Buffer Overflow: French Fried Algorithms
Episode 173
Facebook Data Hoovers, Super Secret iPods, and Schizophrenic AIs

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Mega-Lightning Round

• Ma! Facebook is forcing people to let them collect data again!
• You didn’t like those photos anyway right?
• Google taking shots at the ... College Degree
• Now, the inevitable real life Big and Large will be able to spot schizophrenia
• Super Secret iPods in the wild
• Facebook to settle lawsuit for $650 million over claims it illegally gathered biometric data
• UK learns, like everyone else, that predictive algorithms reflect the biases of the past
• Smart locks not that smart, dumb locks not much better

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: Dr. Mr. Lobster
Episode 172
Browser extensions, Fanciest of Bears, and Epically Sad Lawsuits

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner

Browser extensions: Essential for using the web and not going completely insane

• The modern web is filled with ads, bloat, malware, malvertising, and bad actors trying to use your browser for cryptomining.
• The online disinhibition effect
• uBlock Origin
• Nothing but clickbait trash bought by the lowest bidder and masquerading as real stories
• Privacy Badger
• Shut Up
• The Great Suspender
• Bad Actors are taking increasingly sophisticated approaches to tricking you into installing malware-infested addons

• NSA and FBI release information about a Fancy Bear
• Docker kills stale images in cash grab
• I always knew productivity posts were a sham
• Google continues its attacks on a free internet by hiding the full address on Chrome 86
• Microsoft and Amazon are having a cloud fight over… naming things
• Epic Games sues Apple and Google after blatantly violating their terms of service

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: This CVE Goes to 11
Episode 171
Big Tech and TikTok, Firewalls Aflame, and Junk In Space

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Big Tech and TikTok

• https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/30/big-tech-six-experts-on-key-takeaways-from-the-congressional-hearing.html
• https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/894834512/big-tech-in-washingtons-hot-seat-what-you-need-to-know
• https://www.ft.com/content/45d739f5-37cc-4957-874d-a310c2ac8e07
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/06/trump-tiktok-executive-order/
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-addressing-threat-posed-tiktok/

• HTTP Smuggling is less fun than snuggling
• Shots fired on Istio and Google
• Scientists have the revolutionary idea of tracking space junk by looking at it with sunglasses
• The good folks over at AMD might really have something going
• Firewall vendors have had a rough go of it this month, security-wise

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: Merchandising! Merchandising! Merchandising!
Episode 170
WFH is The Pits, AI-based creative writing, Streaming Deep Dive

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/
Hank Yee, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hankyee/

The COVID of All Things Streaming

• https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/quibi-free-trial-converted-paying-customers-8-percent-1234702116/
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/danrunkevicius/2020/07/08/disney-master-plan-with-disney-plus-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#2d6fb49d49d3
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2020/07/06/hamilton-disney-plus-subscriptions-cant-compete-with-a-global-theatrical-release-for-soul-mulan-black-widow/#25fa05025915
• https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/5/29/21263715/hbo-max-peacock-netflix-hulu-disney-plus-amazon-apple-cbs-all-access-streaming-service-guide
• https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/23/hbo-max-reached-4-1m-subscribers-in-first-month-despite-lack-of-distribution-on-roku-and-fire-tv/
• https://deadline.com/2020/07/netflix-the-gray-man-ryan-gosling-chris-evans-joe-russo-anthony-russo-directing-1202987267/

• Mini-Meow Update
• July 31st is System Administrator's Day!
• The EU is implementing a carbon border tax
• Constantly working from home is starting to take a measurable psychological toll, says everyone
• Airbus plane successfully completes entire flight procedure on autopilot
• Latest version of AI-based creative writing is actually getting good
• Dell iDRAC vulnerability announced that non-administrative users to turn your servers fans off

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: meow
Episode 169
Mission to Mars-es?, Microsoft Duo, and Twitter Subscriptions

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Multiple Missions to Mars

• EU/Russia mission has actually been pushed off until the next window in 2022
• The United Arab Emirates mission had a successful launch on July 19th
• China’s Tianwen-1 rover

• Microsoft Surface Duo is coming for reasons?
• Intel rides the fail whale once again
• Twitter Admin Panel not so restrictive
• Apple starts to manufacture iPhone 11 in Chennai, India
• New online Meow attack has destroyed nearly 2,000 unsecured databases, nobody knows why
• Twitter considering adding paid subscriptions to augment their death spiral revenue model

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: Glamping on the Sun
Episode 168
Twitter HACK!, TikTok time running out, and Microsoft has worms

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313

Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/

Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Twitter HACK! Send BTC now!

• Based on information gathered by Brian Krebs, it appears that what actually happened is that the accounts were reset

• The US may ban TikTok
• Google G-Suite integration getting better
• We just got the closest pictures of the Sun in history and more are coming
• The UK says Cheerio! to Huawei
• Everyone’s headed back to Mars and the UAE are the first in line
  • NASA, the EU and Russia, China, and finally, the United Arab Emirates
• Microsoft announces massive 17-year old “wormable” bug that affects basically every Windows Domain Controller… in the world

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: Spirit Animals are Dumb
Episode 167
Cool Things Coming Soon, New Stuff from the Far Side, and insidious iOS 14

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner

Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/

Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

• Some Neat Innovations Coming Our Way
  • Living building materials, or LBMs, are capable of regeneration and are more sustainable for the environment than concrete.
  • The intended future use for these little guys may be to gather microplastic litter in the ocean or to swim inside the human body to remove plaque from arteries.

• Why yes, that is a wireless implant connected to my brain.
• Tired of the setup of video conference calls? Microsoft thinks they have the solution
• Quibi is in a quagmire
• The bluebird of happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the chicken of depression
• Fujifilm announces breakthrough technology that will allow 400TB backup tapes by 2030
• iOS 14 features tons of applications that steal your data just because they can

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: Dark Black Hole 2020
Episode 166
Banned!, Samsung bloat, and Vanta Black holes

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner

Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

BANNED!

• First of all, there’s a great video from Legal Eagle
• And it is pretty simple, or at least as simple as legal jargon is likely to get.
• The Executive Order
• Changes at Facebook

• Microsoft is closing all retail stores
• Security researcher unveils Apple bug that allows unprotected access to allegedly secure resources
• Apple files for a patent on phone-to-phone file transfer system that uses lasers
• Samsung is catching increasing amounts of heat for ads and bloatware in their smartphones
• Ampere releases CPU roadmap for ARM-based CPUs; max is a preposterous 128 cores by Q4
• In the mood for a new and exciting kind of existential crisis? How about a “Dark Black Hole?!”

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B