Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public? Source: My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users
August 6, 2019
Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting logic bomb in company spreadsheets | ZDNet
Logic bomb would crash spreadsheets after a certain date, resulting in Siemens hiring the contractor to fix the latest bugs. Source: Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting logic bomb in company spreadsheets | ZDNet
Dropbox support reps don’t seem to know how Dropbox for Mac works. Source: Dropbox irks Mac users with annoying Dock icon, offers clueless support
Oops. Source: Microsoft reveals new Windows 10 Start menu in accidental internal leak
August 4, 2019
Investigating some subscription scam iOS apps
For some reason Apple allows “subscription scam” apps on the App Store. These are apps that are free to download and then ask you to subscribe right on launch. It’s called the freemium business model [https://developer.apple.com/app-store/freemium-business-model/], except these apps ask you to subscribe for “X” feature(s) immediately when you launch them, and keep doing so, annoyingly, over and over until you finally subscribe. By subscribing you get a number of “free days” (trial) and then