SN 1037: Chinese Participation in MAPP - Why Signal is Leaving Australia

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Leo Laporte

Cyber Crime, Malware, Technology, Encryption, Steve Gibson, Security, Hacking, Twit, Spyware, Leo Laporte

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 167 minutes

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Summary

A follow-up to the SharePoint server patch mess.
How Russia arranges to spy on other country's local embassies.
"Dropbox Passwords" manager app is ending in October.
Signal will leave Australia rather than help spy.
YouTube deploys viewing history age-estimation heuristics.
Chrome adds clever lightweight extension signing to prevent abuse.
A domain registrar is coming close to losing its rights.
A TP-Link router that doesn't encrypt its configuration.
What is "TruAge" and might it be useful for age verification.
An update on "Artemis".
With U.S.-China tensions on the rise, should Chinese security companies receive weeks of advance notice of forthcoming Microsoft flaw patches?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1037-Notes.pdf

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0:00.0	It's time for security now. Steve Gibson, he's mad as heck and he's not going to take it anymore.
0:06.0	He's pretty upset about how Microsoft did its patches for the SharePoint server fiasco.
0:14.0	You might be upset too when you hear about it.
0:17.0	A warning about a signal leaving Australia rather than help the Australian government spy on people.
0:24.8	Plus, a solution to verify your age that might not be too bad, or is it?
0:31.3	All that and a whole lot more coming up next on Security Now.
0:37.2	Podcasts you love.
0:38.7	From people you trust.
0:41.6	This is Twit.
0:46.8	This is Security Now with Steve Gibson.
0:49.8	Episode 137 recorded Tuesday, August 5th, 2025.
0:56.1	Chinese participation in MAP.
0:59.1	It's time for security now in the show we cover the latest in security, privacy, and
1:04.5	home computing and like that.
1:07.8	I don't know.
1:08.3	All sorts of stuff.
1:09.3	It's really up to this guy over here. This cat.
1:11.6	Steve Gibson is the king of security now. Hi, Steve.
1:16.3	Yo, Leo. Here we are. We have entered August, which is our birth month.
1:24.4	The show's birth months. Yeah, we're approaching our 20th anniversary in just a few days.
1:29.9	That's right. Yeah, I got that wrong one year. And Elaine corrected me because, of course, she's been transcribing for almost 20 years now.
1:37.8	Has she been doing all the shows, really? Yeah, we got her like a ways in. And then I back and i said let's get let's catch up let's
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