Episode 142 - Hypothetical security: what if you find a USB flash drive?
Josh and Kurt talk about what one could do if you find a USB drive. The context is based on the story where the Secret Service was rumored to have plugged a malicious USB drive into a computer. The pu...
21 Apr 201931min
Episode 141 - Timezones are hard, security is harder
Josh and Kurt talk about the difficulty of security. We look at the difficulty of the EU not observing daylight savings time, which is probably magnitudes easier than getting security right. We also h...
15 Apr 201936min
Episode 140 - Good enough security is a pretty high bar
Josh and Kurt talk about identity. It's a nice example we can generally understand in the context of how much security is enough security? When we deal with identity the idea of good enough is often a...
8 Apr 201934min
Episode 139 - Secure voting, firefox send, and toxic comments on the internet
Josh and Kurt talk about Brexit, voting, Firefox send, and toxic comments. Is there anything we can do to slow the current trend of conversation on the Internet always seeming to spiral out of control...
1 Apr 201930min
Episode 138 - Information wants to be free
Josh and Kurt talk about a prank gone wrong, the reality of when your data ends up public. Once it's public you can't ever put it back. We also discuss Notepad++ no longer signing releases and what si...
25 Mars 201932min
Episode 137.5 - Holy cow Beto was in the cDc, this is awesome!
Josh and Kurt talk about Beto being in the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc). This is a pretty big deal in a very good way. We hit on some history, why it's a great thing, what we can probably expect from op...
18 Mars 201935min
Episode 137 - When the IoT attacks!
Josh and Kurt talk about when devices attack! It's not quite that exciting, but there have been a slew of news about physical devices causing problems for humans. We end on the note that we're getting...
11 Mars 201930min
Episode 136 - How people feel is more important than being right
Josh and Kurt talk about github blocking the Deepfakes repository. There's a far bigger discussion about how people feel, and sometimes security fails to understand that making people feel happy or sa...
4 Mars 201931min
