Mostly Security

Eric sits in the middle of a play and Jon laments over bees while the both of them watch sportsball for the commercials. Eric's sister chimes in with her review of the podcast and mocks his something fun from last week. For topics this week, walk through the process of decoding a UK Rail Ticket and opine on the FBI's use of Section 702. For fun, Eric talks about Open Source Seeds and Jon goes through the top 5 best Super Bowl commercials.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 11:07 - Decoding UK Rail Tickets
• 16:00 - Section 702
• 23:58 - Open Source Seeds
• 29:35 - Top 5 Super Bowl Commercials

Eric visits the car show and Jon replaces a 17 year old entertainment setup. Ubiquiti Insider pleads guilty, the US secretly passed a medical cybersecurity law, 5 Guys is hit with BlackCat ransomware, and the ESXiArgs campaign enters a new phase. For fun we have a (shaken) new form of (space?) ice and a visual depiction of the dramatic reduction in working poor over the past 30 years.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 13:06 - Followup
• 15:59 - Inadvertent(?) Law
• 21:12 - 5 Guys Ransomed
• 23:54 - ESXiArgs
• 28:45 - Amorphous Ice
• 33:13 - Visual Capitalist

Eric roasts a chicken and watches a show...(booooring!) Jon reads some stuff without his brain, listens to a violinist, copies home movies, and forgets about this pesky thing called "time zones". Eric piles on LastPass' parent. Jon acknowledges AI assisted articles are an activity allowed and an adumbration of the demise of human authored advice. (Whew...) Also, update GitHub Desktop. Finally, Eric plays Snakes in HD and Jon and Eric argue (well, Eric mostly) over whether a Tractor Beam is just a different word for Gravity.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 11:53 - GoTo lost the keys, too...
• 15:11 - AI Assisted Advice
• 21:04 - GitHub Desktop
• 24:15 - Snakes HD!
• 26:39 - Microscopic Tractor Beams

Eric's kitchen is (finally!) complete, and hell froze over as he bought a (Windows) PC. Jon gets to (finally!) hear Itzhak Perlman after the concert gets delayed since covid. Malware using Android devices to hack wifi hotspots, a VAST ad fraud takedown, and a financial transaction surveillance program that is (mysteriously!) still funded long after the settlement money has run out, providing multiple law enforcement agencies and departments unfettered access to transaction data without due process. For fun we have the Wonders of Street View and a non profit making high quality, public domain eBooks available to everyone.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 10:53 - Android DNS Hijacking
• 15:42 - VASTFLUX
• 23:09 - TRACing Everyone
• 31:13 - Street View Wonders
• 36:19 - Standard eBooks

Eric has a new car he admires from afar and revisits his Hash/Check app. Jon doesn't do much beyond reading and, something something, peaches. GTP3 takes away phishing indicators. AWS Cloudtrail IAM bypass exposed. Eric ponders poorly photoshopped cats and Jon appreciates shellsplaining...

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 10:56 - GPT3 Phishing Emails
• 17:51 - CloudTrail Bypass
• 24:38 - Poorly Phototshopped FTW
• 27:05 - Internet Cats
• 27:48 - explainshell.com

Eric has another fabulous week, and Jon ... also has a week. Eric's done with his Van Gogh Lego and both get to watch Harry Potter and the OR Symphony. Slack attempts to hide its breach disclosure from indexing, Apple isn't exactly transparent when it finds malware on a device, and an app to coordinate law enforcement agencies that exposed data about suspects, raids, and officers. For fun we have new learnings from JWST, the first ever bee vaccine, and a startup trying to use CRISPR to develop cell lines happy to live in bioreactors. Go Science.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 11:09 - Non-transparent Slack
• 14:54 - Silently Deleted
• 22:27 - SweepWizard Exposure
• 28:55 - Un-immature Galaxies
• 31:50 - Bee Vaccinated
• 35:28 - CRISPR "Meat"

The holidays are over and its back to work. Eric talks about using facial recognition to deny paying customers entry to entertainment and cheating your Tesla on the autobahn. Jon chats package oopsies with PyTorch updates and hacked Google Home devices. Eric finds science immitating art in the atmosphere while Jon makes ice cream and admires a really big bee.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 9:32 - No Rockettes For You!
• 14:13 - Autopilot on the Autobahn
• 19:01 - PyTorch Oopsie
• 23:16 - Hacking Google Home
• 28:42 - Real Termination Shock
• 32:58 - Ice Cream!
• 36:45 - Really Big Bee

Eric has a fabulous Christmas, and Jon's still without power. But both relish nerdly gifts. We learn more about the LastPass breach, men arrested for using hacked Ring doorbells to record (and taunt) police swat teams, a potentially huge data leak from Twitter, and TikTok verified to be tracking journalists. For fun we have printable binary posters and ultra thin solar cells. Happy new year everyone!

• 0:00 - Intro
• 13:03 - LastPass Data Breach
• 16:27 - Taunting while Swatting
• 22:14 - Twitter API Leak(?)
• 27:10 - TikTok Spying on Journalists
• 33:56 - Binary Posters
• 36:40 - Ultra Thin Solar

Gearing up for the break - Happy Holidays to All! Eric does some christmas light wardriving, Jon has a cookie party and has gifts delivered. Apple introduces new security features and Google encrypts some emails. NIST retires SHA1 and Apple fixes another zero-day. Eric rains on Jon's fusion parade and Jon relives 6 times his mind was blown.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 11:00 - Apple Security Features
• 16:29 - Gmail Encryption
• 18:26 - NIST Retires SHA1
• 21:02 - Apple Zero Day
• 23:44 - Why Fusion Will Never Happen
• 31:25 - Mind Blowing Quantum Physics

Eric and Jon prep for Christmas and Christmas Concerts; Apple may allow third party app stores, what happens when satellites are compromised, blind users of a medical implant left hanging when the company folds, and (hopefully) future end to end encrypted iCloud backups. For fun, a site about the satellites around earth and fusion ignition: more energy out than was put in. Happy holidays everyone.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 6:25 - YOU get an AppStore, and YOU ...
• 14:13 - Criminals in Space
• 19:16 - Second Sight Support Suffers
• 25:11 - E2E iCloud Backup
• 34:19 - Just a few Satellites
• 38:36 - Ignition, Fusion Ignition