Episode 41 - Mixing It Up

<p>Nobody will look at Javvad in the eye again without seeing that image. It could be worse, you could have seen it live like Andy and Thom had to.</p><p><strong>This week in InfoSec</strong></p><p>(Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account):</p><p>3rd February 2007: A former Coca-Cola secretary to a executive was convicted after stealing documents and unlaunched product samples, then conspiring with coworkers to sell them to Pepsi, which warned Coca-Cola.</p><p><a href="https://www.thestar.com/business/2007/02/03/former_coke_secretary_convicted_in_spy_case.html">https://www.thestar.com/business/2007/02/03/former_coke_secretary_convicted_in_spy_case.html</a></p><p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2007/LAW/05/23/coca.cola.sentencing/">https://edition.cnn.com/2007/LAW/05/23/coca.cola.sentencing/</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1224522561653919744">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1224522561653919744</a></p><p>1st February 1952:</p><p>A new method for tracking down users of unlicensed television sets was unveiled in the UK.</p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/1/newsid_2521000/2521357.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/1/newsid_2521000/2521357.stm</a></p><p>5th February 1953: Sweet rationing ends in Britain</p><p>Children all over Britain have been emptying out their piggy-banks and heading straight for the nearest sweet-shop as the first unrationed sweets went on sale today.</p><p>Toffee apples were the biggest sellers, with sticks of nougat and liquorice strips also disappearing fast.</p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/5/newsid_2737000/2737731.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/5/newsid_2737000/2737731.stm</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p>The Biggest Threat to Facebook Isn’t Apple, It’s Mark Zuckerberg</p><p>During <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/27/zuckerberg-facebook-apple-anti-compet