046: Good beard bad beard
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Bearded man entangled in dark web drugs market bust, Google researches how to make browser security warnings less confusing, and (ahem) "bedroom entertainment systems" probed for security holes.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest Rich Baldry.
Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or visit our website for more episodes.
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Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Special Guest: Rich Baldry.
Links:
- Feds catch a lord of the 'dark web' suspected of drug deals - Miami Herald
- Trip to world beard competition ends in arrest for alleged dark web drug dealer - The Guardian
- Austin Facial Hair Club
- The World Beard and Moustache Championships
- Glorious Portraits from the 2017 World Beard And Mustache Championship
- Where the wild warnings are: Root causes of Chrome HTTPS certificate errors [PDF]
- Screwdriving. Locating and exploiting smart adult toys - Pen Test Partners
- Wi-Fi sex toy with built-in camera fails penetration test - The Register Forums
- Topo by Ergodriven
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - IMDb
- Dead roach in Utah man’s milkshake becomes Twitter hero - KSL.com
- Trevor The Roach: A Tribute Movie
- Smashing Security on Facebook
- Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Smashing Security, Episode 46, Good Beard, Bad Beard, with Carol Terry O' and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:15.2 | Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Smashing Security number 46 for the 5th of October 2017. My name is Graham Clule, and I'm joined as always by my good chum and co-host Corral Terrio. Hello, Carol, how are you? I'm good, and I just realized we've done way more episodes than I am old, so that's really cool. You're revealing your age? No, no, I'm not revealing my age, actually. |
| 0:56.0 | Okay, but you're claiming... I'm saying I'm under 46. You're claiming to be under 46. I'm not claiming. I'm stating. And we are joined this week by a special guest, Rich Bordrey. Hello, Rich, all the way from Vancouver. Hello, Graham. Hello, Carol. It's wonderful to be here. It's very early in the morning for you, isn't it, Ridge? |
| 0:56.0 | It's fairly to be here. It's very early in the morning for you, isn't it, Ridge? |
| 1:03.2 | It's fairly early, yes. It's still cool outside, and I'm still wearing my slippers. |
| 1:11.0 | I think everyone, oh, Kroll, why didn't we have a sponsor slot before we began the show today? |
| 1:11.7 | What's going on? |
| 1:12.5 | Wow. |
| 1:20.8 | Rather than having a sponsor this week, we thought we should try and make an appeal to the people rather than have a sponsor slot. |
| 1:23.8 | So it was International Podcast Day very recently. |
| 1:24.9 | Was it Friday, I think? |
| 1:26.8 | Yeah, over the weekend or something. |
| 1:34.5 | Yes, that's right. Exactly. And so what we're trying to do is ask all of you to introduce smashing security to at least one new person. |
| 1:42.5 | Now, we know lots of people don't know how podcasts work. So that is the mandate. Can you teach them how podcasts works and maybe even subscribe them to the show? |
| 2:00.9 | Yeah, absolutely. Maybe just wrestle their phone off them. Exactly. Find out their pin code or crack their password and subscribe them to the show. Yeah, because for us to produce this, it takes a lot of effort. And the more listeners we have, the easier that is. Oh. We do love producing the show, though, don't we? But it wouldn't be fun if we had even more people listening. Yep, absolutely. |
| 2:06.4 | We're not doing badly in Zimbabwe, you know? We're not doing badly, period. I think more would be better. It would be smashing. So, I guess this episode of the Smashing Security podcast |
| 2:11.0 | is sponsored by our good friends. Smashing Security. Fantastic. Wow. So, as you know, every week, we like to look back on the week's news |
| 2:21.0 | and the things which are called our eye and comments on. And I have seen a story which tickled my, |
| 2:27.1 | well, maybe tickles quite a good word to use actually. Because, you know, Kroll, I mean, |
| 2:32.3 | we're talking here about smashing security. You know, since Vanier Schweitzer, if you remember him, since he left smashing security, |
| 2:38.4 | there's been a lot of debate online as to which of our team has the best facial hair. |
| 2:46.1 | Is it me? Is it you? Because previously, it was clearly Vanya, right? |
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