Listen "Trashed. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for The Week Ending February 11th., 2025"
Episode Synopsis
Episode 229If your seed phrase was in your photo gallery, congratulations! You might have just funded North Korea's next Missile launch.The UK government just asked Apple to make privacy optional—because nothing says "secure" like a government-mandated security hole.A man wants to buy an entire rubbish tip to find his lost Bitcoin hard drive—because sometimes, your financial future is literally garbage.The US is considering banning a Chinese AI app, proving once again that if it’s cheap, efficient, foreign, unencrypted, and collects data for a foreign government it’s probably too good to be true.Massive VPN Attack – 2.8 million IPs are trying to brute-force their way into VPNs—because apparently, resetting the default admin credentials to a "strong password" is still too much to ask.Google quietly removed its promise not to build AI for surveillance or weapons, so expect "Don’t Be Evil" to disappear completely in a rev. or two.If your smart TV, social media, and AI assistants feel like they hate you, it’s not paranoia—it’s capitalism, or that other word we can't repeat here.Earth’s Inner Core Is Changing – Scientists say the Earth's core might be slowing down, which is great, because the last thing we needed was more things spinning out of control.Let's go digging!Find the full transcript to this podcast here.
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