071: Pony-tailed pundit ponders privacy problems - with Mikko Hyppönen
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Endangering your friends online, the fibs told by VPN vendors, developments from the world of cryptomining, and Carole shares an animated GIF with Mikko and Graham.
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, joined this week by Mikko Hyppönen from F-Secure.
Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or visit our website for more episodes.
Remember: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening!
Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Special Guest: Mikko Hyppönen.
Sponsored By:
- LastPass: LastPass Enterprise simplifies password management for companies of every size, with the right tools to secure your business with centralized control of employee passwords and apps.But, LastPass isn’t just for enterprises, it’s an equally great solution for business teams, families and single users.Go to lastpass.com/smashing to see why LastPass is the trusted enterprise password manager of over 33 thousand businesses.
Links:
- Mikko's adventure game "Paha Juttu" at the Finnish Game Museum
- Download the Paha Juttu Commodore 64 floppy image file (d64)
- Commodore 64 online emulator (load a d64 file into this)
- Mat Johnson's tweet about Facebook logging his phone calls and texts
- Fact Check: Your Call and SMS History
- Who and What Is Coinhive?
- 100+ VPNs & Their Logging Policy (What Logs Are Kept by Who?)
- Which VPN Services Keep You Anonymous in 2018?
- ‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer
- HideMyAss defends role in LulzSec hack arrest
- TLDRLegal - Software Licenses Explained in Plain English
- Some Very Entertaining Plastic, Emulated at the Archive
- Handheld History
- This is what the Internet Archive's building looks like
- CERT-EU News Monitor
- You've never seen anyone climb a wall like this before...
- Smashing Security on Facebook
- Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The default is always going to be the one which the website wants you to choose, right? It's not what is necessarily best for you. It's rarely what is best for you in terms of privacy as well. I know, but listen, if I go to my doctor, right? And my doctor says to me, Krall, I advise that you do X. And I'm thinking in my head, well, I'm not a doctor. |
| 0:21.7 | I don't know as much as they do. You know, when Facebook came out, you were probably thinking, hey, they've got our best intentions. They want to look after their users because we are their bread and butter. Okay, you give the analogy of walking into a doctor. I'd like to suggest don't walk into the doctor, walk into the abattoir instead, dressed up as a pig, all right? |
| 0:38.2 | And then say, |
| 0:39.2 | where would you like me to see? |
| 0:44.0 | Smashing Security, Episode 71, Ponytail Ponder's Privacy Problems with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello, hello, and welcome to Smashing Security episode 71. My name is Graham Clulee. I'm Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. Hello, hello, and welcome to Smashing Security Episode 71. |
| 0:55.8 | My name is Graham Cluley. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm Carol Terrio. |
| 0:58.4 | And we're joined by a returning jest, a returning guest. |
| 1:02.4 | A returning, a returning guest. |
| 1:06.7 | It's Mikko Hippinen. |
| 1:08.8 | Hello, Miko. |
| 1:10.1 | Hello there. Yes, they're returning jest. I'm happy to be here. |
| 1:13.8 | We've been practicing the pronunciation of your name so much that we've got to have to say the word guest. |
| 1:19.0 | Your chief research officer, is that right? At Sikeroa? That's right. That's right. |
| 1:23.5 | But I found another string chibbo. I was following you on Twitter, and I heard you talk about a graphical adventure game that you wrote in the late 1980s. |
| 1:33.0 | True story. |
| 1:34.2 | On show in a museum. |
| 1:37.1 | Correct. |
| 1:38.0 | How cool is that? |
| 1:39.8 | It is the coolest thing. I'm actually really, really proud about this fact. I am in a museum. |
| 1:44.9 | I've been volunteering at the Internet Archive for two years, now collecting the Malmary Museum |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Graham Cluley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Graham Cluley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

