Posts by DerekCurrie

Another Marketing-As-Management Artifact

This AI BS is a sad sign of Google having acquired what I call Marketing-As-Management disease. Typical of this behavior, developed in aging businesses, creativity and quality have been supressed for the sake of marketing interests. Obviously, AI as a whole is marketing hype. Google have rushed Bard/Gemini to market no doubt because of their marketing division directing them to do so. Considering the majority of Google revenue comes from advertising sales, this disease was inevitable. Equally, Google's ongoing denigration of its former creative incentives fits the theory. Relational personalities, aka marketing employees historically have it in for creative technologists who are the beating heart of any company. With marketing daggers shoved into that heart, aging companies become self-destructive. Here we go again.

Thank you as ever to Tony Allesandra whose work inspired my comprehension of this common disease of aging companies. I can provide the details regarding this business disease upon request. Get marketing OUT of management, and keep them out.

Compare the security of Android devices to that of Apple iOS devices...

When The-Powers-That-Be don't understand software and Internet security, they blunder their way into insecurity.

This is a great example.

Pick a week, any week. Compare the Android security nightmares that took place that week to the almost universal lack of security nightmares on Apple iOS devices.

Go on! Do it!

If you did, you know that Google is consistently lousy at vetting the software at their Google Play store. Meanwhile, Apple has been relatively brilliant at vetting the software at their App Store, resulting in the single most secure mobile devices available, bar none. Killing off Apple's "Walled Garden" is the act of fools.

There are, may be, can be, monopoly abuse concerns regarding Apple. Address them! But don't DESTROY SECURITY as your method, however inadvertent it may be.

Apple has had a growing Fail-To-Scale reputation over the last eight years, resulting in an ever increasing density of clunk and junk coding in their software. Please DON'T exponentially add to that mess the ability to install and run Any-Old-Crap and scamware on iOS devices. You'll regret it intensely.

BIG FAT Problem:

Facial recognition doesn't just 'sometimes' fail. It USUALLY fails. The technology remains Not Ready For Prime Time. It's yet another, of many, technologies that KindaSortaMaybe work well enough to shove it out into the public and make some money from false marketing. Does that remind your of anything, such as Autonomous Driving, a more deadly failure? Or maybe it reminds you of "AI", aka Artificial Idiocy, aka monkey-see-monkey-do?

With it's failings in mind, what is the actual point? There are dozens of less intrusive and more accurate methods of verifying people's identities that actually work.

Then of course consider to what extent the identification technologies as a whole could or do compromise the Fourth and/or Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution. Identifying people as being themselves, versus some scammer, etc., can be extremely important. Just be careful to walk the line of maintaining personal privacy AND avoidance of false, BS, shyte technology arrest.

Then of course there's that basic problem of SECURITY. Don't allow personal identifiers to be stolen and used by crooks and people with ill intent.

Google Is Not The Boss Of Me

Alternatives: I already have them working for me.

AD SHOVING, as with other forms of willful user abuse, does nothing but annoy and inspire departure.

Enjoy, Google.

WHAT GOES UP...

...MUST COME DOWN.

Then what? The effect of a dirty bomb?

That would be bad. We've known that would be bad for many decades.

So why stupidity now?

"The rocket blows up, which they sometimes do, we assume that uranium will be distributed so far and wide, it won't be a problem, or crash back as a lump in a way that doesn't ruin someone's year."

√ Right. Assuming makes radiation victims out of you and me. Don't do that. Obviously.

If you value your life...

DON'T DO IT.

Been there.

Lost all sense of delayed gratification.

Lost all ability to tolerate stress.

Got sick and couldn't work.

DO NOT BELIEVE THE Boss-Of-You when they ask you to kill yourself for the sake of whatever. Value your life and make your life have value. Personal responsibility means taking care of yourself as well as family as well as your work life. Work well and work diligently, WITHIN REASON. You are #1.

STORAGE STORAGE STORAGE

From Day 1 it's been a battle to get into green heads the requirement of energy STORAGE.

This is stupid: ""Unless countries take actions to incentivize EV drivers to charge outside peak electricity consumption periods... - said Jonathan Davenport, senior director analyst at Gartner."

STORE energy in order to entirely ignore "peak electricity consumption periods." This isn't hard. Batteries are the current obvious method. What is potentially the easiest is to store energy from renewable sources into water derived hydrogen. Burn it quick and easy as required. Oxygen in, water out. Anyone can make hydrogen at home from renewable sources.

