SN 1056: Australia - AI Coding Blunders Exposed

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Leo Laporte

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

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 177 minutes

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Summary

Australia's nationwide social media ban has put tech's age verification tools under the spotlight, exposing the flaws and privacy risks in today's facial detection systems and sparking worldwide debate about what's coming for the rest of us.

Home Depot's puzzling reluctance to close a bad hole.
GNOME's shell extension manager is unhappy with AI.
How attacks on open source repositories compares in 2025.
China's researchers have taken aim at the US power grid.
How bad has the React2Shell vulnerability turned out to be.
More new React vulnerabilities.
Apple moves to iOS 26.2.
Let's Encrypt's crosses into one billion servers managed.
A DNS Benchmark update.
Some interesting listener feedback, then...
How things going with Australia's social media ban and what we are learning

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0:00.0	It's time for security now. Steve Gibson is here. We're talking about, as usual, all the security
0:06.5	problems like the flaws, the holes in the U.S. power grid. Apparently China has been using it
0:13.7	for war games. Apple's moved to 262 is about security. We'll talk about the end of the line for long-term certificates
0:23.9	and what's going on with Australia and their social media ban.
0:29.3	Steve's got an update.
0:30.4	All of that coming up on security now.
0:35.6	Podcasts you love.
0:37.1	From people you trust.
0:39.9	This is Twit.
0:45.1	This is Security Now with Steve Gibson.
0:47.9	Episode 156 recorded Tuesday, December 16th, 2025.
0:53.7	Australia. It's time for security now. Fasten your seatbelts, put on your propeller hats, and get ready for Mr. Steve Gibson, our man of the hour and our security guru. Hello, Steve. I just love it. You look at me, like, oh, there he is. Hey, Steve. You know get, we're going to get a double dose of Steve this week because you're going to be on Twitter on Sunday for our holiday show.
1:14.9	It's going to be very fun. Yeah. You've always, we've had you on the holiday show many times. You've always wonderful to have one. I got to dust off my Santa cap. I got around here. Yeah.
1:24.4	I have the Grinch.
1:26.8	I guess it was the Grinch.
1:28.6	You were Grinch.
1:29.5	You had the hands.
1:30.0	And I remember that Paul Therot is really. Yeah, yeah, dire. I have, I have the Grinch. I guess it was the Grinch.
1:47.8	You were Grinch. You had the hands. And I remember that Paul Therot just loved that I just kept doing. I kept doing this. It'll be fun. It's Paris Martano. It's you and who else? Who else been he knows on Twitter? Micah. Micah, that's right. So it's going to be, as always with our holiday show, kind of relaxed. We'll probably look back at the big stories of the year, but mostly it's just kind of sitting around enjoying each other.
1:53.2	What the heck happened in 2025?
1:55.1	So speaking of what the heck happened, today's podcast, I don't know if I i'm i'm sure in the past i've used a single
2:03.8	word title today we have one it's just australia says it all it does it does wow i mean the
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