This week: more TOR news, TigerDirect sells, the war on encryption, Nvidia's new GPU with HBM 2, and some shenanigans.
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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://teksyndicate.com/videos/tek-0207-torible-news
I love the 'cat meowing' descriptive lol.
@Logan, @wendell, @DeusQain, good episode guys.
I have a suggestion. If you guys talk about the government's efforts to back door encryption again, you should mention the crypto wars of the 90s, and how they led to the FREAK and logjam attacks in our modern age. The government taking action against encryption leading to insecurity for citizens isn't just a theory, it's actually happened.
No one in the media talks about this, so it's up to organizations like the tek to help spread information about this.
Keep up the great work.
I thought we did mention this.
Hmmm... gives me an idea.
sorry, have to
The Tek crew has become the perfect trifecta with Qain joining the show.
I think there might have been a brief mention of one of the attacks in an episode, but I don't think it was directly linked to the efforts the government took against encryption.
People need to understand the direct link between the government banning strong cryptography, and it causing security vulnerabilities.
Definitely agree. Love seeing Qain back on the show.
VPNs are much easier to exploit than Tor. So i don't understand the hate.
LOL
Need audio like WE ARE ON DEFCOM 5!
At 9:18 in the video I got an idea. I wanna embody the persona of people saying crazy shit, God done did it, Apple isn't horrible, NSA spying works or is a good idea, ISIS is a real threat to America, Beats headphones are good purchases, all while sipping on a pumkin spice latte with a beanie, scarf and thick rim glasses and just have logan come in and slap me with a fish.
Was wondering why TD was gone from ca.pcpartpicker.com
The Tek written in bullets on the wall in counter strike. Id buy that
should of had "We are also now an authorised apple retailer!"
On the NYTimes thing, the Editorial board actually came out with a pretty strong statement against fearmongering about encryption and against mass survelliance
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/opinion/mass-surveillance-isnt-the-answer-to-fighting-terrorism.html
I think the article that got pulled was a screw up by reporter, no tin foil hat needed.
Meat - artificial the 326k one, now down to $11.36.
About Snowden suggesting AdBlocks:
He refers to javascript/Flash elements served by ad companies, just using a script-blocking software is even better than just blocking ads because if you get forwarded to a dodgy unknown site referred to by scam eMails the ad-blocking software is probably not gonna block the malicious scripts because that site is not on its filter list, whereas script-blocking extensions just block scripts on every site you visit and let you manually whitelist scripts you think are not harmful. The only downside to this kind of script-blockers is, you have to manually "train" them first.
Personally I'd recommend uMatrix, which also blocks Cookies if you don't whitelist them for a website.
"That's how cats do things." - Logan
