Dirigible travel was also inevitable. The mast on top of the Empire State Building was placed there to dock dirigibles. If the Hindenberg had not been filled with hydrogen dirigible travel might have grown to be a big successful venture.
Microsoft has been one of the major developers on Mac since 1984 when the Mac came out. Excel was originally a Mac only spreadsheet that was then ported over to Windows. Word was a gui based program on Mac years before the first version of Word for Windows came out. If anybody knows how to be a third party developer on Mac it is Microsoft. Latecomers like Adobe are more worrisome.
The iGadget is fine. Fort Knox secure. Not necessarily so for anything else that you connect to with your iGadget, though.
So don't be worried. Not at all. If your Bluetooth keyboard is compromised by some (any?) other random device that comes in range, you won't later use said keyboard to send any key critical information to your iPad. Right?
Is this an informercial for this outfit, who are showcasing the 'vulnerability' that they detected. Looking around on their webpage (with Noscript on, so there is probably 'stuff' they can't run in my browser that they want to run) it looks like they don't have a lot of customers. Is this their niche marketing angle?
Do they have the term they coined for this 'collection of vulnerabilities', 'BlueBorne' as a trademark. Is that scary logo they flash around in their video one of their trademarks?
Maybe somebody here on Slashdot, who isn't somebody who has just shown up with a fresh UID and is a 'big expert' on this sudden new phenomenon, can vouch for them.
What about the thousands of different Bluetooth headphones that people might be using to connect to their iPhone?
Will Apple come out with a sticker 'Apple Approved Safe Bluetooth Device' and inform their customers that it's time to landfill all their old stuff and come flash plastic at the Apple Store?
According to how the propaganda^d^d^d informative video put it, any other bluetooth device can travel into proximity to your old iPad and infect it. Your friend's phone, the UPS delivery guy's phone. Your sister's bluetooth vibrator...
What I am wondering is, since scary dudes in Corporation on the linked video have designed a whole logo for this thing, and named the 'collection of vulnerabilities' have they also trademarked said logo and name? The video looks pretty slick and corporate and has a url at the end that we're all supposed to navigate to.
Or, continue to use your device, but not for critical things like financial transactions.
I don't care if they steal my contacts list. Are they going to steal my precious cookies and post pro-Apple spam under my name on Slashdot? (That I would worry about)
Jobs is dead now, but during a bad acid trip he listened to 'Revolution 9' on side four of the White Album. Notice how they only came out with (classic) MacOS 9 after Jobs has been fired. Jobs' ghost still haunts the corridors of Apple, and there shall be no cursed version 9.
They took out touch ID because they were determined to remove the home button. Some thought they would move the touch ID to the case back, but Android already did that.. so they got all brave and just deleted it.
In the Apple design labs, they have special keyboards. The key often labeled 'delete' out in the mundane world is labeled the 'brave' key. Only the most courageous designers dare press it.
One of the most diabolical characters in Snow Crash carries a glass knife. Not easily detected with xrays. Maybe somebody at Apple wants to smuggle something in a fake hollow iPhone.
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We know which one you are shilling for. Maybe GP doesn't have a favorite.
Dirigible travel was also inevitable. The mast on top of the Empire State Building was placed there to dock dirigibles. If the Hindenberg had not been filled with hydrogen dirigible travel might have grown to be a big successful venture.
There are only a few categories of roads that you can't walk along, or ride along on a bicycle, or a horse.
Microsoft has been one of the major developers on Mac since 1984 when the Mac came out. Excel was originally a Mac only spreadsheet that was then ported over to Windows. Word was a gui based program on Mac years before the first version of Word for Windows came out. If anybody knows how to be a third party developer on Mac it is Microsoft. Latecomers like Adobe are more worrisome.
That's a worthy question.
You didn't provide an answer.
The iGadget is fine. Fort Knox secure. Not necessarily so for anything else that you connect to with your iGadget, though.
So don't be worried. Not at all. If your Bluetooth keyboard is compromised by some (any?) other random device that comes in range, you won't later use said keyboard to send any key critical information to your iPad. Right?
Everything seems to reference back to them.
Is this an informercial for this outfit, who are showcasing the 'vulnerability' that they detected. Looking around on their webpage (with Noscript on, so there is probably 'stuff' they can't run in my browser that they want to run) it looks like they don't have a lot of customers. Is this their niche marketing angle?
Do they have the term they coined for this 'collection of vulnerabilities', 'BlueBorne' as a trademark. Is that scary logo they flash around in their video one of their trademarks?
Maybe somebody here on Slashdot, who isn't somebody who has just shown up with a fresh UID and is a 'big expert' on this sudden new phenomenon, can vouch for them.
What about the thousands of different Bluetooth headphones that people might be using to connect to their iPhone?
Will Apple come out with a sticker 'Apple Approved Safe Bluetooth Device' and inform their customers that it's time to landfill all their old stuff and come flash plastic at the Apple Store?
Is all information about this centered at this Armis Corporation? Seems they have a pretty big stake in any hysteria that can be spun up.
I looked at their website, but they won't tell me much about them without me telling NoScript that they are 'the good guys.'
According to how the propaganda^d^d^d informative video put it, any other bluetooth device can travel into proximity to your old iPad and infect it. Your friend's phone, the UPS delivery guy's phone. Your sister's bluetooth vibrator...
What I am wondering is, since scary dudes in Corporation on the linked video have designed a whole logo for this thing, and named the 'collection of vulnerabilities' have they also trademarked said logo and name? The video looks pretty slick and corporate and has a url at the end that we're all supposed to navigate to.
make their stereo play Le Sacre Du Printemps at full volume.
No. Better. Find the resonant frequency of their automobile's chassis and literally shake it apart with subsonics.
Or, continue to use your device, but not for critical things like financial transactions.
I don't care if they steal my contacts list. Are they going to steal my precious cookies and post pro-Apple spam under my name on Slashdot? (That I would worry about)
But it's highly likely they won't.
Except for all the peripherals out there that iOS users are likely to connect to the 'virtual headphone jack' of their sparkly new gadget.
I guess if it's a speaker or headphone that's not overpriced for sale in the Apple Store, it probably shouldn't be trusted.
Vulnerabilities in /bin/sh ?
My NetBSD box may be vulnerable.
Then you also probably have an Amazon Fire TV with an active bluetooth transciever. What sort of OS is it running?
It only impcts all the bluetooth peripherals and headphones you might connect to your new iPhone.
Jobs is dead now, but during a bad acid trip he listened to 'Revolution 9' on side four of the White Album. Notice how they only came out with (classic) MacOS 9 after Jobs has been fired. Jobs' ghost still haunts the corridors of Apple, and there shall be no cursed version 9.
They took out touch ID because they were determined to remove the home button. Some thought they would move the touch ID to the case back, but Android already did that.. so they got all brave and just deleted it.
In the Apple design labs, they have special keyboards. The key often labeled 'delete' out in the mundane world is labeled the 'brave' key. Only the most courageous designers dare press it.
One of the most diabolical characters in Snow Crash carries a glass knife. Not easily detected with xrays. Maybe somebody at Apple wants to smuggle something in a fake hollow iPhone.
The iPhone 9 is probably already out in certain select asian markets.
The game demos didn't go over that well. It's the kind of thing that's hard to demo well on a mobile device on a stage.
'We have the Secret Enclave to protect us' bleat the faithful.
The key word there is 'self'. Pointing a camera in somebody elses face is different.