Episode 138 - The Good Furniture Guide Episode

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (11:52)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>31st January 1995: AT&T and VLSI Protect Against Eavesdropping</p><p>AT&T Bell Laboratories and VLSI Technology announce plans to develop strategies for protecting communications devices from eavesdroppers. The goal would be to prevent problems such as insecure cellular phone lines and Internet transmissions by including security chips in devices.</p><p>30th January 1982: <a href="https://thisdayintechhistory.com/01/30/first-computer-virus-written/">First Computer Virus Written</a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Skrenta">Richard Skrenta</a> writes the first PC <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus">virus</a> code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series">Apple II</a> boot program called “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Cloner">Elk Cloner</a>“.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week  (18:22)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/23573362/anker-eufy-security-camera-answers-encryption">Anker finally comes clean about its Eufy security cameras</a></p><p>First, Anker told us <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/30/23486753/anker-eufy-security-camera-cloud-private-encryption-authentication-storage">it was impossible</a>. Then, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/16/23512952/anker-eufy-delete-promises-camera-privacy-encryption-authentication">it covered its tracks</a>. It <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/19/23517250/anker-eufy-security-camera-answer">repeatedly deflected</a> while utterly ignoring our emails. So shortly before Christmas, we gave the company an ultimatum: if Anker wouldn’t answer why its supposedly always-encrypted Eufy cameras were producing unencrypted streams — <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/20/23519772/anker-eufy-security-camera-statement-december-19-2022">among other questions</a> — we would publish a story abou