Hacker Public Radio

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Hacker Public Radio is an podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that are of interest to hackers and hob... more

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December 22, 2023 HPR4015: Value of life, part 0.
Value of life, part 0.
Wear
your secret hat. Sgoti talks about putting a dollar value on a human
life.
Source: Value of life
The value of life is an economic value used to quantify the benefit
of avoiding a fatality. It is also referred to as the cost of life,
value of preventing a fatality (VPF), implied cost of averting a
fatality (ICAF), and value of a statistical life (VSL).
Supporting Source: Cost-benefit
analysis
Cost-benefit analysis (CBA), sometimes also called benefit-cost
analysis, is a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and
weaknesses of alternatives. It is used to determine options which
provide the best approach to achieving benefits while preserving savings
in, for example, transactions, activities, and functional business
requirements.
Source: Social Credit
System
The Social Credit System is a national credit rating and blacklist
being developed by the government of China. The social credit initiative
calls for the establishment of a record system so that businesses,
individuals and government institutions can be tracked and evaluated for
trustworthiness. There are multiple forms of the social credit system
being experimented with, while the national regulatory method is based
on whitelisting (termed redlisting in China) and blacklisting.
Source: What
is Body Part Insurance?
Insuring body parts isn't anything new in the world of celebrities,
but it is a rare type of insurance that now counts athletes among its
numbers. The entire point of insuring a body part is to supplement a
loss of income should that body part become injured, damaged, scarred,
handicapped or lost, preventing the individual from continuing to use it
to generate income.
Source: Pre-existing
condition
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center defines a pre-existing
condition as a "medical condition that occurred before a program of
health benefits went into effect". J. James Rohack, president of the
American Medical Association, has stated on a Fox News Sunday interview
that exclusions, based upon these conditions, function as a form of
"rationing" of health care.
Supporting Source: The
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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20min
December 21, 2023 HPR4014: Post-Quantum Cryptography Update 1st November 2023
In May of 2023 a guide was published by NIST that aimed to guide IT
Professionals and Security Officers on steps to take as we move into a
world where Quantum computing has made traditional cryptography and
security measures obsolete. This is their take on a best practices
manual, and if you are in security or are an IT professional it merits a
good look. And it is only 4 pages long, so you can do it easily.
Links:
https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/sites/default/files/2023-04/pqc-migration-nist-sp-1800-38a-preliminary-draft.pdf
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12min
December 20, 2023 HPR4013: Smart Watches gross
I talk about my setup and issues with smart watches
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32min
December 19, 2023 HPR4012: RE: show comments.
RE: show comments.
Sgoti replies to a comment
or two.
hpr3972 ::
Thunderbird inbox filtering: keeping a clean/orderly inbox.
Source: Comment By: frank
Why unsubscribe?
I don't know how it is in the US, but in Europe, a newsletter by law
needs to have a clear way of unsubscribing by providing a link
somewhere.
Why unsubscribe? 1. For the environment. It is dirt cheap to spam
e-mails around. But the amount adds up in electricity and traffic. 2.
For your own privacy. 2a. If you use a commercial mail provider that
scans your mails, then each time you get one of those, it is scanned and
the profile on you grows. 2b. In case the sender of the newsletter is
ever hacked (chances are it will at a certain point), your address will
leak to the crackers. 2c. The sender has your address and can (and
probably will) trade it for money. In an ideal world (we all like to
think that hope dies last) they delete your address when you
unsubscribe. If not, it's probably a violation of GDPR.
hpr4008 ::
Sextortion. Good Heavens!
Source: Comment By: Another Guy on the
internet
This show is very opinionated
The nice thing about podcasts and radio is that you can monologue
whatever nonsense you like and act like it is the single truth in the
universe. That is exactly what is going on this show. First there is
some useful information about sextortion, the forms it manifests in and
consequences it can have in real life, that's the good stuff. Then comes
the bad and the straight-out ugly bit. While the speaker starts of with
a pretty factual analysis, eventually he slides into a very much
opinionated stance against any form of digital eroticism. Don't do
***** kids! Where have we heard that before, right?
Seriously, if you are an adult having a problem with the fact that
people exchange nudes in their sexual discovery journey then that is
just your own moral problem, do not project that on the rest of the
world please. People have done that about sex, drugs, music, religious
believes, cultural habits, and pretty much everything we humans design
to entertain ourselves and to carry out our identity into the world.
