This week Audrey and I chat about the impact of Spectre and Meltdown, how easy it is to harvest credit cards numbers in the browser, and Kodak's new cryptocurrency. Enjoy!

[01:26] What it looks like when you're neighborhood grocery store shuts down[06:02] Sams club closures[09:19] iPhone performance benchmarks after Spectre security update | Melv1n[10:51] "this translates into seven figures in our AWS bill"[13:29] Speculative execution considered harmful in 1995[14:44] Phabricator is not affected by Spectre or Meltdown because PHP is too slow[15:55] What Spectre and Meltdown Mean For WebKit[16:33] I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.[29:02] Attack of the Week: Group Messaging in WhatsApp and Signal[34:31] Kodak bitcoin miner on display at CES 2018 [36:37] Kodak announces its own cryptocurrency and watches stock price skyrocket[39:02] Monkey selfie copyright dispute[43:44] This man has made more money trading cryptokitties than investing in his IRA[45:47] Blockchain is an elaborate work-around for a *very specific problem*[47:26] I Partied With The Robot Strippers Before The CES[48:49] Neural Network Pies[51:03] Cat that has never been so insulted in all nine of its lives of the day.

Complete show notes & announcements:

https://recompilermag.com/2018/01/19/episode-45-web-development-is-kind-of-horrifying

This week Audrey and I chat about Spectre and Meltdown. Enjoy!

[10:17] Speculative Executive[41:09] Chrome site isolation[40:51] Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack (Mozilla Security)[44:29] Intel CEO sells crap ton of stock before Spectre and Meltdown made public[48:39] Google maps[50:52] this is how much i’m striving to love myself this year[51:27] TFW your 1979 VAX 11/750 is immune to the Intel kernel memory leak bug

Complete show notes:

https://recompilermag.com/2018/01/18/episode-44-spectre-meltdown

This week Audrey and I chat about algorithm accountability efforts in NYC, Reality Winner, sexual assault in the infosec community, and more. Content warnings for sexual assault are noted in the show notes in the relevant places, with timestamps so you can avoid those sections of the show if you prefer.

[01:15] Ring in the new year with The Recompiler[02:38] Podcast equipment wishlist[02:54] Podcast now has chapters[06:23] CFP for Issue 10 Science extended[07:04] Check out the new mug and tote bag in the Recompiler shop[07:50] Attempting to make algoritms accountable in NYC[10:12] Bill 1696 and Learning Old Systems[16:14] In Ep. 38 we talk about how NYPD has no way to access it's forfeiture database[16:55] Cathy O'Neil's "Weapons of Math Destruction"[23:45] Portland City Council Meetings[26:23] Who Is Reality Winner?[28:41] Friends of Reality Winner[49:49] [CW: sexual abuse] What happened when the infosec community outed its own sexual predators - The Verge[55:30] [CW: sexual assult] The CCC: Men Who Hate Women[56:53] Alternatives to 34C3 in Berlin [58:10] Citizen Code of Conduct[1:02:41] Code of Conduct Enforcement Warning Signs | Otter Tech Consulting[1:05:07] American Girl & NASA: Girl of the Year Luciana

Complete show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/01/03/episode-43-70-days-9-hours

This week Audrey and I chat about algorithm accountability efforts in NYC, Reality Winner, sexual assault in the infosec community, and more. Content warnings for sexual assault are noted in the show notes in the relevant places, with timestamps so you can avoid those sections of the show if you prefer.

[01:15] Ring in the new year with The Recompiler[02:38] Podcast equipment wishlist[02:54] Podcast now has chapters[06:23] CFP for Issue 10 Science extended[07:04] Check out the new mug and tote bag in the Recompiler shop[07:50] Attempting to make algoritms accountable in NYC[10:12] Bill 1696 and Learning Old Systems[16:14] In Ep. 38 we talk about how NYPD has no way to access it's forfeiture database[16:55] Cathy O'Neil's "Weapons of Math Destruction"[23:45] Portland City Council Meetings[26:23] Who Is Reality Winner?[28:41] Friends of Reality Winner[49:49] [CW: sexual abuse] What happened when the infosec community outed its own sexual predators - The Verge[55:30] [CW: sexual assult] The CCC: Men Who Hate Women[56:53] Alternatives to 34C3 in Berlin [58:10] Citizen Code of Conduct[1:02:41] Code of Conduct Enforcement Warning Signs | Otter Tech Consulting[1:05:07] American Girl & NASA: Girl of the Year Luciana

Complete show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/01/03/episode-43-70-days-9-hours

This week Audrey and I chat about different efforts to preserve meaningful, community-oriented access to the web, a wild update to the Mirai botnet story, and more. Enjoy!

[03:43] CFP Issue 10 Science

[04:50] A Plan to Rescue the Web

[22:28] Motherboard Building a Community Internet

[27:33] A Modern BBS

[34:29] LibraryBox

[44:27] How we name Wifi Networks

[44:55] Mirai Botnet and Minecraft

[53:08] endless.horse

[55:48] feminist tech baby

Complete show notes

This week Audrey and I chat about different efforts to preserve meaningful, community-oriented access to the web, a wild update to the Mirai botnet story, and more. Enjoy!

[03:43] CFP Issue 10 Science

[04:50] A Plan to Rescue the Web

[22:28] Motherboard Building a Community Internet

[27:33] A Modern BBS

[34:29] LibraryBox

[44:27] How we name Wifi Networks

[44:55] Mirai Botnet and Minecraft

[53:08] endless.horse

[55:48] feminist tech baby

Complete show notes

This week Audrey and I talk about Bitcoin and it's monstrous power consumption, Patreon's fee changes, community broadband efforts, and more. Enjoy! Show notes

This week Audrey and I talk about Bitcoin and it's monstrous power consumption, Patreon's fee changes, community broadband efforts, and more. Enjoy! Show notes

This week Audrey and I talk about WayMo vs Uber, the surprising ways Expensify, and probably a lot of other web services are using Mechanical Turk, the recent macOS High Sierra vulnerability, and more. Enjoy! Show notes

This week Audrey and I talk about WayMo vs Uber, the surprising ways Expensify, and probably a lot of other web services are using Mechanical Turk, the recent macOS High Sierra vulnerability, and more. Enjoy! Show notes