Hosting Information

Services we host on:

• YouTube
• LBRY
• Google Podcasts
• iTunes
• Apple?
• Spoofy

Topic Ideas

• Podcast introduction

  • Who we are, what we do, what we're striving for
  • Privacy
  • Security
  • Decentralization, self-reliance
  • Low expectations - lrvick

• Role of open source in self-driving automobile tech

  • nvidia's role in this? Are they still dicks?

• Ensuring integrity of assets loaded by programs

  • Zoom disabling memory modifications allowing camera access
  • Discord not verifying JavaScript assets

• Variations in how different cultures approach security

• Positive and negative outcomes of global pandemic / social distancing

  • Negatives
  • Phishing on the rise
  • Increased surveillance from government
  • Positives
  • Introducing working from home
  • Schools distributed across thousands

• Twitter: will it federate? what will it look like?

  • Role of ActivityPub? Brought about by AP? Will AP be involved?

• Biohacking: Giving the FDA a middle finger, and humans the right to live

• Ethics of using apps that not only track you but your friends as well

  • Second-hand privacy invasion

• Reliance on Git web UIs

  • Not accountable given things can technically be spoofed

• "EARN IT" and the implications of attempting to ban cryptography

• Open-source microtransaction disrupting advertising industry

  • lbry.io
  • BAT
  • Lightning

• DMCA and Illegal Primes

  • Illegal to reverse engineer copyright protection
  • Illegal to obtain certain prime numbers

• Hands-Free Devices

• Abuse of and from the copyright system

  • Flame v Taylor Swift
  • YouTube's copyright system
  • Safe Harbor laws

• Bodily-embedded encryption keys - Vivokey

• Password managers

• Security patterns for different threat models

  • Are password managers as good as a hand-written notebook?
    • "Last time we talked about password managers,"
  • Performing attacks on yourself to analyze your own threat models

• Physical security

  • How to implement it
  • When it really matters

• Software supply chain integrity

  • Modern package managers
  • This must be done AFTER the "Practically Secure Package Manager" infocast
    • Which also means we need to analyze hashing, signing, encrypting
  • How to get around attacks blocking upgrades?

• Long-term communication in security

  • "The UX of security: how to get people to avoid danger they don't understand"
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_messages

• Running your own infrastructure

  • "De-Google" your life
  • History of #! and why your own service infrastructure is actually hard

• Shamir's Secret Sharing

• Toolchain security

  • Kernel/compiler memory access violations
  • Memory safe machine languages (Go, Rust, Zig, etc.)

• HSM design failures

  • PHYSICAL INPUT REQUIRED YOU NUMBNUTS

• Compare/contrast Defcon/CCC, why you should attend either|both

• Responsible disclosure

  • How far is too far?
  • How long is too long to wait?

• Ethics of spying on others

  • How easy it is to abuse

• Federation versus centralized communication platforms

  • Signal (closed-ecosystem, decent security) vs Telegram (open ecosystem, shit security)

• Hacking your friends and coworkers (responsibly!)

• Is "Digital Soverignty" achievable, or worth it?

• Immutable wealth - Operating without a government

Tools

To add the tools to your PATH, use source tools/activate.

generate-wave-from-audio

Takes two arguments, the first being an audio input, the second being a video container output. The generated video can be tweaked by using the following environment variables:

• GWFA_RES (default "1920x1080"): Resolution of the generated file
• GWFA_MODE (default "p2p"): Generated line format
  • line generates a thick wave on only one side of the wave at a time
  • cline generates a thick wave mirrored on both sides of the wave
  • p2p generates a thin line
  • point generates a less-solid line, but takes less time, useful for tests
• GWFA_COLOR (default "lime"): ffmpeg-compatible color to make the line/wave
• GWFA_SCALE (default "lin"): Calculation used for amplitude scaling
  • lin: Linear
  • log: Logarithmic
  • sqrt: Square Root
  • cbrt: Cubic Root
• GWFA_FRAMERATE (default "60"): Framerate to use for video
  • Should be one of 25, 30, 50, 60, and match the framerate of the final video