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When Apple says your data doesn't leave their servers, that doesn't mean those servers have to be in their own datacenters or that Apple doesn't have other vendors that help them d…

They're old, but it's really disappointing to see them end even basic temperature control (except physically on the device).

I'm not so sure. One of the potential benefits of removing ports from the iPhone is improved water resistance (personally, I'd still rather have the port). I don't foresee going sw…

Part 2: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-windows-r...

It’s only been a couple of business days, and it’s likely that they themselves will need root cause from equipment vendors (and perhaps information from the utility) to fully expla…

Maybe, but I think that their "Informed Speculation" section was probably unnecessary. They may or may not be correct, but give Flexential an opportunity to share what actually hap…

Interesting choice to spend the bulk of the article publicly shifting blame to a vendor by name and speculating on their root cause. Also an interesting choice to publicly call out…

Close, but not quite. The keys were for consumer Microsoft accounts, but accepted for organization accounts as well.

> Am I right to assume that because the attacker had the signing key all of the extra authentication mechanisms that would have been enabled on accounts were bypassed by the attack…

> Interestingly, GSM does allow for priority of emergency calls (112, 999, etc). IIRC, the SIM can make a priority request to be connected to the emergency services. The network co…

“Twitter, whose press office has been largely destaffed and set to autoreply to requests for comment with a poo emoji, did not acknowledge the reports.” Of course he did that.

A CA doesn't need to be online for HTTPS to work. If it's offline, it won't be able to issue new certificates, but existing ones will be just fine. In fact, Root CAs are often kept…

EarthBound took a similar approach with it's anti-piracy measures if you work around the obvious ones. There are far, far more enemies to make the game less enjoyable. They also ad…