Followups The Reply All podcast released an episode about the Momo panic mentioned on the previous Security Bits — overcast.fm/… Security Medium — Facebook Accidentally Store Passwords in Plain Text Since 2012 Brian Krebs broke this story, and sourced it from “a senior Facebook employee who is familiar with the investigation and who spoke on […]
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CES 2019: Ohmnilabs Affordable Robotics
Allison interviews Dr. Tra Vu, COO, and Jared Go, CTO of Ohmnilabs about their innovative 3D printed robotic arms. OhmniLabs makes useful and affordable robots that bring people together. Ohmnilabs’ robots are made in the USA using lean and scalable manufacturing via 3D printing to enable rapid and low-cost products. Their goal is to make […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #701 Two Troys and Backblaze, Cord Cutting Solutions, Fat Lady Sings for Google Plus
In this week’s show we’ll start off with a little more fun about the 700th show last week. Then I’ll tell you a tale of two Troys, and how a problem with Backblaze uncovered a lost recording for the NosillaCast. Then I’ll actually let you hear the lost recording. After that we’ll talk about the […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits – Zero-Day on macOS, Facebook Rates User Trustworthiness, Facebook’s VPN Was Tracking Users, Excessive Google Tracking, Teenager Hacks Apple
Followups More speculation-based flaws in Intel Chips (Editorial by Bart: as with other recent Spectre/Meltdown variants, there’s no need for home users to panic, just keep your OSes patched. It’s cloud providers that really need to worry about these flaws.) L1 Terminal Fault AKA L1TF – Intel have released mitigations, and they don’t have significant […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #677 SMR Takes Over the Show
This week while Steve and I are snorkeling with turtles, Chris Ashley and Robb Dunewood of the SMR Podcast stand in to host the NosillaCast. mp3 download
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This content was originally posted as part of the Chit Chat Across the Pond podcast on 14 April 2018 but since the subject is evergreen it is repeated here as a permanent Page. The tutorial was written completely by Bart Busschots of bartb.ie. Introduction In this page, Bart teaches us about DNS Resolvers and helps […]
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In this “Lite” version of Chit Chat Across the Pond (within a NosillaCastaway’s definition of Lite), Bart teaches us about DNS Resolvers and helps give us the information to choose the right one for us. To get us there he starts by explaining the background technologies. He explains DNS and how there’s two kinds of […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits – Google’s Ad Filter, iBoot Leak, iOS Teluga Text Bug
Security Medium 1 — Google’s Ad Filter On February 15 Google’s Chrome browser gained a nice new feature for controlling ads. It’s been reported on as an ad blocker, but that coverage misses a very important subtlety. Google itself calls the feature ad filtering, and an ad filter describes this feature very well indeed. Google […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #660 Google Year in Search, 2017 What Apps Am I Still Using Part 2, Vimmy & Oh Sh-t Git, Hunt for Missing Menus
We’ll start with part 2 of my year in review of the apps and hardware I’ve talked about in 2017 and I’ll let you know whether I’m still using them. After that, we’ll be joined by Caleb Fong with a couple of Tiny Tip segments on tools for programming. Then Denise Crown will give us […]
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I’ve always thought it might be interesting to look back on all of the products I’ve reviewed over the years and see what I’m still using. That would be a gargantuan effort, given that I’ve been doing this for over 12 years! But then I thought, maybe I could look at the past year and […]
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