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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chrome and Edge spell-check functions send your passwords to the cloud. Australian Senator wants to ban TikTok. Augury gives Big Brother . . . everything.
Data Brokers are creepy. Password managers not considered harmful.
Pwn of the week: Empress EMS and an update on Uber. Fail of the week: Morgan-Stanley
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India demands that breaches be reported, then that VPNs keep records making them useless. CDC has been tracking cell phones. FBI has been using the third-party doctrine to skip warrants. Google fights dragnets in Brazil, but not here. Alexa’s been spying on you to choose ads. Safegraph knows who’s getting abortions. Mental health apps suck at security. Grindr sells location data.
Pwn of the week: Illuminate Education
More on open-source router firmware, featuring Open WRT
Opsec tip: use a password manager, preferably KeePassXC.
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