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We want to keep it light tonight, as everyone is super busy. Chaim is getting ready for DEFCON. All the news is basically being held until next week. If you wanted to know what a security conference feels like, stay tuned.

[editor note: Tom is awesome in this. Me, not so much. I completely misunderstood how this worked.] So what happens when a certificate can no longer be trusted? How do you revoke trust, or the certificate? https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/07/https-certificate-revocation-is-broken-and-its-time-for-some-new-tools/ We are going into the weeks before defcon, where news is sparse. We recommend joining our WhatsApp group. … Continue reading "Security 153 – Certificate Revocation Lists"

We discuss a broad topic in internet tracking. If you want more, please join us in the WhatsApp group. Tweet us for details.

Due to poor OPSEC another NSA contractor is in jail for leaking. How did we catch her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation Russian malware communicates by leaving comments in Britney Spears’s Instagram account 1/ About @theintercept story and role in blowing source: (a) it’s an important contribution to public understanding. https://t.co/WXNwEiEhSq — Barton Gellman (@bartongellman) June 6, 2017 … Continue reading "Security 151 – Printer Dots"

NIST – National Institute of Standards and Technology came out with new password guidelines Recap : http://www.csoonline.com/article/3195… Whitepaper: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800…

We explain what happened with this new ransomware bug that affected companies worldwide.

Our main topic is the Request For Comments on the FCC’s proposal to essentially gut Net Neutrality. We will explain what that means. We may touch on the the FBI, and different things, hopefully without getting political EFF’s FCC tool: https://dearfcc.org

Topics include: Google phishing email| https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/859840026082988038 WhatsApp vs Signal on Lifehacker | https://lifehacker.com/secure-messaging-app-showdown-whatsapp-vs-signal-1794684943 and is ProtonMail secure.

Just a roundup of the news: Brickerbot |  https://gizmodo.com/this-hacker-is-my-new-hero-1794630960 Punycode | https://thehackernews.com/2017/04/unicode-Punycode-phishing-attack.html Lastpass 2fa issue | https://blog.lastpass.com/2017/04/lastpass-2fa-bug-reported-resolved.html/

On this show we talk about what the rollback of the digital privacy regulation is, and what it isn’t. We also remind people that VPNs are not the end of all digital privacy. [editor’s note]: I had an issue mixing the audio. I pulled it from YouTube. Some Links: https://arstechnica.com/security/2016… https://www.troyhunt.com/the-importan… https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t… https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2… https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ https://privacytools.io