• 403: Forbidden
    Aug 29 2025

    Eric plays with epoxy resin, Jon has a new calf. Cybersabotage on your ex-employer will get you 4 years. There are 1200 fewer robocallers thanks to the FCC. Password manager plugins for web browsers can be fooled. The Commodore 64 is back and really old honey is discovered in Italy.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 8:53 - Four Years
    • 10:22 - Robocall Roundup
    • 12:57 - Password Manager Hijack
    • 18:39 - Commodore 64
    • 22:47 - Really Old Honey
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    27 mins
  • 402: Payment Required
    Aug 23 2025

    Eric prints and Jon fixes washer. The Noodlophile stealer propagates via legal infringement claims, and portal auth issues allow control of connected cars. For fun we have book four of the Lady Astronaut series, and using generative AI to create targeted antibiotics for drug resistant diseases.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 12:32 - Noodlophile
    • 16:51 - Automotive Authentication Antics
    • 23:39 - The Martian Contingency
    • 27:33 - AI Antibiotics
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    33 mins
  • 401: Unauthorized
    Aug 16 2025

    Eric makes it home from vacation, Jon goes fishing. Tough time to be graduating in Computer Science. DrawAFish.com security incident. AOL discontinues down dial up service. Mendenhall Glacier makes the local news.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 8:24 - Tough Times in Tech
    • 14:34 - Draw A Fish
    • 21:48 - AOL Dial Up
    • 25:06 - Mendenhall Glacier
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    30 mins
  • 400: Dredge Operator
    Aug 9 2025

    Eric's on vacation and Jon wrangles cows. Cloudflare accuses perplexity of stealth scraping tactics, Google tweaks their disclosure policy, Microsoft studies AI impact on jobs, and OpenAI shared chats disclose a little (lot) too much. For fun, how about a hike in the Tetons, and Potatoes from Tomatoes.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 11:55 - Stealth Bots
    • 16:24 - Disclosure Policy
    • 20:29 - Occupational Implications
    • 29:49 - ChatGPT Confessions
    • 39:42 - Jenny Lake
    • 41:56 - Potato, Tomato
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    48 mins
  • 399: Cut the Black Wire
    Aug 1 2025

    Eric has a problem with "smart" smoke alarms. Jon feeds happy cows round bales of hay (but not the fermented kind). Debian making 64 bit time work with 32 bits. A woman is unaware she is working for North Korea. Eric plays tower defense with CSS. Jon finds scarecrow spiders.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 11:31 - 64bit time in 32bit parts
    • 17:30 - It's totally legit!
    • 23:21 - flexboxdefense.com
    • 25:14 - Scarecrow Spiders
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    30 mins
  • 398: Beautiful Bird Songs
    Jul 26 2025

    Eric publishes a book, and Jon is trepidacious. The National Nuclear Security Administration is affected by the Sharepoint attack, and DNS is used as a file transfer system. Amazon buys Bee (Echo, coming soon to a wrist near you), and we're one step closer to a universal cancer vaccine.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 14:29 - Nuclear Sharepoint
    • 18:54 - It's Always DNS
    • 26:26 - Bee Hearing You
    • 30:07 - Cancer Vaccine Candidate
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    35 mins
  • 397: Schrödinger’s Myrmecophagy
    Jul 19 2025

    Eric gets new doors (almost) and Jon gets A/C. Amazon launches more Kuiper satellites with the help of SpaceX. You can use Passkeys to encrypt files and Android get's Gemini whether the user wants it or not. GPS is not the only location game in town and lots of mammals evolved into ant eaters?

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 12:22 - Kuiper Satellites
    • 14:56 - Passkey Encryption
    • 18:13 - Gemini All The Things
    • 23:11 - MagNav vs GPS
    • 29:10 - Aardwolfs and Numbats
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    35 mins
  • 396: Gnawing on Wax
    Jul 12 2025

    A 4th of July was had by both. An extension hijacking campaign that infected as many as 2.3 million users and software to protect the small web from AI scrapers with computational overhead. For fun we have car tipping (off a cliff!?), and evidence for even more water on Mars.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 13:06 - Hijacking Campaign
    • 16:33 - Weighing the Soul of the Web
    • 22:41 - Good ol' Alaskan Fun
    • 25:41 - Fluvial Sinuous Ridges
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    30 mins