Episode 172 - The One Job Episode

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec  (07:11)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>26th October 2006: Christopher Soghoian created a website allowing visitors to generate fake airlines boarding passes. A congressman called for his arrest, his ISP shut down his site, the FBI raided his home, and then the same congressman said DHS should hire him. His career since? Notable.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1717530966229475523">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1717530966229475523</a></p><p>24th October 2010: Eric Butler announced Firefox extension Firesheep's release at Toorcon, making HTTP session hijacking on open Wi-Fi trivial. Today >95% of websites have enabled HTTPS and efforts like browser HTTPS-Only mode have largely eliminated the risk. A security industry success! </p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1716990537171918976">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1716990537171918976</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (16:00)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/19/musk_x_europe/">First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe</a></p><p>Elon Musk is said to be toying with the idea of withdrawing access to X in the European Union rather than go to the effort of complying with the bloc's Digital Services Act.</p><p>As The Register <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/11/eu_threatens_x_with_dsa/">reported</a> last week, His Muskiness had a rather public spat on the website with Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market, who was simply reminding social media platforms of their content moderation obligations under the law.</p><p>This was particularly in light of renewed hostilities between Israel and Hamas, and the potential disinformation campaigns that had begun swirling online. Meta, TikTok, and YouTube were also sent letters.</p><p>"Free speech absolutist" Musk's response was <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk