Dec 16th 2018
This Week in Tech 697
The Big Leek Cabal
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Taylor Swift is Watching You, Spy Chip Audit, Australian Encryption Law, and More.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
- Elon Musk is a terrible person to work for.
- The internet is a garbage fire of hate.
- It is not Google's fault that searching for "idiot" results in pictures of Donald Trump.
- The Chinese are not spying on you with secret spy chips on Super Micro servers.
- The Chinese are spying on you by hacking Marriott.
- The Chinese may or may not be spying on you with Huawei phones and 5G infrastructure.
- Taylor Swift is most definitely spying on you at her concerts.
- The Australian government really, really wants to spy on you.
- YouTube Rewind 2018 is awful.
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Links
- Dr. Elon & Mr. Musk: Life Inside Tesla's Production Hell | WIRED
- The Real Roots of American Rage
- Congresswoman to Google CEO: Why when I search ‘idiot’ do I get pictures of Trump?
- The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
- Super Micro audit complete, including servers supplied to Apple: no spy chips found
- Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess.
- GoPro is moving camera production out of China, citing tariff worries
- Germany okay with Huawei building infrastructure | Newshub
- Huawei Offers Access to Source Code
- Don’t use Huawei phones, say heads of FBI, CIA, and NSA
- Facebook bug exposed photos of up to 6.8 million users, including pictures they had not posted
- Inside the Pricey War to Influence Your Instagram Feed
- Facebook could face billion dollar fine for data breaches
- Facebook Portal now lets you play Words with Friends and zoom in on your victory dance
- Report: Facebook renamed Building 8, its hardware skunkworks lab, to Portal after the device launched
- Marriott Data Breach Is Traced to Chinese Hackers as U.S. Readies Crackdown on Beijing - The New York Times
- YouTube's annual Rewind video received 10M dislikes in about eight days
- Microsoft Teams is growing ridiculously fast
- Taylor Swift used facial recognition to track her stalkers at a concert
- Signal >> Blog >> Setback in the outback
- Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent - ProtonMail Blog
- Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password? | 1Password
- FCC approves new text message rules, giving carriers more power - The Verge
- The FCC Has Made the Same Mistake for Text Messaging That It Did for Net Neutrality