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We talk about Black Friday and our non shopping. Youtube-DL is back Finally we discuss Microsoft’s productivity score. A tone deaf way to monitor your work.

We promote a socially distant Thanksgiving, but explain some virtual things you do to help friends and family.

On this show we start off with updates to signal, and signal groups. Our main story is the t2 chip unfixable flaw.

What is Open Source?What benefits?What detriments?Licensing?Non-code assets?Creative Commons?

We go back to an early topic on DNS. What is DNS? How it works? What how new secure features of DNS can help you stay private.

Yes, we talked about contact tracing in the past, but we got a request from the WhatsApp group to do it again. https://www.wired.com/story/why-contact-tracing-apps-not-slowed-covid-us/ Problems we discuss: %age of people who would need to install this, and how reporting is honor based. No one app for them all. Each one is made separately. Testing woes. Tom… Continue reading Security 249 – Contact Tracing Redux

Virtual School starts up for many next week, and we have ideas on what you can do to help your kids be secure while learning.

This being the week before defcon, we discuss what we expect at the virtual defcon: Teens charged with the twitter hack: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/three-individuals-charged-alleged-roles-twitter-hack Garmin paid the ransomware for their user’s data: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/27/21339910/garmin-back-online-recovery-ransomeware Defcon discord: https://discord.gg/defcon

We try to describe what happened on twitter that lead to the account takeovers: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/07/on_the_twitter_.html Cloudflare takes the internet down: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-july-17-2020/ VPN may have logs: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/07/20/7-vpns-that-leaked-their-logs-the-logs-that-didnt-exist/

Show notes: These are the show notes we wrote before talking about the topic. I tried to take out the inaccuracies, but some may remain. CISC – Complete Instruction Set Computing RISC – Reduced Instruction Set Computing Instructions are the abilities of the silicone.  CISC is Intel/AMD/PowerPC RISC is ARM and their variants. Windows uses… Continue reading Security 245 – Mac on ARM