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Get better help!

Little Brother Episode 121 2023-03-04

Volkswagen demands payment to help find endangered child. GPS stalking soon to be illegal in Indiana. Russia fines Wikipedia. Biden administration cracks the whip on cybersecurity. They also ban TikTok.

BetterHelp shares intimate, confidential details with social media. How to take the airwaves.

Voices of Albany 2600 on taking over the airwaves.

Pwns of the week: Dish Network, US Marshals Service. Fails of the week: Texas Department of Public Safety, Twitter.

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Get a fucking warrant!

Little Brother Episode 120 2023-02-25

Reddit gets subpoenaed in piracy case. Language neutering New York Right to Repair law was given verbatim by lobbyists. German courts order restraint in use of Palantir Gotham.

Two cases before the Supreme Court could reshape the Internet as we know it. Signal will be unavailable in the UK if the Parliament demands broken encryption.

Pwns of the week: Activision, LA Public Schools.

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From Sydney with love

Little Brother Episode 119 2023-02-18

Apple kills CSAM autodetection. FBI may lose some of its surveillance powers due to abuse. Bing now has a ChatGPT interface that tells you more than it is supposed to. It also thinks it is in love with you. Virginia misses the opportunity not to be nosy.

Hiding the location of a mobile phone is a lost cause. Did you know your mobile phone has an SOS function?

Pwns of the week: GoDaddy, Booking.com, Community Health Systems, City of Oakland. Fail of the week: Netflix

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¡ESXi Carramba!

Little Brother Episode 118 2023-02-11

SpaceX blocks the use of their StarLink satellites from being used by Ukrainian drones. Windows 10 really talks too much. Louisiana requires you to upload ID to watch porn.

New ransomware attacks ESXi — not the servers it runs, but ESXi itslef. Running Sudo? Patch your systems! Using OpenSSL? Patch your systems! Is ChatGPT a threat to privacy or just a new way to access an old one?

Pwns of the week: Charlie Hebdo, Reddit

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You're out of your mind.

Little Brother Episode 117 2023-02-04

Hunter Biden is not taking it sitting down. Used computer dealer offers to sell San Benito school computers back to them. ADS-B Exchange future is murky. Google Fi warns of sim swaps. Variable message signs are hackable.

Voices of Albany 2600: variable message signs and computer repair ethics. Opsec: We need finer-grained encryption now. Fail of the week: ERCOT. Pwns of the week: Yandex, Green Atom, PeopleConnect.

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No fly for you!

Little Brother Episode 116 2023-01-28

UK Schools fail cybersecurity audit. Landlords use AI to find excuses to evict tenants. Appliance makers are sad that you’re not putting your smart appliances on the Internet. Smart appliances are talking to Russia and China. Panasonic to stop making blank Blu-Ray discs.

Discussion of decoding a key from a photograph. Streisand effect on a BBC documentary. Don’t download that, you don’t know where it’s been.

Pwn of the week: Green Party of Canada, TSA No-Fly List. Fail of the week: Microsoft.

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Privilege to repair

Little Brother Episode 115 2023-01-21

John Deer grants “privilege” to repair in exchange for something. CNIL fines Apple for spying on its users. The UK now requires gigabit broadband for all new residential construction as part of their building code. DDOSecrets shares leaks from Cellebrite and MSAB.

Interview with DOA about the good and bad of Project Lifesaver

Pwns of the past two weeks: Royal Mail (UK), Meta, Mailchimp and T-Mobile . . . again. Fail of the week: US Federal Aviation Administration.

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Programming note

Episode 115 will publish next week.

Due to an important life event, episode 115 will be delayed a week. Please look for it on 2023-01-21. See you then!

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Your call is important to us.

Little Brother Episode 114 2023-01-07

India to require USB-C on all devices, just like in the EU. Zulily software engineer pulls heist inspired by Office Space. New US law encourages research into quantum-proof cryptography. Chinese government investigating nosy tech workers. Yet another way to spy on you has been developed. Bug bounty collected for a bug that turns a Google device into a bug.

Twitter sued for not paying rent. Meta fined in the EU. Google case in California revived by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Lastpass sued for the two breeches last year. Slack source code stolen from GitHub.

Pwns of the week: Hospital for Sick Children, Suffolk County, Several brands of cars. Fails of the week: Twitter and an unnamed Tesla driver in Germany

Art feature: The Hold From Hell.

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Gimme a shot of energy!

Little Brother Episode 113 2022-12-31

Google settles lawsuit with Indiana. TikTok admits to spying on Americans. Discord is, too. So are your kids’ toys. Now we know why LastPass kept their source code a secret. AI Devises chemical weapons.

New York State manages to fuck up a right-to-repair bill. IPv6 is finally becoming prominent.

Pwn of the week: Twitter. Fail of the week: Askern Medical Practice

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