Episode 37 - Merry New Year!

<p>Welcome back to the New year and the new look Host Unknown, with a slightly less ethnically diverse lineup than usual, but, but still the same average quality and distinctly suspect ethics you have come to expect from Host Unknown. </p><p>This week Thom displays his love of the Animaniacs, Andy has audio issues and Graham has the voice of a midnight hour radio show host.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Smutty or Security?</strong></p><p>Graham wins by a nose and a euphemism.</p><p> </p><p><strong>This Week in InfoSec</strong></p><p>Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter accoun):</p><p>6th January 1982: The final draft of the script for the movie WarGames was printed. Due to the Cold War and relative ignorance about remotely accessible computers, the film released in 1983 scared the hell out of politicians, the military, and adults. And inspired a generation of hackers!</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1214381338028953600">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1214381338028953600</a>  </p><p>8th January 1986: "The Hacker Manifesto" was written by Loyd Blankenship (aka The Mentor) and originally titled "The Conscience of a Hacker".  8 months later it was published in issue 7 of the hacker zine Phrack.</p><p><a href="http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html#article">http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html#article</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1215026869600313344">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1215026869600313344</a></p><p>9th January 2001: Macromedia, the maker of the Flash media player, claimed that Flash was secure because it was "a constrained environment by design". </p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010123231000/http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2672473,00.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20010123231000/http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2672473,00.html</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1215067971963375616">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1215067971963375616</a></p><p>End of the road