akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Sun Feb 16 11:41:50 UTC 2020



On 24/Jan/20 01:35, Jared Mauch wrote:
> Apple did this with the original iPhone. Turned out even in their
> ecosystem they didn't get it right. The full restore images have
> always been there and diffs didn't reappear until you could "OTA" the
> device (WiFi)

Still the case today.

Diffs are only OTA. If you update via iTunes, it's the full whack. This
is why I stopped updates via iTunes 3 years ago.

>
> I can't imagine how hard a console would be with every random app
> writing data wherever. 
>
> Sandboxes and jails have been escaped as long as they have been around
> as well so they can help but are far from perfect

Isn't the PS4 running FreeBSD :-)?

Mark.




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