Ep 3: Privacy-preserving Covid Tracing and the Hardware-Software Stack with Dr. James Larus, EPFL
Computer Architecture Podcast
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Is There a Different Organization for Building Secure Applications?
The blue tooth is a way of broadcasting beacons from your phone. Apple and google realized that there's a serious privacy problem here, because co companies were using it to track people. The operating system controls very much what the applications are allowed to do. And so in particular, apple does not allow applications to sit in the background and listen for blue tooth beacons. So you know, again, another situation, ere teet control over the phone makes it very difficult to do what you need to do.
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