Episode 121 - The Live One

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>9th September 1947: An error in the Mark II computer at Harvard University was due to a moth trapped in a relay. The moth was attached to the log book with notation "first actual case of bug being found."  </p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1303717480423133186">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1303717480423133186</a></p><p>11th September 1992: The movie "Sneakers" was released. With a budget of $35 million, it grossed $105 million at the box office. A hacker movie classic! Bishop, Whistler, Cosmo, and Mother!</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1304574876922019841">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1304574876922019841</a></p><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/">Sneakers IMDB</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/14/google_and_meta_fined_over/">Google and Meta fined over $70m for privacy violations in Korea</a></p><p>South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has issued two large fines for privacy violations: a $50 million penalty for Google and $22 million for Meta.</p><p>The PIPC's beef is that neither Google nor Meta properly obtain consent or inform users on how they collect and use data, particularly with regards to behavioural information used to predict interests for marketing and advertising purposes.</p><p>The data watchdog <a href="https://www.pipc.go.kr/np/cop/bbs/selectBoardArticle.do?bbsId=BS074&mCode=C020010000&nttId=8221">claims</a> Google hides the setting screen to agree or disagree to collection methods and sets the default to "agree" while Meta only asks for agreement when a user creates an account and does so in unclear ways.</p><p>AND / OR</p><p><a href="https://www.inputmag.com/culture/dries-depoorters-ai-surveillance-art-the-follower-instagram-influencers-photos">A surveillance artist shows how In