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TEH 250: New Apple Stuff. Data Collection is maybe not so scary. Are Passkeys evil?

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In This Episode: New Apple Stuff. Data Collection is maybe not so scary. Are Passkeys evil?


This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

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  • 250 Episodes!
  • 1:00 GR: New Apple stuff – Mac OS Tahoe Launch 
    • 3:30 Liquid Glass (People like change / people hate change)
    • 4:20 Windowing on the iPad
    • 9:30 macOS Automations
    • 11:00 Clipboard history (Mac and Windows)
    • 12:00 Lots of “Screening” features
    • 13:00 Unknown number screening (good and bad?)
    • 18:00 LN:  Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
      • Data collection in general. Many (many) people are paranoid, avoiding things like OneDrive/iCloud. Is the paranoia legit, or just misplaced?
      • 21:00 The greater risk
      • 24:00 Cloud storage can be encrypted
      • 24:30 Location worries
      • 27:00 It’s been going on a long time
        • Get off my lawn! (an occasional, as-needed, segment)
        • 29:30 LN: “I don’t understand it, therefore it’s wrong/evil/I don’t like it/no one should be using it/it’s a conspiracy/etc…” (aka Passkeys)
          • 31:30 If it’s not perfect it’s crap. Sigh.
          • 32:00 GR: “If something is not working for me, it must be broken for everyone”

            • Ain’t it Cool!

            • 35:00 GR: Stickies… 2023 movie “Missing” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10855768/
            • 40:40 LN: Department Q on Netflix https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27995114/
              • BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
              • 42:00 GR: https://macmost.com/wwdc-2025-new-features-coming-to-ios-26-ipados-26-and-macos-26-tahoe.html 
              • 43:00 LN: Passkeys and Hardware Keys
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