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Episode #1008 | 14 Jan 2025 | 147 min.
HOTP and TOTP

Meta winds down 3rd-party content filtering. Is encryption soon to follow? Taking over abandoned Command & Control server domains (strictly for research purposes only!). IoT devices to get the “Cyber Trust Mark” – will anyone notice or care? “SyncThing” receives a (blessedly infrequent) update. Government email is not using encryption? Really? Email relaying prevents point-to-point end-to-end encryption and authentication. Just because Let's Encrypt doesn't support email doesn't mean it's impossible. What Sci-Fi does ChatGPT think I (Steve) should start reading next? To auto-update or not to auto-update? – is that one question or two? And, until today, we've never taken a deep dive into the technology of time-varying 6-digit one time tokens. Let's fix that! (And last week's uncaptioned picture is finally captioned!)
71 MB 18 MB  1,011 KB   <-- Show Notes 206 KB 117 KB 409 KB

Episode #1007 | 07 Jan 2025 | 144 min.
AI Training & Inference

The consequences of Internet content restriction. The measured risks of 3rd-party browser extensions. The consequences of SonicWall's unpatched 9.8 firewall severity. The incredible number of still-unencrypted email servers. Salt Typhoon finally evicted from three telecom carriers. HIPAA gets a long-needed cybersecurity upgrade. The EU standardizes on USB-C for power charging. What? Believe it or not, a CATCHA you solve by playing DOOM. And once we've caught up with all of that: What I learned from three weeks of study of AI.
69 MB 17 MB  658 KB   <-- Show Notes 195 KB 116 KB 389 KB
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