Not So Critical Update

Peter, Jon, and Mike get angry about tech stories from the week. Three industry professionals with very different viewpoints, and very different backgrounds, discuss what's been happening and fight about who's won the latest bet.

Digital ID Verification to Access Porn

Today we talk about: https://apnews.com/article/porn-websites-age-verification-digital-services-act-64584aae905cb344dd3e1bfb385c7c27 Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-23
09:50

GPT-4 is teh new l337 hax0r

Today we talk about: https://hackersbait.com/blog/openai-gpt-can-hack-your-website/ Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-22
14:29

Apple's Malicious Compliance with EU Law

Today we talk about: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/apple-confirms-its-breaking-iphone-web-apps-in-the-eu-on-purpose/ Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-21
05:03

DoD Notifies 20K of Email Breach

Today we talk about: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/department-defense-data-breach-microsoft-cloud-email/ Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-20
07:21

Universal Music Catalog Pulled from TIkTok

Today we talk about: https://apnews.com/article/porn-websites-age-verification-digital-services-act-64584aae905cb344dd3e1bfb385c7c27 Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-19
09:09

Is it Possible to Take VC Funding and Not Sell Out Your Principles?

Today we talk about an article going into the death of Ello, the social network that wanted to be different: https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/ Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-16
09:41

These Five Giant Companies RULE the Tech Industry

Today we talk about a paper on the five giants that rule the tech industry: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4713845 Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-15
08:40

The Taylor Swift and Elon Musk Private Jet Tracking Guy Is WILD! (Also: PALWORD sucks!)

Today we talk about Jack Sweeney, the guy who tracks Taylor Swift and Elon Musk's Private Jets: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68248168 Please don't cancel us Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-14
11:09

Does Zoom Really Rot Your Brain?

Today we talk about a paper submitted by iam-py-test on Discord about Zoom and its effects on the brain: https://neurosciencenews.com/zoom-conversations-social-neuroscience-24996/ Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-13
12:28

Deepfake Video Scammers Get $25M Out of Finance Exec... Or Not

Today we talk about a poor executive who got scammed... or did he? https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-12
10:12

Made Up Cyber Crime Stats You Must Know in 2024

Today we talk about: https://techreport.com/statistics/cybercrime-statistics/ Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-09
16:04

The Enhanced Games - Olympics with Banned Drugs? Also, Green Energy in China is WILD

Today we talk about: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-25/china-s-green-economy-drove-40-of-gdp-growth-in-2023-crea-says https://futurism.com/the-byte/peter-thiel-enhanced-games Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-08
10:13

Traitor Joe's Union Busting

Today we talk about: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/trader-joe-s-follows-spacex-in-arguing-nlrb-is-unconstitutional Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-07
09:27

The Lone Guardian of the Galaxy

Today we talk about: https://futurism.com/the-byte/space-force-finally-launching-employee-space Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-06
09:08

Cisco head of security predicts AI phishing nightmare

Today we talk about: https://www.aol.com/cisco-head-security-thinks-headed-132851583.html Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-05
14:05

The Mother of all Breaches Is HORRIFYING But Also... The New Normal?

Today we talk about a huge dataset that was made available with 26 billion (BILLION!) records from various other data breaches. It's absolutely terrible, but can anyone really summon up the energy to be surprised anymore? Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-02
09:30

The NSA is BUYING DATA on American Citizens! ... And It Gets Worse

Today we talk about, well I mean we kind of talk about, governments and data purchasing and loopholes and all sorts of awful things. Mike's away, we get a bit distracted. Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

02-01
11:17

The Xbox Layoffs at Microsoft Suck

Today we talk about the recent layoffs at Microsoft after the merger with Activision-Blizzard King. Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

01-31
06:43

Palworld? MORE LIKE SCAMWORLD

Leaving the preliminary title in there that Jon wrote, because - it's just too good. Today we talk about Palworld. Like everyone else on the planet. Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

01-30
12:40

What the Future of Ad Blocking Will Be

Today we talk about what we think might happen in the future for ad blocking. Will the cat and mouse game ever be over? No - no it won't. Subscribe for daily episodes. Join Discord to chat! https://discord.gg/7QsrTbKchc SOCIAL: • Peter: https://twitter.com/pgl • Jon: https://twitter.com/jonnisec • Mike: Find me on Discord (link above) • Privacy and security news: https://twitter.com/privsecnews

01-29
12:27

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