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Couple of news stories came through that talked about the effectiveness of antivirus. Short answer: There is none. We talk about the issues, and why AV is so bad. Then we give our recommendations.

With CES upon us, the connected appliance was shown front and center. Everything had some sort of wireless connection that you can control through an app. Just think, download washer cycles as an in-app purchase

Welcome to the final show of the year.  We have no important news, but figure a recap of things that have happened, and things we have noticed will fill out the thirty minutes

We finally discuss which OS should you be recommending.  We never discussed Windows 10, but we do need to say, you should start recommending it.  We understand the privacy implications, but unless you support other OSes, don’t dismiss it.

We don’t have much this week, so we take the news stories of the week

We complete our talk on how to build a system with a quick (ok long) talk on virus scanning, backing up, online back up, and finish with registry cleaners. We take the time to discuss that when you are at dinner for Thanksgiving, you should help, but also explain what you are doing.

We discuss the Paris attacks and the technopanic behind them. While we are saddened by what happened, going after encryption is not going to stop terrorism from happening

We initially thought we couldn’t possibly talk for thirty minutes on this. We were wrong. I think we need a part two at some point. The discussion talks about what the process for buying a new computer, and once you get it, what to do.

We have some news regarding messenger platforms. Threema gets audited, and approved.  Signal is now the standard privacy app you should use. We talk more news. Show Notes: http://www.muffin.works/blog/2015/10/15/the-podcast-universe https://threema.ch/en/bloghttps://whispersystems.org/#page-top https://www.dashlane.com/premium http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11970391/Internet-firms-to-be-banned-from-offering-out-of-reach-communications-under-new-laws.html http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/03/hackers-gonna-hack-but-why-maybe-freud-has-the-answer

Chaim’s been thinking a lot about home networking, and we realized we never talked about routers, switches, and access points.  We spend this show talking about it.