Episode 115 - We're All Going On a Summer Holiday

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (9:23)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>29th July 1985: An article in the New York Times cited multiple experts who alleged the vote counting systems of Computer Election Systems are vulnerable to tampering.</p><p>Yep. Election systems vulnerabilities aren't a new phenomenon. Not even close. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/29/us/computerized-systems-for-voting-seen-as-vulnerable-to-tampering.html?pagewanted=all">COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS FOR VOTING SEEN AS VULNERABLE TO TAMPERING</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1156078284603416582">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1156078284603416582</a></p><p>30th July 2013: Chelsea Manning was found guilty of espionage, theft, and computer fraud, as well as military infractions. </p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Manning">United States v. Manning</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1288925289465208834">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1288925289465208834</a></p><p>6th August 1997: Microsoft Buys $150M of Apple stock.  In an effort to help save Apple Computer and possibly deflect criticism in its own anti-trust trial, Microsoft Corp. buys $150 million in shares of Apple Computer Inc. Apple, which had been struggling to find direction and profits for years, agreed to the boost in funding with terms that dictated cooperation in the design of computers as well as shared patents. Microsoft agreed to continue supporting MS-Office for the Mac for another five years as well.</p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (18:11)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/india_scraps_data_protection_law/">India scraps data protection law in favor of better law coming … sometime</a></p><p>The government of India has scrapped the Personal Data Protection Bill it's worked on for three years, and announced it will – eventually – unveil a superior bill.</p><p>The bill, pr