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  • Facebook end-to-end encryption and CSAM
    Mike (@zenmike) Peter (@pgl) talk about end-to-end encryption and balancing privacy needs vs. safety.
    https://news.sky.com/story/facebook-responsible-for-94-of-69-million-child-sex-abuse-images-reported-by-us-tech-firms-12101357
    14 min
  • Facebook goes down - and that's not even the worst Facebook news this week
    This is your Not-So-Critical Update for Friday, October 8th.
    Mike, Peter, and Jon talk about Facebook going down for 6 hours - and that isn't even the worst news about Facebook this week.
    Also Twitch.tv has suddenly become open source software. At least in the sense that their source code and data is now all out in the open. #LiveStreamFail
    00:00 Intro
    2:13 Facebook is bad for us. Frances Haugen tells even they know it. Also, they were down for 6 hours Monday.
    20:39 Your text messages have probably been hacked since 2016.
    36:48 Twitch source code and data is leaked.
    01:03:50 Bonus content. The show is over. From here on out it's just for fun.
    And the co-co-hosts themselves: Mike Sutton (@zenmike), Peter Lowe (@pgl), and Jon Cohen (@jonnisec)
    Music from StreamBeats.
    1 hr 14 min
  • Oct 1 - The Port of Houston is hacked and the NSA also hates ads
    Mike, Peter, and Jon talk about the Port of Houston hack, ad blocking at the NSA and CIA, and the privacy nightmare that is the Amazon Astro.
    00:00 Intro
    02:38 - The Port of Houston is hacked.
    16:50 - The NSA and CIA hate ads as much as everyone else.
    25:46 - OMIGOD Microsoft's open source bugs are patched.
    44:38 - Astro, I'm home. Please stop investigating me.
    Music from StreamBeats.
    And the co-co-hosts themselves: Mike Sutton (@zenmike), Peter Lowe (@pgl), and Jon Cohen (@jonnisec)
    1 hr 11 min
  • Sept 24 - The state of US privacy laws is bad, but AI is good?
    Mike Sutton (@zenmike), Peter Lowe (@pgl), and Jon Cohen (@jonnisec) discuss security and privacy headlines from the past week.
    Here's a link to the book Jon mentioned:
    https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
    00:00 Intro
    01:30 Crypto-scammer manipulates Walmart and Litecoin
    - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/walmart-to-accept-payments-with-cryptocurrencies-using-litecoin.html
    09:37 Microsoft finally patches PrintNightmare, causes other issues.
    - https://www.techspot.com/news/91315-microsoft-latest-attempt-patch-printnightmare-vulnerabilities-causes-network.html
    12:43 Critical infrastructure continues to be vulnerable.
    - https://www.raconteur.net/infrastructure/future-of-infrastructure-the-threat-of-cyber-attacks/
    21:19 The state of privacy laws in the U.S. IT SUCKS!
    - https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/state-of-privacy-laws-in-us/
    27:36 The ICO to end cookie pop-ups and spam calls and texts. Also, unicorns exist!
    - https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252506318/ICO-in-bid-to-end-cookie-pop-ups
    - https://news.sky.com/story/tougher-penalties-considered-for-nuisance-calls-and-text-messages-12403341
    35:16 Breaking news: Schools are vulnerable to ransomware and data breaches - just like everyone else.
    - https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22667637/go-read-this-ransomware-attacks-schools-student-identity-theft
    - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hackers-are-leaking-childrens-data-s-little-parents-can-rcna1926
    48:56 Schools are buying (and using) FBI-grade phone-hacking tech for use against students.
    - https://gizmodo.com/u-s-schools-are-buying-phone-hacking-tech-that-the-fbi-1845862393
    59:04 AI will save us all!
    - https://www.makeuseof.com/how-artificial-intelligence-is-changing-cybersecurity-/
    - https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/08/11/how-the-pandemic-has-shifted-attitudes-to-the-artificial-intelligence-of-things-and-the-smart-home/
    Music from StreamBeats.
    1 hr 15 min
  • Sept 17 - Biometric scanning and poop smearing robots.
    Mike Sutton (@zenmike) and Peter Lowe (@pgl) discuss security and privacy headlines from the past week.
    00:00 Intro
    03:32 Zero-Click, Zero-Day FORCEDENTRY exploit of iMessage (and pretty much every Apple/Mac device on the planet). NSO Group is at it again with Pegasus Spyware.
    - https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/
    10:44 Russia tests blocking entire DNS servers to censor Navalny Apps.
    - https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/09/10/russia-to-test-block-domains-used-by-navalny-apps-sparking-online-privacy-fears-kommersant-a75014
    19:29 The explosion of biometric security and surveilance since 9/11
    - https://www.fastcompany.com/90674661/how-9-11-sparked-the-rise-of-americas-biometrics-security-empire
    41:06 The SEC's SolarWinds investigation has publicly traded companies in a panic
    - https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-wide-ranging-solarwinds-probe-sparks-fear-corporate-america-2021-09-10/
    55:38 Roomba uses AI to house train it's poop smearing robots
    - https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/09/tech/roomba-ai-avoids-dog-poop/index.html
    Music from StreamBeats.
    1 hr 4 min
  • Sept 10 - Apple slows down, GDPR speeds up.
    Mike Sutton (@zenmike), Peter Lowe (@pgl), and Jon Cohen (@jonnisec) discuss security and privacy headlines from the past week.
    00:00 Intro
    02:20 Apple delays looking at our boring galleries
    https://www.securityweek.com/apple-announces-delay-child-protection-measures
    08:27 Adversarial attacks on unsupervised machine learning
    https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/02/unsupervised-learning-can-detect-unknown-adversarial-attacks/
    15:12 WhatsApp's GDPR fines
    https://www.politico.eu/article/whatsapp-facebook-privacy-fine-europe/
    24:03 Facebook is reading your WhatsApp messages
    https://nypost.com/2021/09/07/facebook-reads-and-shares-whatsapp-private-messages-report/
    31:22 ProtonMail
    https://www.slashgear.com/protonmail-secure-email-service-provided-user-data-that-led-to-arrest-05689657/
    37:52 AI is stealing your job
    https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/6/22659225/automated-hiring-software-rejecting-viable-candidates-harvard-business-school
    49:26 Cybersecurity is burning and VCs don't care.
    https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/02/the-cybersecurity-industry-is-burning-and-vcs-dont-care/
    59:14 Does targeting work? Or are you just really bad at it?
    https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201
    Music from StreamBeats.
    1 hr 14 min

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Peter, Jon, and Mike get angry about tech stories from the week. Three industry professionals with very different viewpoints, and very different backgrounds, discuss what's been happening and fight…