In the situation where you have to keep things secret, like how to pay off someone that may talk to the media, we want you to do it right. Other Link: https://www.tunnelbear.com/blog/tunnelbear_joins_mcafee/ https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-and-wildcard-certificate-support-is-live/55579

We are going to start off with Chrome’s new Ad blocking feature. Links here: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/14/17011266/google-chrome-ad-blocker-features We will then go into the pros and cons of crypto mining in the browser https://coinhive.com/

inThirty is now TLS (actually a real cert through godaddy) TCL Roku TV issue: https://www.consumerreports.org/televisions/samsung-roku-smart-tvs-vulnerable-to-hacking-consumer-reports-finds/ Kashmir Hill’s connected house exercise: https://gizmodo.com/the-house-that-spied-on-me-1822429852 Cryptomining in browsers (we may have spoken about this) Update wordpress Signal has an option to remove the invite banner

Tom is going to discuss the best way to support cryptocurrencies

It has been a slow week. I think we just sit and talk about what happened in the last two weeks. Seriously, we were all consumed about Meltdown and Spectre. https://gizmodo.com/how-google-fights-password-thieves-1822174355 https://www.eff.org/702-spying https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/fcc-admits-mobile-cant-replace-home-internet-wont-lower-speed-standard/ https://www.eff.org/702-spying

Tom is going to take us through these two 0 day vulnerabilities that affects literally everyone. Yes, you, go update now. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/more-details-about-mitigations-for-cpu_4.html https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern-processor-has-unfixable-security-flaws/#p3 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern-processor-has-unfixable-security-flaws/#p3 https://meltdownattack.com/ Intel Responds to Security Research Findings

[Edit: I didn’t record through the microphone. There is an annoying reverb/echo on my end.] So on deck: Stories of 2017: https://www.wired.com/story/2017-biggest-hacks-so-far/ AltCoins Net Neutrality End of Year cleanup Things to look forward to next year

We go almost 15 minutes long discussing. Sorry. We discuss Net Neutrality again, and how this time it is different than last time. I will try to have an open mind. Some quick news like this Homekit Vulnerability: https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/07/homekit-vulnerability/

Apple’s root password Bitcoin’s crazy price Crypto != Cryptocurrency DNS Again

First topic is youtube poisoning, where bad actors are placing weird cartoons into youtube kids. Second topic is logitech harmony disconnecting their hubs in March. Should iot devices have expiration dates. UPDATE: Harmony is replacing devices.