Thomas Reed @thomasareed@infosec.exchange

Been a minute since I've logged in here... gotta learn my way around again! 😄

@fxlt@mastodon.technology I’ve been a stay-at-home dad for a number of years myself, so I know what you mean on the pet peeve. 🙂

I had a bigger one, though. We had boy-girl twins, and they most definitely did not look alike. Yet I frequently had people ask, “Are they identical?” 🤦‍♂️

@derekcaelin macOS and iOS all the way. 🙂

@retc3 If they were compromised, it’s an inside job! 😄

@retc3 One needs to take great care when accusing a large company of collecting inappropriate data from their users. 😉

In all the talk yesterday about Mac App Store apps exfiltrating data they shouldn’t have, nobody seemed to notice the connection to Trend Micro... and their apps are still up, after Adware Doctor was removed. 😒
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2018/09/mac-app-store-apps-are-stealing-user-data/

@WPalant @graffen @arunsathiya@mastodon.social @lightone Scary... 😬
Of course, the fact that Keybase is the keeper of your private key (or was, at least, when I was looking into it last) means that it can never be truly unbreakable end-to-end encryption. One breach and all your data could become public.

@aussierockman This is not about phones listening... it’s about specific apps being given mic access and listening. Just don’t give mic access to apps like Facebook. (Or even better, don’t use Facebook. 😄)

@gcluley It’s highly amusing that Epic took Google to task over endangering users’ security... 😄

Thanks all who responded to my question yesterday... sounds like Tootdon is the consensus, but I'll keep Tootle in mind as well. 🙂

Anybody have a recommendation for an iOS app for Mastodon?

@jerry Thanks! This is both similar to and very different from Twitter. (I'm stating the obvious... 😆)

Any idea how many folks are on here?

No idea if this will become a thing, and I have no idea what I'm doing with this, but I'm planting a flag on my username. 😄