Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
French Siri Spying Lawsuit
Océane Herrero: The investigation, led by the country’s cybercrime agency OFAC, follows a complaint in February by the French NGO Ligue des droits de l’Homme, based on the testimony of a whistleblower and former employee of an Apple subcontractor Thomas Le Bonniec.As an employee of Globe Technical Services in Ireland in 2019, Le Bonniec analyzed […]
Customer Support Scams
Daniel Jalkut: I’m seeing more of a scam directed at customer support addresses, where the scammer pretends to be a customer who is having trouble with the app, and asks you to look at a screenshot of the problem, which is a link to a page that coaxes you into running a nefarious program on […]
Evolving AltStore PAL
Riley Testut: In April of last year, we launched AltStore PAL in the European Union as one of the first official alternative app marketplaces on iOS thanks to the Digital Markets Act. We launched with just 2 apps — my Nintendo emulator Delta and clipboard manager Clip — yet Apple immediately changed their App Store […]
Lessons From San Bernardino and ICEBlock
Wiley Hodges: I used to believe that Apple were unequivocally ‘the good guys.’ I passionately advocated for people to understand Apple as being on the side of its users above all else. I now feel like I must question that. […] The event that represented a turning point for that skeptical view of Apple was […]
ToothFairy 2.8.8
ToothFairy 2.8.8 is a maintenance update of my Bluetooth menu bar utility. As annoying as Bluetooth is as a user, it’s even more so as developer. Seemingly straightforward APIs don’t work as advertised. I don’t just mean that they can fail with an error. They can fail but say that they succeeded. They can succeed […]