223: Simple Piece of Grace

Andy is in search of an excellent note-taking app, and Flo is floored by the lovely piece of Gympie-Gympie bush fan art sent our way. Then, we talk about the backdoor you should not exploit on your Huawei Mate P30 Pro to install Google Apps. Plus, we'll dive into why Google is being scrutinized over DNS encryption in Chrome, and look over the latest batch of Pixel 4 "leaks."

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Links and Show Notes:

• Thanks for the lovely fan art, @dxydan

• 19:50: Huawei Mate Pro P30 had a backdoor for installing official Google Apps

• 21:20: Security researcher John Wu wrote a Medium post about his investigation into the app

• 31:00: House Antitrust Investigators Now Scrutinizing Google's Plans to Add DNS Encryption to Chrome

• 42:00: Google Blog: Keeping privacy and security simple, for you

• 50:40: [9to5Google got the official specs sheet for the Pixel 4]
  9https://9to5google.com/2019/10/02/exclusive-google-pixel-4-4-xl-spec-sheet-neural-core/)

• 01:03:15: Pixel 4 photo samples

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