• Apple proposes 45-day maximum certificate life.
• SEC fines four companies for downplaying their SolarWinds attack severity.
• Google adds 5 new features to Messenger including inappropriate content.
• Does AI-driven local device-side filtering resolve the encryption dilemma forever?
• The very nice looking "Session" messenger leaves Australia for Switzerland.
• Another quick look at the question of the EU's software liability moves.
• Fake North Korean employees WERE found to install backdoor malware.
• How to speed up an SSD without using SpinRite.
• Using ChatGPT to review and suggest improvements in code.
• And Internet governance has been trying to move the Internet to IPv6 for the past 25 years, but the Internet just doesn't want to go. Why not? And will it ever?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-998-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Did Chinese researchers really break RSA encryption? What did they do?
• What next-level terror extortion is being powered by the NPD breach data?
• The EU to hold software companies liable for software security?
• Microsoft lost weeks of security logs. How hard did the try to fix the problem?
• The Chinese drone company DJI has sued the DoJ over its ban on DJI's drones.
• The DoJ wishes to acquire "DeepFake" technology to create fake people.
• Microsoft has bots pretending to fall for phishing campaigns, then leading the bad guys to their honeypots. It's diabolical and brilliant.
• A bit of BIMI logo follow-up, then...
• A look at the operation of the FIDO Alliance's forthcoming Credential Exchange Protocol which promises to create passkey collection portability

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-997-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• uBlock Origin to the rescue
• National Public Data files for bankruptcy
• Will the .IO top level domain be disappearing?
• Patch Tuesday
• Firefox under attack
• Miscellany
• Sci-Fi
• The Sequence
• uBlock Origin
• Eero Routers
• Pep Link Router
• BIMI (up Scotty)

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-996-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Facebook's parent Meta not hashing passwords
• A New, forthcoming PayPal default opts their users into merchant data sharing
• DDoS breaks another record
• Speaking of these ASUS routers
• Do you know who you're hiring?
• Vitamin D
• The CUPS vulnerablility
• Routers for normal people
• uBlock Origin & Manifest V3

Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-995-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• The Linux remote code execution flaw
• The CRUCIAL importance of Domain Control Security
• Roskomnadzor strikes a discordant note
• VLC gets a security update
• Tor and Tails Merge
• Telegram changes its long-standing "zero cooperation" policy
• Enshittification
• Bobiverse book 5
• Windows 10 notifications
• Experian woes
• Nuevomailer
• SpinRite
• Peter F. Hamilton
• Recall's Re-Rollout

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-994-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• The case of the exploding pagers and walkie-talkies
• "Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads"
• Another large chunk of personal data exposed
• Passkeys takes a big step forward: Now supported by Chrome
• A nascent 9.9 Linux Unauthenticated RCE?
• Freezing Credit
• Credit Bureaus
• Drobo 5N
• SN email labeled as spam
• Public Wi-fi saftey
• SN for Certs
• Windows Defender
• Kaspersky exits the U.S.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-993-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit
• Aging storage media does NOT last forever
• How Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship Wi-Fi
• adam:ONE named the #1 best Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution
• AI Talk
• Password Manager Injection Attacks

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-992-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent

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• Offer to uninstall Recall was a bug, not a feature
• YubiKeys can be cloned
• Miscellany
• Is WhatsApp secure?
• Telegram vs Signal
• French elevators
• Freezing your credit
• The Quiet Canine
• Unix time
• Bobiverse book 5
• Exodus: The Achemedes Engine
• Watching SpinRite
• RAMBO

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-991-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent

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