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Little Brother Episode 84 2022-05-07

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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Little Brother Episode 83 2022-04-30

EU requires social media to explain their algorithms, but Facebook can’t. Google implements “reject all cookies” button in the EU. Hospital requires nurses to bring their own laptops. Chula Vista averages 274 police drone deployments a day. Elon Musk buys Twitter.

Intro to DD-WRT.

Opsec tip: Two factor authentication

Pwn of the week: T-Mobile.

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Little Brother Episode 82 2022-04-23

Freedom Phone’s Signal Not-so-private Messenger. Conferencing apps are listening when they shouldn’t be. The Copyright Crowd are back. Apple’s app tracking transparency costs Meta more than originally thought. SpaceX beats Russian jamming. Ted Lieu wants warrants for metadata. SEC wants cybersecurity in the board room.

Intro to open-source firmware. Don’t give away too much info.

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Little Brother Episode 81 2022-04-16

European Union rolls its own facial recognition network. EU officials targeted using Pegasus. DOJ seizes RaidForums. Fired Sysadmin jailed and fined for vandalism. ProtonVPN passes audit.

Teardown of EAS in-band signalling. Personal OPSEC: making your communications channels redundant.

Pwn of the week: Congress. Fails of the week: AT&T, Atlassian.

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Dodging surveillance

Little Brother Episode 80 2022-04-09

Android app to detect unauthorized Apple AirTags. The Post Office has a law enforcement branch that overreaches. Google boots a spyware APK from the Play Store. US Government patches your system whether you like it or not.

Interview with Ethan Gregory Dodge on ALPR maker Flock Safety.

Pwn of the week: MailChimp.

Listener letter from Snackness.

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Propaganda Prevention Printers

Little Brother Episode 79 2022-04-02

Flock Safety is watching you. Network printers in Russia spread anti-propaganda. Okta had a password spreadsheet. Apple and Meta taken in by counterfeit legal instruments. Russia accepts bitcoin for payment.

Security alert: patch Chrome!

Pwns of the week: Sephora, Viasat. Fails of the week: Signal, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp.

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Little Brother Episode 78 2022-03-26

GPS Jamming near Ukraine. Goodwill Ransomware. Patch your systems already! Clever password skimmer site. Refugee carries life savings on thumb drive as Bitcoin. Mariupol computer museum destroyed. RIP Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF.

Pwns of the week: Transneft, Nestlé, Microsoft, Okta. Fail of the week: AEG

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Russian but still behind.

Little Brother Episode 77 2022-03-19

VHS-era video laws still in effect. Ireland fines Facebook. Microsoft puts ads in the file browser. Firefox tracks you. DST bill passage was a surprise. Snoop Dogg annoys streaming listeners.

Ukraine uses Clearview AI at checkpoints. Ukraine joins European power grid and unplugs from Russia. ESET discovers sabotage malware in Ukraine. Russians using more VPN and Signal Private Messenger, but less Telegram. Russia launches their own CA, but is running out of data storage.

Germany warns against using Kaspersky.

No Pwn of the Week. Fails of the week: Russian armed forces, Google Maps.

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Shortwave lives again

Little Brother Episode 76 2022-03-12

Please note that the start of this podcast is intended to sound like a shortwave broadcast. The sound will become normal during the introduction.

US Senate passes a bill requiring incidents reporting. Senators suck at OPSEC. Dirty pipes. Backblaze tests SSDs. Weight Watchers knows too much.

BBC shortwave broadcasts have begun.

Pwns of the week: Samsung, six state governments, Roskomnadzor, Conti.

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War!

Little Brother Episode 75 2022-03-05

Conti fights for Russia without fighting for Russia. Facebook wants selfies to delete accounts. War griefing. Orbot for iOS drops. Toyota shuts down from cyber attack. MikroTik routers in Ukraine compromised.

News about Signal Private Messenger and shortwave shenanigans. Pwn of the week: Russian military. Fail of the week: also Russian military.

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