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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 20 hours 14 minutes
Episode 45: Web development is kind of horrifying
This week Audrey and I chat about the impact of Spectre and Meltdown, how easy it is to harvest credit cards numbers in the browser, and Kodak's new cryptocurrency...
Episode 44: Spectre & Meltdown
This week Audrey and I chat about Spectre and Meltdown. Enjoy! [10:17] Speculative Executive[41:09] Chrome site isolation[40:51] Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack (Mozilla Security)[44:29] Intel CEO sells crap ton of stock before Spectre and Meltdown made public[48:39] Google maps[50:52] this is how much i’m striving to love myself this year[51:27] TFW your 1979 VAX 11/750 is immune to the Intel kernel memory leak bug Complete show notes: https://recompilermag...
Episode 43: 70 days, 9 hours
This week Audrey and I chat about algorithm accountability efforts in NYC, Reality Winner, sexual assault in the infosec community, and more. Content warnings for sexual assault are noted in the show notes in the relevant places, with timestamps so you can avoid those sections of the show if you prefer...
Episode 42: Usenet is still a thing!
This week Audrey and I chat about different efforts to preserve meaningful, community-oriented access to the web, a wild update to the Mirai botnet story, and more. Enjoy! [03:43] CFP Issue 10 Science [04:50] A Plan to Rescue the Web [22:28] Motherboard Building a Community Internet [27:33] A Modern BBS [34:29] LibraryBox [44:27] How we name Wifi Networks [44:55] Mirai Botnet and Minecraft [53:08] endless.horse [55:48] feminist tech baby Complete show notes
Episode 41: We’ll never have a perfect mix but we’ll keep trying
This week Audrey and I talk about Bitcoin and it's monstrous power consumption, Patreon's fee changes, community broadband efforts, and more. Enjoy! Show notes
Episode 40: Travis Colonic?
This week Audrey and I talk about WayMo vs Uber, the surprising ways Expensify, and probably a lot of other web services are using Mechanical Turk, the recent macOS High Sierra vulnerability, and more. Enjoy! Show notes
Episode 39: Giving Something Away For Free For Fun
This week Audrey and I chat about Net Neutrality, the state of the Open Web, Facebook's latest bad behavior, and more. Enjoy! Show notes
Episode 38: Randomness and Predictability
This week Audrey and I chat about the KRACK WPA2 vulnerability, the technical skills of the judge in Oracle v Google, how Facebook is ruining our democracy, part 34, and more. Enjoy! Show notes
Episode 36: Maybe Skynet is just malware battling each other
This week Audrey and I chat about all things WannaCry, Google's tensor processing units, and Panic's stolen source code. Enjoy! Show notes
Episode 35: Interview with Zara Rahman and Tom Walker
This week I chat with Zara Rahman (@zararah) and Tom Walker (@thomwithoutanh) from the Engine Room (@engnroom) about about the use of technology and data for social change. Enjoy! Show notes