Mostly Security

Eric pulls out the BBQ, taunting the Rain Gods. Jon checks on his bees and deserves a third wire. Hackers lure folks with AI promises from hijacked social accounts while a software supply chain narrowly avoids a big oopsie. Eric dips his toes in hydroponic herb gardening while Jon eyes smart contact lenses (and narrowly avoids an April Fools oopsie).

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 9:42 - Fake AI Ads
• 12:29 - The xz that could have been...
• 20:11 - Hydroponic Herbs
• 26:09 - Smart Contact Lenses

Eric gets back home from vacation and Jon (tries to) defy range anxiety in his new car. Google has a proposed settlement for their harvesting of incognito browsers and the big AT&T breach has 'encrypted' PINs but are easily reversed. The first Neuralink transplant recipient pulls an all nighter playing Civ6, and we (may) have a record number of bee colonies in the US.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 11:02 - (Not so) Incognito
• 14:52 - (Uselessly) Encrypted
• 23:47 - Civ6 on Neuralink
• 26:49 - Record Bees

Eric and Jon chat about vacations, Jon looks for whales in Washington while Eric searches for license plates in Utah. Eric finds 3 million hotel room doors can be opened while Jon finds a company playing boths sides. Eric discovers he's a Lightweaver while Jon is an Elsecaller who also likes a whale museums. [NOTE: Eric's travel mic was having issues - sorry for the audio!]

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 4:30 - Subpar Park Poster
• 5:46 - Dead Horse Point State Park
• 10:45 - 3 Million Hotel Doors
• 15:35 - Data Broker CEO as two sides
• 21:20 - Knights Radiant Order
• 23:57 - All 10 Orders Described
• 26:50 - Whale Museum

Pi day, wasps about, new 3d printer, Dune 2, and a bee update. Stroustrup objects to the characterization of (modern) C++ as unsafe (but are any projects in C++ fully modern??), Apex Legends tourney participants forced to cheat, swappers come for the eSIMs, and your connected car is probably selling your driving behavior data to insurance companies. For fun we have a sick tulip identification and eradication robot and the Voyager 1 was POKEd in early March and is returning its FDS memory for analysis.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 15:54 - Stroustrup Objects
• 18:55 - Apex Legends Tourney Hacked
• 23:03 - eSIM Swapping
• 28:28 - Your Driving Data Sold
• 35:21 - One Sick Tulip Picker
• 39:16 - Poking Voyager

Eric survives a birthday at Benihana, laments the inability to game the system and looks forward to building a new 3D Printer. Jon is giddily gearing up for bee season and educates Eric on Yellowjackets. Roku discovers what its user accounts are worth on the dark web and Jon needs to update his QNAP. Again. The British Library is under-appraised the consequences of a cyber attack. Learning to program a computer is similar to learning a spoken language and Jon shares plans on how to build a Langstroth Hive.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 11:24 - Roku Data Breach
• 15:49 - QNAP
• 17:35 - British Library Cyberattack
• 28:07 - Study on Learning to Code
• 33:19 - Langstroth Hive Plans

Eric's 'things are breaking' woes continue and Jon has a nice trip to UW. Info stealers are targeting ChatGPT creds, beware cheap IOT devices (like that's new advice), and Anycubic's cloud MQTT service is hacked (or misconfigured). Bumblebees exhibit cumulative culture (!!), Eric says to watch Resident Alien, and Colossal scientists manage to induce pluripotent (asian elephant) stem cells in their quest to resurrect mammoths.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 17:04 - ChatGPT Creds On Sale
• 21:38 - Mass Market Insecurity
• 28:23 - Anycubic (Benign?) Hack
• 34:00 - Cumulative Bumblebee Culture
• 37:12 - Resident Alien
• 39:36 - To Raise A Mammoth

Eric has a phone again! AT&T: 1, Apple: 0... then discovers wind chimes are not awesome at 4am. Jon puts his woodworking skills to ancient use and starts housing chickens in the bathroom. Don't miss the private lander relaxing on the moon. The White House says "Use Memory Safe Programming Languages" (and there was much rejoicing). Jon does a Hugging Face-Palm and asks why can't we have nice things - Eric immediately blames JavaScript. Did you celebrate Leap Day? And finally Jon discovers the Eddington Limit needs a rethink.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 12:12 - Relaxing on the moon...
• 14:27 - Rust for Everybody!
• 18:45 - Hugging Face-palm
• 23:59 - Happy Birthday, Leaplings!
• 26:35 - Big Bad Black Hole

Eric wardials and Jon fails to locate. Falling for scams is easier than you think and how threat actors are using LLMs. Oregon fails to adopt standard time, NASAs new moon landing, and snapshotting activity on the attosecond scale.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 12:48 - Eric Topic
• 18:26 - {color}{weather event} use of LLMs
• 29:47 - (Not) Standard Oregon Time
• 33:28 - Moon Landing
• 35:20 - Attosecond Fun

Sportsball weekend. Jon can't pause TV and he's annoyed. Eric still has negative opinions of JavaScript and adds cell towers to the list. Followup on political ad clones. Eric uses ChatGPT to find missing US States. Almost. LassPass is not a Dating App. Phishception is the word of the day. FTC says Fraud Losses top 10 Billion in 2023. For fun, Eric reminds you about XKCD and some random math facts about the number 323. Jon reads up on Lake Kivu's Potential Energy.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 8:17 - AI Political Ads
• 10:42 - FCC Ruling
• 12:12 - Robocall Investigation
• 16:10 - LassPass in the AppStore
• 18:54 - Phishception
• 21:52 - Scammy Snapshot
• 26:19 - XKCD
• 29:09 - Lake Kivu's Explosive Energy

Eric Laser Tags and Jon's bees are (mostly) alive; arrests in a 400m crypto heist that may or may not have been from FTX, and the FBI cleans up old routers infected with a PRC botnet; a Chinese company announces new hyperloop speed record, and the winners of the Scrollprize demonstrate extracting text from papyrus charred by Vesuvius.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 10:01 - SIM Swap Heist Arrests
• 15:05 - PRC Botnet Disruption
• 22:47 - Hyperloop Speed Record
• 25:37 - Scrollprize Achieved