Mostly Security

Back from two more road trips. What life is like when your last name violates profanity filters, and horror stories from (maybe?) an ex-Tesla IT person. Fun with spammers and a book-length article about What-Is-Code.

• WA International Kite Festival
• "Offensive" names
• Former Tesla IT Engineer Stories
• GitHub DDoS Recovery
• Spamming Spammers
• What is Code?

Back from two more road trips. What life is like when your last name violates profanity filters, and horror stories from (maybe?) an ex-Tesla IT person. Fun with spammers and a book-length article about What-Is-Code.

Scam phone calls are still a thing and apparently you can hack multifunction printers by sending a malicious fax. Eric can't describe a video and Jon bends spaghetti.

• Followup: Hacking voting machines
• Quick Take: Teen Hacks Apple
• Phone Scams - "Windows Security"
• Phone Scams - "IRS Sends Local Cops"
• IRS Back to School Scam Alert
• Hacking by fax
• Sidenote: It is Gif as in Gift, Jon
• Fabricated
• Spaghetti Bending
• Backstory: The Adam Savage Quote

Scam phone calls are still a thing and apparently you can hack multifunction printers by sending a malicious fax. Eric can't describe a video and Jon bends spaghetti.

• Followup: Hacking voting machines
• Quick Take: Teen Hacks Apple
• Phone Scams - "Windows Security"
• Phone Scams - "IRS Sends Local Cops"
• IRS Back to School Scam Alert
• Hacking by fax
• Sidenote: It is Gif as in Gift, Jon
• Fabricated
• Spaghetti Bending
• Backstory: The Adam Savage Quote

Blackhat and Defcon roundup, including the keynote, voting machine hacking, breaking voice authentication, and hacking various devices, like heartbeat monitors, tornado alarms, and bodycams. Eric asks about early books, and it's Palindrome Week in the land of goofy date formats.

• Blackhat Week
• Parisa Tabriz Keynote
• 11 Year Old Hacking
• Cracking Voice Authentication
• Spoofing a Heartmonitor
• San Francisco Alarms
• Bodycam Vulnerabilities
• Eric -- Danny the Champion of the World
• Jon -- Hardy Boys
• Palindrome Week

Blackhat and Defcon roundup, including the keynote, voting machine hacking, breaking voice authentication, and hacking various devices, like heartbeat monitors, tornado alarms, and bodycams. Eric asks about early books, and it's Palindrome Week in the land of goofy date formats.

• Blackhat Week
• Parisa Tabriz Keynote
• 11 Year Old Hacking
• Cracking Voice Authentication
• Spoofing a Heartmonitor
• San Francisco Alarms
• Bodycam Vulnerabilities
• Eric -- Danny the Champion of the World
• Jon -- Hardy Boys
• Palindrome Week

Mobile phone voting? Ummm... Its a little more complicated than people believe. Comcast fixes some bugs. Jon wants a BioReactor. Eric brags about his "Porsche".

• Underwater Fish Cam
• Episode 027!
• Mobile Phone Voting
• GossiTheDog on Voting
• Voatz Response
• XKCD on Voting
• Comcast Bugs!
• Reset Apple Watch without Passcode
• We grew a lung!
• Eric's First Car: '67 VW Bug
• Jon's First Car: '73 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme

Mobile phone voting? Ummm... Its a little more complicated than people believe. Comcast fixes some bugs. Jon wants a BioReactor. Eric brags about his "Porsche".

• Underwater Fish Cam
• Episode 027!
• Mobile Phone Voting
• GossiTheDog on Voting
• Voatz Response
• XKCD on Voting
• Comcast Bugs!
• Reset Apple Watch without Passcode
• We grew a lung!
• Eric's First Car: '67 VW Bug
• Jon's First Car: '73 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme

Eric is STILL fishing, but in Idaho. Recording on battery in his truck (dedication!). Edge gets Web Auth support, inmates in Idaho get free emails, and Reddit is breached via SMS. Software continues to eat the world and Verizon has released a great visualization tool against years of DBIR reports. Hiking and a bit of Apple introspection for fun.

• Edge Gets U2F
• Reddit Breach
• Inmate Exploitation
• 2011: Software Is Eating the World
• DBIR Data Visualizations
• Take a Hike...
• Apple @1T Cash View
• Four Million Beta Users

Eric is STILL fishing, but in Idaho. Recording on battery in his truck (dedication!). Edge gets Web Auth support, inmates in Idaho get free emails, and Reddit is breached via SMS. Software continues to eat the world and Verizon has released a great visualization tool against years of DBIR reports. Hiking and a bit of Apple introspection for fun.