Updating my iPhone like an animal, using an ipsw file. Because Apple won't provide 10.0.1 via OTA to me, despite being in the beta program.

I'm of the opinion: why bother at this point?

to be honest, I don't know if they are common or not. I just know that it matches my own experience and it can be debilitating in moving past certain issues.

Leave it to Swift on Security to make fun of Apple's new AirPods. https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/773752951269535744

because there are operators and handset makers involved, the handsets aren't really open. Even Nexus.

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I suspect this "meaninglessness" theory has a lot to do with some of the issues I experience on the Aspergers spectrum: http://www.aspiestrategy.com/2013/04/adult-autism-avoidance-and-depression.html

I wish Android security weren't such a shitshow. Even with Nexus. ?

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usually I space these engagements out a bit better. I may regret it later but one doesn't know what they are capable of unless they push their limits.

some of it is writing, but it's technical, requires information security skills,1 and based on customer interviews. Would love to outsource some of it, trust me. ?


  1. Notice my Oxford comma

not me. Next year.