Episode 58 - Ha Ha Ha

<p><strong>This week in Infosec</strong></p><p>Liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account</p><p>1st June 1864: The first record of electronic spam was broadly revealed. A recipient was so infuriated by the dentist's poppycock that he composed a letter to the editor of The Times about the telegram, begging the newspaper to kindly demand a stop to the nonsense.</p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/0uPMTxezvm8zG4ZDu59_CXSo9Cz_6MPh7ZbPnVpO-VVdCoTP9iYymmXzoetHNvoiwsnh7Xo6woxjGP2YeTkrr85R-mpw_Arl1S6dseVB95OsaMA0kYaxS0Mwx78PLJ-AtSPoBK8M" /><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1399864377415712773">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1399864377415712773</a></p><p>28th May 2014: The TrueCrypt website unexpectedly announced that the development of TrueCrypt had ended and that the tool wasn't secure.</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/the-fall-of-truecrypt-and-rise-of-veracrypt-44f910ed5162">The Fall of TrueCrypt and Rise of VeraCrypt</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1266260968004136962">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1266260968004136962</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/02/amazon_sidewalk_mesh/">Deadline draws near to avoid auto-joining Amazon's mesh network Sidewalk</a></p><p>Owners of Amazon Echo assistants and Ring doorbells have until June 8 to avoid automatically opting into Sidewalk, the internet giant's mesh network that taps into people's broadband and may prove to be a privacy nightmare.</p><p>'A stalker can abuse it to stalk people better. There are no mitigations mentioned'</p><p><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/sidewalk/final_privacy_security_whitepaper.pdf">Sidewalk privacy and security whitepaper by Amazon</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Big Balls of the Week</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/03/norton_crypto/">Antivirus that mines Ethereum sounds a bit wrong, right? Norton has started sell