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Remember the future?
The future is notoriously hard to pin down. For example, what is Seattle’s lasting legacy from 20th Century technology? What would people have pointed to in, say, the 1970s? Of course, Seattle is the home of Boeing, who did a … Continue reading
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Want to hire iamleeg?
Well, that was fun. For nearly a year I’ve been running Fuzzy Aliens, a consultancy for app developers to help get security and privacy requirements correct, reducing the burden on the users. This came after a year of doing the … Continue reading
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On the new Lion security things
This post will take a high-level view of some of Lion’s new security features, and examine how they fit (or don’t) in the general UNIX security model and with that of other platforms. App sandboxing The really big news for … Continue reading
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TDD/unit testing video training for iOS developers
I recently recorded a series of videos on unit testing and test-driven development for iOS developers with Scotty of iDeveloper.tv. The videos and associated source code is now available for purchase and download.
Posted in code-level, iDeveloper.TV, iPad, iPhone, software-engineering, Talk, TDD, tool-support
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Making computing exciting
Over the last couple of years, I have visited three different museums of computing. NSBBQ in 2009 and 2010 visited the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park and the Museum of Computing in Swindon respectively. At this year’s WWDC … Continue reading
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On what Marcus said
This post is a response to Why so serious? over at Cocoa is my Girlfriend. Read that. Welcome back. OK, so firstly let’s talk about that damned carousel. Kudos to the developer who wrote a nice smoothly scrolling layer-backed image … Continue reading
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On BizSpark
You’ll remember that recently I reviewed Windows Phone 7 Mango from the perspective of an iOS guy, and actually came back pretty impressed with it. You’ll also remember that through my company, Fuzzy Aliens Ltd, I offer app security services … Continue reading
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A Cupertino Yankee in the Court of King Ballmer
This post summarises my opinions of Windows Phone 7 from the Microsoft Tech Day I went to yesterday. There’s a new version of Windows Phone 7 (codenamed Mango) due out in the Autumn, but at the Tech Day the descriptions … Continue reading
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On the top 5 iOS appsec issues
Nearly 13 months ago, the Intrepidus Group published their top 5 iPhone application development security issues. Two of them are valid issues, the other three they should perhaps have thought longer over. The good Sensitive data unprotected at rest Secure … Continue reading
Posted in buffer-overflow, code-level, Crypto, Data Leakage, Encryption, iPad, iPhone, ssl, Updates, user-error, Vulnerability
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“Patently” secure
One thing that occasionally becomes interesting about working in security is that doing security and managing business have a great deal of overlap. This makes a lot of sense: a business wants to be profitable, and profit is a reward … Continue reading
