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  • 361: Organized Chaos

    Eric's garage has a beep, Jon makes his way to India. Phish n' Ships is a great name, but really it should be Phish n' Not-Ships... An EMERALDWHALE makes its way through exposed Git configurations. Eric appreciates Wind Turbine Art and Jon discovers Mayan ruins via LiDAR.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 12:24 - Phish n' Ships
    • 15:17 - EMERALDWHALE
    • 21:37 - Micro Wind Turbines
    • 23:25 - Mayan Ruins
    27 min
  • 360: Volcanic Exomoon

    Eric Ikeas and Jon ... does stuff. The quantum breaking of RSA was a mite early (1002 bits shy of 1024), Landmark Admin suffers a data breach, and Spectre is still a thing (6!) years later. For fun we have the source of all meteorites and 'compelling evidence' of an Exomoon.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 15:52 - Quantum Overblown
    • 18:52 - Landmark Data Breach
    • 22:41 - Spectre Persists
    • 27:06 - Meteorite Source
    • 31:33 - First (?) Exomoon
    37 min
  • 359: Erratic Lawn Sprinkler

    Jon installs an automatic chicken door, Eric does some more 3D printing. Quick update on a SIM swap hack while checking in on the EU throwing a hand grenade at software liability and apparently people are wardriving for Redbox kiosks. Eric shares a shameless plug for a friend's Kickstarter. Jon goes old school with some Hubble telescope goodness.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 12:50 - SIM Swap
    • 16:09 - EU Hand Grenade
    • 21:16 - Redbox Kiosks
    • 27:24 - Rift Zone: Contact
    • 30:30 - Hubble
    35 min
  • 358: Quantum Era

    Eric pays to recycle and Jon has much ado about not very much. How to break RSA with D-Wave, North Korea gets job applicants to install malware as part of coding tests, and Cloudflare stops a 3.8Tbps DDoS attack. For fun we have King the Land, a Korean rom-com, and two pioneers of machine learning get the Nobel prize in physics.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 17:20 - Quantum RSA
    • 20:46 - Coding Test Malware
    • 24:09 - Hyper Volumetric
    • 29:36 - King the Land
    • 33:19 - Physics Nobel
    38 min
  • 357: Orange Shag

    Eric has no rhythm and went for a hike, Jon works on luxury apartments for chickens. License plate readers see more than just license plates. Smart glasses make doxxing super easy. Eric eyeballs an incoming solar storm while Jon drops in on a treasure hunt.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 8:52 - License Plates and More!
    • 14:10 - Sunglasses and More!
    • 19:28 - Solar Storms and More!
    • 24:29 - Treasure Hunt and More!
    32 min
  • 356: Flute Fry

    Jon builds an arbor and rents a bull (?) and Eric does driving for styrofoam recycling. Meta fined for storing passwords in plaintext, Google continues its march against passwords, remote controlling any kia just from its license plate, and Kaspersky swaps itself out in the US. For fun we have the largest mapped brain to date (a fruit fly), and validating the inverse link between Alzheimer's and colon cancer.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 11:47 - Plaintext Penalty
    • 14:31 - Gmail Password Update
    • 17:25 - Remote Kia Control
    • 22:15 - Kaspersky Deletes Itself
    • 27:48 - Fruit Fly Brain Map
    • 33:00 - Alzheimer's or Colon Cancer?
    41 min
  • 355: Mummy Cheese

    Both Jon and Eric have mic issues, but Eric gets a new monitor and Jon goes fishing again. Everyone should start looking at Passkeys. Jon finds a ClickFix and ways to attack LLMs with math. Eric discovers 3600 year old cheese and Jon shares some poetry.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 11:01 - Passkeys are In!
    • 14:54 - Social Engineering with a ClickFix
    • 18:47 - Using math to fool LLMs.
    • 24:44 - Some Cheese with your Mummy
    • 28:10 - Poetry
    31 min
  • 354: Heavy Percentage

    Eric's nest has emptied, and Jon's pantry is full of asian pear derivatives. Temu denies (rightly?) that the data didn't come from them, Transport for London has to restore 30k employee creds in person, and why not to let the authoritative server for a domain expire. For fun we have another word puzzle by the NYT, and estimating an avatar's gaze at a virtual keyboard to deconstruct typed text.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 12:55 - Not Temu
    • 17:40 - Transport for London
    • 21:23 - .mobi authority
    • 28:15 - Eric Fun
    • 31:42 - Gazeploit
    37 min
  • 353: Lawyers Get Paid

    Eric has some travel news and Jon smells like plums. Eric's beloved Yubikey is unpatchable. AT&T want VMWare security updates and Android malware uses OCR to find cryptocurrency creds in your photo album. Eric doesn't understand transparent flesh while Jon looks at a diamond making machine.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 10:24 - Yubikey Vuln
    • 14:08 - Security Updates for VMWare
    • 18:06 - OCR for Cryptocurrency Creds
    • 21:52 - Transparent flesh
    • 27:45 - Making Diamonds
    33 min
  • 352: Moon Tipping

    Eric gets productive, while Jon goes to the fair. An airline service to register crew can be SQL Injected, scammers combine location data and photos in sextortion emails, and Microsoft's Mac apps are vulnerable-ish. For fun Eric will be visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Ganymede had a smashing past.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 12:46 - Pilot Test TestOnly
    • 19:39 - Location Aware Sextortion
    • 22:27 - Secure Your Plugins
    • 28:02 - Monterey Bay Aquarium
    • 30:46 - Intriguing Ganymede
    37 min

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