
May 13th 2025
Security Now 1025
Secure Conversation Records Retention
FBI Says to Toss Your Old Router
- 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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