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Well-Managed

Little Brother Episode 155 2024-12-15

Site that tracks ALPRs. Target sued for collecting biometrics.

Eight telecoms pwnt by Chinese hackers. Pegasus spyware again. iVerify countermeasures for Pegasus. Data brokers tracking where they’re not supposed to. FBI says to use end-to-end encryption. No, really, they did. Choosing an app for that. What is “well-managed” encryption.

Listener letters: A brief primer on cell phone locks, and a promise to talk about it more.

I’m experimenting with Airplane mode; how that’s going.

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What was the purpose of that?!

Little Brother Episode 154 2024-11-24

Link to the guide from EFF

Russia imposes literally impossible fine on Google. National Public Data goes bankrupt. iPhones can reboot themselves, locking law enforcement out.

The cell network not only knows where you are, but it actually has to. Using airplane mode to prevent the cell network from knowing where you are. How to set up offline navigation on Android and iPhone.

Pwns: Albany ENT, Change Healthcare, Hannaford

Fail: CALEA

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Programming note

Episode 154 is postponed

Due to a mix of circumstances, including me having a cold that has left my voice unreliable, I am postponing episode 154 until 2024-11-24. Talk to you then!

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Go vote!

Little Brother Episode 153 2024-10-27

Go vote!

Syncthing for Android coming to an end. ARM Holdings PLC to cancel Qualcomm’s design license. Streaming services to become easier to cancel. Zero day in Fortigate? Rockwell teams up with Fortigate. Chinese actors attacking phones of Trump, Harris and Vance.

Pwns: Calgary Public Library, Hot Topic, Internet Archive (again). 23 And Me settles. Georgia fends off an attack.

Opsec: Geofence warrants squashed, to be heard again. Cell phone tracking tools publicly available. You can be tracked by other means, too.

Fail: Sam’s Club.

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Who could have predicted?

Little Brother Episode 152 2024-10-13

Harvard students develop an automatic doxx machine. Spy infrastructure “borrowed” by foregn actors. DirecTV buys Dish Network for $1.00.

Security Alert: FortiOS appliances

Pwns: Internet Archive, Nevada Joint Union High School District, Casio, Moneygram, Ecovac.

Medical device maker refuses to repair critical device because it is too old. Follow up on the Marion Recorder incident of last year.

Encrypted apps are great, but not a panacea.

Fail: Fisker

Links:

Episode 115

Episode 133a

Info on opting out of public databases

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Things that go boom

Little Brother Episode 151 2024-09-29

Seven digit speeding tickets. Car impounded due to ALPR error. Ghost has been infiltrated by law enforcement. UC Berkeley teams up with both the US and Chinese governments. Larry Ellison may control CBS News. He also thinks you should be on your best behavior. Cloudflare offers a free solution to block AI scraping. Passwords are a little less of a pain in the ass, maybe.

Alert: CVE-2024-20017 Zero-click vulnerability for some Mediatek chipsets when running as an AP.

The US Army adopts Software Bills of Materials. Some portable electronic devices in Lebanon exploded. Kaspersky appoints its own replacement without consulting you first. Your car’s tracking of you might get some government attention. Yet another ALPR mistake.

Pwn: Town of Ulster, New York shows us the right way to handle a breech. Fail: HR department sacked after their ALPR rejects the CV of a hiring manager.

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Fnord

Little Brother Episode 150 2024-09-15

WCBS 880 AM is no more. Facebook advertisers might actually be listening after all, or maybe not. Security researcher under restraining order for calling out a lie. Ford listens to their customers. Navy OpSec fail.

Fail: Oakland Police. Pwn: Durex

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Programming note

Summer Hiatus

I’ve decided that, like last year, I need to take a summer hiatus from producing the podcast. If a significant story needs attention, like last year, I’ll break hiatus to bring it to you.

When I return in September, the production schedule will be on the Sunday after the second and fourth Friday of each month, rather than on Saturdays. As such, I expect episode 150 to drop on September 15th. Talk to you then!

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Uncategorized

Episode 150 is postponed

Well, it appears that I was supposed to do a podcast yesterday, and, to be blunt, life just ran my ass over.

That said, for practical reasons, I am going to shift my production schedule a little bit. I will post as soon as I have decided on a new on. It will probably be something being released on Sundays rather than Saturdays.

Talk to you all soon!

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A dumpster fire floating down a river in a flood zone

Little Brother Episode 149 2024-06-15

Using large language models to speed up exploitations. Will Windows 12 be a subscription? Signal will leave the EU rather than compromise their encryption. EFF slams age verification law in Texas. I just saved a bunch of money on my insurance because my insurer bought my data.

Voices of 2600: Touch screens in cars.

Pwn: Ticketmaster; follow-up on ARRL, sorta.

Fail: Google AI.

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