So apparently my employer is again shuffling things around and some people are being let go (I don’t know whether I’m affected yet). Anyone have any job tips for for a senior macOS developer with security focus? Would need to be able to work in Helsinki. F-Secure Press Release
Upgrade my private phone to iOS 18 and private laptop to Sequoia beta, y/n?
I really just want the new Sequoia screensavers and remote-control my iPhone from my Mac. 🤷
It was getting hard to find spare parts for our decade-old Roomba so we needed to get a new robot vacuum cleaner. However, some family members have grown so attached to the old one so now we have a big and a baby robovac.
It started with an attempt to fix a flaky unit test, which expanded into deleting some unused code which expanded into deleting almost 4000 lines of code. A nice PR to finish off with before vacation starts!
Eating one of these is like eating a whole bag of Djungelvrål, it’s completely insane and I can’t stop
(I don’t know how Sparkle operates; if it only does the extraction after signature validation I guess an attack would be pretty hard to pull off even if you have a zero day in the archive decompressor.)
Step 1: find zero day vulnerability in obscure archive format
Step 2: add said archive format to the most popular 3rd party macOS software update framework
Step 3: ???
Our product deleted some “malware” in Proxygen’s container when I downloaded it in my VM - it still got delivered through the proxy so all is good, I was just surprised it landed on disk at all :-) /cc @pasi@mastodon.social
The man in the photo is middle-aged with glasses and a cap. He has a beard and is dressed casually in a grey jacket over a hoodie. He’s taking a selfie by a serene lake with a modern structure floating on the water behind him on a sunny day.
Watch the moose. The moose is your friend. www.svtplay.se/video/emy…