Episode 407 - Should Santa use AI?
It's the 2023 Christmas Spectacular! Josh and Kurt talk about what would happen if Santa starts using AI to judge which children are naughty and nice. There's some fun in this one, but it does get pre...
18 Dec 202336min
Episode 406 - The security of radio
Josh and Kurt talk about a few security stories about radio. The TETRA:BURST attack on police radios, spoofing GPS for airplanes near Iran, and Apple including cellular radios in the macbooks. The com...
11 Dec 202334min
Episode 405 - Modding games isn't cheating and security isn't fair
Josh and Kurt talk about Capcom claiming modding a game is akin to cheating. The arguments used are fundamentally one of equity vs equality. Humans love to focus on equality instead of equity when we ...
4 Dec 202331min
Episode 403 - Does the government banning apps work?
Josh and Kurt talk about the Canadian Government banning WeChat and Kaspersky. There's a lot of weird little details in this conversation. It fundamentally comes down to a conversation about risk. It'...
27 Nov 202335min
Episode 402 - The EU's eIDAS regulation is a terrible idea
Josh and Kurt talk about the new EU eIDAS regulation. This is a bill that will force web browsers to add root certificates based on law instead of technical merits, which is how it's currently done. T...
20 Nov 202330min
Episode 401 - Security skills shortage - We've tried nothing and the same thing keeps happening
Josh and Kurt talk about security skills shortage. We start out on the topic of cybersecurity skills and weave our way around a number of human related problems in this space. The world of tech has a ...
13 Nov 202340min
Episode 400 - When can the government hack a victim?
Josh and Kurt talk about a proposed Dutch proposal that would allow the intelligence services to hack victims of adversaries they are in the process of infiltrating. The purpose of this discussion isn...
6 Nov 202332min
Episode 399 - Curl, Security, and Daniel Stenberg
Josh and Kurt talk to Daniel Stenberg about curl. Daniel is the creator of curl, we chat with him about the security of curl. Daniel tells us how curl is kept secure, we learn about some of the histor...
30 Okt 202337min
