inThirty.net

 

It has been a slow week. I think we just sit and talk about what happened in the last two weeks. Seriously, we were all consumed about Meltdown and Spectre.

https://gizmodo.com/how-google-fights-password-thieves-1822174355

https://www.eff.org/702-spying

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/fcc-admits-mobile-cant-replace-home-internet-wont-lower-speed-standard/

https://www.eff.org/702-spying

Tom is going to take us through these two 0 day vulnerabilities that affects literally everyone. Yes, you, go update now.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/more-details-about-mitigations-for-cpu_4.html

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern-processor-has-unfixable-security-flaws/#p3

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern-processor-has-unfixable-security-flaws/#p3

https://meltdownattack.com/

Intel Responds to Security Research Findings

 

[Edit: I didn’t record through the microphone. There is an annoying reverb/echo on my end.]

So on deck:
Stories of 2017: https://www.wired.com/story/2017-biggest-hacks-so-far/
AltCoins
Net Neutrality
End of Year cleanup
Things to look forward to next year

We go almost 15 minutes long discussing. Sorry.

We discuss Net Neutrality again, and how this time it is different than last time. I will try to have an open mind.

Some quick news like this Homekit Vulnerability: https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/07/homekit-vulnerability/