Weekly Update 136

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Scott is still here with me on the Gold Coast lapping up the sunshine before NDC Security next week so I thought we’d do this week’s video next to the palm trees and jet ski 😎 But, of course, there’s still a heap of stuff happening that’s worthy of discussion, everything

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Weekly Update 135

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It’s another episode with Scott Helme this week as he’s back in town for NDC Security on the Gold Coast (still a got a week to get those tickets, folks!) The timing actually works out pretty well as there was this week’s announcement around Let’s Encrypt transition of their root

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How to Track Your Kids (and Other People’s Kids) With the TicTocTrack Watch

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Do you ever hear those stories from your parents along the lines of “when I was young…” and then there’s a tale of how risky life was back then compared to today. You know, stuff like having to walk themselves to school without adult supervision, crazy stuff like that which

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Weekly Update 134

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That’s the second update in a row I’ve done on time! It’s also another one with a bunch of other things in common with last week, namely commentary on yet more data breaches. It’s not just the breaches in HIBP, but the ones I’m busily trying to disclose. This is

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Weekly Update 133

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Wow, a weekly update back on the normal schedule! I also realised when watching this back how less tired I look compared to the last few weeks. Travel takes its toll so I touched on that a bit in this week’s update, along with the usual raft of new data

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Weekly Update 132

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From last week’s update in Seattle to home to Sydney to back home and a late update (again). But regardless, I’m committed to continuing the cadence of doing these updates each week and 132 of them in, I’m yet to miss a week.

This week it’s a combination of more

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Weekly Update 131

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So firstly, sorry for the audio quality. I’m pretty damn frustrated with those Instamics right now between the flakey firmware upgrade process and the unexpected loss of recording today. I’ll make sure I get on top of it for next time.

I’m sitting at the gate in Seattle right now

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Weekly Update 130

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Well that was a hell of a week of travel. Seriously, the Denver situation was just an absolute mess but when looking at the video from the day I was meant to fly in, maybe being stuck in LA wasn’t such a bad thing after all:

As of 1:30

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These Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop

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This will be short, ranty and to the point: these warnings are getting ridiculous:

I know, tell you something you don’t know! The whole ugly issue reared its head again on the weekend courtesy of the story in this tweet:

I’m not sure if this makes it better or

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Weekly Update 129

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Heaps of stuff going on this week with all sorts of different bits and pieces. I bought a massive new stash of HIBP stickers (1ok oughta last… a few weeks?), I’ll be giving them out at a heap of upcoming events, I was on the Darknet Diaries podcast (which is

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