Mostly Security

Eric makes it home from vacation, Jon goes fishing. Tough time to be graduating in Computer Science. DrawAFish.com security incident. AOL discontinues down dial up service. Mendenhall Glacier makes the local news.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 8:24 - Tough Times in Tech
• 14:34 - Draw A Fish
• 21:48 - AOL Dial Up
• 25:06 - Mendenhall Glacier

Eric's on vacation and Jon wrangles cows. Cloudflare accuses perplexity of stealth scraping tactics, Google tweaks their disclosure policy, Microsoft studies AI impact on jobs, and OpenAI shared chats disclose a little (lot) too much. For fun, how about a hike in the Tetons, and Potatoes from Tomatoes.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 11:55 - Stealth Bots
• 16:24 - Disclosure Policy
• 20:29 - Occupational Implications
• 29:49 - ChatGPT Confessions
• 39:42 - Jenny Lake
• 41:56 - Potato, Tomato

Eric has a problem with "smart" smoke alarms. Jon feeds happy cows round bales of hay (but not the fermented kind). Debian making 64 bit time work with 32 bits. A woman is unaware she is working for North Korea. Eric plays tower defense with CSS. Jon finds scarecrow spiders.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 11:31 - 64bit time in 32bit parts
• 17:30 - It's totally legit!
• 23:21 - flexboxdefense.com
• 25:14 - Scarecrow Spiders

Eric publishes a book, and Jon is trepidacious. The National Nuclear Security Administration is affected by the Sharepoint attack, and DNS is used as a file transfer system. Amazon buys Bee (Echo, coming soon to a wrist near you), and we're one step closer to a universal cancer vaccine.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 14:29 - Nuclear Sharepoint
• 18:54 - It's Always DNS
• 26:26 - Bee Hearing You
• 30:07 - Cancer Vaccine Candidate

Eric gets new doors (almost) and Jon gets A/C. Amazon launches more Kuiper satellites with the help of SpaceX. You can use Passkeys to encrypt files and Android get's Gemini whether the user wants it or not. GPS is not the only location game in town and lots of mammals evolved into ant eaters?

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 12:22 - Kuiper Satellites
• 14:56 - Passkey Encryption
• 18:13 - Gemini All The Things
• 23:11 - MagNav vs GPS
• 29:10 - Aardwolfs and Numbats

A 4th of July was had by both. An extension hijacking campaign that infected as many as 2.3 million users and software to protect the small web from AI scrapers with computational overhead. For fun we have car tipping (off a cliff!?), and evidence for even more water on Mars.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 13:06 - Hijacking Campaign
• 16:33 - Weighing the Soul of the Web
• 22:41 - Good ol' Alaskan Fun
• 25:41 - Fluvial Sinuous Ridges

Hay is Jon's nemesis and Eric has pictures taken. Cloudflare blocks AI Bots by default. After 7 years, Ubuntu disables Spectre protections. ERYAT (Eric reserves yet another truck) and stumbles nostagically across Make Magazine. Jon finds a 4,800 year old Egyptian.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 6:27 - Cloudflare blocks AI Bots
• 11:19 - Ubuntu minus Spectre
• 18:05 - Scout Motors
• 21:48 - Make:
• 24:29 - 4,800 Year Old Teeth

Eric paints and Jon drives. SparkKitty is a new mobile malware searching photo libraries for crypto passphrases, and when is a 16 billion password breach not a breach. Honda has been quietly working on its own rocket, and the JWST images its first new exoplanet.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 7:55 - SparkKitty
• 12:06 - Not a New Breach
• 16:09 - Honda Rocket
• 19:02 - JWST Exoplanet

Ex? Un? Post? Father's Day activities and Eric tries Vibe Coding. Gemini 2.5 is out of beta. Phone wallets can(?) be hacked. Italy loses its Paragon license. Spaceballs 2! A microbe may be evolving into virus.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 10:34 - Gemini 2.5
• 14:03 - Phone Wallets
• 17:58 - Paragon Spyware != Italy
• 23:53 - Spaceballs 2!
• 26:54 - Microbe Evolution

Summer is here. WWDC has ... liquid glass? And many android features, evidently. Vibe coding is the "remarkably insecure" inevitable future, and a simple (dumb?) github policy bypass. For fun there's a new season of Phineas and Ferb on Disney+, and researchers discover a way to fully expose HIV in white blood cells.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 8:09 - WWDC
• 13:08 - "Remarkably Insecure"
• 18:34 - World's Dumbest Policy Bypass
• 26:32 - New Phineas and Ferb!
• 30:46 - White Cell Exposure