Thanks for the heads up.

The immediately important bit (until a resolution) from the article:
Disabling WebRTC can be done by installing the WebRTC Block extension for Chrome, while in Firefox the “media.peerconnection.enabled” needs to be set to “false” on the advanced configuration page (about:config).

When you perform the same steps on OS X (Yosemite 10.10.1) it does as desired.

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@JaredBusch said:

No. They will fall for it because they clicked on a get this app free link.

General end users have no clue that one system is more secure than another. That only comes in to play in the more technical circles.

Very true.

@Dashrender said:

If it is, why in the world did they buy Nokia?

To keep them from suddenly dropping WP and going to Android?

It does work great. I have small hands and love that I can do that and have the bigger phone.

I have seen some books for the Apple certifications, but they were always Apple books.

I do, I've got a long time without one now. Had one for a few months but that was all. The new ones are super light and thin which is pretty cool and even more processing power than the iPhone 6 if you go for the larger model.

Confirmed in 8.0 and 8.0.2. this is quite a crappy change. I really hope it is a bug and not a new feature

Apple forum discussions on the subject:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6545009
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6541631.

Per normal Apple procedures, no word from Apple on the subject.

Yeah - it's when I'm switched to another app that it shows, but it is still annoying 🙂

if i'm literally on the road and someone calls i'll use my GFI Max App/Team Viewer to hop on and fix lil urgent issues. (yes aj, i use my phone while in my vehicle, but i pull over).
Speedtest. Let me tell you, teamviewer on the iPhone6+ is actually usable lol

@scottalanmiller Many have the technology in place since they sell femtocells but I'm not sure why the never full implement it down to the phones directly. I guess it's too much work on their part to make it work on every phone. But I could see them just making an android app/plugin and one for iphones. They don't need to worry about RIM too much.

I'm surprised iOS doesn't have this built in yet. As Macbooks already do this under the Battery Menu. However on mobile OS people that run those Battery Doctor (and the more popular Advanced Task Killer) type apps end up getting less life out of the battery. Many apps take so little battery running in a suspended state in the background that fully closing them multiple times means the processing to get it going multiple times a day again would use more power..

The App Store is actually great. It is the poor alternative on windows and android that I found to be the turnoff.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

How does it hand off a phone call that is not on IP?

Call turns into WiFi. No call originates on IP. Or effectively none.

You'll have to add more explanation at some point.

I am planning on getting a new Mac after their next round of updates.

Very true. It is already quite amazing that Blackberry still exists at all.

This part just really gets me.

There is no way to audit such ad hoc workflows that traverse devices and don't need to go through a common network. Without auditing, you can neither assure compliance, nor really manage security. Ultimately, we'll have to let go of those notions for the vast majority of data and workflows, using other means to validate access and information checkin/checkout and worrying less about what happens in between.

How can you get away with this in any organization that has any kind of over site?