Episode 85 - The Not So Christmas Special

<p><a href="https://www.dreams.co.uk/therapur-actigel---plus-harmonic-2200-mattress/p/131-00675">Andy’s mattress</a></p><p><strong>This Week in InfoSec (11:46)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account</p><p> 7th December 1999: The <a href="http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/12/1207riaa-sues-napster/">Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file sharing service Napster</a> alleging copyright infringement for allowing users to download copyrighted music for free. The RIAA would eventually win injunctions against Napster forcing the service to suspend operations and eventually file bankruptcy. In the end the RIAA and its members would settle with Napster’s financial backers for hundreds of millions of dollars.</p><p><a href="https://www.factfiend.com/founder-napster-trolled-metallica/">How The Founder of Napster Trolled Metallica at the VMAs</a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/_q0Z3gBActg">Shawn Fanning at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000</a></p><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/gIc3J5mRhfdaQ-elzKfeiTeck2zQ2yDsFnusbY7IZWQTyKlrMNrbqSo2U2CQiJewncr4C2YNLl6n9j_jUEo15unIucZOUCT7_TJaKgNw9F7aMhDo8sZD8lUqQxC_-G6fo_7E16bK" /><p> </p><p>December 2009, when Yahoo! Doesn't Want You To Know Its Spying Price List; <a href="https://www.wired.com/2009/12/yahoo-spy-prices/">Issues DMCA Takedown</a></p><p><a href="https://cryptome.org/isp-spy/yahoo-spy.pdf">Compliance Guide for Law Enforcement</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (22:37)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822431/kamala-harris-bluetooth-security-hacking-headphones">The vice president should not be using Bluetooth headphones</a></p><p>This week, Politico opened its newsletter with an article on Vice President Kamala Harris’ <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2021/12/06/kamala-harris-is-bluetooth-phobic-495343">aversion to using Bluetooth headphones</a>. The VP was “Bluetooth-phobic,” the story claimed, “wary” of her AirPods and