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Modern Warfare 2 is the biggest media launch of all time but PC gamers are hopping mad, how come usability expert Jakob Nielsen’s site looks so bad, and so long Geocities…

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MacBreak Weekly 167: Skittles And Beer

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Don McAllister, Paul Kent, and Andy Ihnatko

This week on Macbreak Weekly: Dancing Microsoft store, a look at the new 27″ iMac, Black Friday rumors, and more.

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Security Now 223: The Trouble With SSL

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Steve explains how a serious exploit in SSL works.

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Windows Weekly 131: PDC 2009

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Paul is live from PDC 2009 with news on Windows 7 OEM, Silverlight 4, IE 9, the Office 2010 Public Beta, and more.

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This Week In Google 17: Chrome OS

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis and Matt Cutts

Chrome OS announced, less-than-free, Droid autofocus bug, gPhone, and more.

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New TWiT NetCasts – 2009.11.09

Iron Wil — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:34:04 +0000

TWiT 219: Don’t Make Natali Cry

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Natali Del Conte, and Jason Calacanis

Natali Del Conte shows off her Droid, Jason Calacanis says tech IPOs are just around the corner, and Patrick Norton fights for a free Internet.

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MacBreak Weekly 165: Nudity by Accident

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko

Andy reviews the Droid, Apple rejects the iPhone, and Adobe gets snarky.

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Security Now 221: The Elephant In Your Browser

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

The problem with Javascript and security. Guest John Graham-Cumming says it’s the “elephant in your browser.”

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Windows Weekly 129: Hypirony And Ironicracy

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Paul Thurrott and Ed Bott gnaw the Windows 7 upgrade bones and we’ve got a rare Windows 3.11 tip.

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This Week In Google 15: Google Throb

Hosts: Leo Laporte, and Gina Trapani, Jeff Jarvis

Gina lust over the Droid, Jeff joins Google’s Data Liberation Front, and all your Google accounts in just one place.

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New TWiT NetCasts – 2009.08.22

Iron Wil — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:54:35 +0000

TWiT 208: Hide The Boots

Dvorak’s US CIO dustup, Fred Figglehorn, Samsung TL225, XML patents, and more.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jay Adelson, Brian Brushwood, Patrick Norton, and John C. Dvorak

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MacBreak Weekly 154: Graceful Degradation

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Merlin Mann

iPhone becomes #1 Flickr camera, iTunes 69% of music sales, Tom Tom iPhone GPS, Quake Live, and more.

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Security Now 210: Listener Feedback 73

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Security news and listeners’ questions…

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Windows Weekly 119: The Solitary Pleasures of Enterprise Computing

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Which Windows 7 should you buy? Bing continues to surprise and Windows Live Movie Maker ships…

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This Week In Google 4: Filers vs. Pilers

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Gina Trapani, Jeff Jarvis, and Kevin Marks

Extracting meaning from your Twitter feed, what Wave is, and isn’t, and the Google-Apple conspiracy…

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New TWiT NetCasts – 2009.08.15

Iron Wil — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:47:20 +0000

TWiT 207: Grandpa’s Woody

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Scott Johnson, Veronica Belmont, and Molly Wood

DDoS of Twitter, Google Voice, Facebook goes ginormous, pay-per-post, cyber czar, and more.

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MacBreak Weekly 153: The Case Against Apple

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko

Calacanis’ criticisms, social iTunes, antiglare MacBook Pro, Facebook/Friendfeed, and more.

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Security Now 209: The Vitamin D Story

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

A rare off-topic discussion about Steve’s research into vitamin D.

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Windows Weekly 118: Microsoft Gets Its Mojo Back

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Microsoft’s death exaggerated, Nokia, Zune HD, upgrading/migrating, Windows Phones, and more.

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This Week In Google 3: There’s A Command Line For That

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Gina Trapani, Jeff Jarvis, and Anil Dash

Facebook/FriendFeed, Caffeine search, Google Reader goes social, “Send To” features, and more.

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New TWiT NetCasts – 2009.06.13

Iron Wil — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:39:03 +0000

TWiT 198: Emission Accomplished

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Cannata, Tom Merritt, Jason Calacanis, and Denise Howell.

The Palm Pre, Apple’s WWDC 2009, voting on advertisements, Bing, E3, Google gets cozy with the White House, and more.

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MacBreak Weekly 144: WWDC Wrap Up

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko

WWDC report, a new iPhone, AT&T, Palm Pre, App Store power, video, voice dialing, compass, and more.

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Security Now 200: Your Questions, Steve’s Answers 68

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

In this mailbag episode we discuss IPv6, Non-VPNs, Microsoft ClickOnce, expired SSL certificates, and more.

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Windows Weekly 111: An F.U. To The E.U.

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Europe getting 7 without IE, Bing is taking off, Morro, Google goes after Exchange, and more.

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Windows Weekly [#93] NetCast

Iron Wil — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:48:08 +0000

Flip, The Bird

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Windows 7, Netbooks, UAC issue overkill, Microsoft Fix It, new Kindle, Google Ocean, and more.

