068: Malware from outer space!
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
If aliens did contact us would it be safe to open the email? Why would MoviePass track film lovers after they leave the cinema? Would you know how to get around Malaysia when your car rental website lets you down? And will Graham please stop talking about text adventure games?
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 journalist (and possible spy) James Thomson.
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Links:
- Eurozine discusses disinformation and democracy
- Malware from Space
- Interstellar communication. IX. Message contamination is impossible (PDF)
- MoviePass CEO proudly says the app tracks your location before and after movies
- CEO Mitch Lowe Says MoviePass Will Reach 5 Million Subs by End of Year
- MoviePass Privacy Policy
- GET LAMP: The text adventure documentary
- Leather Goddesses of Phobos
- GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary - YouTube
- Infocom: The Documentary - YouTube
- Jacaranda Jim - retro text adventure game by Graham
- Humbug - retro text adventure game for MS-DOS by Graham
- Warrington Cycle Campaign
- Cycle Facility of the Month July 2017
- #WeThePeople LIVE podcast
- Smashing Security on Facebook
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | that a message being sent to Earth from outer space could cause harm. |
| 0:08.5 | It could be a really simple one, right? |
| 0:10.1 | It could be something saying, oh, by the way, your son's going to blow up next Thursday just after tea time, right? |
| 0:15.0 | Now, that may not be deliberately intended to destroy the world, but imagine the panic, right? |
| 0:21.3 | I don't think there'd be any panic. |
| 0:22.9 | I think people would be like, there's nothing we can do about that. |
| 0:26.2 | Right? |
| 0:26.8 | Maybe NASA would be in a panic. |
| 0:28.4 | Maybe, you know, the Russian equivalent of NASA might be in panic. |
| 0:31.1 | But I think, I think I'd go punting. |
| 0:34.0 | Well, I've never heard it called that before. |
| 0:48.5 | Smash. I've never heard it called that before. Smashing Security, Episode 68, Malware from outer space with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:56.5 | Hello, hello, and welcome to Smashing Security episode 68. My name is Graham Cluley. |
| 1:00.6 | And I'm Carol Terrier. And we've joined today by a very special guest, aren't we, Carol? |
| 1:05.5 | We are. This is my friend and at times colleague, James Thompson. |
| 1:11.8 | James, so you're not really in the technology sphere, are you? Tell us a bit about where you're from. |
| 1:13.5 | Carol, I am now. |
| 1:18.5 | It will come as a surprise to you editing a network of European cultural journals. |
| 1:21.7 | It's no surprise at all knowing you for about 20 years. |
| 1:25.5 | Well, it is a surprise given that I am the least cultured person that you know. |
| 1:27.1 | Oh, wow. It's not true. |
| 1:28.2 | It's not true. |
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