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On phone support scams and fake AV
A couple of weeks ago, I posted on Twitter about a new scam: Heard about someone who was phoned by a man “from Windows” who engineered his way into remote access to the mark’s computer. Fast forward to now, the … Continue reading
Posted in antivirus, Malware, Phishing, Scam, user-error
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On free Mac Anti-Virus
On Tuesday, my pals at my old stomping ground Sophos launched their Free home edition Mac product. I’ve been asked by several people what makes it tick, so here’s Mac Anti-Virus In A Nutshell. What is the AV doing? So … Continue reading
Posted in antivirus, Business, Malware, PCAS
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Rumors of your runtime’s death are greatly exaggerated
This is supposed to be the week in which Apple killed Java and Flash on the Mac, but it isn’t. In fact, looking at recent history, Flash could be about to enter its healthiest period on the platform, but the … Continue reading
Posted in AAPL, Business, Updates
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What do you think of this?
I’m interested to find out what us Cocoa developers (alright, I know my opinion already) think of the following distinction between Foundation and, well any other object-oriented foundation library. The distinction is this. In many libraries, compound objects (not only … Continue reading
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An example of unit testing working for me
Some specific feedback I was given regarding my unit testing talk at VTM: iPhone fall conference was that the talk was short on real-world application of unit testing. That statement is definitely true, and it’s unfortunate that I didn’t meet … Continue reading
Posted in code-level, iPad, iPhone, Mac, software-engineering, TDD, tool-support, VTM
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On Ignoring the Tests
As mentioned over two months ago, I’ll be giving two talks this weekend at the Voices That Matter: iPhone Developers Fall conference. I’m feeling good about both of the talks that I’ve worked on, though I definitely think the Unit … Continue reading
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On documentation
Over at the daily WTF, Alex Papadimoulis writes about Documentation Done Right. His conclusion is spot on: The immediate answer to what’s the right way to do documentation is clear: produce the least amount of documentation needed to facilitate the … Continue reading
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YOUR development team needs security engineers
It can definitely be tempting if your engineers don’t have a whole lot of security expertise to get a consultant in. Indeed this can be a great way to bootstrap a security process, however it then needs to be owned … Continue reading
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On McAfee
Today, Apple’s CPU/motherboard supplier Intel announced that it will acquire McAfee, in a deal worth nearly $7.7B. While this is definitely big bucks, it doesn’t seem like terrifically big security news. Intel probably don’t want the technology. McAfee is the … Continue reading
On voices that matter
In October I’ll be in Philadelphia, PA talking at Voices That Matter: Fall iPhone Developers’ Conference. I’m looking forward to meeting some old friends and new faces, and sucking up a little more of that energy and enthusiasm that pervades … Continue reading
Posted in code-level, iPad, iPhone, Talk, threatmodel, tool-support
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