Feb 17, 2018

iFixit and the iPhone X Teardown, Consumer Reports is now adding Security and Privacy into their electronic device ratings, Telegram has a Zero-day vulnerability due to a Right-to-Left Unicode character and Salon.com wants to mine cryptocurrencies in exchange for viewing their website. Jon talks about building a Raspberry Pi time-lapse video and Eric talks about StackOverflow stats.

Links:

• iFixit and iPhone X Teardown - https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/motherboard-ifixit-worlds-best-iphone-teardown-repair/5a01b91b177dd416f530a081
• Consumer Reports adds Security and Privacy - https://www.consumerreports.org/televisions/samsung-roku-smart-tvs-vulnerable-to-hacking-consumer-reports-finds/
• Zero-day Vulnerability in Telegram - https://securelist.com/zero-day-vulnerability-in-telegram/83800/
• Unicode character crashes iPhones - https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/16/iphone-bug-telugu-unicode-ios-mac-text-bomb/
• Salon.com wants to mine cryptocurrencies - https://www.salon.com/about/faq-what-happens-when-i-choose-to-suppress-ads-on-salon/
• Python library for checking astral data - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/astral
• Eric checks StackOverflow stats - https://stackoverflow.com/users/251299/eric
• Jon's stats on StackOverflow - https://stackoverflow.com/users/4155/niniki