The technology blog and podcast and TSB

By Jared Rimer

This is the podcast where I, Jared, talk about assistive technology, security, driving cars, and anything else that may cross my desk. If you wish to contribute, please feel free to contact me thro

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July 09, 2020Tech podcast 346: Transit App, Capital One, TNO, and Everify
Welcome to the technology blog and podcast, podcast 346. Last podcast was at the end of May, and a lot has been going on around here health wise. I'm definitely feeling better, and I've got quite a bit for you.
At the end of May, beginning of June, Transit App was announced to be the Los Angeles Metro app of choice, changing the landscape of $240,000 in costs. Here is the blog post that I wrote which also links to Los Angeles Metro's blog as well. Let me know your thoughts on this one!
What does Capital One have to hide when it comes to their breach? After my health issues, I've been thinking about what to put in to the podcast, and I thought this would be good to talk about. This blog post links to an article that goes in to detail about this intriguing case. We already know Capital One was at fault, why are we continuing to hide it?
I recently penned an article asking about the state of Antivirus after someone emailed asking me to put Eset's web site in a 2017 blog post. Instead of doing that, I mention Eset and several good antivirus products in this blog post where I quote an email that Shaun Everess wrote in a forward talking about 2004's Windows 10 version. He's not wrong in his thoughts in the comments, but I still think we're at a disadvantage.
Michael in Indiana has every reason to get mad at TNO. TNO stands for Trust No One, and he had no idea an app he used was this way. I also leave my thoughts.
Finally, hot off the presses, a blog talking about another Government web site. The DHS has to be ashamed of itself! It links to an article recently penned by Brian Krebs about a web site called everify. We should be passed this ordeal when building web sites, should we not?
Do you have anything you want to comment on? Please get in touch by contacting me. The web site and blog have contact info, so please utalize it. I hope you enjoy this podcast, and I hope to get back in to podcasting more regularly.
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May 21, 2020The technology podcast, podcast 345: parcel track and cat fishing
Welcome to podcast 345 of the technology podcast series. This time, no covid-19 material as I have quite something different lined up for this podcast. I'm sorry its taken this long to release, I've not been feeling well, but the wait is worth it, as you'll see.
What type of app do you use to track your packages? Just before podcast 344's release, I had a hair, and decided to go searching for a replacement. Parcel Track was found and demoed. Some things including notification fixes were pushed out after the recording, the basic demo will give you an idea on what it is about and how it works. In the first segment, I talk about what I had used before, and introduced Parceltrack. The second segment was the demo itself.
Have you heard of terms such as catfishing or catphishing? Yes, thats awesome! I have but not really looked up what it meant until I found a Cyberscoop article talking about a well known figure that does cybersecurity work in the government who was impersonated. I did some looking up, and what I found was quite interesting. Both spellings of fish (phish) are used in this and it was quite facinating. Read the featured post for May 20th, Catfishing, Catphishing, what are they? for more on this, and it links to the Cyberscoop article.
Contact information is available for everyone at the end, and I hope you enjoy the program as much as I have bringing it together for you! Thanks so much for listening md feel free to reach out.
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April 30, 2020Tech podcast 344: lots of interesting stuff
Welcome to podcast 344. On this podcast, we've got quite a bit for you.
We've got news notes of varying kind.
I demo and talk about something I recently learn on the iphone thanks to Michael in Indiana.
I talk about Kreb's article about moving money and how one can get duped. Krebs on Security: When in Doubt: Hang Up, Look Up, & Call Back which is also talked about on the tech blog.
Getting forms in a different language than you speak? We got two applications at MENVI which we are now not going to process based on advise given to us.
I hope to have another podcast really soon. Thanks for listening to this one, and make it a great day
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April 10, 2020 The tech podcast 343: Covid-19 with lots of twists
Welcome to podcast 343 of the technology podcast series. This podcast is covid-19 based with a webinar done by Mikko Hypponen to a conspiracy theory which we'll play the audio and comments from Michael in Tennessee. To boot, a video about 10 minutes dealing with 5G and the prospects of whether it actually gets you sick. The podcast is a little over an hour, and I hope you enjoy it! Thanks so much for listening.
