A Future Without Passwords?!?
Digital Security of the Future: Apple Edition
In The Beginning… and, Also, The Present
In 1980, my parents purchased an Apple II+ desktop computer for their three kids. I was immediately smitten. I taught myself BASIC, learned some coding, and other software tricks, and I never looked back. For 42 years (which is INSANE), I’ve owned one or more Apple products. I’m currently typing this on a 16” 2019 Macbook Pro while my Air Pods Pro rest comfortably in my ears as I listen to the amazing Tugela Fairy.
However…
As I wrote back in my newsletter in Episode #47 and Episode #47b, I’ve soured on Apple as a responsible corporate player. The company has kowtowed to both Russia and China on matters of human rights and digital privacy & security. I guess the “privacy first” company also wants or needs customers in those nations and so… they made the conscious decision to accommodate authoritarian governments in order to keep their profits high and their shareholders happy.
While I continue to find that distasteful… I begrudgingly admit that the company continues working on helping customers in other countries to improve their privacy and security in multiple ways. I’d like to highlight two of the company's newest offerings, both of which are scheduled to arrive in the Fall of…
