Some Observations about App Camp for Girls operations
May 30, 2019, 4:38 PM
I was sad to hear App Camp for Girls’s announcement that they will not be offering any camps this year. There’s been a deserved outpouring of support and good wishes for the future of the organization. Nobody can doubt the...
Snap Judgment #934 (Secrets of War) Is a Wonderful Work of Fiction
Dec 10, 2018, 2:35 AM
Walter Mitty is alive and well, and living in Snap Judgment episode 934. It’s a very entertaining episode, in the sense that any good work of historical fiction or science fiction is entertaining. Snap Judgment claims their stories...
Privacy Consent in Mojave (part 2: AppleScript)
Sep 5, 2018, 12:00 AM
This two-part series discusses lessons learned in controlling the user consent for access to private information by a third part program in macOS Mojave. In Part 1 of this discussion, we saw how to query the user for consent to...
Privacy Consent in Mojave (part 1: media and documents)
Sep 4, 2018, 11:59 PM
MacOS Mojave brings new user control over applications’ access to user data, camera, microphone, and AppleScript automation. This two-part series describes our experience adopting the new privacy requirements in the Panopto Mac...
Privacy risks from iOS photo metadata
Jul 20, 2017, 2:55 AM
There’s a ton of very personal information associated with a photo that you take with your smartphone. By default, the phone captures all of the camera settings (aperture, shutter speed, focal length). But it also captures location...