I’d like to discuss a little problem I’ve been having for a few years now, and it’s becoming a real pain, because it’s breaking my “mobile” user experience. In what should be a “seamless” User Experience, I seem to be tripping over the seam between my mobile device’s Mobile Data Plan and any Wi-Fi networks.
Security researchers at Armis, the security research company that had originally discovered the exploit, have identified the eight vulnerabilities — which have been collectively named as “BlueBorne”. It is expected that this set of vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth radio implementation almost certainly affects over 5.3 billion devices.
For those Bloggers like myself who used and loved the Windows Live Writer (latest version was I believe v16.4.3528.0331), it was truly the single greatest piece of code I had on my laptop at the time. I was blogging across three or four active sites at the time, and life was generally good. But then Windows Live Writer’s EOL happened: the End of Life back in August of 2012 when Microsoft decided it didn’t want to continue to support the product. I seem to recall talk of folding the dev crew into Window team. Regardless, it was a critical hit in my ability to Blog efficiently. Of course, I kept using the 2012 version, but there were times when I needed to re-install it, and lost the location of my previous download, or on those occasions in 2016 when it didn’t work very well with Win10.
As best as I can tell, Friday Feb 17th, the floodgates opened and Android Nougat became available as an Update. Weighing-in at 1.5G, it took about an hour to download.