Mostly Security

Eric and Jon are on the road again -- Jon back from a trip (sailing!?) and Eric does fall cleaning. Agents are abusing wiki[mp]edia and Chrome has another serious issue warranting a quick patch. For fun we have bizarre 80s ad choices for non-existent hardware, and the Schooner Adventuress.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 6:31 - Vandalizing Wikipedia
• 11:54 - More Chrome Bug Fun
• 17:04 - Mimic Systems
• 20:02 - Sound Experience

With Jon and Eric both unavailable this week, they asked the question, "What would happen if you asked Gemini Notebook to create a Mostly Security podcast episode about Mostly Security using the Mostly Security format?"

Eric rides the rails and Jon fishes the seas. A NightmareStresser is powered off and your favorite bands "never before heard bootleg" might be AI. Scientists name a new snake after Slash and archaeologists uncover 38 people in an unlooted tomb.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 7:57 - NightmareStresser
• 10:48 - AI music in your feed
• 14:36 - Welcome to the Jungle
• 17:24 - Chimú Tomb

Eric reads and one of Jon's dogs has a vet scare. A Zero Click Zero Day on Pixel phones, and a third party Twitch Chrome extension harvesting bearer tokens. For fun we have the Nikon small world (in motion!) and what happens after a dinosaur eats a bird that ate a fish.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 7:13 - Zero Click
• 10:45 - "Enhanced" Viewing
• 14:47 - Nikon Small World
• 16:42 - DinoBirdFish

Coyote vs ACME and frustration then fishing. Faster Chrome updates. Identity verification company breach. Big Patch Tuesday. Breaking Botnets. Teaching fruit flies to play DOOM and Mario 64. Bee relics in fossilized Owl pellets.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 10:59 - Faster Chrome
• 13:40 - ID Verification Oops
• 19:23 - Big Patch Tuesday
• 23:28 - Breaking Botnets
• 26:25 - Fruit flies play DOOM
• 29:56 - Bee relics

Eric complete's another road trip and listens to a "book". Jon gets some electrical work done. ClickFix has a sibling, TerminalFix. Chrome fixes a lot of things and more details emerge from the Hugging Face incident. Scientists may or may not have discovered a WIMP. Jon observes a partial lunar eclipse.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 5:35 - TerminalFix
• 8:52 - Chrome 152
• 11:39 - Hugging Face fallout
• 15:39 - WIMP discovery
• 18:39 - Partial Lunar Eclipse

Eric wraps up his latest app, and Jon finishes his latest project. Half a million Californians have signed up for DROP so far, Botnets in your car, and Ring's new encrypted video strategy. For fun you can make your own Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck or check out NASA's latest Dish.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 6:49 - Half a Million
• 9:28 - Head (Unit) Botnet
• 12:31 - Throw Away the Key
• 18:46 - Cyberdeck
• 23:36 - Dish Muscle

Eric celebrates and Jon debugs saws. NASA captures images of impact site, CISA warns of four exploits across Microsoft, VMWare, and Apple, and OpenAI pauses Astra training to harden model containment. Voyager I nears one light day distance, and Moderna/Merck announce promising, personalized melanoma vaccine results.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 9:48 - Lunar Impact
• 12:21 - Exploits in the Wild
• 14:59 - Astra Paused
• 22:07 - Light Day Approaching
• 25:23 - Cancer Vaccine (??)

Eric rediscovers a love of time. Jon returns from Alaska and fixes a trailer. California drops DROP on the public. Update your Zoom client, folks. Flatworms with exploding cells and the Kenai Fjords are cool.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 11:39 - DROP
• 15:30 - Zoom Bug
• 21:25 - Exploding Cells
• 24:28 - Kenai Fjords

Jon's on Vacation and Eric holds down the Oregon (Coast) Fort. Agents are getting their own wallets and identity, while the last two Chrome milestones release more security fixes than the previous 23 combined. For fun [?] NASA tracks SpaceX rocket debris impacting the moon, and Jon visits Denali National Park.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 10:29 - Stable Agent Coins
• 15:02 - Chrome Fixes
• 19:50 - Lunar Impact
• 23:28 - Denali National Park