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Techno Bits vol. 63: The Transmission Problem

This week’s edition of Techno Bits is now out in the wild, and this week I’ve written about the ransomware trojan that was embedded in Transmission 2.90 by an unknown party who both had an Apple code-signing certificate and access to Transmission’s web server. That’s a huge threat vector, so it might be time to…

This week’s edition of Techno Bits is now out in the wild, and this week I’ve written about the ransomware trojan that was embedded in Transmission 2.90 by an unknown party who both had an Apple code-signing certificate and access to Transmission’s web server. That’s a huge threat vector, so it might be time to start thinking about using Extinguish on a full-time basis.

Also included are the latest update to Munki-in-a-Box, and some thoughts about the nature of web security, and the state of my iPad Pro fascination.

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