Episode 169 - The Hat Trick Episode

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (08:45)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>25th September 1986: "The Hacker Manifesto" was published by The Mentor (Loyd Blankenship) in issue 7 of the hacker zine Phrack. It was originally titled "The Conscience of a Hacker". </p><p><a href="http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html#article">Phrack #7</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1706364950623515017">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1706364950623515017</a>  </p><p>26th September 1988: Time Magazine published the article "Technology: Invasion of the Data Snatchers - A 'virus' epidemic strikes terror in the computer world". The 9 page article is an interesting glimpse into the state of malware risk, response, and fears 35 years ago.</p><p><a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,968508-1,00.html">Technology: Invasion of the Data Snatchers</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1706690706863952278">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1706690706863952278</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (13:54) </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/28/google_bard_chat/">After failing at privacy, again, Google is working to keep Bard chats out of Search</a></p><p>Google's Bard chatbot is currently being re-educated to better understand privacy.</p><p>In July, Bard gained the ability to <a href="https://support.google.com/bard/answer/13743730">share conversations</a> with other people using a unique public link. Unfortunately, Google Search has indexed those shared links, making them more widely available and discoverable than Bard patrons might expect.</p><p>[Open the story and read from there - it’s much easier 🙂]</p><p>At least such oversights don't happen all that often at Google, which has a <a href="https://www.gstatic.com/policies/privacy/pdf/20230701/4jko9ma5/google_privacy_policy_en_us.pdf">33-page privacy policy</a> [PDF] detailing how much the company val