Secure Conversation Records Retention
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Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

May 13th 2025

Security Now 1025

Secure Conversation Records Retention

FBI Says to Toss Your Old Router

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Category: Help & How To
  • The state of Virginia passes an age-restriction law that has no chance.
  • New Zealand also tries something similar, citing Australia's lead.
  • A nasty Python package for Discord survived 3 years and 11K downloads.
  • The FBI says it's a good idea to discard end-of-life consumer routers.
  • What's in WhatsApp? Finding out was neither easy nor certain.
  • The UK's Cyber Centre says AI promises to make things much worse.
  • A bunch of great feedback from our great listeners, then:
  • Is true end-to-end encryption possible when records must be retained?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1025-Notes.pdf

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