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March 25, 2020 Episode 342: Corona Virus lures cyber criminals
On this podcast, I've got a webinar that I would wait on, but its too important. Cyber criminals are taking advantage of this pendemic. I briefly talk about what the webinar has, then enjoy this 57 minute webinar which ends the podcast. Here's the blog post with the link to the webinar so you may get the slides if you wish. Thanks for listening!
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March 18, 2020Tech podcast 341: cheating, B2K, Corona, and mailboxes
Welcome to podcast 341. We've got a bit of stuff for you for an hour podcast.
The topic of cheating came up within the dice world community. Dice World is a game that now has chat rooms in it. I've covered this on my cast before, but someone wanted to cheat in other games, and questioned their participation in the tournaments.
I cover Braille2000 and setup as a blind person. I've got a write up on it as well. Read the write up: Getting Started with Braille2000 as a Blind Person for more.
I cover a little bit of news on the aweful change in our lives with the Corona virus, although I cover this as a tech related thing. I've got blog posts covering this, so just go peruse that.
Finally, Shaun Everess comes along and asks a question by email about letterboxes and why they've gotten smaller. Here we call them mail boxes, but it is pretty much the same.
Our contact info is at the beginning and end of the podcast, and I hope you enjoy the hour long program!
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March 02, 2020Tech podcast 340: news from NLS, apple, microsoft, phishing, scams, and ssl
Welcome to podcast 340 of the technology blog and podcast series! This is the shows notations, and there's plenty.
Braille Book Review is a magazine put out by the Library of Congress's National Library Service and there's probably info that may be of interest to some.
Michael in Tennessee and I are to talk about Apple, Microsoft, Phishing, and scams.
SSL and TLS can go hand in hand with that discussion because I had an incident with a cert expiring, and so did the domain. Bad combo!
Contact info is found on the podcast both at the beginning and end of the program, and I hope you find this podcast of value. Thanks for listening to the program, and remember to leave those thoughts! They're very valuable. See you on another edition!
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1h 7min
February 18, 2020 Tech podcast 339: Phishing Insites on Social media, Tmobile and Sprint merge, and news notes
Sprint and Tmobile murge, blog updates news notes and more, and Phishing insights and social media scams from a bebinar. Contact info at the beginning and end of the program.
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1h 8min
February 11, 2020 The Tech podcast: 338: IHS vulnerability research
Welcome to podcast 338. I catch up with you on my workings on the Braille Transcription course and the work I'm doing with it now. After that, we bring you the IHS vulnerability research webinar from December 2019. I thought I had the link to the blog post talking about this webinar, but I guess I didn't post it unfortunately. I've posted some but need to do a better job on it. If this wasn't december's, it must be November's, but be that as it may, its a great webinar.
My contact information is made available at the end of the program as usual, and thanks so much for reading and participating on the blog!
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1h 13min
February 08, 2020 The Technology blog and podcast, podcast 337
Welcome to podcast 337. While we've got some corrections by Shaun in regards to last podcast, one of the biggest topics I think you'll want to get your paws on is buildings being connected to the Internet. I'm not kidding! I've got a blog post with the article of the same name: Hackers are hijacking smart building access systems to launch DDoS attacks and this is definitely something to think about.
Also on the podcast, we've got a dumb criminal award for the podcast. If you're going to commit a crime, you want to try and hide like a lot of America's Most Wanted's criminals did. Thats why they were hard to catch, and eventually, a lot of them were caught. A great story on how not! to get caught in cybercrime? is my blog post, and I link to Brian Kreb's coverage of this.
Finally, although not in the exact order of the podcast, we've got my discussion of the infamous 404 page and how it helped me fix a bug on my own web site. Building a 404 page that helps fix bugs is the article title, and it was definitely something interesting. While the code I wanted displayed didn't show, the fact is, we can fix our error pages to help us fix those pesky mistakes in code.
Contact information is available on the podcast, and even available on the blog. Feel free to utalize it, and we'll see you on another edition of the cast!
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FAQs about The technology blog and podcast and TSB:

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The podcast currently has 379 episodes available.