Typically, as witnessed with nuclear energy, what wins the day is NEITHER quality NOR rationality. Instead, it's brain dead old MONEY.

Do it right or give up, green-washers.

HaHaHaHa

Corporatocracy from Microsoft asserting itself yet again.

Baloney EU! Dump their manipulative request. They require ZERO sympathy for their Windows monopoly infested Edge browser.

If it's energy...

...It has the property we call 'gravity.' Therefore, it's no surprise that anti-matter, which is energy, has the same gravity as its matter counterpart.

I wish the realization that all energy has gravity would penetrate and become a universal understanding. Physicists make a lot of incorrect conjectures assuming the opposite. Call it "anti-physics." Can we move along please?

The entire point of Musk's X

...Is to provide a wide open blow hole for mid-life-crisis afflicted blowhards, such as himself (IMHO) to attack everything they're afraid of and that got in the way of their overcompensating ego.

Sad.

I dumped the place the day Musk bought it. I wish it would simply die from Musk's inflicted (IMHO) disease.

Oh, Surprise.

Ripping off IP from the rest of the world, where reward inspires incentive, inspires creativity and invention and innovation, is Standard Daily Practice throughout the CCP dictated country. It's been the same old shyte since 1998, well documented, proven to continue every single day.

What's extraordinary here is apology. Apparently, the Chinese (ironically like Microsoft circa 1994 stealing Apple Quicktime code) are not into international lawsuits.

There are some incredible technos in China. I have some of the gear! But such is communism that it takes considerable breaking of the rules to allow citizens to benefit from their creativity. And even then, the CCP have to play at IRON GRIP and deservedly make purchasers of Chinese products and services paranoid.

Give it up CCP and let China ACTUALLY thrive without your blundering, destructive BS.

:-D

US foreign surveillance: Constitutional. US citizen surveillance within the USA: Unconstitutional.

This is my now decade old tag created specifically in response to the US Federal Government surveilling US citizens within the USA WITHOUT a warrant:

#MyStupidGovernment

It's a mild sarcastic response considering the CRIMINAL behavior of parts of the US Federal Government involved in this still ongoing behavior.

My practical response, as has become common, is to lock down the security of my Internet accessing devices to the maximum possible extent.

1) I fully expect my internet service provider (ISP) is lawfully (albeit deceitfully) collecting all my Internet behavior, then providing it without warrant to the government. Therefore, I never use my ISP's DNS server. I use fully encrypted and anonymized third party DNS servers.

2) I only connect to encrypted HTTPS web servers. To hell with HTTP servers of old.

3) I use a 'reverse firewall' to stop dead any calls out from my devices to the Internet what don't have my personal approval.

4) I connect to the Internet ONLY by way of an excellent quality VPN service, resulting in fully encrypted Internet communication at all times that don't give away my Internet Protocol (IP) address, resulting in anonymization.

5) I use two different anti-malware applications to counter surveil all software coming into my Internet devices.

6) I use every security browser extension I can lay my cursor on.

7) I block all Internet of Things (IoT) from accessing my local area network (LAN). IoT remains a profoundly dangerous technology if allowed to access the Internet. Shameful!

8) I keep all my Internet devices up-to-date with the latest security fixes, from operating system to firmware.

9) I never let anyone else have in person access to my Internet devices. No lending.

10) I follow the #1 Rule of Computing! I backup EVERYTHING, to both local and off site destinations. This is the single best tool to recover from any malware attack, most specifically RANSOMWARE. Anyone not following the #1 Rule is, in my book, a computer illiterate who has no business using one. Ransomware victims who cannot freely recover by way of securely stored backups should never have been using computers to begin with. That said, however, there's no such thing as perfection. Human foolishness is a constant.

AI is a Tool. It creates nothing.

Setting aside the ongoing bizarro exaggeration that is AI marketing hype...

What confuses people is misunderstanding what this AI stuff actually is. So here are a couple important points:

1) What we currently call "AI" is only advanced Expert System (ES) software. ES has been around for several decades. It takes in questions, queries its database, then offers an answer. What's advanced about it is the use of speech, both input and output, as well as learning. It knows how to gather more data to put into its database. Some AI also allows for scripting whereby an input can trigger a series of events, either resulting in data output, triggering an event outside of the AI system, such as turning on a networked lightbulb.

