This episode of ID10T Techcast with Tyler Woodward asks who is supposed to be protecting your stuff, after security researchers found proxy software on the White House network, Meta tried to crawl any website a Facebook page links to for its AI, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing system leaked confidential radio station applications. Tyler’s take: somebody was supposed to be looking out for all of it, and nobody was.
This week on ID10T Techcast with Tyler Woodward:
- Why can you rent a White House internet connection? Security firms Layer3 Intel and Synthient found software on the White House network that lets outsiders route their traffic through it for a few dollars. The Verge
- What did Meta want to do with websites linked from Facebook pages? Meta paused business terms that would have let it crawl any site a Facebook page links to for its AI products, after courts in Brazil and Norway blocked them. Ars Technica
- How did hackers get into a blood bank’s freezers? Attackers raised the temperature in the cold storage at France’s national blood bank before staff caught it. NPR
- Why did the FCC’s filing system leak radio station applications? Confidential applications from small noncommercial stations showed up when the filing window opened, the system went down for hours, and the fix was six more days to file. Radio World on the leak and the filing window extension
Opinion piece: Tyler wants the government to make tech companies protect our data, and he says it has to keep your own filings private for more than a few hours. Fund the FCC’s filing system, fix it, and make somebody accountable for it.
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