Fri. 04/19 - With Facebook, It's Eternally Groundhog Day

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🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Facebook finds a new way to handle the privacy scandal of the day, free, ad supported music from Amazon and Google, Dieter ended up reviewing the Samsung Galaxy Fold as best he could, and of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: Mealime Joybird.com/RIDE Links: Facebook says it stored millions of Instagram passwords unencrypted on its servers (Recode) Emtek announces they will be closing BBM consumer services on May 31 (CrackBerry) Amazon Music Launches Free Streaming Tier, Through Alexa Only (for Now) (Variety) SAMSUNG GALAXY FOLD REVIEW: BROKEN DREAM (TheVerge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Google Maps Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps: A Skift Deep Dive (Skift) These Women Are Only On Facebook For The Groups (BuzzFeed News) Beyond Prime: Inside the Race to Deliver Shipments to the Moon (OneZero) Robo-Rigs: The Scientist, The Unicorn And The $700 Billion Race To Create Self-Driving Semi-Trucks (Forbes) The Coming Obsolescence of Animal Meat (The Atlantic) Russian Gamer Brothers Are the Newest Hidden Billionaires (Bloomberg) 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee shot dead in Northern Ireland violence (CNN) Lyra McKee GoFundMe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, April 19th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.8	Today. Facebook finds a new way to handle the privacy scandal du jour, free ad supported music
0:15.2	from Amazon and Google, Deiter ended up reviewing the Samsung Galaxy Fold as best he could,
0:21.2	and of course the weekend long read suggestions here's what you
0:24.6	miss today in the world of tech. Yesterday in the textbook definition of a news
0:31.8	dump in the midst of a news cycle that was
0:34.5	guaranteed to be dominated by the Mueller report. Hey remember last month when
0:39.6	Facebook admitted it had stored hundreds of millions of user passwords unencrypted on its servers at the time in a blog post
0:46.6	announcing the news Facebook said that tens of thousands of Instagram passwords were also
0:51.8	stored in this same insecure manner.
0:55.0	Well, quietly, yesterday again in the textbook definition of a bad news dump,
1:01.0	Facebook updated that same blog post to read, quote,
1:05.0	Since this post was published, we discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords
1:09.7	being stored in a readable format. We now estimate that this issue impacted millions of
1:15.6	Instagram users. We will be notifying those users as we did the others. Our
1:19.6	investigation has determined that these stored passwords were not internally
1:23.6	abused or improperly accessed." Again I think you all probably have gotten the
1:30.2	sense by now of my Groundhog's Day-like frustration about having to
1:34.4	cover essentially the same story over and over and over. But let me point out
1:40.3	what Owen Williams said about all this. In a way it is the
1:43.8	Groundhog Day nature of this that pretty much assures that Facebook might never
1:48.7	ever pay a price for things like this. Quote, the problem we face in media and in society as a whole is the exact thing you're feeling
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