Mac OS Ken: 11.11.2019

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

- Apple Mail Encryption: Now with Less Encryption! - NY State Regulators Probing Credit Limit Decisions in Apple Pay - Security Deal Between Vuzix and Sword Sees 10,000 iPads Deployed - Apple Watch Veterans Day Activity Challenge Happens Today - Apple Arcade Hits 100 Playable in iOS - Apple TV+ Signs Deal for Series "Severance" - Apple Donating to Elephant Conservation for Every View of The Elephant Queen in 2019 - Apple Hits New Intraday and Closing Highs - Upcoming Mac Pro Pops Up on Calvin Harris Instagram Story - Take back your Internet privacy TODAY and find out how to get 3 months free at ExpressVPN.com/MacOSKen - Power what we do next for as little as $1 a month. Join the Mac OS Ken Test Kitchen at Patreon at Patreon.com/macosken! - Send me an email: info@macosken.com or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:07.0	This is Mac OS Ken.
0:12.0	Apple mail encryption. now with less encryption, regulators eye Apple
0:17.2	card credit limits and Calvin Harris feel so close to the new Mac Pro. It's Monday the 11th of November 2019. I'm Ken Ray and
0:28.8	this is news from Maco-S Ken brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by Express
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0:57.0	dot com slash MacOScamp
1:08.5	People just want so much. Like, apparently some people have this crazy idea that an encrypted mail client should protect mail messages by encrypting them.
1:14.0	I know, right?
1:16.0	Okay, it's actually kind of serious.
1:18.0	Mac Rumors says IT specialist Bob Gendler has found an issue with the MacOS Apple mail application that leaves
1:25.4	parts of encrypted emails unencrypted and readable if and if and if. If.
1:32.8	According to Gendler, according to Mac Rumors, the snippets dot
1:37.2	d.b database file used by the Mac OS function that offers up
1:41.4	contact suggestions, stores encrypted
1:44.0	mail in an unencrypted format even when Siri is disabled on the Mac. The
1:49.9	PSS Gendler saying let me say that again. The Snippets.
1:54.0	D.B database is storing encrypted Apple mail messages completely, totally, fully unencrypted, readable, even with Siri disabled without requiring the private key.
2:07.0	Most would assume that disabling Siri would stop MacOS from collecting information on the user, this is a big deal. This is a big deal for
2:16.8	government, Gendler continues, corporations, and regular people who use encrypted email and expect the contents to be protected.
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