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Little Brother Episode 112 2022-12-24

The server belched. Congress tries to ban TikTok. The EU wants to ban targeted ads. Greece bans spyware. NIST retires SHA-1. GMail has end-to-end encryption. Tax prep services have been handing data over to Meta. US Government invests in AI to address microaggression. Russia attempts cyberattack on NATO and fails. Private individual attempts cyberattack on Russia and succeeds.

Twitter is a dumpster fire. MSG Holdings is getting overly aggressive with facial recognition. An activist’s guide to not getting spied on.

Pwns of the fortnight: Uber, Microsoft, Infragard, DHHS, the US infrastructure, Okta. Fails of the fortnight: Eufy, iRobot.

Also, here is the link to the Privacy International report that I mention in the episode.

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Yup, it belched.

Some of my listeners may discover that episodes 105 through 111 get re-downloaded, depending on how your podcatcher operates. I apologize for this; we had an issue with the server, which has now been resolved, thanks to the hard work of the good folks at the Helix Foundation.

I’d especially like to say thanks to Fongaboo and Dino for their parts in returning the server to service.

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Little Brother Episode 111 2022-12-10

Twitter is moving fast and breaking things, maybe not in a good way. Meta might remove news in response to a new bill. Waze and Google Maps teams combine. Florida man doing time for SIM swap attack. APT41 stole COVID funds in US. Two women sue Apple over AirTags being used by stalkers.

San Francisco reverses the decision to allow police robots to dispense lethal force. The lights went out in North Carolina. Lensa is probably harmless. iPhone owners should turn on Advanced Data Protection

Fail of the week: Northwestern University. Pwns of the week: SiriusXM, Samsung. Listener letter: DOA

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Little Brother Episode 110 2022-12-03

Huawei, ZTE and others now officially banned from US infrastructure. Twitter ends its COVID misinformation policy. Eufy cameras don’t use the cloud, except that they do. Data wipers attack governments in Russia as part of the war.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. San Francisco approves of killer robots for police. Payphones are back in Philadelphia, except for that whole ‘pay’ part. Geofence warrants redux. Dancing naked on TikTok.

Pwns of the week: Meta, Twitter, LastPass. Fail of the week: University of Maine at Augusta.

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Little Brother Episode 109 2022-11-26

The legendary iPhone privacy might just be a legend. DuckDuckGo for Android blocks app-based trackers. Unviersity of Maryland students apply dazzle camouflage concept to AI

Microsoft forgets that commercial users need their computers for work. The Elonphant in the room. University of Guelph students research whether or not computer repair shops snoop on customers.

Pwns of the week: Booz Allen Hamilton and FTX. Fail of the week: Google Pixel 5 and 6.

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Elon Musk reinstates Donald Trump’s Twitter account. AT&T uses drones to restore service in disaster areas. San Francisco Police want to arm their robots.

Adobe breaks the works of artists and Stuart Semple provides a path to prevent a repeat.

Pwn of the week: Twitter. Fail of the week: Apple.

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Little Brother Episode 108 2022-11-19

The legendary iPhone privacy might just be a legend. DuckDuckGo for Android blocks app-based trackers. Unviersity of Maryland students apply dazzle camouflage concept to AI

Microsoft forgets that commercial users need their computers for work. The Elonphant in the room. University of Guelph students research whether or not computer repair shops snoop on customers.

Pwns of the week: Booz Allen Hamilton and FTX. Fail of the week: Google Pixel 5 and 6.

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Little Brother Episode 107 2022-10-29

You can’t hide a pregnancy from Big Data. Elon Musk now owns Twitter. The Mayo Clinic wants everybody’s medical records. Signal is ready to walk away from India over encryption law. Meta fined $24.6 Million by Washington State.

Patch your systems! Apple iOS, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and OpenSSL all have new patches addressing critical vulnuerabilities.

Lana Del Rey and Ed Sheeran both lost control of their work product. Let’s talk about what can be done to tighten up control of your data.

Pwn of the week: Iran.

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Little Brother Episode 106 2022-10-22

Kanye West buys Parler, Doxxes all their VIPs. Oakland wants police robots armed. Meta is talking about privacy again. Telegram fined €5.12 million by German authorities. Cloud computing doesn’t save money. Geneticists changing gene names because of Excel.

Lots of news about surveillance this week, some of it good. Get your damn data. Listener letter about hacking drones and hacking with drones.

Pwns of the week: Microsoft, Russia. Fail of the week: FDNY.

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Little Brother Episode 105 2022-10-15

Another town gets Flocked. Facebook is worried about . . . privacy? ServiceNow goes down. Apple likely to put USB-C connectors on iPhone 15. Google Fiber field tests 20 Gbit/sec Internet.

A court in the Netherlands awards €75,000 in a workplace surveillance case. Ontario requires employers to disclose workplace surveillance to employees. Signal for Android is going to lose SMS capability. WiFi Pineapples can be strapped to drones.

Pwns of the week: Intel, Iranian State TV, multiple US airports. Fail of the week: Toyota.

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Little Brother Episode 104 2022-10-08

Limits on intelligence collection by the US in Europe. Flock Safety again. California corporations cannot share data with out-of-state authorities over abortion. Hactivists attacking Russia from the inside. DOJ files charges over counterfeit Cisco gear. EU mandates USB-C as the one port to rule them all. Signal Private Messenger really is private.

Pwns of the week: LA Unified School District, TD Bank. Fail of the week: An un-named financial company in Hawaii.

…and I hate captive portals. Find out why!