Before Preaching, Stop Punching Yourself

The term “Magic Links” once meant a futuristic PDA. Nowdays, companies like Auth0 use it to refer to the slightly-magical feat of including a login link in an email. Last week, the great website you should subscribe to if you haven’t already (it’s great, when you’re not logged out), 404 Media, posted “We Don’t Want Your Password” in defense of...

The Verge now has a subscription offering. RSS feeds? Great. Fewer ads and trackers? Sounds promising. But how much less annoying is it actually? To find out, I disabled my fortress of ad and tracker blocking (clean browser profile, no extensions, no Little Snitch, VPN-ed into a naked network). Then, I tested a car review across three setups,...

Apple’s focus on security and privacy is making them release features that only work on devices on the same iCloud account, which will counterintuitively hurt people’s privacy as they log in to personal iCloud accounts on devices owned by their employers. As the Apple blogosphere is dominated by very good independant writers, this is an issue...

This summer, since WWDC, I was repeatedly asked: How do I disable Apple Intelligence on our company laptops? Apple Intelligence didn’t exist yet. Not even in the betas, plus, Apple is pretty strict around betas and NDAs. The features were clearly going to roll out in stages throughout the year, so my answer was always, “Yeah, you’ll probably be...

Security checklist for families using Apple devices If many people in your family are on the Apple ecosystem, here are a few things worth checking while you’re going to be in the same physical location over the holidays. Ensure they have enough iCloud data and recent backups, then, enable automatic updates, and nudge them into updating (bring a...