• Why was DeepSeek banned by Italian authorities?
• What internal proprietary DeepSeek data was found online?
• What is "DeepSeek" anyway? Why do we care, and what does it mean?
• Did Microsoft just make OpenAI's strong model available for free?
• Google explains how generative AI can be and is being misused.
• An actively exploited and unpatched Zyxel router vulnerability.
• The new US "ROUTERS" Act.
• Is pirate-site blocking legislation justified or is it censorship?
• Russia's blocked website count tops 400,000.
• Microsoft adds "scareware" warnings to Edge.
• Bitwarden improves account security.
• What's still my favorite disk imaging tool?
• And let's take a close look into the extraction of proscribed knowledge from today's AI

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1011-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• eM Client CAN be purchased outright.
• An astonishing 5-year-old typo in MasterCard's DNS.
• An unwelcome surprise received by 18,459 low-level hackers.
• DDoS attacks continue growing, seemingly without any end in sight.
• Let's Encrypt clarifies their plans for 6-day "we barely knew you" certificates.
• SpinRite uncovers a bad brand new 8TB drive.
• Listener feedback about TOTP, Syncthing and UDP hole punching, email spam, ValiDrive speed, AI neural nets, DJI geofencing, and advertising in the "New" Outlook.
• A look into the tradeoffs required to obtain privacy for our DNS lookups

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1010-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• What do we learn from January's record breaking 0-day critical Patch Tuesday?
• Microsoft to "force-install" a new Outlook into all Windows 10 and 11 desktops?
• GoDaddy required to get much more serious about its hosting security.
• More age verification enforcement is coming, including globally.
• What another instance of a widely exposed management interface teaches us.
• DJI drone's official firmware update lifts geofencing for unrestricted flight.
• CISA's efforts pay off with MUCH improved critical infrastructure security.
• Listener feedback about TOTP, HOTP and age-verification.
• And we take a deep dive into cracking authenticator keys

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1009-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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