063: Carole's back!
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Fitness trackers breaching your privacy, how anyone can create convincing celebrity porn, and how ransomware authors are getting ripped off by scammers.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, who are joined this week by special guest Maria Varmazis.
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: Maria Varmazis.
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Links:
- Strava's Global Heatmap
- Nathan Ruser tweets about Strava's global heatmap
- Privacy of fitness tracking apps in the spotlight after soldiers' exercise routes shared online
- Thar she blows: Strava heat map shows folk on shipwreck packed with 1,500 tonnes of bombs
- Advanced Deanonymization through Strava
- Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to artificial intelligence
- Reddit User Outperforms Disney with AI-Generated Princess Leia
- Fake News Is About to Get Even Scarier than You Ever Dreamed
- Josh Turner of The Other Favorites - YouTube
- The Levee by The Other Favorites - YouTube
- Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
- United denies woman's attempt to bring peacock onto flight
- Dexter The Peacock on Instagram
- Reforestation Drones Can Plant 100K Trees In An Hour
- 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 | Now I'm done. I've said myself. |
| 0:03.5 | You're done. We're done. Close down the podcast. Turn off the internet. |
| 0:08.3 | Take all the episodes off the internet. |
| 0:10.7 | Yes. Yeah. We're going to delete them off iTunes right now. |
| 0:20.0 | Smashing Security. Episode 63, Carol's Back with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello, hello, and welcome to Smashing Security episode 63. |
| 0:32.7 | My name's Graham Cluley. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm Carol Terrier. |
| 0:35.3 | And we're joined by a special guest once again. And it is Maria |
| 0:38.5 | Vermasas. Hi, Maria. Hello. Hi, Maria. Hello. And Carol, good to have you back as well because |
| 0:44.9 | you didn't show, didn't bother showing up last week. Your absence was no. Loads of complaints |
| 0:50.8 | from this mess. I did. I did have a very good excuse. |
| 0:54.4 | You did? |
| 0:54.8 | So I suffered a rather nasty disc slip last week, and I'm currently still dealing with rather acute sciatica. |
| 1:04.0 | So it's not my first time doing this, but I can say with perfect conviction that it is really, really horrible. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm actually currently working right now from a kind of |
| 1:12.3 | Roman lounge style position here. Is someone feeding you grapes? They should be. They should be. |
| 1:19.5 | And I'm also on extremely strong meds at the moment. So this show is going to be risky. It could |
| 1:25.3 | be a total bomb or it might be an amazing show. |
| 1:28.3 | So let's just put your seatbelts on. |
| 1:30.3 | Let's see what happened. |
| 1:30.7 | I'm ready. |
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