A good article: habr.com/en/post/580272
It turns out that Apple mostly does static code analysis, looking for certain kinds of calls. Don't want to get busted for calling GKLocalPlayerInternal (which Apple does look for)? Try this:
NSClassFromString(["GKLoc","lPlayerInternal"].joined(separator:
"a"))
Because in Objective C, like in Javascript, you can dynamically create function-name strings (or at least call NSClassFromString).
Apple is not running the App Store to protect your iPhone from malware.
Well, this time quite weird: www.politicalorphans.com/something-weird-is-happening-on-facebook.
It seems that Somebody is posting deep questions as memes, and then scraping the answers. Probably to build psychological profiles of Facebook users. Has that been done in the past? Oh! Cambridge Analytica!
Should this be allowed?
dig @8.8.8.8 facebook.com
An interview. She is the Ed Snowden of Facebook. www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-misinformation-public-60-minutes-2021-10-03.
(No link because they are 100% paywalled, but Loyola does have a subscription.)
"Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse," the researchers said in a March 2020 slide presentation posted to Facebook's internal message board, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. "Comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves."
In May, Adam Mosseri [Instagram head] said he believes Facebook was late to realizing there were drawbacks to connecting people in such large numbers
Instead of referencing their own data showing the negative effects of
Instagram, Facebook executives in public have often pointed to studies
from the Oxford Internet Institute that have shown little correlation
between social-media use and depression. At a congressional hearing this March, Mr. Zuckerberg defended
the company against criticism from lawmakers about plans to create
a new Instagram product for children under 13. When asked if the
company had studied the app's effects on children, he said, "I
believe the answer is yes."
A Cory Doctorow post! onezero.medium.com/facebook-thrives-on-criticism-of-disinformation-64b141d7b6c8.
So Facebook has said:
One of these is probably false. But which? Hint: advertisers would be very angry to learn the answer.
But the other side of all this is that maybe Facebook is sliding towards irrelevance faster than we think:www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-files.html.
Snowden revelations
End-to-end encryption
Parallel construction
Spying and harm
Olmstead, Katz, Miller, Smith, Kyllo, Jones, Skinner, Wurie/Riley, Carpenter
Geofencing
ECPA
Councilman
Warshak
Gag orders
phone searches