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We have many stories of manufacturers failing to support their smart devices.

Best buy Insignia TV’s will drop smart support.
Netflix is dropping support on old roku
Iris (Lowe’s smart hub) was stopped a few months ago
Nest Google issue

• side channel attacks – we’ve kind of covered this, but it’s probably good to revisit it a bit. Good food for thought.
• Google buying Fitbit
• Who is gathering data about you? (Loyalty cards, cable boxes, isp dns)

In today’s episode we plug Adversarialfashion.com. Clothing to thwart license plate readers.
Phishing scam: https://twitter.com/DigitalLawyer/status/1181348689756864513https://twitter.com/DigitalLawyer/status/1181348689756864513
Backing up.

We just fly threw the news topics this week.

WhatsApp bug: https://amp.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/whatsapp-users-urged-to-update-as-hackers-break-into-phones-just-by-sending-them-a-gif/news-story/6fc5159ad8a406c9d7d7383067d8f645

Twitter 2FA issues: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/08/twitter-admits-two-factor-logi.html

FBI spied on citizens: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905678/fbi-violated-americans-privacy-rights-court-ruling-fisc-surveillance-nsa

No more mixed content for TLS: https://security.googleblog.com/2019/10/no-more-mixed-messages-about-https_3.html

iterm2 software issue: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical-issue-moss-audit/

We had nothing overly general to talk about, so we decided to talk about Candy.

We used this picture: