Episode 93 - Its That Man Again

<p> </p><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/DPo_CyNRQCpbctjPAdcqWhnWwOztJjNd64MytLvR6dqXIoXGkgSaceblFRtDrfj2KETomCETpa_FaCER3phyQQbXg7Nr_Np1odZjNmh5U5d0bk0YXqx5-y8GXLXtKE-jEYQgzd0O" /><p><strong>This Week in InfoSec (07:54)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” Twitter account and further afield</p><p>15th February 1999</p><p>Computer owners (dominated by Linux users) marched on Microsoft’s offices demanding refunds for the copies of Windows that came pre-installed on their computers. This day came to be known as <a href="http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/">Windows Refund Day</a>.</p><p>15th February 2007: <a href="https://www.wired.com/2007/02/tsa-removes-onl/">TSA Removes Online Traveller Redress System</a>.  The Transportation Security Agency has removed from its website an online system designed for travellers who have been told they are on a watchlist and inserted a statement that the agency takes information security seriously, following reporting by 27B (and others) that the site could put travellers at risk of identity theft and looked like online fraud.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (17:41)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/3g-network-shutdown-devices-b2016141.html">3G network shutting down could disable millions of home security alarms and car safety systems</a></p><p><a href="https://apple.news/AuLfeucEvTSOwz1aqMIUDow">https://apple.news/AuLfeucEvTSOwz1aqMIUDow</a></p><p>Millions of burglar alarms, car safety systems, GPS trackers, medical monitors, and even prisoner ankle tags could stop working when American 3G mobile networks shut down later this year.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Billy Big Balls of the Week (29:26)</strong></p><p>Gary Bowser was recently sentenced to over 3 years in prison and ordered to pay millions to Nintendo for what his lawyers say was a relatively minor role in a Nintendo Switch piracy ring.</p><p>He was the victim of domestic violence from a girlfriend, and another girlfriend of his was murde