
Eric LB
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Eric LB
@Elbzh
Journaliste tech depuis l'an 2000. https://t.co/0p0QWznnmQ


C'est compliqué l'informatique pour certains parlementaires apparemment. [Message de service] quand vous partagez des documents confidentiels, pensez à virer les métadonnées. projetarcadie.com/commission-aud…

.@vonderleyen "The European #AgeVerification app is technically ready. It respects the highest privacy standards in the world. It's open-source, so anyone can check the code..." I did. It didn't take long to find what looks like a serious #privacy issue. The app goes to great lengths to protect the AV data AFTER collection (is_over_18: true is AES-GCM'd); it does so pretty well. But, the source image used to collect that data is written to disk without encryption and not deleted correctly. For NFC biometric data: It pulls DG2 and writes a lossless PNG to the filesystem. It's only deleted on success. If it fails for any reason (user clicks back, scan fails & retries, app crashes etc), the full biometric image remains on the device in cache. This is protected with CE keys at the Android level, but the app makes no attempt to encrypt/protect them. For selfie pictures: Different scenario. These images are written to external storage in lossless PNG format, but they're never deleted. Not a cache... long-term storage. These are protected with DE keys at the Android level, but again, the app makes no attempt to encrypt/protect them. This is akin to taking a picture of your passport/government ID using the camera app and keeping it just in case. You can encrypt data taken from it until you're blue in the face... leaving the original image on disk is crazy & unnecessary. From a #GDPR standpoint: Biometric data collected is special category data. If there's no lawful basis to retain it after processing, that's potentially a material breach. youtube.com/watch?v=4VRRri…



We have to talk about this YTber. Been a big MKBHD fan for over a decade now. The attention to detail, quality and general fairness of his reviews and optimism for tech are reasons I liked him. Increasingly though it feels like he’s going through some version of Kara Swisher-fication — where his abject hatred at tech/SV keeps popping up. @radbackwards and team built a super thoughtful take at what really should be sci-fi tech with a smart GTM strategy to be able to ship intermediates. In all communication so far they have been upfront and honest about the current limitations. SO FAR the product imo is solid at its price — you get privacy preserving teleoperated house help for $500 a month. The actual implementation is where we actually get to know how good it is or where it falls short. No point of this judgement beforehand.




The animations in macOS 26 are NEXT LEVEL. Windows can NEVER match this level of fluidity.




MacGeneration connait de grosses difficultés et a besoin de vous macg.co/macgeneration/…



I can't handle the names of some of these Chinese tech manufacturers...







