This episode is dedicated to the memory of my friend Derek K. Miller who passed away this week at the age of 41. His last post is something everyone should read and this podcast starts and ends with his music.
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While Sony is still big news, and getting bigger with class-action lawsuits being filed this week, there are other things making news in this realm.
A British consumer website rated Hushmail the worst webmail service around. I can’t hardly argue with that, of course.
The Pentagon is taking steps to reduce the chances of another Wikileaks-type incident from happening again—Pentagon takes steps to prevent internal security breaches after WikiLeaks disclosure – The Washington Post—good luck with that.
Nikon’s image verification system was cracked—Hackers crack Nikon’s image verification system | Homeland Security News Wire—which has potentially far-reaching impacts on law and privacy.
Mozilla is standing up to Homeland Security by refusing to take down a Firefox extension that allows people to automatically be redirected to the new URLs of rogue sites taken over by authorities:
- Mozilla Takes a Stand Against Department of Homeland Security
- Mozilla tells DHS: we won’t help you censor the Internet – Boing Boing
- MAFIAA Fire: a Firefox add-on to reverse US government domain censorship – Boing Boing
Mozilla’s position might not be a popular stance, but it is certainly the right one.
Note to Hungry’s spies, people are spying on you—Spy vs spy: Spyware found at Hungarian secret service | Naked Security—this item has all the twists and turns of a made-for-TV movie.
Finally, the possible breach and at LastPass and the fallout from it. By all accounts, though inconvenient to users for a short time, LastPass did a lot right. Render and I talk about this in depth in today’s episode. Here are just some of the post about it:
- LastPass : The last password you’ll have to remember: LastPass Security Notification
- LastPass melts down and leaves many users (hopefully, temporarily) stranded without their passwords | ZDNet
- LastPass Forces Users to Pick Another Password — Krebs on Security
- Password Manager Last Pass Possibly Hacked
- LastPass forces users to change master password after network traffic oddity | Naked Security
- Why LastPass data breach isn’t the last straw | The Download Blog – Download.com
In the show Render talks about the book Perfect Passwords, it’s on Amazon, but looks like it might be in short supply, so grab a copy quickly if you want one.
Music is by Derek K. Miller and, yes, he really did write it for me.