2) AI is nothing more than a tool. Tools create nothing and never will. Artisans use tools to make something. Never reference, give credit to or blame an AI. Instead, point to both the person who used the AI in the act of creation, as well as the people who coded that AI software. As such, there is not and never will be AI 'art'. According to every dictionary ever written, only we humans and possibly some other living creature make art. Tools don't make art. Paintbrushes don't make art. Artists use a paintbrush to make art. Ai doesn't make art.

Daily off-site Encrypted Backups Inaccessible Online

This is one of the very old and entirely critical aspects of any and all viable backup strategies.

And apparently, we're still in the Dark Age of Computing because so few organizations actually do it.

RESULT: Successful Ransomware attacks, crippling organizations, inspiring techno-cynicism such as this:

Wetware error is forever.

Artificial George Santos

It seems fitting that the current state of AI be as sociopathic as the new poster child for corrupt politics.

Or is it sociopathic? It would have to have actual artificial intelligence to be able to blame it for deceit.

Instead, those to blame are who wrote this not-ready-for-prime-time marketing hype nonsense.

The state of AI has successfully met the low expectations of my personal tech cynicism.

EMP +/or Interference

Much as the US federal government drags its feet catching up with contemporary technology, I cannot imagine the US military has not either nailed the balloon's electronics with an EMP or they've instituted EM interference to prevent the thing from sending coherent data to China: Criminal Nation.

Don't doubt that the CCP is the most dangerous and deceitful government entity currently existing. Reminder: They've been documented to have been hacking the USA since 1998, the year the Clinton administration provided them with Most Favored Nation status. Thankfully, MFN status was effectively withdrawn as of 2022.

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Tough luck that transitioning away from China has drawbacks. We should never have fallen for the CCP's parasitic behavior in the first place. Deal with it Walmart, Apple, Microsoft, ad nauseam.

China’s Most-Favored-Nation Status Is Ending, What Are the Implications?

Please let us continue to VIOLATE the US CONSTITUTION! Pretty please?

And take note, this crooked arm of the US government ALREADY has access to EVERYTHING any citizens does on the INTERNET by way of Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 34 [2017], (Look it up!)...unless citizens use a legitimate VPN (virtual private network) to protect their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PRIVACY!!! Seriously. Look it up.

Helpful hints:

S.J.Res.34 — 115th Congress (2017-2018)

H.J.Res.86 — 115th Congress (2017-2018)

Have Confidence In China's Infosec...

hahaHaHaHAHA!

...And China: Criminal Nation will reward you with infosec invasion beyond imagination.

IOW: Suckers will bleed.

How Inspiring!

Owners of these routers are of course inspired to buy anything else from Cisco. /sarcasm

Kill the niches, save the world? Huh?

"Why should I carry both an iPad Pro and a MacBook Air, when it's nothing more than a wasteful duplication of hardware resources?"

That is a personal choice. Choose not to do that. I have a MacBook Air M1. I do not want and would not use any iPad. The closest device I have is my iPhone 7, which is a workhorse within its niche of purposes, few of which would be practical on my MBA M1.

Therefore, I don't understand what you're talking about. Your point is pointless to me.

"The security issues of a single machine running two OSes are real – but they could be managed. The resource issues, however, will continue to plague us until we operate within an understanding that general-purpose computing devices aren't simply landfill-in-waiting. Nor are they meant to be tied to any particular set of tasks at the whim of the manufacturer."

Obviously, the M1 and M2 Macs could run iOS or iPadOS or watchOS. If that fits one's needs, then do it. But the compromise would have to be isolating each OS such that the wide open source of apps and services on any Mac could not breach the not-Mac sandboxes. This is well done already, if desired, using Parallels to run Windows or any other compatible OS. So if that's what you need, it can be done.

Do I personally need this? No.

You call Apple's fulfillment of niche products "the whim of the manufacturer"? Why? I have no comprehension of what you're talking about, once again. The distinct niches of each of these products are painstakingly chosen as well as successful.

As such, this statement makes no sense from my perspective:

"...Many have openly wondered why the iPad has not had an option to run macOS."

No. That would be incredibly hard and nonsensical specifically because of the niche of each of the to products. You work with both and think it's possible to run full MacOS on an iPad within that hardware and graphical user interface realm of simplicity? Nope. That would be a nightmare on several levels. The Mac is the far more able device, allowing for vastly more uses than any iPad or iPhone or Apple Watch. The Mac does not, and must not, have a touch screen. The reason why is the "Gorilla Arm" effect, proven many decades ago, whereby no one wants to have to reach up to play about the screen with their hands specifically because of the muscle, tendon and ligament agony that rapidly results. Apple is, despite many blunders, at least wise enough to stay out of the foolish realm. Therefore, moving iPadOS, etc. to a Mac is not practical unless the interface of that touch oriented OS can be easily and comfortably move to the touch pad, which I personally find to be far preferable to the relatively ancient mouse interface. I never use a mouse at this point.

And so forth. I could rant on about further points in the opinion article. But it all comes down to what YOU, that being any particular user, want or need to do with your computing device. Limiting the variety of devices makes no sense at all when considering the diversity of uses of such devices. Take into account diversity and the focus upon usability for each function among the entirety of users. That's what Apple is doing.

AND Apple is minimizing what ends up in a landfill at the end of life. If Apple is really doing that and continues to do that, then that is the best for all concerned. Worrying about your need to use both an iPad and a MacBook Air? That's a YOU situation for YOU to deal with. Consider dropping one and only using the other. I'd suggest the far more powerful MacBook Air. But by no means would I limit you to only the MacBook Air, or the cruddy niche compromise that combining the two would create.

Let justice be served. But isn't this typical of China's robbery of the world's IP?

China: Criminal Nation has been documented to have been hacking the world for its intellectual property, among other things, since 1998 when they helped form the Red Hacker Alliance. Hacking has since been integrated into China's military. The Chinese Communist Party quite obviously demands that any company doing business in China hand over their intellectual property! They also require influence within every major Chinese company and university.

Is Apple right to take the potential robbery of their IP seriously? Of course. Every company in the USA, if not the world, should be just as wary.

[Withheld: Essay regarding the criminal incentive of communist nations]

Oh! That's How Backblaze Lost My Data!

I'm so glad they figured it out after all these years.

But sadly, that doesn't improve my confidence in their cloud services.

Monkey See, Monkey Do...

...Just like good old ELIZA of olde.

I recall from the 1990s convincing ELIZA to remember the name of its developer and to plot his murder.

What's needed is a Turing Test variant for humans, used to discover if Turing testers are capable of detecting real people conversations from coded fakes. Apparently, that's important.

Cook's China: Criminal Nation Enablement Rewards

China's cheap labor exploitation made you and the stockholders loads of dough!

And it's, as predicted, destroying your human rights credibility!

Oh and you know full well that China's has been stealing your IP, seeing how by law you've had to hand it over to them in order to exploit their slave wage labor.

So, has enabling Cbina: Criminal Nation been worth compromising Apple's ethics?

You were warned... by me, among many, decades ago.

Enjoy what you've reaped!

(o_0)

Let me guess...

... It has a cable connecting it to a real human hidden behind the curtain providing the 'robot' with motion and speech.

Oh it uses Bluetooth! That would be an improvement.

Why do I still hear the sound of a shovel digging? Is it 6 feet deep yet? No?

Pointless Question:

Q: Does China: Criminal Nation, rip off technology?

A: Every day!

A very short list: What China hasn't ripped off.

Such is the nature of 'communism' that creativity, invention and innovation incentives are killed and stealing from the non-'communist' nations is required. The end game of course is that the creative nations get sick of being ripped off, resulting in world stagnation. That's bad.

Further anti-malware I suggest, use and admire

Background blahblah: I've been studying, working with and writing about Mac security since 2005. In that time, I've been able to work with a few anti-malware apps I admire:

Intego VirusBarrier: Since it changed hands to new management, it has only improved. These days I have it running in real time. Set it to "Scan with low priority" and forget it. It never drags on my computer speed. I've always had a good rapport with their support.

Malwarebytes: The free version is great for manual scanning. The browser add-on can be over-enthusiastic in its defensiveness, but is easily overridden when desired.

ClamXAV: It's been greatly enhanced since its free days and works well with Macs. Its developer is terrific.

I'll point out that these anti-malware apps have repeatedly proven to be problematic with Macs:

Norton Lifelock - Now a spinoff of remarkably infamous Symantec. It's recent addition of Ethereum crypto mining software from which Norton takes a 15% cut has not enhanced the software's reputation.

Avira/Avast/Jumpshot - They became infamous for tracking their users and selling the data. They were recently acquired by Norton Lifelock.

