Monthly Archives: December 2020

Apple, other browser makers block certificate used for surveillance in Kazakhstan

By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Peterson) A number of browser makers, including Apple, have banned a root certificate that was being used by the Kazakhstan government to spy on its citizens.Credit: AppleThe certificate was being used to intercept and decrypt HTTPS traffic from residents in Nur-Sultan, the capital citizen of Kazakhstan. On Dec. 6, local internet service providers were forced by the government to block foreign websites unless users had the certificate installed on their devices….

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US government designates drone maker DJI as a national security concern

By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Peterson) The U.S. government on Friday added drone maker DJI to a list of Chinese companies designated as national security concerns, and by doing so, banned the export of U.S. technology to the company.Credit: DJIDJI was added to the so-called Entity List by the Commerce Department on Friday, Reuters reported. The move bans U.S. companies from exporting technology to the drone maker….

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Apple publishes safety guide for protecting against others accessing your data

By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple has released a comprehensive guide to how you can check if your data or devices are being accessed by others, plus preventative steps and how to lock people out when needed.Cover of Apple’s 20-page guide to protecting yourself and your dataAs Apple continues championing privacy through features like the …

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Steve Wozniak’s handwritten Apple II schematics fetch over $630,000 at auction

By news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely) Boston’s RR Auction held an Apple-themed auction, in which they sold both a fully operational Apple-1 computer as well as a 23-page handwritten document by Steve Wozniak detailing notes and diagrams for the Apple II breadboard.The work-in-progress documents were penned in 1975 and included five pages of circuit schematics, six photocopied pages headed “Bus Sources,” “System Timing,” “Display,” “Sync Timing & Adr. Gen,” and “Timing,” and a 12-page handwritten programming instruction guide consisting of 28 steps.Wozniak also provided a letter of provenance, which reads:…

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