Robert E. Lee

@robertelee
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This statement is from a court document submitted by Apple's lawyers regarding the App Store data privacy class action lawsuit:

"Given Apple’s extensive privacy disclosures, no reasonable user would expect that their actions in Apple’s apps would be private from Apple."

#Privacy #Security #Cybersecurity #Apple #iPhone #InfoSec #dataprivacy

For most computing, I enjoy Sway on Wayland on Linux. Will soon need to use OSX a fair bit again.

Curious what folks who appreciate a tiling WM use when using OSX.

Is Yabai usable for this need? https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

Would love pointers to other potential solves.

GitHub - koekeishiya/yabai: A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning - koekeishiya/yabai

GitHub

I think about this often when I read people arguing on the internet:

How do you inspire change?
If you have ever been inspired by someone to grow, you know the formula:
GROWTH = TRUST + CLARITY + PRACTICALITY

* Trust -> You truly believe they have your best interests in mind

* Clarity -> You understand the feedback in your terms, not theirs

* Practicality -> You can take immediate, corrective action

Interesting - https://pastebin.com/vnxJ7kQk

Helps you reason about some of your interactions with chatgpt, and weights that may be reflected in its responses.

Would ideally have these rules made public by OpenAI. Better still, let the user change them as needed for their session and use case.

System prompt - Pastebin.com

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Teaching LLMs to Be Deceptive - Schneier on Security

OnlyFake to streamline everything from bank fraud to money laundering:

OnlyFake created a highly convincing California driver's license, complete with whatever arbitrary name, biographical information, address, expiration date, and signature we...
https://jwz.org/b/ykMO

OnlyFake

OnlyFake to streamline everything from bank fraud to money laundering: OnlyFake created a highly convincing California driver's license, complete with whatever arbitrary name, biographical information, address, expiration date, and signature we wanted. The photo even gives the appearance that the ID card is laying on a fluffy carpet, as if someone has placed it on the floor and snapped a ...

NEW: Here is Apple’s official ‘jailbroken’ iPhone for security researchers.

In its instructions, Apple explicitly refers to it as "a jailbroken device," which is wild given the company's years-long war against the jailbreakers more than a decade ago.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/here-is-apples-official-jailbroken-iphone-for-security-researchers/

Here is Apple's official 'jailbroken' iPhone for security researchers | TechCrunch

A security researchers shared a picture of the instructions that go along Apple's Security Research Device and more details about this special iPhone.

TechCrunch
Brilliant reporting from 404. All your paranoid fantasies about national security use of pinpoint tracking are dead on. https://www.404media.co/inside-global-phone-spy-tool-patternz-nuviad-real-time-bidding/
Inside a Global Phone Spy Tool Monitoring Billions

A wide-spanning investigation by 404 Media reveals more details about a secretive spy tool that can tracks billions of phone profiles through the advertising industry called Patternz. Google has taken action in response to 404 Media's inquiries.

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Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire

Twitter has let its Tor onion site security certificate expire, effectively scuttling its privacy- and security-protecting version of the site.

The Verge
Not infosec related, but thoroughly impressed by my brother (Randy Lee on trumpet) in this one: https://youtu.be/ZHCaTH-CoYw
Airs V1

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