Author: marilyncwolf

Larry Tesler, who recently passed away, discusses here the development of the Apple Human Interface.

Jalopnik reports here on the problems created for repair of military equipment by right-to-repair restrictions.

Hacker News reports here (https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/hacking-air-gapped-computers.html?m=1) that researchers at Ben Gurion University have shown how to exfiltrate data from an air-gapped computer by modulating its screen brightness.

MSNBC reports here (https://www.msnbc.com/hallie-jackson/watch/-clog-the-lines-internet-trolls-jammed-iowa-caucus-hotline-for-reporting-results-78229061879) that the phone number for reporting Iowa caucus results was posted on an Internet message board with an encouragement to “clog the lines.”

Tom’s Hardware reports here (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/huawei-security-backdoors-surveillance-cameras-firmware) that a supplier of firmware to many digital video recorder and network video recorder manufacturers included a back door to provide access to a wide range of cameras.