MacKeeper used to be on the nightmare list. But so far, their new owners, Clario Tech, have made an honest effort to remove its infamy and make it worthwhile.

Get a cookie control app in any case

Thank you Brendan Eich @Brave for calling out DuckDuckGo! They severely screwed up. That's a shame.

I've been supporting DuckDuckGo from very early on. I knew a significant amount (not all!) of their search results were gleaned from Microsoft's Bing. Note that I ALSO know that Bing itself gleans a significant amount (not all!) of their search results from Google!

But I know the cookie biz well enough to put control of cookies into MY HANDS and no one else's. On macOS I use, support and even beta test the Cookie app from SweetPea Productions. It has consistently worked brilliantly. (Thank you Raymond). No cookie runs free on my computers.

So, shameful as it is that DuckDuckGo made fools of themselves, I Don't Care. I've had idiotic chat warz with even Internet experts. (Hello, Adam). DuckDuckGo works great, if not better than Google in most cases. What are the alternatives?

Quant

Startpage

That's about it, other than the sad wannabes and antiques.

I do regularly run Google in pursuit of its obvious expertise above all other search engines. But I kill its cookies as well as its dialing home via a 'reverse firewall' (Little Snitch app), without regret. I stick with DuckDuckGo because they've successfully and consistently improved themselves over time and I appreciate what bit of anonymity they do provide.

Sadly, what a black eye DDG has given themselves. Stop Hitting Yourself! Stop Hitting Yourself! . . .

No, these fanatics @Alphabet / Google are NOT the Quakers

As a member of the Religious Society of Friends, I must point out that our organization has nothing-at-all to do with the fanatics calling themselves "The Fellowship of Friends."

Enough said. No comparative diatribe required.

https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/religious-society-of-friends-quakers/

Why Nuke Plants Are A FAIL

1) The best nuclear plant designs, some of which are decades old, are never even considered because: They cost more money than the unsafe, guaranteed-to-fail designs. IOW: $$$$$$$

2) The best solutions for dealing with nuclear plant waste, some of which are also decades old, are never even considered because: They cost more money than shoving the problem off on someone else, specifically the future generations of mankind. IOW: $$$$$$$

There ARE guaranteed safe nuclear plant designs and safe, realistic solutions to nuclear waste. Not a single proponent of building new nuclear plants gives a rat's that they exist. They only want to build the cheap crap that are guaranteed unsafe and ignore nuclear waste. Examine every plant design proposed by nuclear plant proponents! Examine every nuclear waste solution, if any, by nuclear plant proponents!

Until humans get realistic about solving (1) Nuclear plant safety, and (2) Nuclear waste, Nuke Plants Are A FAIL.

IOW: It's not design and solutions that are the problem. It's stupid, selfish, money grubbing, psychopathy-leaning idiots that are THE PROBLEM. Until human FAILings are solved, nukes will never be safe and will never have a waste solution.

Prove me wrong. Please!

And no, quoting the tired old rhetoric won't pass muster. Read what I wrote again and address that, and only that. I won't respond to the usual talking point BS.

Big Drone Is Watching You

So don't be naughty, or ZAAPPPP!

As a part-time cynic, I know perfectly well that CONTROL of the citizenry is one of the goals of governments with bad attitude. The result is CRMMs, which in this case stand for Citizen Remote Manipulation Machines.

Tasers on drones in schools isn't just an unrealistic idea. One gunshot or swing of a baseball bat and the things are out of commission. They're also a toehold into yet another method of controlling the citizenry in ANY scenario. Example: The government's significantly faulty surveillance camera software identified a bad guy walking down the street. Unleash the CRMMs! Zap, zap, zap, your Dad got nailed and is off to jail. Blunder accomplished. Or how about they participate in a Trump-quality mob clearing procedure? Gotta get that Bible to hold up at the church across the street? Zap the hell out of those pesky citizens who are engaged in using their right to free speech and assembly. Clear the herd.

We humans as a whole find disagreement among ourselves to be disagreeable. Using cowardly and remote tools to end disagreements, temporarily or permanently, is entirely within our behavioral history and capabilities.

If only...

...The IPV6 standard had simply incorporated all the IPV4 numbers. It would have been dead simple. But no. It had to be a PITA with no backwards compatibility. Welcome to techno hell.

It may not be too late to fix it! Ask me how if you can't figure it out for yourself. It's NOT hard.

