074: Smashing Security isn't bullsh*t
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Crime forums on Facebook, fraudsters pose as anti-fraud hotlines, and how big advertising companies are in bed with the rampant data collection of internet giants.
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 special guest B J Mendelson, author of "Social media is bullsh*t."
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- How to Report Abuse on Facebook
- Martin Sorrell Resigns as Chief of WPP Advertising Agency
- Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk spam pioneer says book
- An Apology for the Internet — From the People Who Built It
- Automated Action Fraud Tech Support scam calls
- Crime in England and Wales from Office for National Statistics
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- Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix
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- Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You say he's a powerful guy, but Brian Krebs doesn't have 702,048 followers on Twitter, Corral, like some people do. |
| 0:11.2 | And I can tell you, though. |
| 0:12.7 | You're just jealous, Graham. |
| 0:14.1 | It's disgusting. |
| 0:15.3 | Totally. |
| 0:17.5 | Smashing Security, Episode 74. |
| 0:24.8 | Smashing Security isn't bull-shend with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Smashing Security, episode 74. |
| 0:34.9 | My name is Graham Cluelly. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm Carol Terrio. |
| 0:40.0 | And we're joined today by a special guest new to the show, B.J. Mendelson. BJ, you're the author of Social Media is Bullshit and a new |
| 0:46.4 | book entitled Privacy and How to Get It Back. Welcome to the show. Well, thanks so much for having me. |
| 0:50.9 | You know, I'm really happy that that second book title does not have a swear word in that. I was just thinking, do we have to censor the name of his book? Yes, we will. It's going to be social media. It's beep. Yeah, bull. I think bull is all right, isn't it? That's how Amazon abbreviated that. Like, if you go to search for it within Amazon, it'll only to bull and then stop oh really yeah now BJ I'm fascinated by your first book |
| 1:16.7 | social media is bulls came out so you're obviously not a big fan of social media right |
| 1:20.4 | that's putting it mildly so explain to me how somebody who thinks social media is bullshit. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm going to be putting in that bleep sound a lot. |
| 1:30.1 | Has 702,048 followers on Twitter. |
| 1:33.8 | Ah. |
| 1:34.2 | That you nurture. |
| 1:35.3 | So I've been on Twitter for about a decade now. |
| 1:37.3 | I did my best for about five years to troll as many of those followers as I could. |
| 1:42.3 | I get rid of them. |
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