Who knew? Microphones respond to light waves as well as sound waves. This allows hackers to attack voice-assistant technologies such as Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant, sometimes from a considerable distance.
Read more
Category: Tech Matters
Location, location, location history
Who knew? Turning off Location History on Google doesn’t actually turn off location history. That, at least, is the basis[…]
Read more
The Dark Side of Facebook
“The biggest surveillance-based enterprise in the history of mankind.” In a hugely popular post titled The Ultimate Retaliation: Pranking my[…]
Read more
Smartphones: The Abuser in Your Pocket
The first three questions in the Am I In An Abusive Relationship questionnaire take on a whole new meaning if[…]
Read more
The Spyingest Windows Ever
Windows 10 is without doubt the “spyingest” Windows ever. Visit Settings > Privacy and you’ll find 25 separate privacy settings,[…]
Read more
Web of Spies
How to check out who is secretly checking you out Lightbeam is a simple browser add-on for Firefox that lets[…]
Read more
The iPhone hack: What you need to know
A few days ago, one of Google’s security teams called Project Zero revealed a chilling and truly massive hack of[…]
Read more
Clutter-free Web Browsing
Firefox has a great little built-in tool that most users don’t know about. It’s called Reader View and it’s right[…]
Read more
Diagnosing Mac Hardware Problems
Your Mac’s acting up. It’s been all right for hours. Days, even. Then you have a rush on. You need[…]
Read more
New Life for an Old Phone
My Samsung Galaxy S-III was getting a bit whiskery. Although it was six years old, it still did most of[…]
Read more