#AxisOfEasy Weekly Tech Digest

Fortunately, no portion of the show today violated any standing gag orders or contravened the Official Secrets Act, although we did briefly lose Jesse at a couple of points.

Secrecy around top Canadian cyber-security intelligence officer caught spying for China

S&P to launch crypto-currency indexes in 2021 as Niall Ferguson endorses Bitcoin (OOtc article)

Google fires researcher for criticizing company AI policy

Virtual credit card skimmers hidden in social media sharing icons

Charles was back in the saddle this week, we had a technical blip in the middle when my connection dropped. We were able to patch in most of it from a recording Jesse made on his end. We also had to redact a small segment pursuant to a gag order […]

Drupal deploys emergency fix for critical vulnerability 

PHP8 is here already

Qantas to require vaccinations as IATA forms industry response

Hacker posts exploit for over 49K vulnerable Fortinet VPNs

Biden’s tech czar is a zealous tech regulator

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