The argument over Apple and Google's plan to use Bluetooth to help with Covid-19 contact tracing escalated this week. But while plenty of societal and efficacy issues remain unresolved, we found answers to some of the tricker questions about the underlying tech. It's not perfect, but protects your privacy better than you might think.
Meanwhile the Pentagon handles its cybersecurity training worse than you might think, ignoring or losing track of the majority of goals it set for itself in that area five years ago. Which might be a little less alarming were this not the Department of Defense we're talking about.
Also alarming: software bugs in the Snoo smart bassinet, now patched, that would have allowed a hacker to shake the bed harder than intended and blare a loud tone near a baby's head. The Happiest Baby Company, which makes the Snoo, insists that the attack was too difficult to pull off to constitute a real-life threat, and there's no indication that a hacker could have caused actual physical harm even if they were successful. Still, it's a reminder that you should think carefully before connecting any device to the internet, given that someone's invariably going to try to break in.
In other Covid-19 news, security researcher Trammell Hudson figured out how to jailbreak a relatively affordable AirSense 10 CPAP machine to act as an emergency ventilator. People shouldn't try to do this themselves, but Hudson hopes the company behind the device will release their own firmware update ..
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