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Mostly Security episodes

  • 098: Collective Gasp of Yuck

    Eric goes pot shopping and Jon loves carrot cake. Has google achieved quantum supremacy? Biometric missteps, cache failures, Mercedes app glitches, and more cryptojacking containers. Eric joins the Rebble Alliance, the Air Force retires their 8" floppies, and bees can do math now.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 4:26 - Carrot Cake
    • 6:56 - Google's Quantum Claim
    • 8:32 - Not So Fast...
    • 10:06 - Samsung Fingerprint Fail
    • 14:23 - Pixel 4 Face Unlock
    • 17:39 - Cache Poisoning
    • 27:04 - Mercedes Glitch
    • 30:14 - Docker Cryptojacking
    • 32:58 - Rebble With a Cause
    • 36:43 - No More 8" Floppies
    • 39:01 - Bee Math

    45 min
  • 098: Collective Gasp of Yuck

    Eric goes pot shopping and Jon loves carrot cake. Has google achieved quantum supremacy? Biometric missteps, cache failures, Mercedes app glitches, and more cryptojacking containers. Eric joins the Rebble Alliance, the Air Force retires their 8" floppies, and bees can do math now.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 4:26 - Carrot Cake
    • 6:56 - Google's Quantum Claim
    • 8:32 - Not So Fast...
    • 10:06 - Samsung Fingerprint Fail
    • 14:23 - Pixel 4 Face Unlock
    • 17:39 - Cache Poisoning
    • 27:04 - Mercedes Glitch
    • 30:14 - Docker Cryptojacking
    • 32:58 - Rebble With a Cause
    • 36:43 - No More 8" Floppies
    • 39:01 - Bee Math

     

    45 min
  • 097: It Pays to be Paranoid

    Apple Farms and Drones. Spy Chip Followup. Much Sudo About Nothing. Bluetooth Beaconing Enable Theft also Enables Mansplaining (what?!?) and some Reductor Malware details. Yellow lights are scientifically proven to be too short and Paul Graham proposes a language.

    • 0:00 - Intro - Apple Farms and Drones
    • 10:06 - Spy Chip Followup
    • 11:25 - Much Sudo About Nothing
    • 15:07 - Sudo Make me a Sandwich
    • 16:11 - Bluetooth Beaconing Enabled Theft
    • 19:08 - Reductor Malware
    • 27:42 - Yellow Lights are Too Short
    • 32:49 - Paul Graham's Bel

    40 min
  • 097: It Pays to be Paranoid
    Apple Farms and Drones. Spy Chip Followup. Much Sudo About Nothing. Bluetooth Beaconing Enable Theft also Enables Mansplaining (what?!?) and some Reductor Malware details. Yellow lights are scientifically proven to be too short and Paul Graham proposes a language.
    40 min
  • 096: An Especially Hardy Perennial

    Eric paints and buys Jon a Yubikey. Jon ditches the Costanza wallet. Hacking back against ransomware, nomoreransom.org, and patch your routers folks. Stalking eyeballs, Twitter sells your 2FA phone number, and more cart skimmers. Eric's audiobook journey, publishers strongarm libraries, Ken Thompson had a good password, and the craziest article you'll read all week.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 4:40 - Eric buys Jon a present
    • 8:18 - No more Costanza wallet
    • 12:56 - Ransomware Victim Hacks Back
    • 15:36 - No More Ransom Plug
    • 17:18 - Patch Your Router (if you can)
    • 21:04 - Eyeball Reflections
    • 23:30 - SMH Twitter. SMH.
    • 26:25 - Store Host Cloud Breach
    • 32:00 - The Eye of the World
    • 35:26 - Bad Macmillan
    • 37:39 - eBook Petition
    • 40:12 - Ken's Password
    • 44:07 - Crazy Article

    50 min
  • 096: An Especially Hardy Perennial
    Eric paints and buys Jon a Yubikey. Jon ditches the Costanza wallet. Hacking back against ransomware, nomoreransom.org, and patch your routers folks. Stalking eyeballs, Twitter sells your 2FA phone number, and more cart skimmers. Eric's audiobook journey, publishers strongarm libraries, Ken Thompson had a good password, and the craziest article you'll read all week.
    50 min
  • 095: The Las Vegas Episode

    This Week: Gambling, Research, Takedowns, Phishing, Jailbreaks. Fun with Madeleine Albright & Colin Powell and the periodic table.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 3:21 - 21
    • 5:35 - Is China the new Russia?
    • 9:31 - McAfee Sodinokibi Research
    • 11:37 - Dutch Police Takedown
    • 15:43 - Specialized Phishing with iOS
    • 20:40 - Checkm8 Jailbreak
    • 28:40 - Madeleine Albright & Colin Powell
    • 33:19 - The Periodic Table

    38 min
  • 094: Squarelinder

    Eric's on the road and under the weather; Jon has had better weekends. Apple's opening up the repair envelope, and the Internet is a Low Trust Society. Paper's not private, and IBM talks about malware targeting routers. For fun, Eric likes Echo .* and Jon evidently likes Goddard [Institute|Futuristics].

    • 0:00 - Intro: Travel and Sick
    • 2:57 - Honey Tasting
    • 8:08 - Right-ish to Repair
    • 9:59 - Dupes and Cynics
    • 15:37 - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    • 17:17 - "As Designed" Paper
    • 22:48 - Swiper, No Swiping
    • 31:58 - Echo _____
    • 37:36 - Water on Venus
    • 40:15 - Wolf 359

    45 min
  • 094: Squarelinder

    Eric's on the road and under the weather; Jon has had better weekends. Apple's opening up the repair envelope, and the Internet is a Low Trust Society. Paper's not private, and IBM talks about malware targeting routers. For fun, Eric likes Echo .* and Jon evidently likes Goddard [Institute|Futuristics].

    • 0:00 - Intro: Travel and Sick
    • 2:57 - Honey Tasting
    • 8:08 - Right-ish to Repair
    • 9:59 - Dupes and Cynics
    • 15:37 - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    • 17:17 - "As Designed" Paper
    • 22:48 - Swiper, No Swiping
    • 31:58 - Echo _____
    • 37:36 - Water on Venus
    • 40:15 - Wolf 359

     

    45 min

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