Weekly Update 374

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Think about it like this: in 2015, we all lost our proverbial minds at the idea of the Kazakhstan government mandating the installation of root certificates on their citizens’ devices. We were outraged at the premise of a government mandating the implementation of a model that could, at their

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Weekly Update 373

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Most of this week’s video went on the scraped (and faked) LinkedIn data, but it’s the ransomware discussion that keeps coming back to mind. Even just this morning, 2 days after recording this live stream, I ended up on nation TV talking about the DP World

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Weekly Update 372

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Yes, the Lenovo is Chinese. No, I’m not worried about Superfish. Yes, I’m running windows. No, I don’t want a Framework laptop. Seemed to be a lot of time this week gone on talking all things laptops, and there are clearly some very differing

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Weekly Update 371

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So I wrapped up this week’s live stream then promptly blew hours mucking around with Zigbee on Home Assistant. Is it worth it, as someone asked in the chat? Uh, yeah, kinda, mostly. But seriously, having a highly automated house is awesome and I suggest that most people

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Weekly Update 370

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I did it again – I tweeted about Twitter doing something I thought was useful and the hordes did descend on Twitter to tweet about how terrible Twitter is. Right, gotcha, so 1.3M views of that tweet later… As I say in this week’s video, there’

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Weekly Update 369

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There seemed to be an awful lot of time gone on the 23andMe credential stuffing situation this week, but I think it strikes a lot of important chords. We’re (us as end users) still reusing credentials, still not turning on MFA and still trying to sue when we

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Weekly Update 368

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This must be my first “business as usual” weekly update since August and damn it’s nice to be back to normal! New sponsor, new breaches, new blog post and if you’re in this part of the world, a brand new summer creeping over the

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Weekly Update 363

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I’m super late pushing out this week’s video, I mean to the point where I now have a couple of days before doing the next one. Travel from the opposite side of the world is the obvious excuse, then frankly, just wanting to hang out with

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Weekly Update 362

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Somehow in this week’s video, I forgot to talk about the single blog post I wrote this week! So here’s the elevator pitch: Cloudflare’s Turnstile is a bot-killing machine I’ve had enormous success with for the “API” (quoted because it&

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Weekly Update 361

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This week hasd been manic! Non-stop tickets related to the new HIBP domain subscription service, scrambling to support invoicing and resellers, struggling our way through some odd Stripe things and so on and so forth. It’s all good stuff and there have been very few issues of note

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