Apple Contractors Will Stop Listening to Your Siri Recordings—For Now

Apple Contractors Will Stop Listening to Your Siri Recordings—For Now

If nothing else, it was a week of provocative questions and few clear answer. Will you get your Equifax settlement money? Yes, but it might take years. Why did the alleged Capital One hacker fail to cover her tracks? And more importantly, why are major corporations still not taking cybersecurity seriously enough? And that's just for starters.


We looked at a series of vulnerabilities in VxWorks, an operating system you may not have heard of but that powers billions of devices in critical infrastructure and beyond. We took the Guardian Firewall app for a spin and found it a pleasant way to block unwanted trackers on iOS. And we're sorry to report that while 5G is finally upon us, it has a few security issues that still need ironing out.


Speaking of security issues, senator Mark Warner enlightened us about Russia's designs on the 2020 elections. The former White House cybersecurity czar took the lid off his next act with Trinity, a startup that wants to frustrate hackers into submission. And Donald Trump's pick as Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, gives WIRED contributor Garrett Graff an uneasy feeling: "That the administration is so predictable in its terrible choices should not make those terrible choices any less troubling," Graff writes. On Friday, Ratcliffe withdrew his nomination.


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