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So there's been a story that's been out there for about the past week and a half

to two weeks at this point, and it's a security story.

And if it's not a simple security story, I don't necessarily feel like I'm the person to whom you should be speaking or who should be speaking to you.

At the same time, it felt initially like just a social engineering hack, and I'm not saying that those aren't real things but it wasn't like it's something that was going to get you necessarily.

What's interesting though is the story is sort of grown and morphed a tiny bit into something

that it felt like we should actually speak to somebody who knows a thing or two about it.

So you know George Tarther from MacOS can live back in the day. You know him from a typical Mac user back in the day.

He is actually an information security professional when he's not, you know, hanging

out with podcasters. And he's kind enough to join us today and

and sort of flesh out this story that I honestly George the story got

bigger while I wasn't paying attention and now I'm like well actually I need somebody who who knows about this stuff so first of all thanks a lot for coming on

Tell everybody what happened there's it lay out the story as it unfolded if you would. Right, so you know it

Matt Hone in himself has a really excellent write-up of the whole sequence of events

over on wired.com

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