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Leo and I discuss the week's most interesting recent security events and a bit of miscellany. Then we examine the revelations about the current state of Internet user tracking arising from Mozilla's Firefox tracking protection instrumentation.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world application notes for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world application notes for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

After covering the week's most significant security news, Leo and I closely examine the week's most significant news, a major new vulnerability in the Internet's TLS protocol known as "Logjam."

After catching up with a busy week of security news, Leo and I take a close look at the surprisingly weak and insecure technology used for today's modern automotive keyless entry and engine start systems. We show how easily it may be bypassed... perhaps for as little as $17 on eBay.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world application notes for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

Leo and I catch up with the past week's most interesting security events and cover some miscellaneous tidbits. We then examine the carefully written testimony of two leading computer scientists who argue against the feasibility of incorporating encryption backdoors into commercial mobile and other device technologies.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world application notes for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

Leo and I catch up with the most interesting and significant security and privacy news of the week. Then we take a close look at what's known of the mechanisms China has developed - both filtering and offensive weaponry - to provide for their censorship needs and to potentially attack external Internet targets.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world application notes for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

Leo and I catch up on a busy and interesting week of security events. Then we take a close look at the results of the just-completed second phase of the TrueCrypt audit, which focused upon the implementation of TrueCrypt's security and privacy guarantees.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world application notes for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

Leo and I discuss the recent Pwn2Own hacking competition. We examine another serious breach of the Internet's certificate trust system and marvel at a very clever hack to crack the iPhone four-digit PIN lock. Then we take a close look at the evolution of booting from BIOS to UEFI and how Microsoft has leveraged this into their "Windows Secure Boot" system. We also examine what it might mean for th...

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world application notes for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

Leo and I catch up with several VERY interesting security events and stories of the week. Then we take a deep dive into two of the week's big security stories: FREAK and RowHammer.

Leo and I discuss the week's tamer-than-usual news; then we host a terrific interview of the team (recently featured on Sunday's "60 Minutes") who have been working with DARPA to address the challenge of hardening high-tech networked vehicles - autos and UAVs - against malicious hacking attacks.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events, including the revelation of the Lenovo Crapware and the joint GCHQ/NSA Gemalto attack which rendered cellular phones insecure. Then we discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes to tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installment...

Leo and I catch up with several VERY interesting security events and stories of the week. Then we take a close look and a deep dive into the operation of the industry's first change in the official HTTP protocol in 15 years - the finalization and emergence of the HTTP/2 IETF specification which significantly streamlines web browser and web server interaction.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world ‘application notes’ for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

After catching up with a few important security events of the week, Leo and I revisit and dissect the anonymity promises of TOR in light of scores of academic papers which have questioned its anonymity guarantees.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world ‘application notes’ for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

Following this slow week of security news, Leo and I first discuss the news surrounding how and why the U.S. was so sure that North Korea was behind the attack on Sony. Then we examine the cryptographic consequences of the British and U.S. governments' recent pronouncements that terrorist communications should not be allowed to remain secret.

Leo and I first discuss a surprisingly busy week of security news; then, we take a careful walk through the history (it's not what you may think) and the detailed operation of "The Enigma Machine" which Germany used to encrypt their sensitive radio traffic during the Second World War.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world ‘application notes’ for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

For our last show of 2014, we first catch up on two very busy holiday weeks of security craziness; then we step back to review the major events of this past very busy and security event-filled year.