This week Audrey and I chat about the impact of Spectre and Meltdown, how easy it is to harvest credit cards numbers in the browser, and Kodak's new cryptocurrency. Enjoy!

[01:26] What it looks like when you're neighborhood grocery store shuts down[06:02] Sams club closures[09:19] iPhone performance benchmarks after Spectre security update | Melv1n[10:51] "this translates into seven figures in our AWS bill"[13:29] Speculative execution considered harmful in 1995[14:44] Phabricator is not affected by Spectre or Meltdown because PHP is too slow[15:55] What Spectre and Meltdown Mean For WebKit[16:33] I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.[29:02] Attack of the Week: Group Messaging in WhatsApp and Signal[34:31] Kodak bitcoin miner on display at CES 2018 [36:37] Kodak announces its own cryptocurrency and watches stock price skyrocket[39:02] Monkey selfie copyright dispute[43:44] This man has made more money trading cryptokitties than investing in his IRA[45:47] Blockchain is an elaborate work-around for a *very specific problem*[47:26] I Partied With The Robot Strippers Before The CES[48:49] Neural Network Pies[51:03] Cat that has never been so insulted in all nine of its lives of the day.

Complete show notes & announcements:

https://recompilermag.com/2018/01/19/episode-45-web-development-is-kind-of-horrifying