The FBI is hoping that its hunt for Capitol rioters will go viral, a cryptocurrency con lets its perpetrator live the high life... for a while, and just what does Facebook have against cows and a team of cricketers?
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by BBC technology correspondent Zoe Kleinman.
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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.
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Special Guest: Zoe Kleinman.
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Links:
- The FBI Wants You To Make These Photos Of Capitol Insurrectionists Go Viral — Huffington Post.
- Capitol Violence — FBI.
- Sedition Hunters.
- Boston Bombing: The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster — The Atlantic.
- Iced Earth’s singer and bassist quit band "in response to recent events and circumstances" — NME.
- Capitol Insurrection: More Than 230 People Charged And What We Know About Them — NPR.
- 'Overtly sexual' cow blocked as Facebook ad — BBC News.
- What is Stefan Qin’s edge in crypto? Fraud, says the SEC — Digital Finance.
- Founder Of $90 Million Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund Charged With Securities Fraud And Pleads Guilty In Federal Court — Department of Justice.
- A crypto kid had a $23,000-a-month condo. Then the feds came — Fortune.
- Radio Garden — Explore live radio by rotating the globe.
- Dodow.
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service mind control scene — YouTube.
- Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema — BBC.
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