Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. After their first attempt received a lot of negative user feedback, Discord has redesigned their age-verification system: Discord rolls out age checks that don’t require an ID or selfie — cyberinsider.com/… “The company says […]
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CCATP #829 Jason Howell on Smart Glasses
You may know Jason Howell from his work hosting Daily Tech News Show with Tom Merritt, or his work on the All About Android and Android Faithful Podcasts, or hosting Tech News on the TWiT Network. Over the last two decades, he’s been the voice translating complex technology into clear, human stories that connect with […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 31 August 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 The leaked data from the Allianz Life breach discussed last time has been added to Have-I-Been-Pwned, so you can now check if you are affected — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… There have been confusing developments in […]
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NC #1026 AnkerWork Lavaliere Mic with Sierra and Bodie, Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses with Pat, Security Bits with Bart
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Friday, January 3, 2025, and this is show number 1026. mp3 download PBS Tidbit 11: A PowerShell Teaser In this week’s Programming By Stealth, Bart confesses that as soon […]
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Two Years Ago Today I Left Facebook and Instagram
Two years ago on October 5th, I stopped using any services from the company Meta, e.g. Facebook and Instagram. I didn’t quit these services, I just quit going into them and removed them from my devices. I made this change after Frances Haugen, former data scientist at Facebook, testified before Congress. While working at Facebook […]
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Security Bits – 06 March 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. A little sting in the tail of that disgraceful threat by the Missouri Governor to prosecute a journalist for noticing personal data leaked in HTML source code of a government site – it was […]
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CCATP #707 – Tom Merritt on Meta and the Metaverse
In late October, Facebook announced that The Facebook Company was name to Meta. A little bit later, Mark Zuckerberg published a video where he described his vision of the future metaverse. I haven’t been following this too closely but it seems to be turning into something I might want to understand. I asked Tom Merritt, […]
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