Episode 165 - The Don't Screw It Up Episode

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (10:17)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p><strong>29th August 1990: The British Computer Misuse Act Goes into Effect  </strong></p><p>One of the earliest laws anywhere designed to address computer fraud, the Act resulted from a long debate in the 1980s over failed prosecutions of hackers -- in one well-publicised case, two men hacked into a British Telecom computer leaving messages in the Duke of Edinburgh's private mailbox.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36306419">Archive of historic BT 'email' hack preserved</a></p><p>24th August 1993: Perhaps the most famous lawsuit in technology history is decided for Microsoft. Apple claimed that Microsoft’s Windows violated their copyrights on the “visual displays” of the Macintosh. The judge in the case ruled that most of the claims were covered by a 1985 licensing agreement. Other claims were not violations of copyright due to the “merger doctrine”, which basically states that ideas can not be copyrighted. This paved the way for Microsoft to develop Windows 95, which imitated the Macintosh even more so than previous versions of Windows.</p><p><a href="https://www.cultofmac.com/497066/tiah-apple-vs-microsoft-aug-91/">Today in Apple history: Tide turns against Apple in war with Microsoft</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (16:57)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23853618/x-privacy-policy-update-biometrics-job-history">X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history</a></p><p>X, the platform previously known as Twitter, is expanding the amount of data it collects on users. The social network has updated its <a href="https://twitter.com/en/privacy#x-privacy-1">privacy policy</a> to include carveouts for “biometric information” and “employment history,” <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-31/x-plans-to-collect-user-biometric-data-job-and-education-history?sref=Exbt