Steve Gibson, the man who coined the term spyware and created the first anti-spyware program, creator of SpinRite and ShieldsUP, discusses the hot topics in security today with Leo Laporte. Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 21:30 UTC.
SN 1029: The Illusion of Thinking - Meta Apps and JavaScript Collusion
- In memoriam: Bill Atkinson
- Meta native apps & JavaScript collude for a localhost local mess.
- The EU rolls out its own DNS4EU filtered DNS service.
- Ukraine DDoS's Russia's Railway DNS ... and... so what?
- The Linux Foundation creates an alternative Wordpress package manager.
- Court tells OpenAI it must NOT delete ANYONE's chats. Period! :(
- A CVSS 10.0 in Erlang/OTP's SSH library.
- Can Russia intercept Telegram? Perhaps.
- Spain's ISPs mistakenly block Google sites.
- Reddit sues Anthropic.
- Twitter's new encrypted DM's are as lame as the old ones.
- The Login.gov site may not have any backups.
- Apple explores the question of recent Large Reasoning Models "thinking"
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1029-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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