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After catching up with an event-filled week of security events and news, we announce and launch the beginning of a multi-part podcast series which will examine and analyze the many current alternatives for securely (TNO) storing our files "in the cloud."

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 comparatively sleepy week of security news, Steve and Leo discuss the need for, and the Internet industry's search for, new standards for "Authenticated Encryption" which simultaneously encrypts messages for privacy while also authenticating them against any active in-flight tampering.

During this week's Q&A we host a special guest, industry veteran and ISP Brett Glass, who shares his views on the confusing Network Neutrality debate. We also catch up with the past week's security news and answer 10 questions and comments from our listeners.

After covering the week's most interesting security news, Steve and Leo look back upon and analyze the past seven days of insanity which followed the startling surprise "self-takedown" of the longstanding TrueCrypt.org website, and of TrueCrypt itself.

During this week's Q&A we host a special guest, industry veteran and ISP Brett Glass, who shares his views on the confusing Network Neutrality debate. We also catch up with the past week's security news and answer 10 questions and comments from our listeners.

After catching up with an interesting, though not dramatic, week of security news, Steve and Leo examine the practical size of randomness and the challenge of collecting entropy in a client that may not have any built-in support for providing it, and may also be surrounded by active attackers.

Before plowing into 10 questions from our listeners, Leo and I discuss Microsoft's Second Tuesday patches, the CA Security Council's reaction to Chrome's CRLSet revocation revelations, an horrific appeal decision in Oracle v. Google, the forthcoming "Halt and Catch Fire" series, and more.

After catching up with the week's security events, Leo and I continue and complete our examination of the history and present operation of security certificate revocation. With last week's theory behind us, this week we examine the current practice and implementation of certificate revocation.

After catching up with the week's security events, Leo and I examine the history and operation of security certificate revocation and attempt to answer the question: What do we do when good certificates go bad?

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.

Not surprisingly, the previous week consisted of nearly a single story: Heartbleed. It was only "nearly," though, because we also received the results from the first phase of the TrueCrypt audit. So this week Leo and I discuss these two topics in detail.

Leo and I discuss this long-anticipated, final "Second Tuesday of the Month" patch update for Windows XP - which has finally arrived. We share a bunch of interesting miscellany, then take a very deep dive to examine and understand the technology, events and implications of yesterday's (April 7, 2014) discovery of a two-year-old critical buffer overrun bug in the open source industry's OpenSSL prot...

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.

On the heels of Apple's major update to their iOS Security whitepaper, Steve and Leo catch up with the week's top security news - one IMPORTANT Microsoft Zero-Day Fixit, but otherwise largely debunking a bunch of hysterical headlines and "news" stories. Then they FINALLY conclude what has become the three-part series describing the security of iOS v7. Unfortunately, this week the news is less good...

On the heels of Apple's major update to their iOS Security whitepaper, Leo and I catch up with the week's top security news, including coverage of the interesting discoveries from the past week's 14th annual CanSecWest and Pwn2Own hacking competitions. Then, having come up for breath after last week's Part 1 episode, we take a second deep dive into everything we have learned about the inner workin...

On the heels of Apple's major update to their iOS Security whitepaper, Leo and I catch up with the week's top security news, including coverage of Edward Snowden's live appearance during the recent SXSW conference. Then we take a deep dive into everything we have learned about the inner workings of iOS. Most is good news, but there's one bit that's VERY troubling!

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.

The week delivered so much amazing news, much of it requiring some detailed and careful discussion, that we have a pure news podcast. It's titled from the errant line of code that was responsible for this week's highest-profile fumble of the week: Apple's complete lack of SSL/TLS certificate checking in both iOS and MAC OS X. (Both since fixed.)

My original plan to explain Google's terrific innovations in web performance, known as "QUIC" were derailed by the week's overwhelmingly worrisome security news, with significant new problems from Linksys, Belkin, Asus and others. So this week's podcast is pure, and rather sobering, news of the week. We'll cover Google's "QUIC" as soon as time permits!

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 bunch of interesting news, Leo and I examine a terrific piece of research performed by Dashlane, makers of a password manager. They have researched and presented the current state of the top 100 web retailers' password policies. Fascinating!

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.

As promised last week, after catching up with another crazily-busy week of interesting and fun security news, we take a deep dive into the amazing NSA ANT documentation to learn what we can of the NSA's field capabilities. What we learn is chilling and interesting, though not entirely surprising.