d first like to invite you to test in Staging. Think of The Staging Environment as a parallel Signal universe: you’ll need to install and run a ...
