FaceTime FauxPas: Sorry-not-sorry about the bug bounty boo-boo

Apple says sorry for the privacy-busting FaceTime bug we talked about last week.

But there’s no apology yet to the kid and his mother who tried their best to report the “FacePalm” bug to Apple, yet kept facing brick wall after brick wall. Although there is the vague suggestion the trillion-dollar company might pay him some money.

In trying to fix its PR fail, has Apple made things worse? In this week’s Security Blogwatch at TechBeacon, Richi Jennings is sorry.


Read more: techbeacon.com/security/facetime-fauxpas-sorry-not-sorry-about-bug-bounty-boo-boo

Remember me?

Hey, it's Richi. … Richi? … Jennings? … Yeah, that guy.

Thanks to the business geniuses at Surpass Hosting for quadrupling my hosting fee, and to the fine folks at Alphabet who are killing Google+, I'm resurrecting my old blog as a web presence.

Apologies in advance for dust and broken links. I'll get to fixing things up as soon as I can.

A lot's happened since my last post in 2011. Maybe I'll tell you about it sometime…

RJA standard terms

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Six days to IPv6 Day; I couldn't care less

  The Long View (Computerworld)

It's World IPv6 Day next week: Wednesday, so just six days to go. Is it important to enterprises? Perhaps, but not for the reason most people believe. We're told that addresses are running out fast, but that's not really true. Let's think about this, in The Long View...
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Is Email Dead? Or Just Pinin’ for the Fjords?

  (HP Input Output)

No, email’s neither dead, deceased, nor demised. But neither is it, as Monty Python’s Michael Palin would have said, homesick for the geographical features of its native Norway. You don’t need me to tell you that email is alive and well inside your organization. Beautiful plumage.

But some would say it’s too alive. In many organizations, email is used as a dumping ground for information that doesn’t belong there; email can also be used for certain collaborative tasks for which it’s simply not suited.

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