Episode 242
Selling Spyware
July 20th, 2021
56 mins 23 secs
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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is warning of world in which no phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers. A new version of Plasma Mobile is out, and Valve has released a portable gaming device, running Arch with KDE!
-- During The Show --
00:30 What Noah uses - Jon
Software
- Distro - Kubuntu/Fedora
- DE - KDE Plasma
- Terminator/Konsole
- Thunderbird
- Fastmail (Work)
- Proton Mail (Personal)
- VLC/MPV
- MakeMKV/Brasero
- QMMP MP3 Player
- KeepassXC (Personal)
- Bitwarden (Public)
- Virtual Box/KVM Libvirt
- Audacity
- Zoom/Jitsi
- Sublime Text (Work)/EncryptPad/Joplin/VIM/Kate
- Gimp (Images)/Inkscape (Graphic Design)
- Element/Nheko/SchildiChat (The turtle one)
- Okular
- Install Method - Flatpak, AppImage, Snap
Phone
- Work - Galaxy S10/iPhone
- Personal - Nexus 6P with LineageOS
- Personal Disconnected device - Sony Xperia SailfishOS
- GPD Pocket on order
- Play Device - Pinephone
In the Backpack
- Dual Type-C charger RavPower
- Apple Type-C charger
- 2TB External Drive
- Small tool kit
- Screw drivers
- wirecutters
- Flash drives
- Portable Battery Pack
- Netgear Nighthawk Mobile Broadband
- Noise Canceling Headphones Sony WH1000xm4
- Emergency Kit
- Backup Phone (S7)
- Backup Wallet
Minimal Viable Battle Station
- Pelican 1620
- Docking station Lenovo Dock Affiliate
- Portable Desk
- 27" 2K Display
21:15 Decentralized Tech - Jay
- Offline First
- 0Data
- Unhosted
- Web3
- IPFS
22:45 ARP vs MAC Tables - Octavio
- MAC Tables
- Built by "MAC Learning"
- Snooped
- Used by switches to prevent HUB behavior
- Used for switching
- ARP tables
- Built with ARP protocal
- Used for routing
26:45 Pick of the Week
- Drag n Drop file importing
- CUE sheet support
- MOD tracker
- Network Playback
- Flathub
27:55 Make Good
- High Quality, Low Latency, Peer-to-Peer Audio oever the internet
- AAC-LD/AAC-HE
- New commercial boxes use OPUS codec
31:30 Gadget of the Week
- Omega Charger
- World's Smallest 100W & 200W USB-C Charger
- World's first 200W Gallium Nitride (GaN) charger
- Quick charge 4 devices simultaneously
- Estimated Shipping July 2021
34:00 Red Hat To expand Offerings
- ZDnet
- Low cost/Free RHEL for education
- Conan Kudo Link
- Open to Primary and Secondary Schools as well
38:20 Snowden Spyware / Mobile Phones Pegasus
- Pegasus Malware Made by the NSO Group
- Access to
- Photos
- Emails
- Records Calls
- Secretly Activate Microphones/Cameras
- WhatsApp Chat
- GPS Data
- Calendar
- Contacts
- Over 50,000 numbers suspected targets
- New "zero-click" attacks
- Tech advancing too fast for normal people to keep up
Courts have ruled FaceID/Fingerprints can be compelled
49:40 Plasma Mobile 21.07 Released
- Plasma Mobile Post
- Join the Matrix room - #plasmamobile:matrix.org
52:55 Steam Deck
- Steam Handheld
- 4 core, 8 threads AMD APU
- 64GB, 256GB, 512GB
- $399-$649
- Runs SteamOS (Arch+KDE+Big Picture Mode)
- Goal: Get every Windows Game working before launch
- Tech Radar
- IGN
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