Windows 7 product editions (or “SKUs”) announced

There will be multiple product editions again (duh) but only two will be mainstream offers for individuals
Regardless, a lot of false indignation from people
Microsoft: We have over one billion users with many different needs and wants; One SKU does not make sense for all of them, sorry
Paul actually agrees with Microsoft for the most part but the lineup could be a little simpler

Windows 7 on a netbook: Guess what? It works. Paul’s IdeaPad S10 arrived today. Good news so far.

The UAC issue that wasn’t: Bloggers uncovered Windows 7 flaw; Microsoft says, not so fast

Microsoft’s new Fix It service. Finally: Instead of telling you how to fix problems via its Knowledge Base (KB) articles, Microsoft is starting to automatically fix these problems for you with a new FixIt button.

New Kindle rumored to be coming next week

Tip of the week:

Virtual Earth update: Check out the stunning Bird’s Eye imagery of Europe at Paul’s Winsupersite
New version of Google Earth, lets you explore the ocean and mars

Software pick of the week:

Foxmarks Syncs browser bookmarks/favorites between PCs/Macs, Works with IE/Firefox (Windows) and Firefox/Safari (Mac), Bonus: Includes Web site password sync (Firefox only)
Skype 4 for windows now available

Audible picks of the week: What Would Google Do? Unabridged, By Jeff Jarvis, Narrated by Jeff Jarvis. For a free credit toward the audiobook of your choice, visit Audible.com/windows.

Check out Paul’s blog at the SuperSite for Windows for more information.

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Security Now [#181] NetCast

Iron Wil — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:13:21 +0000

Crypto Recap

Topics

future topic: keyed message authentication code

News and Errata

Quicktime 7.6 Update for both Mac and Windows, critical, 7 exploits patched
illegal iWork ’09 with a trojan that will deeply infect your Mac with a bot net
you have options for your windows automatic update, choose the one right for you, make sure you are patched
Yubikey, limited size of password discussed last show, someone wrote in to say longer password is possible
http://cryptolink.com trademark is in place now
http://My.BarackObama.com forum, people were putting up trojans

Crypto Recap

3.5 year review of all the security pieces that have been talked about

threat model – what is it we can do? what are we trying to do?

for example, we assume the endpoints are secure while we try to secure the communication between the two endpoints – keystroke logger, for example, we can’t secure against – if someone gets physical access, we’re insecure

we assume non-infinite computational power because all of the crypto is subject to brute force attack, no matter how long the key is

“perfect” security? yes, one-time pad – still isn’t secure if someone has physical access

much crypto depends on this fact: it is very easy to multiply two big prime numbers together, not easy to factor the result into those two original primes

taking something to a power is easy, taking the log is hard – also a fundamental assumption of security at present

you want there not to be a single point of failure, even if single communications is cracked, all the rest of the communications should still be secure – a single shared key is a bad idea for this reason

assume endpoints secure, path inbetween (the internet) totally insecure

what do we mean by security? in this context where we’re protecting traffic between two endpoints, we want 3 things:

confidentiality, interceptor in the middle cannot read the messages
integrity of message, guard against message being modified
authenticate the endpoints, are we really talking who we think we are?

encryption gives confidentiality, symmetric (same key at both ends used to encrypt and decrypt), asymmetric (two different keys used, one to encrypt a random symmetric key that’s used to encrypt the message, the other to decrypt that symmetric key), key agreement

message integrity, using hashes to create a signature (md5, sha1, etc), a hash is a digest of a much-larger communication, a fingerprint – any change to the original message will change that fingerprint – not computationally feasible to make a change to the original message and deliberately produce the same signature – md5 has been broken in this respect

in a couple of weeks we’ll talk about keyed digest, giving an authenticated signature, which we don’t have now

endpoint authentication, certificates and chain of trust anchored to a root authority

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Windows Weekly [#77]

Iron Wil — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:59:16 +0000

Hasta La Vista

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Windows 7, Windows Cloud OS, Office Live, Hyper-V Server, Virtual Machine Manager, and more.

Topics:

Paul’s Windows 7 presentation
Microsoft reveals to announce “Windows Cloud OS” at PDC
Future version of Office Live to be announced at PDC
Microsoft releases free standalone Hyper-V Server; Enterprise-oriented Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to launch within 30 days
Windows Vista Secrets SP1 arrives

Tip of the week: Managing videos with Zune 3

Software of the week:

The Election Countdown 2008 Gadget
Daily Gallup Poll Gadget
More gadgets at livegadgets.net/#gallery

Audible pick of the week: Anathem, Unabridged, By Neal Stephenson, Narrated by Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, Neal Stephenson. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/windows.

Check out Paul’s blog at http://www.internet-nexus.com and the SuperSite for Windows http://winsupersite.com for more information.

Security Now [#162] NetCast

Iron Wil — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:17:31 +0000

Listener Feedback 50

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Our regular mailbag episode with questions and comments from our listeners.

Audible pick: Orson Scott Card Selects Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle, Abridged, By Neal Stephenson, Narrated by Simon Prebble and Stina Nielsen. To sign up for a free audio book, visit AudiblePodcast.com/securitynow.

For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve’s site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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