Risky Business #248 -- Being Big Brother on a budget

This week's sponsor interview is awesomely creeeepy...
July 26, 2012 -- 

I've been busy preparing my debate speech for tomorrow's Splendour in the Grass music festival, so this week's show is a shorter one than usual; there's no feature interview.

But we've got a fascinating sponsor interview with SensePost's Glenn Wilkinson coming up. He's a lead security analyst with SensePost in its London office. He and his colleague Daniel Cuthbert are doing a talk and tool release at 44con in September called Terrorism, Tracking, Privacy and Human Interactions.

They set about writing some really creepy Big Brother-style tools for doing massive surveillance by dropping a few wireless access points around London. And you know what? As it turns out it's really easy to be really creepy!

Adam Boileau joins the show to discuss the week's news headlines. Click through to the show notes for links to those stories.

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Patrick Gray's picture

It was a bad href... fixed it, so it should click through fine now...

Glen's picture

Was looking forward to reading more about the 44con talk, but it gives a 404 error...

did the NSA/FBI contact you guys to pull it? :)

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