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Europeans gain access to Apple parts, manuals in Self Service Repair program
Dec 2022, Ars Technica
New right to repair program for Apple:
- these countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
- these products: phone from the iPhone 12 or 13 lineups or a MacBook with an M1- or M2-based chip
- individual customers to purchase the same repair manuals, parts, and tools that Apple uses to perform repairs
- customers can rent repair kits for 54.90 euros with free shipping
- https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-launches-self-service-repair-in-europe/
An architecture that gives users full control of their smartphones
Dec 2022, phys.org
New smartphone architecture called TEEtime allows different 'domains' running simultaneously to coexist on a smartphone.
It came about when governments creating contact tracing apps had to integrate with legacy systems in order to work, but didn't want to integrate the data used in the app.
They also quote the word "our" in our smartphones.
"We show that it is indeed possible to run software that is mutually distrusting on one phone, with hardware primitives that already exist," Groschupp said. "We hope this leads to a change in the public perception of the smartphone ecosystem. Usability, security, and user control are not mutually exclusive. An important design choice for us was to refrain from leveraging hypervisors, as we wanted to avoid complex high-privileged software on the phones, since this would require again trusting large commercial entities with its development and updates."
via ETH Zurich: Friederike Groschupp et al, It's TEEtime: Bringing User Sovereignty to Smartphones, arXiv (2022). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2211.05206
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