Saying "Don't do that" really is totally random moral stance since what
is found to be offensive in your part of the world might be totally
innocent behavior where I live and vice versa. So, again, because
repetition seems to work for Coca-Cola: don't project your own random
moral objections onto the world. They are legit, they are rightfully
yours to keep. But don't try to push them further than that, because
that's just randomly stupid.
hpr4008 ::
Sextortion. Good Heavens!
Source: Comment By: hpr listener
Poor quality.
SGOTY. Up to this point, your shows have been of good quality and
well considered.
I will preface this with the fact that yes, sexstortion is something
that exists. Observing some basic safety measures when using the
internet could easily prevent it. It is a societal problem in,
especially in the age of social media.
This show however, was a hideous disappointment.
U
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23min
December 18, 2023 HPR4011: The Intel Hex file format
notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HEX
an example intel hex file with 1 record containing 3 data bytes (02h
33h 7ah) and an end of file marker:
:03|0030|00|02337A|1E
:00000001FF
espeak incantation:
espeak-ng -v mb-us3 -s 163 -p 38 -f intel-hex.org -w intel-hex.wav
script:
Hello Hacker Public Radio, Brian in Ohio here. I am out from under my
rock and this episode is about an old file format that despite its age
is still in use in many places today.
That format is the Intel Hex format. What is this format? Glad you
asked.
From the book of knowledge we read,
Intel hexadecimal object file format, Intel hex format or Intellec
Hex is a file format that conveys binary information in ASCII text
form.
If you have ever programmed an arduino board the file that is used to
program the board.
The file generated by the arduino eye dee eee is an intel hex
file.
The format consists of any number of lines, called records.
Intel HEX consists of lines of ASCII text that are separated by line
feed or carriage return characters or both.
Each text line contains uppercase hexadecimal characters that encode
multiple binary numbers.
The binary numbers may represent data, memory addresses, or other
values, depending on their position in the line and the type and length
of the line.
Each text line is called a record.
A record consists of six fields that appear in order from left to
right
Start code, one character, an ASCII colon.
Byte count, indicating the number of bytes in the data field.
Address, four hex digits, representing the 16-bit beginning memory
address offset of the data.
Record type two hex digits, 00 to 05, defining the meaning of the
data field.
Data, a sequence of bytes of data
Checksum, a computed value that can be used to verify the record has
no errors.
An end of file record must occur exactly once per file in the last
record of the file. The byte count is 00, the address field is typically
0000 and the data field is omitted.
A record's checksum byte is the two's complement of the least
significant byte of the sum of all decoded byte values in the record
preceding the checksum.
It is computed by summing the decoded byte values and extracting the
least significant byte of the sum, and then calculating the two's
complement of the sum, by inverting its bits and adding one.
I have included in the show notes an example of a record with pipes
used to break up the line.
Hope you enjoyed the espeak episode.
There are so many ways to produce shows, there is no excuse not
to!
This is Brian in Ohio signing off reminding everyone.
We are all creatures of ego.
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4min
December 15, 2023 HPR4010: Playing Alpha Centauri, Part 3
This continues our look at how to play Alpha Centauri, and we look at
game concepts that set this game apart from others. This episode looks
at the Design Workshop, and how to create powerful units for your
military.
Links:
https://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/Unit
https://www.palain.com/gaming/sid-meiers-alpha-centauri/playing-alpha-centauri-3/
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20min
December 14, 2023 HPR4009: Reolink CCTV Cams
I talk about Reolink CCTV Cams
https://reolink.com/
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34min
December 13, 2023 HPR4008: Sextortion. Good Heavens!
Sextortion
Source: Sextortion employs
non-physical forms of coercion to extort sexual favors from the
victim. Sextortion refers to the broad category of sexual
exploitation in which abuse of power is the means of coercion, as well
as to the category of sexual exploitation in which threatened release of
sexual images or information is the means of coercion.
Supporting Source: What
is Sextortion? An FBI special agent defines sextortion.
Supporting Source: Sextortion
can start on any site, app, messaging platform, or game where people
meet and communicate. The FBI has seen a huge increase in the number
of cases involving children and teens being threatened and coerced into
sending explicit images online; a crime called sextortion.
Supporting Source: FBI Special Agent Brian Herrick
defines sextortion...
Supporting Source: Ashley Reynolds was 14 when she was
victimized...
Supporting Source: Welcome to FBI-SOS (Safe Online Surfing)
Cyber Surf Island! Here you will learn all about cyber safety and
digital citizenship.
Source: r/Scams: This is a help forum -
bad advice will get you banned.
Supporting Source: Post:
I am being sextorted. Please help me, I feel helpless.
Supporting Source: Post:
rando threatening to leak nude picture.
Supporting Source: Post:
Hi, I am a 14 year old male, I was dumb enough to send someone nudes on
Instagram and now they threaten to ruin me by posting this
everywhere.
Similar sex related scams.
Supporting Source: Post: It’s
saying that my device got infested with a R.A.T. And they want $1600 usd
in bitcoin within 48 hours.
Supporting Source: Post:
death threat scam today after sending 3 escorts text messages to see if
they'd be open to nude modeling...
Source: r/Sextortion: Are you a
current or former victim of sextortion or online blackmail?
Supporting Source: Post:
Someone please talk to me.
Supporting Source: Post:
107 hours since the incident. I’m safe right?
Supporting Source: Post:
Just got scammed.. I'm shaking!!
Supporting Source: Post:
new victim pls help panicking so much!!
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19min
December 12, 2023 HPR4007: Advent of code day 1-5 catchup
https://adventofcode.com/2023
https://github.com/kalaspuffar/advent2023
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP2v7zU48xOI8D3cVaPCKHixvXT2e_R5u
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8min
December 11, 2023 HPR4006: Holiday Challenges Ep 3 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge and KringleCon
Holiday
Challenges Series - Ep 3 - SANS Holiday Hack Challenge with
KringleCon
Since some of the information you are about to hear is time specific,
I want to let you know that I am recording this near the end of November
in 2023.
If you missed the first episode, which introduces this series, you
can go back and listen to HPR3996
The SANS Holiday Hack Challenge is an interactive online technology
and hacking game combined with a virtual security conference, beginning
in the second week of December. By the time this episode drops, it may
already be live. You can tour the North Pole conference facilities,
meeting people, interactive non-player characters (NPC), and maybe even
some villains from Holiday Hack Challenges past, as you solve problems
and gather clues which you use to help save Christmas.
Everything can be done from within the browser, and did I mention
there is a virtual security conference, called KringleCon? Some of the
biggest rock stars (and most humble and brilliant people) in
CyberSecurity speak each year at KringleCon. Many of their talks also
provide clues to solving game challenges.
Ed Skoudis and his team (The same people who build SANS NetWars) work
tirelessly year after year to create the most amazing experience,
complete with custom music! This has become one of my favorite holiday
traditions each year. You can learn more about the 2023 challenge by
watching Ed's Inside SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2023 YouTube video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Gmdr_CxzQ
You can access this year's challenge by visiting sans.org/holidayhack
or https://www.sans.org/mlp/holiday-hack-challenge-2023/
There, you will learn more about all things Holiday Hack before the
game opens in the second week of December. If you want to play now, or
just get a feel for it, you can access three of the previous years'
challenges right now at the same site.
I am not associated with SANS or the Holiday Hack Challenge in any
way, other than to have participated for several years now, and I have
watched other people learn and grow by taking part in it.
I hope that you have enjoyed this short series. If there are other
online challenges you find interesting or informative, I encourage you
to record a show about them.
Have a wonderful day.
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4min

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