Episode 165: Elevated Privileges

We follow up on updates to Apple's UI Design Guidelines, the History of MS-DOS, and the cities vying to be Amazon's second head quarters. We also discuss the IRS's contract with Equifax and Netflix' PR issues with respect to Canadian taxes. We cover the improved display of fatal errors in Xcode 9. The reverse engineering of High Sierra's supplemental update exposes a flaw. iOS privacy has also come under fire as proof of concept by Felix Krause demonstrates the ease of stealing an Apple ID password. Picks: Useful Xcode breakpoint and the Memory Graph Debugger

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Links:

• Design Resources - Apple Developer
• Digital Research - History of MS-DOS
• Here are the cities that match Amazon's wish list for its second headquarters
• Equifax (EFX) built the IRS's login system that was hacked in 2015--and the IRS just renewed its contract — Quartz
• Netflix in campaign to ‘set record straight’ on $500-million pledge for Canadian productions - The Globe and Mail
• Josh Michaels - Effective Strategies For Selling Out
• Swift.org - Xcode 9.1 Improves Display of Fatal Errors
• Reverse Engineering macOS High Sierra Supplemental Update | Cocoa Engineering
• iOS Privacy: steal.password - Easily get the user's Apple ID password, just by asking — Felix Krause
• Have I been pwned?
• 1Password
• Cédric Luthi on Twitter: "Useful Xcode breakpoint...."
• Xcode Visual Memory Debugger
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer (Official) - YouTube
• Mr. Robot - TV Show - Watch Full Episodes | USA Network
• House of Cards | Netflix Official Site
• Lexa Doig (@LexaDoig) | Twitter
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Trials and Tribble-ations - YouTube
• Continuum (TV series) - Wikipedia
• Jonathan Kuehlein (@JPKnews) | Twitter

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