Join Scott Young and Shaun Sturby from Optrics Engineering as they discuss why you should patch your SonicWall firewall now due to a VPN bug, why the international "Five Eyes" organization would like to have an encryption backdoor, how a software engineer caught a bot posting to Reddit and how Facebook deemed an onion too sexy for its ad platform.

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Timecodes:

0:00 - Intro

0:17 - Today's 3 topics

0:51 - Topic 1: SonicWall VPN Bug (Patch Now)

2:37 - Topic 2: Five Eyes Asking for an Encryption Backdoor

5:10 - Topic 3: Bot Caught Posting to Reddit

8:43 - Bonus: An Onion Too Sexy for Facebook

11:25 - Closing remarks

Learn more about SonicWall's VPN bug here:

> CVE-2020-5135 - Buffer Overflow in SonicWall VPNs - Patch Now

> SonicWall Security Advisor Vulnerability List

Learn more about Five Eyes nations (plus Japan and India) wanting an encryption backdoor here:

> Five Eyes nations plus Japan, India call for Big Tech to bake backdoors into everything

Learn more about the software engineering discovering the bot posting on Reddit here:

> Software Engineer Catches Intelligent Bot Posting on Reddit

Learn more about the onion "too sexy" for Facebook here:

> Why some onions were too sexy for Facebook

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