Pentagonal

By Stipes Radio

Pentagonal is a show about privacy and security in the digital age. Each week Jacob and Cristian will talk about how folks can stay private and safe when everything seems to be intruding into our live... more

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How many episodes does Pentagonal have?

The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.

Pentagonal episodes:

August 02, 2018Pentagonal Episode 28: Many Sauces
Jake and Cristian talk trash about Elon Musk, go into the Android EU Antitrust case, and then yell about Chrome’s new HTTP Not Secure Banner.
Content Warning: Politics, Food, Hot Takes
Show Notes:
00:00:00 – Elon Musk
00:19:44 – The Google EU Case
00:39:52 – Chrome Marking HTTP Sites As Not Secure
00:56:26 – Google “My Purchases Page”
Tesla’s are nightmare cars you don’t own:
Tesla Doesn’t Want You to Work on Its Cars
Tesla Won’t Activate Man’s Salvaged Model S
Tesla made it difficult for hacker geohot to buy a Model S and use his own software to power Autopilot 2.0
Elon Musk personally cancels blogger’s Tesla order after ‘rude’ post
Tesla’s new self-driving car can only make you money on the ride-sharing ‘Tesla Network’, not Uber or Lyft
Secret ‘Shadow Mode’ Watches You Drive To Improve Tesla’s Autopilot
Google:
The European Commission Versus Android
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July 08, 2018Pentagonal Episode 27: The Dark Mode Life
Jake and Cristian talk about browser extensions, Chrome freezing, apps that access your email being able to access your email, ZTE sorta getting their sanctions lifted, the California Online Privacy Law, Supreme Court Rulings, Alexa being creepy, and creepy dudes getting what they deserve.
Content Warning: Politics, Doom and Gloom
Show Notes:
00:00:00 – Stylish Extension Sending Visited Website Data To Remote Server
00:26:53 – Chrome Freezing Bug
00:34:32 – Gmail Apps Can In Fact Read Your Emails
00:41:07 – ZTE Sanctions lifted? Kinda? Maybe?
00:43:04 – California Online Privacy Law
00:44:54 – Supreme Court Rules That Location Searches Can’t Be Warrentless
00:51:28 – Alexa Is Being Creepy, Again
00:56:43 – Man Trying To Take Upskirt Photos With A Shoe Camera But It Blew Up
“Stylish” extension with 2M downloads banned for tracking every site visit
Tech-support scammers revive bug that sends Chrome users into a panic
Gmail app developers have been reading your emails
US forces smartphone giant ZTE to fire its CEO and leadership team
California Privacy Law
Supreme Court decides against warrantless location searches in a major privacy decision
Alexa reportedly says, ‘Every time I close my eyes, all I see is people dying’
Man’s creepy “upskirting” plan foiled when his shoe camera explodes
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Cristian on Mastodon
Jake on Mastodon
Jake on Twitter
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June 04, 2018Pentagonal Episode 26: It’s Our Brand
Jake and Cristian talk about domains and GDPR, Google’s Pentagon thing again, an interesting side chain exploit in Chrome and Firefox, Sonic Damage, and gross location based ads.
Content Warning: Politics
Show Notes:
00:00:00 – Cristian’s GDPR Story
00:09:38 – Google Removing Don’t Be Evil Plus The Pentagon Thing
00:22:06 – Chrome and Firefox Leaking Out Facebook Names and Pictures
00:32:54 – Playing Frequencies Near A HDD Causing Data Loss
00:47:30 – Law Firms Send Ads To Patients’ Phones Inside ERs
Google Removes ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Clause From Its Code of Conduct
Google Plans Not to Renew Its Contract for Project Maven, a Controversial Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program
Chrome and Firefox leaks let sites steal visitors’ Facebook names, profile pics
Sonic and ultrasonic attacks damage hard drives and crash OSes
Digital Ambulance Chasers? Law Firms Send Ads To Patients’ Phones Inside ERs
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Cristian on Twitter
Jake on Mastodon
Jake on Twitter
Stipes Radio on Mastodon
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May 21, 2018Pentagonal Episode 25: Have You Seen My Dongle Collection?
Jake and Cristian spend half an hour talking about Google I/O and the Selfish Ledger. Then they talk about Klout, phone location databases being leaked, and PGP / Signal Vulnerabilities.
Content Warning: Politics, Discussion of Sexual Abusers, Food?
Show Notes:
00:00:00 – Google I/O
00:32:41 – Klout Shutting Down
00:41:56 – LocationSmart Database Leak
00:49:04 – PGP and Signal Vulnerabilities
Google I/O
Klout is out and there’s nary a pout
Website leaked real-time location of most US cell phones to almost anyone
It has been a bad week for encrypted messaging and it’s only Wednesday
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Cristian on Twitter
Jake on Mastodon
Jake on Twitter
Stipes Radio on Mastodon
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May 02, 2018Pentagonal Episode 24: NO ONE Should Use The Discord Light Theme
Jake and Cristian say NICE things about Google, Jake has a rant about Debian, and then we talk some random stories plus we like spent a bit talking about the Clear proposal.
Content Warning: World Politics
Show Notes:
00:00:36 – Facebook’s GDPR Compliance and Google’s
00:09:25 – Jake’s Debian Rant
00:17:49 – The New Gmail Design
00:22:36 – Windows Defender in the Chrome Store
00:25:39 – Ray Ozzie’s Clear Proposal
00:34:42 – Nintendo Switch Prevents Downgrades By Blowing Fuses
00:36:50 – Android Security Patch Fraud
00:39:27 – ZTE Banned From Doing Business In The US For 7 Years
00:43:59 – Telegram Banned In Russia
A Flaw By Flaw Guide to Facebook’s GDPR Privacy Changes
Google adopts non-personal ad targeting for the GDPR
Windows Defender Browser Protection – Chrome Web Store
A few thoughts on Ray Ozzie’s “Clear” Proposal
How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses
Some Android OEMs discovered to be lying about security patches
US hits major Chinese tech firm with export ban

Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Cristian on Mastodon
Jake on Mastodon
Jake on Twitter
Stipes Radio on Mastodon
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March 27, 2018Pentagonal Episode 23: That Silicon Valley Taste
Jake and Cristian spend an hour talking about Facebook and the fallout from Cambridge Analytica.
Content Warning: Politics, Food
Show Notes:
00:02:36 – The Story So Far
00:24:20 – The Fallout Of This Mess
00:42:27 – The Android Angle
How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions
Mark Zuckerberg says he’s ‘fundamentally uncomfortable’ making content decisions for Facebook
Facebook Faces Growing Pressure Over Data and Privacy Inquiries
Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones
Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won’t Help Facebook’s Privacy Problems
New Silicon Valley Intro
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Cristian on Mastodon
Jake on Mastodon
Jake on Twitter
Stipes Radio on Mastodon
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March 14, 2018Pentagonal Episode 22: Google City
Jake and Cristian talk about YouTube being sued, followup on AMP, predictive policing, and then make fun of Trustico.
Show Notes:
00:04:34 – YouTube Got Sued, Again
00:10:51 – AMP Followup
00:34:32 – Palantir Predictive Policing in New Orleans
00:46:00 – Trustico Private Key Leak
More Google Followup:
New Lawsuit Exposes Google’s Desperation To Improve Diversity
Inside Google’s plan to make the whole web as fast as AMP
Standardizing lessons learned from AMP
Everything else:
Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans To Test Its Predictive Policing Technology
Trustico website goes dark after someone drops critical flaw on Twitter
Social:
Cristian on Mastodon
Jake on Mastodon
Jake on twitter
Stipes Radio on twitter
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March 03, 2018Pentagonal Episode 21: A 30 Minute Conversation on AMP
Jake and Cristian have an update on Samsung emojis, talk about the latest Google drama of the week and then go into a tirade against amp.
Content Warning: Politics, Slight Food
Disclaimer: We try to take a nuance view on this debate which touches upon on the “maybe you shouldn’t punch all nazis” argument which shouldn’t be taken as the core of our argument, but an attempt for fairness. This might anger some listeners and we understand.
Show Notes:
00:10:30 – Update: Samsung Emoji
00:13:39 – Googler Being Fired For Being “too liberal”
00:28:53 – The Case Against Google
00:38:12 – Chrome’s Built In Ad Blocker
00:42:09 – AMP
Follow Up:
Samsung is finally updating its terrible emoji
Google:
Ex-Google engineer: I was fired for being too liberal
The Case Against Google
Under the hood: How Chrome’s ad filtering worksh
Bringing the power of AMP to Gmail [sic]
Social:
Cristian on Mastodon
Jake on Mastodon
Jake on twitter
Stipes Radio on twitter
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February 07, 2018Pentagonal Episode 20: The Kids In Business
Jake and Cristian talk about Android Botnets, faceswapping, cheap botnets on demand, crypto, Windows OEMs, and conspiracy theories.
Content Warning: Child Abuse Mentions (the Telegram Apple Story), Bad Conspiracy Theories, Slight Chat App Discourse.
Show Notes:
00:04:15 – Faceswapping Porn Videos, An Update
00:13:04 – Google Bashing and Security News
00:40:43 – Lenovo Fixes Hard Coded Password For Fingerprint Reader
00:45:26 – Cheap Botnets For Sale
00:49:02 – Strava Data Revealing Location Of Army Bases
Samsung Emoji
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January 15, 2018Pentagonal Episode 19: Security State Of Things
Jake and Cristian talk about US Customs Guidlines, a smart camera from CES, porn ads in the Play Store, an update on the GoogleMemoGate, and we talk about Facebook’s new News Feed.
Content Warning: Politics, Porn, Discussions of many forms of bigotry.
Show Notes:
00:01:32 – New US Customs Guidelines
00:06:21 – Angee Smart Camera
00:17:00 – Games With Porn Ads Sneak Into The Play Store
00:22:00 – Googlememogate Part 2: The Lawsuit
00:41:22 – Facebook’s New News Feed
New US Customs guidelines limit copying files and searching cloud data
This home security camera looks away when you come home
Games with pornographic ads sneak into the Play Store, get 3 million downloads
James Damore just filed a class action lawsuit against Google, saying it discriminates against white male conservatives
Facebook announces overhaul to prioritize content from friends and family
Correction: Near the end of the episode Cristian states “the other gender” which excludes nonbinary folks like themself. Talking and thinking at the same time is hard and we regret the error.
Social:
Cristian on Mastodon
Jake on Mastodon
Jake on twitter
Stipes Radio on twitter
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FAQs about Pentagonal:

How many episodes does Pentagonal have?

The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.