12: Stronger Than The Wood Itself

In a week where Simon and Richard overcome their respective illnesses, Mark has a minor health scare, so it’s business as usual for this week’s episode of Technically Correct. Lenovo’s adware/bloatware package known as ‘Superfish’ has landed them in hot water, as they seemingly chose to compromise the security of their customers and then continually lie about the fact in proceeding allegations. Elsewhere, two UK banking apps decide to adopt Touch ID and the BBC turns into scaremongering babies at the prospect, details of the HTC One M9 and Samsung Galaxy 6 leak, and 9to5Mac tracks a cluster of Apple’s hires that can only seem to point to one thing. Stick around for a doozy of an after-show conversation wherein we’re all off to buy a Peugeot. The Technically Correct Podcast is supported by Hover. Hover provide simplified domain management — check them out today! Links for this episode PC World: How to remove the dangerous Superfish adware preinstalled on Lenovo PCs ArsTechnica: SSL-busting code that threatened Lenovo users found in a dozen more apps Lenovo Community: Lenovo Pre-instaling adware/spam - Superfish Superfish, Komodia, PrivDog vulnerability test BBC News: Banks to allow account access using fingerprint tech The Verge: HTC One M9 pictures and specs leak out The Verge: This is the Samsung Galaxy S6 Twitter: Swift On Security 9to5Mac: Revealed: The experts Apple hired to build an electric car Amazon: Peugeot Pontarlier Acrylic Salt and Pepper Combi, 15cm