We can’t not talk about Apple and the FBI:
- FAQ.
- Code to ruin?
- Apple, FBI, and the Burden of Forensic Methodology.
- Edward Snowden: The @FBI is creating a world where citizens rely on #Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.
- US: “Tech, make backdoors b/c fighting terrorism is hard” US: “China, how dare you force tech cos to make backdoors”: Obama sharply criticizes China’s plans for new technology rules.
Less high-profile, but no less high-impact: Apple Blacklists Its Own Ethernet Driver. Oops.
Even before the last beer, some of us were in London at MacAD.uk and there’s now slides, with video apparently underway.
Notes from the past month:
- VMware Fusion, Workstation team culled in company restructure. Ugh.
- Then Mandrill pissed off the Internet, e.g.: A pox upon the house of MailKimp. I take @textfiles levels of umbrage to their Mandrill change. a) way too fast b) super unforgiving.
- First Mac ransomware spotted.
- Munki Conf 2016.
- USB-C cables are playing Russian Roulette with your laptop. Includes links to Benson Leung’s reviews on Amazon.
- ResetPlug – A smart plug to monitor your WiFi router/modem and automatically reset power if WiFi fails.
- Impressive reaction time: CVE–2015–7547 and OnHub (via Chris Adams).
- Alternative: Need to detect filesystem changes for packaging, but don’t want to use InstallEase or Composer?: logGen.
- Another alternative: HashBackup: Linux, Mac, FreeBSD Server Backup.
- RTFM: Actually, read everything.
[MacSysAdmin] Bier #51 on Thursday, 17 March 2016, from 18:45 at Gloria, as always.
From LaLa-Land, M’n’M