*sigh*

Welcome to another nightmare future

Big Drone will get you if you don't follow orders.

This is yet another avenue of citizen manipulation and surveillance.

We already have CRMMs, Coward Remote Murder Machines. Of course our overlords will use less lethal devices to keep the peasants in order. :-P

And have fun pretending these CRMMs, Citizen Remote Manipulation Machines, will ever stop a mass shooting. That's ridiculous. One bullet or swipe of a baseball bat and the drone is useless.

How about we stop championing crazy: Left, Right or Center.

Look forward to more clunky devices, but...

For those of us with the knack for repair, this is great.

The pressure for decades has been for devices and components that are as compact and light as possible. That's going to have to be compromised.

NO

And here are my thoughts of why NO:

1) AI has no rights. AI is a tool. That is all. AI will never be anything more than a tool for humans. Sci-fi is merely speculation, not fact, is fiction.

2) The authors of the AI have rights. They are not tools, they are humans. They can patent everything new their AI invents. Everything.

3) Add to that a REQUIREMENT that everything their AI invents is the RESPONSIBILITY of its authors. Everything.

4) Why this is important: Tools are just tools, are used by humans to help humans accomplish things. IF that accomplishment is murder, or other nefarious deeds, it is the AUTHORS who are responsible and must be held ACCOUNTABLE for those deeds.

5) CRMMs (Coward Remote Murder Machines): Being a part-time cynic and a fan of history I know full well that we humans will continue to perfect CRMMs for use as methods of murder. That most obviously includes war. Saying "The AI did it!" is outright insanity. The authors of the AI did it as well as those who programmed the AI in pursuit of murder. It is HUMANS who must be held accountable for the acts of their TOOLS.

That sums it up from my current perspective. Don't hand over rights of any kind to tools, not ever. The humans get all the responsibility. That must remain clear and standard, no exceptions, no 'AI patents' nonsense. Humans, just humans, are responsible for everything they invent and everything their inventions do. Everything.

If you disagree, you're ushering in an outright era of enabling human insanity hiding behind the acts of its tools. How does that make any sense to anyone but the IRRESPONSIBLE, which we humans must never be. Being RESPONSIBLE is the core point of civilization. If you want to become irresponsible, go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not collect fame or fortune. Do not enjoy the rest of your irresponsible life.

When Will AI Facial Recognition Have Statistically Significant Results?

I'm unaware of a single facial recognition technology that can pass a statistical significance test. None of them provide even remotely adequate results. Please correct me if this has changed!

Then there's the subject of artificial intelligence HYPE! versus reality. But I'll spare us that sad conversation.

√ Twitter: Dumped.

Not sorry, manic egoist billionaire blowhard.

The mayhem begins:

EU warns Elon Musk over Twitter moderation plans

Browser Warz

Background: Years back, I became so fed up with Apple's ruination of their macOS Safari browser that I permanently dumped it. I don't use it.

But why can't ALL browsers and their browser engines FOLLOW WEB STANDARDS?!

Why are we users being FORCED to suffer from BROWSER WARZ? I hate using a web browser and finding that it absolutely cannot resolve all the code on the page. It's idiotic in this day and age. Idiotic. ALL the browser providers are guilty. Every one of them.

S T A N D A R D I Z E

or get off the Internet!

Google: Stop foisting flakey, sub-beta formats onto the web!

Apple: Catch up with what finished, working, secure and reliable formats Google kindly provides on the web!

EXAMPLE: WebP

...Ad Nauseam...

Another Era Of Apple Software Security Shaming

Apple blundering its software security isn't new. Of course, in the past they'd been the target of trolls and cyber propagandists who envied Apple software security. But that security began to fall away during the transition to Intel Macs in 2006. Out of that era was born a diverse group of hackers who shamed Apple into taking software security more seriously. Slowly, this resulted into embedded macOS embedded malware security and the iOS 'Walled Garden'. Today, there is a robust selection of third party companies devoted to analyzing Apple security as well as providers of macOS security tools, from firewalls to outgoing Internet connection control to malware detection, isolation and removal.

However, since circa 2016, Apple has gradually taken their eyes off the software ball and allowed for blunders that are obvious and annoying to users, while neglecting feedback from both users and developers calling for positive change. Apple's declining attention to software security is more of the same. Apparently, It's time for another era of Apple software security shaming.

Have At You!

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/have+at+you