SN 1039: The Sad Case of ScriptCase - Data Brokers Dodge Deletion

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Leo Laporte

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

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 172 minutes

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Summary

What AI website summaries mean for Internet economics.
Time to urgently update Plex Servers (again).
Allianz Life stolen data gets leaked.
Chrome test Incognito-mode fingerprint script blocking.
Chrome 140 additions coming in 2 weeks.
Data brokers hide opt-out pages from search engines.
Secure messaging changes in Russia.
NIST rolls-out lightweight IoT crypto.
SyncThing moves to v2.0 and beyond.
Alien:Earth -- first take.
What can we learn from another critical vulnerability?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1039-Notes.pdf

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0:00.0	It's time for security now. Steve Gibson is here. Lots to talk about Alian's life stolen data now leaked,
0:08.0	including, yes, social security numbers. Oh boy. Some new features in Chrome, some good, maybe some not so good.
0:14.7	And NIST rolls out encryption for IoT devices. That's a good thing. That and a whole lot more coming up next security now
0:26.2	podcasts you love from people you trust this is twit
0:32.0	this is twit this is security now with Steve Gibson.
0:41.1	Episode 139, recorded Tuesday, August 19th, 2025, The Sad Case of Script Case.
0:49.2	It's time for security now. Yes, indeed, you wait all week. I wait all week for Tuesday because it's a chance
0:55.0	to talk to this brilliant man right here. Mr. Stephen Tiberius Gibson, the head, the chief,
1:02.4	the man in charge of security now. You know, now I'm playing the piano, I think I can do,
1:07.7	I could do live long and prosper. Oh, that's good. Oh, I got to work harder on it.
1:12.4	Now that you're playing the piano, you may live long and prosper.
1:15.6	Well, one of the things you learn with the piano is to be able to kind of independently move the pinky and the ring finger because there are ligaments to dyeing them together.
1:25.1	And I could do it with one hand, but not the other.
1:27.2	Anyway, hello, Steve.
1:29.9	Yo, my friend. So, this is, actually, I was wrong about it being a day near our birthday.
1:39.7	It was August 19, 2005.
1:45.2	Oh, man.
1:46.3	Happy birthday.
1:48.9	That we recorded episode number one.
1:55.4	And our listeners who are paying attention on our very, you know, focused on facts, which is I think why they like this podcast is I made some comment about, oh, we'd be 21.
2:03.7	And he said, no, Steve, on your 20th birthday, you are now 20. But we begin our 21st years. Yes, that is true. So we are now 20.
2:11.3	Happy birthday, Steve. As of today. So yeah. Congratulations. Wow. 20 years. It doesn't feel like that, does it? Or does it? That's the
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