My recipe: "Windows 95 System Programming Secrets" by Matt Pietrek and "Unauthorized Windows 95" by Andrew Schulman, years of fooling around with NuMega SoftICE, lots of IRC, lost youth, yet lots of fun.
When challenged why we'd scrum since we were doing better as a whole before (better products, happier devs), mgt replies that they'd need scrum to detail the work we did so that they could write longer bills to the clients.
Wow, that's remarkable honest of them! I actually respect and appreciate that a lot more than I would some BS about it being for your own good or whatever.
How could Apple properly review something like this? Isn't it one of Apple's selling pitches that they'd review each app for malicious activity before it makes it to the app store?
So, a tricky piece here is that this appears to be behavior of the TikTok web site. Obviously Apple makes no attempt (nor claim) to review the behavior of every web site accessible in Safari from an iPhone. And other native apps can embed WebKit-based web views into their apps.
The good news is that the scope of "malicious activity" is (at least in theory) much smaller when you constrain it to what web sites can do, as opposed to the scope of what can be done by executing ARM instructions and making syscalls.
The bad news is that the scope of "things web sites can do" keeps growing and is fingerprintable.
> How could Apple properly review something like this? Isn't it one of Apple's selling pitches that they'd review each app for malicious activity before it makes it to the app store?
They couldn't. Apple does not perform any meaningful review of apps for malicious activity, do they do it for rent seeking.
- stored on a relatively fast and large external backup disk (right now a Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD)
The backup plan is automatically triggered when I connect my notebook to the docking station. Never failed me and already saved me from the embarressment of accidently modifying or deleting important files that are not part of a git repo.
It may come with many secrets baked into the security processor already, like your Windows license, or you may have used your computer for some time, and stored some secrets with keys stored in the processor.
You'll lose these secrets and keys, forever. They may be private keys, decryption tokens and more.
You may not be able to regenerate them and get everything back.
Edit: Windows (license) keys are not in the TPM apparently, my bad, sorry. Keeping the above text for context correctness.
Nope, Windows keys are not in the TPM. Only BitLocker uses it in any common scenario and that you can disable before changing UEFI settings (or enter a recovery key), you can also use BL without a TPM.
