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this week's news was dominated by Apple and the World Wide Developers Conference which kind of surprised us with a few big announcements in both software and hardware while social media is still buzzing over the design of that beastly Mac Pro calling it things like a cheese grater we found ourselves impressed by some new functionality added to the iPad pro but underneath all of these fun announcements was a declaration of safety a declaration that users and developers alike can take a better stance toward data privacy the headliner sign-on with app a single sign-on apparatus that creates aliases per app so you don't have to give your actual email address to any of the apps that might be accessing your data with the conversation around privacy coming to the forefront I sit down with Brandon minimun and TK Bey to discuss the state of privacy on the internet and in our own lives support for the pocket our weekly podcast comes from Oregon State University earn your Oregon State MB a 100% online in a program that's designed to help you move up or make a career change you can choose from specialized tracks in organizational leadership business analytics marketing or supply chain and logistics management get where you're going faster with the Oregon State MBA learn more at MBA Oregon State edu slash pocket now hello everybody and welcome to the weekly brought to you by Pacquiao and xda-developers episode 361 recorded on June 3rd 2019 YouTube viewers you are enjoying the highlights of the show after which we invite you to join in on the full conversation regarding Apple's announcements and their stance on privacy in between those two main segments we also ask the panel what is in your pocket now so let's get into the show we begin with some thoughts on Apple's keynote WWDC I saw people on Twitter going like yeah it's my first time a dub-dub and I was like who calls it that why are you calling it that it's WWDC and I think it was really funny how on stage none of the people actually use the words iTunes is dead but let's be real iTunes is practically dead by now right to a certain extent yeah we've seen the purification basically the the different versions of software now that will manage different parts of the the OS or well not with the libraries right so you have the video library your podcast library and content so what's super interesting about iTunes is that it was built for a world of the past where your computer was the server it contained all the data you didn't have a superfast internet connection there what there really was no cloud because storage was still very expensive and had to be local on your computer but now your movies your music all of your data exists on another computer somewhere it's streamed it's downloaded we're moving past that to a decentralized cloud-based manin it's been happening for a while and I'm glad that it's finally that Apple has finally gotten on board because iTunes has been a mess for a very long time but it's the backup and restore that always worried me because that's where a lot of people at let's say you lose your I've tuned your iPhone or your iPod Touch to bring a new one but if you have a backup your data is at least there you can restore it to a new phone yeah indeed you're talking about data redundancy because like if you take your phone and you do an iCloud backup and then you throw it in the toilet and flush it down the toilet and then you go out and buy another iPhone while you log into iCloud and it says today you you know backed up here if your back if your iCloud storage limit hasn't been read exactly yes you're gonna get like I think earlier pictures back I was actually really excited about all the iPad stuff I don't know what you guys have thoughts were on on the tablet side of things I think what people wanted was a a closer experience to like almost like a touch friendly Mac OS and I think that's kind of what people thought that iPad the iPad operating system was going to be if you go back to 2010 and so I think iPad OS is such like a it's it's it's better it's improved but it's really it it's really a half-measure it's still a blown-up phone operating system with a little bit more it would it would have been Jaime's class of like oh my god are you kidding yeah this was the best part of the show and like he's like so happy cuz he's he's such a big advocate why are people so obsessed with dark mode can somebody explain that to me that is coercion it's a good segue to me because that's exactly what I was excited about exactly so dark mood for the most part if nothing else especially on AMOLED displays saves you battery if nothing else but for aesthetics and for reading at night it still also looks a little bit cooler it's also if the first time we've ever seen a theme hype ups the situation comes straight from a poll speaking of the audience kind of going crazy over an announcement there is one there is one that kind of floored everybody and I like the way that Tim Cook actually announced it and you said there's one category that we have yet to fill in our computing segment and that is of course the Mac Pro so a device like this will allow people to film at 16k and crop in at 8k and you need a lot of how you need four GPUs and 28 processing cores and a terabyte of RAM to be able to handle so many pixels moving down the screen it's gonna be awesome oh and the monitors 10 is $1,000 and imagine if you order the monitor and then the stand is in black order oh my gosh and you get it you get it you get a $5,000 monitor and you're looking at like it looks great on the floor our conversation today around privacy actually has a special sponsor hackable an original podcast from McAfee from the news two episodes of black mirror stories about cybercrime are all over the place if you're concerned about your personal devices like your webcam or your voice assistant spilling your secrets hackable looks to answer those questions and more each episode found on all major podcast platforms has hackable host jeff Siskin inviting a white hat hacker to try and hack a device he's using and in season 4 you can see if these show friendly hackers can crack smart phones printers even smart kettles learn if the Internet connected essentials that power your life also leave your personal data vulnerable and then learn how to protect yourself from letting your love of devices put you at risk listen and subscribe to hackable today on all major podcast platforms including Apple and stitcher so I wanted to throw to you guys about privacy and in particular this new feature called sign-on with Apple I I realized that it's something that we can all do if you have if you decide to run your own mail server but it not everybody will run their own mail or if they're not running a website or so on there's just the ability of not having your own personal email getting bombarded with emails getting information you could just basically put it in I'm hoping they implement it and it works as simply as they're saying because the reality is again it all relies on the end-users experience once it comes out do we I mean is in how do you change the proxy once you're basically you know done with it and how do you know where it's coming from in a sense of what account if it's sold and you're starting to get spam on it does it just all come into one inbox that whole process I always worry about the details but in theory I think it's a good idea and for every story of a breach there's also stories of companies trying to make it so that you have control over your data if somebody got a hold of which podcasts I listened to like fine it's boring I don't care but like when it comes to other more private things like the photos I take or the emails I send or the text messages I send privacy is obviously very important private from what whoo you guys yeah I don't I don't want you guys to see my emails and pictures private from a stranger who's trying to get my identity yeah definitely don't want that so with with privacy it's like the question is privacy from whom do you actually dive into the Android US privacy settings and all the permissions and whatnot so I've been so yeah so as far as just the ability of controlling the information access for application we've been doing it ever since exposed with you know back in the day where we one of the reasons we needed to route our device was to be able to install expose and install X privacy in there is this there was a module in there that allowed us and you know it's it's one of those things that you you should you should see what applications are asking for and you should really address the fact that why does it need access to your camera when it's just a text messaging application and it doesn't actually do anything some apps use location data in the background and it's creepy and it kills your battery like I think like the weirdest apps like a library app or something that you have or Starbucks act like it's constantly pulling the background so that maybe you can present you with oh there's a Starbucks nearby you should I don't know patronize it and it's it's it's killing your battery and it's it's fantastic to have as much granular control as possible to see what apps are doing and to question why does my library app need my location I'm deleting it yeah but I don't think I used two factor authentication a whole lot do you guys use that yeah no I I have to factor on all of my doll my gmail accounts and anything that I can't even my fortnight account you know my epic game account I have to it's not required though does an epic require that use it's an option okay you know for the regular person that you have buys a phone and uses it for two years since we're very abnormal it's a no-brainer it adds an additional layer of security that makes it physically impossible in a lot of cases but not all for someone to take over your account because they don't have that second part they have their username and password but it's like a second password on top of that so yeah you can really save your but in a lot of situations I think you guys have convinced me because I think the only place that I have ever used to FA has been with my Blizzard account when I used to play overwatch a lot thank you so much for watching the highlights of this episode of the pocket now weekly we really encourage you to listen to the full discussion as we talk about a lot of stuff on this episode so get into the link in the description down below to open up the podcast in your favorite podcasting app and with that we're gonna call it on this one thank you so much for listening or watching and we will be seeing you again next week