Episode 56 - The Post Birthday Blues

<p><strong>This Week in InfoSec</strong></p><p>Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account:</p><p>15th May 1998: The first issue of Bruce Schneier's (<a href="https://twitter.com/schneierblog">@schneierblog</a>) monthly Crypto-Gram internet newsletter was published. And The Secret Story of Non-Secret Encryption is a pretty pretty pretty pretty...good read.</p><p><a href="https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1998/0515.html">https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1998/0515.html</a></p><p><a href="https://www.schneierfacts.com/">https://www.schneierfacts.com/</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/sirjester/status/867809572173602817">https://twitter.com/sirjester/status/867809572173602817</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1393708868304359426">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1393708868304359426</a>  </p><p>22nd May 2010: A Floridian man named Laszlo Hanyecz, received what he thought was a “free lunch”.</p><p><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0</a></p><p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/colinharper/2020/05/22/bitcoin-pizza-day-why-bitcoiners-are-celebrating-today-by-eating-pizza/">Bitcoin Pizza Day: Why Bitcoiners Are Celebrating Today By Eating Pizza</a></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-surge-means-laszlo-hanyecz-paid-316-million-two-pizzas-2021-3?r=US&IR=T#:~:text=The%20programmer%20Laszlo%20Hanyecz%20has,as%20%22Bitcoin%20Pizza%20Day.%22">Bitcoin's surge beyond $60,000 means the famed programmer Laszlo Hanyecz effectively paid $613 million for 2 pizzas</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p>We'd love to report on the outcome of the CREST exam cheatsheet probe, but the UK infosec body won't publish it</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/17/crest_not_publishing_cert_exam_cheat_report/">https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/17/crest_not_publishing_cert_exam_cheat_report/</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Billy Big Balls of the Week</strong><