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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we take the security advice of international expert Hans Gruber, we find Jono’s lack of middle name preparation disturbing, and:

• [00:02:00] Some “fresh baby witches” <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1284733782499745792.html">have put a hex on the moon</a>,

as if we didn’t have enough to worry about. Apparently this is bad 

because “inexperienced witches should only be researching and doing protection work”

• [00:04:40] 14% of men <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/20/alexa-i-love-you-how-lockdown-made-men-lust-after-their-amazon-echo">fantasise about the voice of Alexa</a>
• [00:07:30] Serious book author fails to properly read google search results, includes things from <a href="https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/03/john-boyne-accidentally-includes-zelda-video-game-monsters-in-novel">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in a historical novel about dye making</a>
• [00:09:33] The Irish Health and Safety Executive <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/hse-donates-contact-tracing-app-to-global-public-health-project-1.4308955">donates their “Covid Green” contact tracing app</a> to the Linux Foundation global public health project

• [00:12:59] The Twitter hack was apparently done via <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/20/twitter_security_update_hackers_broke_2fa/">access to internal tools by compromising employees</a>, although there are bigger questions, such as: should they have been better at doing crimes?
• [00:18:31] According to The Markup, <a href="https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-search-results-prioritize-google-products-over-competitors">Google search results are now mostly to Google properties</a>. We’re not sure we buy this, but they have a point worth thinking about
• [00:25:55] <a href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/08/02/microsoft-to-continue-discussions-on-potential-tiktok-purchase-in-the-united-states/">Microsoft may be buying TikTok</a>

after conversations with the White House. The motives for this and the 

forces causing it to happen may be a little obscure, or may simply be Microsoft spotting a popular thing and buying it…

• [00:49:43] <a href="https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/20/07/31/1918220/spotify-ceo-musicians-can-no-longer-release-music-only-once-every-3-4-years">Musicians just aren’t working hard enough</a>,

says the Spotify CEO. “What is required from successful musicians”, 

says Daniel Ek, “is a deeper, more consistent, and prolonged commitment than in the past.” Should being a musician today be significantly harder

than it was for the Beatles? Maybe yes: this is the new world order, 

and the business of music is different now

• [00:56:10] Google are partnering with ADT, using Google Home

speakers for security to detect “critical noises” such as smoke alarms

Colophon / Licensing

Our shows are released under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike</a> license and as are free to listen to and share with others. We use <a href="http://ccmixter.org/files/FreeInstrumentalMusic/43270">this music</a> for our theme music. News music: <a href="http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Robbero/59218">Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero</a>, used with attribution.

Thank you to Marius Quabeck and <a href="https://nerdzoom.de/">NerdZoom Media</a> for being our audio producers!