Privacy Arc – Tech Tho(ugh)ts

(Season 4) Episode 1 – Executive Updates [Right to Repair, Privacy Arc]

Welcome to Season 4 of Tech Tho(ugh)ts! We’ve had a great (fake) break, and are excited to start you off with an update episode. Things have been happening in the right to repair world, and it’s actually for the better. (Also, some updates for your general privacy concerns!)

Sources:

Right to Repair Definition:

Recent US Government Action:

NYT Wirecutter, 15 July 2021, “What You Should Know About Right to Repair“
The Washington Post, 13 July 2021, “The Biden administration thinks you should be allowed to fix the things you buy“
AppleInsider, 11 June 2021, “New York State Senate passes right to repair legislation“
The White House Briefing Room, 9 July 2021, “FACT SHEET: Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy”
WIRED, 9 July 2021, “Joe Biden Wants You to Be Able to Fix Your Own Damn iPhones“

FTC Voting to Enforce Right to Repair:

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(Season 2) Episode 1 – (App)le’s Walled Garden

How do you get apps on your iPhone? Well… the App Store, of course! Absolutely nowhere else, unless of course you have the money to start publishing your own apps, listen to all of Apple’s rules, and let them make money off of it even if it doesn’t make a lot of sense.

EPISODE NOTES: Jade mentioned that the unix kernel is why Linux and MacOS (and iOS and iPhone) are ‘safe’ from tampering. Not exactly! It was more about the implementation of sandboxing for both.

Sources:

Cost of publishing an app:

Apple’s NFC Chip & Germany Requiring it to be Public:

DW.com, 15 November 2020, ‘German Parliament passes anti-money-laundering laws’

On why the app store is locked down/NFC lockdown is due to security and privacy:

Engadget, 13 August 2020, ‘What if Apple was forced to allow app sales outside of the iOS store?’

Apple vs. WordPress:

Engadget, 21 August 2020, ‘Apple apparently blocked WordPress app updates to force IAP support’

Apple vs. Epic:

Sandboxing on iOS & macOS:

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Episode 8 – The Cloud, De(mist)ified

What is the cloud? A mystical place where all your stuff goes? A pocket dimension? A literal glowing cloud watching over us all? And what is it hiding? Pictures? Documents? Your friendly neighborhood hacker-ma— wait, what?

Sources:

What is “The Cloud”:

iCloud Leak, ‘The Fappening”:

Verizon Cloud Leak:

Dark Reading, 2017 July 12, ‘Verizon Suffers Cloud Data Leak Exposing Data on Millions of Customers‘

AWS – Related Leak (Small Business Data) + Breaches are due to client/setup error:

PRISM & Dropbox:

The Washington Post, 2013 June 7, ‘U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program‘

Self-Hosted Cloud Options:

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