On this week's show we're talking ToR and BitCoin with Alice Hutchings, a Senior Researcher and Analyst with the Australian Institute of Criminology's Global, Economic and Electronic Crime Program.
ToR helps dissidents in foreign countries access information their governments deem unsavoury -- but it also provides a layer of protection to the consumers of child porn. Combine it with technology like BitCoin and bang, you've got Silk Road. Given the illicit uses of such technology, is volunteering to run a ToR server moral?
It's a fun, completely pointless academic conversation and it's coming up after the news!
This week's show is brought to you by Senetas, makers of fine layer 2 encryption technology. Senetas CTO Julian Fay joins us in this week's sponsor interview and we're talking all about Quantum Key Distribution.
It's a technology that is available commercially and after listening to that interview you'll actually know what it does and how it works! I learned a lot doing that interview. It's good stuff.
Show notes
John McAfee Hospitalized in Guatemala | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/threatlevel_1206_mcafeehospital/
Sophisticated botnet steals more than $47M by infecting PCs and phones | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/sophisticated-botnet-steals-more...
Bank Agrees to Reimburse Hacking Victim $300K in Precedent-Setting Case | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/bank-to-pay-hacking-victim/
Massive worm hits Tumblr, spams big blogs like USA Today | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57556784-83/massive-worm-hits-tumblr-sp...
Pentagon Deploying DARPA to Wage War on Backdoors | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/pentagon-deploying-darpa-wage-war-back...
Google Launches Private Android App Stores | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/google-launches-private-android-app-st...
Hackers steal customer info from insurance provider Nationwide | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57557408-83/hackers-steal-customer-info...
U.S., U.K. caught in middle of huge Swiss spy data leak -- report | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57557004-83/u.s-u.k-caught-in-middle-of...
ATM Thieves Swap Security Camera for Keyboard - Krebs on Security
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/12/atm-thieves-swap-security-camera-for-...
Twitter SMS bug lets hackers tweet via other users' accounts | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57557050-83/twitter-sms-bug-lets-hacker...
Security Essentials fails latest AV-Test | Security & Privacy - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57556340-83/security-essentials-fails-l...
Judge Gives Bradley Manning Permission to Plead Guilty for WikiLeaks Dumps | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/manning-plea-terms-accepted/
Congress Demands United Nations Keep Hands Off the Internet | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/united-nations-internet-regs/
Mac malware follows Flashback - Applications - SC Magazine Australia - Secure Business Intelligence
http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/325137,mac-malware-follows-flashback.aspx
Six Security Flaws Fixed in BIND 9.9.2 | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/six-security-flaws-fixed-bind-992-120512
Microsoft Fixing 11 Vulnerabilities for December Patch Tuesday | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/microsoft-fixing-11-vulnerabilities-de...
Experts Downplay MySQL Database Zero-Days | threatpost
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/experts-downplay-mysql-database-zero-d...
Austrian Police Raid ToR Exit Node Admin
http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/324804,tor-exit-node-operator-raided-b...
Senetas - Hybrid Quantum Encryption
http://www.senetas.com/products/products/hybrid-quantum-encryption.htm
Being hospitalized in Guatemala is really interesting. I would want to know what the hospital looks like in there. - Feed the Children Reviews
