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Hateful Graffiti Found At Garden City Park

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GARDEN CITY, NY — The Garden City Police Department reported the following incidents in the village for the week ending Aug. 23.

Aug. 17

  • Someone damaged the grounds of the 12th green at the Garden Country Club.
  • A package was reported stolen from the front porch of a Stewart Avenue residence.
  • A victim reports there were multiple fraudulent transactions against her ATM account.
  • A driver on Franklin Avenue was arrested for second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation (six license suspensions), fraudulent license plates and unsafe lane use.
  • A driver was arrested for leaving the scene of a vehicle crash that occurred on Rockaway Avenue at Merillon Avenue.
  • A driver on Stewart Avenue was charged with driving with a suspended registration and defective brake lights.
  • A driver on Meadow Street was charged with driving with a suspended license and tinted windows.
  • Two landscapers were issued tickets for operating gas leaf blowers.

Aug. 18

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  • A person’s identity was used to open multiple fraudulent bank accounts.
  • A truck struck the Cherry Valley overpass. The driver was charged with disobeying bridge clearance signs.
  • Two appearance tickets were issued to landscapers for using gas blowers.
  • A company was issued an appearance ticket for landscaping without a permit.
  • A driver on Clinton Road was charged with unlicensed operation and excessive speed.

Aug. 19

  • A person’s identity was used to open unauthorized bank accounts.
  • After being locked out of her computer security account, the victim called a phone number found on the internet and spoke with who she thought was an agent of the security company. The agent instructed the victim to meet him at a nearby location and give him $3,000 to fix the issue. Then victim realized it was a scam and hung up.
  • A landscaper was issued an appearance ticket for operating a gas leaf blower.
  • A vehicle reportedly left the scene after striking and damaging a street sign on Nassau Boulevard.
  • A driver on Washington Avenue was charged with driving with a suspended registration and excessive speed.

Aug. 20

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Bella Vista Garden Club makes donations

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Letter Writers

The Northwest Arkansas Letter Writing group will meet at 4 p.m. July 12 in the conference room of the Bella Vista Public Library. All are welcome to attend this group, promoting the love of letter writing and mail art.

Information: Email Pat at [email protected]

Brainteasers

Bella Vista Brainteasers meets every month in the community room of the Bella Vista Public Library. Due to a scheduling conflict, this month only, the group will meet at 3 p.m. July 13. All are welcome to attend. The group wishes to thank the Bella Vista Recycling for running the monthly packet.

Information: Email Pat at [email protected]

Rotary

The Rotary Club of Fayetteville will meet at 11:45 a.m. July 14 at Mermaids restaurant in Fayetteville. Jessica Phillips and Erin Farrah will talk about Ronald McDonald House. Lunch is $15. There is still a Zoom option for the meeting. Email the club for a link.

Information: Email [email protected]

Computer Club

The Bella Vista Computer Club has announced the following scheduled meetings:

• July 11, 7 p.m. The speaker will be Ginny Vance, speaking on “Buying on the Internet.”

• July 20, 1-4 p.m. The speaker will be Joel Ewing, speaking on “Why, When and How to Backup Your C Drive.”

• July 27, 4-6 p.m. The speaker will be Justin Sell, speaking on “Computer Security for Regular People, Part 2.”

The club is also offering help clinics from 9 a.m. to noon on July 20 and Aug. 6.

Information: bvcomputerclub.org.

Artisan Alliance

The Artisan Alliance of Wishing Spring is accepting new members to the art club. The club meets every three months for art and craft demos and member news (covid and weather permitting). The next meeting will be posted on the website at www.artisanalliance.net.

Wishing Spring Gallery is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m Thursday through Saturday in south Bella Vista, behind Walgreens.

Information: wishingspringgallery.net or (479) 273-1798.

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‘Fortnite’ Maker Targets Apple’s ‘Walled Garden’ in Courtroom Fight Over App Store

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In its courtroom battle with

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Epic Games Inc. is questioning a core tenet of the iPhone maker’s App Store business: that its success relies upon rigorous policing of the platform.

Apple for years has said its rules and vetting process for apps protect users from malicious software and abuse, work that helps justify the up to 30% cut it takes of digital transactions there. In documents and testimony in a lawsuit being argued this month before a federal judge in Oakland, Calif., Epic has said Apple’s contentions don’t hold up to scrutiny.

The App Store’s business model, which has been called a “walled garden” due to the company’s tight controls, faces rising criticism from a host of developers, from

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Epic and others are seeking to undermine Apple’s rationale for its control of third-party software on its more than one billion iPhones, claiming the operating system is what keeps users safe, not the App Store review process. Epic contends others could safely vet apps if allowed to create their own app stores.

“To justify its walled garden, Apple needed to convince those locked in and those locked out that the wall served some higher purpose, something more than profitability—and so Apple security justification was born,” Katherine Forrest, an Epic lawyer, told a judge this past week during the start of the trial, expected to last most of May.

Apple strongly disputes Epic’s claims that it is a monopoly and defends its app-store rules as a way to provide users with a safe, private and reliable place to download software. Apple says customers would be opened up to harm without its controls.

Epic and other app developers want to change Apple’s control over the third-party software on more than one billion iPhones; ‘Fortnite’ on an iPhone in 2020.



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Apple’s Increasingly High Walled Garden Helps Hackers Avoid Capture

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A new report highlights how despite Apple’s increasingly high walled garden ecosystem, hackers are finding more ways inside.

According to a new exposé from MIT Technology Review, Apple’s effort to increase security in both hardware and software is experiencing a downside — the Cupertino company’s walled garden approach is making it easier for hackers to hide.

“It’s a double-edged sword,” says Bill Marczak, a senior researcher at the cybersecurity watchdog Citizen Lab. “You’re going to keep out a lot of the riffraff by making it harder to break iPhones. But the 1% of top hackers are going to find a way in and, once they’re inside, the impenetrable fortress of the iPhone protects them.”

Marczak’s primary concern is that as Apple builds increasingly locked-down devices, it’s becoming more difficult for security researchers to discover hacking activity:

He argues that while the iPhone’s security is getting tighter as Apple invests millions to raise the wall, the best hackers have their own millions to buy or develop zero-click exploits that let them take over iPhones invisibly. These allow attackers to burrow into the restricted parts of the phone without ever giving the target any indication of having been compromised. And once they’re that deep inside, the security becomes a barrier that keeps investigators from spotting or understanding nefarious behavior—to the point where Marczak suspects they’re missing all but a small fraction of attacks because they cannot see behind the curtain.

And while Apple regularly updates its devices with software that fixes security flaws, these same updates can also hinder the various tools used by security researchers:

Sometimes the locked-down system can backfire even more directly. When Apple released a new version of iOS last summer in the middle of Marczak’s investigation, the phone’s new security features killed an unauthorized “jailbreak” tool Citizen Lab used to open up the iPhone. The update locked him out of the private areas of the phone, including a folder for new updates—which turned out to be exactly where hackers were hiding.

Faced with these blocks, “we just kind of threw our hands…

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