Airtag

Josh and Kurt talk about three wangles of responsibility. We start with a story about a bike theft ring, bike theft doesn’t usually get any attention, but this one is special. Then we ask why it seems like everyone is getting hacked, it’s because they have to tell us now. And finally we have a story about the huge number of unreported vulnerabilities in open source projects. This statistic probably affects all software, but there’s some numbers for open source specifically. ...

Josh and Kurt talk about Lufthansa trying to ban Airtags. This has a similar feel to all the security events where a company tries to hand waive away a security problem then having to walk back all their previous statements. There is almost always a massive imbalance between the large companies and consumers. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_347_Airtags_in_luggage_and_weasel_security_two_peas_in_a_suitcase.mp3 Show Notes Lufthansa bans airtags Airtag stalking problems Lufthansa unbans airtags Cult of the Dead Cow book TV Typewriter Andre the Giant on an airplane Poison Squad Bagtracker