• Bypassing all passkey protections.
• The ransomware attacks just keep on coming.
• Cloudflare capitulates to the MPA and starts blocking.
• The need for online age verification is exploding.
• Microsoft really wants Exchange Servers to subscribe.
• Russia (further) clamps down on Internet usage.
• The global trend toward more Internet restrictions.
• China can inspect locked Android phones. Use a burner.
• Web shells are the new buffer overflow.
• An age verification protocol sketch.
• What Cloudflare did to create an outage of 1.1.1.1

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1035-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• A glorious takedown of quantum factorization.
• Notepad++ signs its own code signing certificate.
• Dennis Taylor has Bobiverse Book 6 on his lap.
• Crypto/ATM machines flat out outlawed.
• Signal vs WhatsApp: Encryption in flight and at rest.
• A close look at browser fingerprinting metrics.
• Rewriting interpreters in memory-safe languages.
• An introduction to zero-knowledge proofs

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1034-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Another Israeli spyware vendor surfaces.
• Win11 to delete restore points more quickly.
• The EU accelerates its plans to abandon Microsoft Azure.
• The EU sets timelines for Post-Quantum crypto adoption.
• Russia to create a massive IMEI database.
• Canada and the UK create the "Common Good Cyber Fund".
• U.S. states crack down on Bitcoin ATMs amid growing scams.
• Congressional staffers cannot use WhatsApp on gov devices.
• LibXML2 and the problems with commercial use of OSS.
• A(nother) remote code execution vulnerability in WinRAR.
• Have-I-Been-Pwned gets a cool data visualization site.
• How is ransomware getting in?
• Windows to offer "safe" non-kernel endpoint security?
• Proactive age verification coming to porn sites. How?
• Canada (also) says "bye bye" to Hikvision.
• Germany will be banning DeekSeek. The whole EU may follow.
• Cloudflare throttled in Russia?
• What must the U.S. do to compete in global exploit acquisition?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1033-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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