This week we had the honour and the privilege to welcome Demetri Kofinas, the host of the Hidden Forces podcast. Unfortunately Charles was not on today, we also had to drop off of Jitsi and move it to Zoom, but after all that, the show went on as planned.

Hackers target crypto exchanges via their registrar

Vatican cries foul after pontiff “likes”  racy pic on Instagram

Cybersecurity agency names four state actors as threats to Canada

RCMP dragging feet at disclosing data via FOIA requests

This week we felt like it was no longer possible to tip-toe around the elephant in the room and talk about COVID-19, the pandemic, Coronavirus and how, as Charles put it "That system we thought was solid is about to go non-linear".

Ticketmaster to require immunity passports for event attendance 

DNS cache poisoning attacks are back

EC charges Amazon with anti-trust violations

EU wants to outlaw end-to-end encryption

Ethereum unexpectedly hard forks, hilarity ensues

Salon #30 had us welcome the one, the only Doc Searls. Co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and The Intention Economy, alumni fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Project VRM leader and open source champion.

In this episode:

Ledger owners lose over  1M XRP to homoglyph attack

Police pilot program will live stream neighbourhood Ring cameras

Pervasive Windows ransomware strain now targeting linux

Calls grow to leave Github quasi-monopoly 

Big Tech moves quickly to quash election truthers

This week in politics: two ducks standing on a 3 tonne pile of horseshit. That was pretty much all we had to say about the election. Then we got onto weightier matters.

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You know how when you think it's a costume party and you show up in a toga and everybody else is in business casual? I thought were all supposed to do today's show from our respective private jets and then I'm the only one who showed up in one.

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