In this final Chit Chat Across the Pond of the year, Bart Busschots joins us to talk about what verification really means, how you know a website is what it says it is, and how verification is accomplished, and then explains how Twitter and Mastodon do their respective verification. mp3 download Read an unedited, auto-generated […]
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Security Bits — 8 March 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. FireFox are continuing their roll-out of DoH, enabling it by default for new installs in the US — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Google stops indexing WhatsApp chats; other search engines still at it — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… HomeKit Router […]
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Security Bits – 30 November 2018
Followups After it emerges that implementing one of Intel’s Spectre mitigations in the Linux kernel will incur as much as a 50% performance hit, Linus Torvalds has proposed disabling the mitigation by default, but allowing those who want it to enable it — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
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