Episode 38 - Oh No He's Back

<p>The boys are back in town. Jav's return has also reduced the average age of this podcast by roughly twenty years. The good news though is that we not only have a full program, but also new jingles too!</p><p><strong>This week in Infosec</strong></p><p>Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account:</p><p>16th January 2007: Jeffrey Goodin became the first person convicted under the US CAN-SPAM Act. He sent emails pretending to be AOL's billing department. He could have faced...wait for it...wait for it...101 years in prison! Instead, he was sentenced to 70 months. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/technology/17spam.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/technology/17spam.html</a></p><p><a href="https://www.lawdonut.co.uk/business/marketing-and-selling/marketing-and-advertising/your-email-marketing-and-anti-spam-law">https://www.lawdonut.co.uk/business/marketing-and-selling/marketing-and-advertising/your-email-marketing-and-anti-spam-law</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1217962482909626368">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1217962482909626368</a></p><p>12th January 1984: The first issue of 2600 was mailed to several dozen people. At the time, it was a 3 page monthly newsletter. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is still published today.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1216431003721293825?s=20">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1216431003721293825?s=20</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p>Tech companies have grown a pair of balls in Trump’s last days in office.  Host Unknown remembers.</p><p>Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Shopify are just some of the companies finally taking a stand. </p><p>AirBnB have cancelled reservations in DC during the week of Biden’s inauguration</p><p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-ban-facebook-twitter-parler-first-amendment-b1785