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Infosec Decoded Season 4 #86: Fascism

With Doug Spindler and @sambowne@infosec.exchange

Recorded Tue, Oct 29, 2024

Sam Bowne

The Washington Post Bends the Knee to Trump
Over 200,000 subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement

New tool bypasses Google Chrome’s new cookie encryption system
Google introduced Application-Bound (App-Bound) encryption in July (Chrome 127) as a new protection mechanism that encrypts cookies. However, by September, multiple information stealers had found ways to bypass the new security feature, and now a researcher has released a tool that bypasses defenses and extract saved credentials from the Chrome web browser.

Google accused of shadow campaigns redirecting antitrust scrutiny to Microsoft
Microsoft accused Google of "dishonestly" funding groups conducting biased studies to discredit Microsoft and mislead antitrust enforcers and the public. Microsoft says Google is doing this to muddy the antitrust waters, and distract from the intense regulatory scrutiny Google is facing.

Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says
Highly confidential movements of Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and other world leaders can be easily tracked online through a fitness app that their bodyguards use.

iFixit to the rescue: McDonald's workers can rescue their own ice cream machines

Tardigrade genes may hold secret to radiation treatments for humans

Remembering Dr. Richard Cash: How a 'simple' intervention helped save millions of lives

Claude AI Gets Bored During Coding Demonstration, Starts Perusing Photos of National Parks Instead
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is Anthropic's "AI agent," a broad term that describes productivity-focused AI models that are designed to perform tasks autonomously. It can now use "computers the way people do," such as moving a cursor and inputting keystrokes and mouse clicks. That means Claude can potentially control your entire desktop, interacting with any software and applications you have installed. But Claude's computer use remains slow and often error-prone.