web01.fireside.fm Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:38:55 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Dave & Gunnar Show - Episodes Tagged with “Ransomware” https://dgshow.org/tags/ransomware Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:00:00 -0600 David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera. en-us episodic Not our circus, not our monkey. David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera. no privacy, security, robots, internet, open source, technology David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson gunnar@hellekson.com Episode 231: Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble https://dgshow.org/231 e4878bf1-a4ca-40be-9e78-7599ecee965e Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about automating ransomware, automating prosecution, automating defense attorneys, and a bridge 25:19 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about automating ransomware, automating prosecution, automating defense attorneys, and a bridge “Sent from my iPhone”: 5 Helpful Tips on How to Write Emails from Your Phone (https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-emails-from-mobile/) Air Conditioning test in Allendale (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/austin-air-conditioned-village) FBI: FIN7 hackers target US companies with BadUSB devices to install ransomware (https://therecord.media/fbi-fin7-hackers-target-us-companies-with-badusb-devices-to-install-ransomware/) See also: D&G 138 (https://dgshow.org/138) (from 2017!) Almost related: Remote staff are using ‘mouse movers’ to keep their computer awake and fool the boss (https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/09/remote-staff-use-mouse-movers-to-keep-laptops-awake-and-fool-bosses-15741764/) Chinese scientists develop AI ‘prosecutor’ that can press its own charges (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3160997/chinese-scientists-develop-ai-prosecutor-can-press-its-own) "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision." (https://photos.app.goo.gl/Mi2jpYcpsCfiQKfH8) DoNotPay: This 'Robot Lawyer' Might Save Your Banned Social Media Account (https://gizmodo.com/this-robot-lawyer-might-save-your-banned-social-media-a-1848260777) Akron police investigating after 58-foot bridge goes missing (https://fox8.com/news/akron-police-investigating-after-58-foot-bridge-went-missing/) Suspect charged after 58-foot bridge stolen in Akron (https://fox8.com/news/suspect-charged-after-58-foot-bridge-stolen-in-akron/) Cutting Room Floor * Blower (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blower/id335862325): Blow out candles with iPhone! * How Does This App Blow Out Candles? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX6XSs2T5Go) * Henry Kissinger fulfilling his dream of being a weatherman. (http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/henry_kissinger_weatherman) * What your favorite sad dad band says about you (https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-sad-dad-band-says-about-you) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! iPhone, email, Kevin Rose, Allendale, Austin, Texas, air conditioning, FIN7, BadUSB, ransomware, Arduino, Arduino Leonardo, open source, mouse movers, mouse jigglers, management, AI, prosecution, AI prosecutor, DoNotPay, robot lawyers, Akron, bridges, theft, larsony, Blower, candles, Henry Kissinger, weather, dad bands This week Dave and Gunnar talk about automating ransomware, automating prosecution, automating defense attorneys, and a bridge

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]]> Episode 230: Need Some Gom Jabbars https://dgshow.org/230 8ebc719f-e1cf-4f81-a03d-94944bffb759 Thu, 23 Dec 2021 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fake faces, fake fingers, and fake code 33:57 no Dave read Dune (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44767458-dune) [The Dune Encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDuneEncyclopedia) Luminations (https://www.wildflower.org/event/luminations/2021-12-09) Antiwork Receipt Printers (https://www.engadget.com/someone-is-hacking-receipt-printers-with-pro-worker-messages-115040881.html) Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/11/arrest-in-ransom-your-employer-email-scheme/) Real-time deepfakes could bring chaos to your next Zoom call (https://www.dailydot.com/debug/deepfacelive-deepfake-live-streaming/) Check the examples: GitHub - iperov/DeepFaceLive (https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive) Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/2/22758974/microsoft-teams-metaverse-mesh-3d-avatars-meetings-features) Biometric auth bypassed using fingerprint photo, printer, and glue (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/biometric-auth-bypassed-using-fingerprint-photo-printer-and-glue/) Dr. David A. Wheeler (https://dgshow.org/guests/dwheeler), call your office: ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/11/trojan-source-bug-threatens-the-security-of-all-code/) Cutting Room Floor * We're Not Gonna Take It - Mariah Carey Christmas Special (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf2VErVh4CQ) * Living, Growing Plant Wig! (https://www.instructables.com/Living-Growing-Plant-Wig/) * Long eggs (https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/long_eggs) * The Neural Yorker (https://twitter.com/NeuralYorker) * How Not to Write a Caption (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/segments/how-not-write-caption) * Tumblr blog link (https://shittynewyorkercartooncaptions.tumblr.com/) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Dune, Luminations, receipt printers, unionization, labor, port 9100, 9100, ransomware, Sociogram, deepfakes, video conferencing, metaverse, Microsoft Teams, biometrics, fingerprints, wood glue, acetate, Dr. David A. Wheeler, trojan source, bidi, unicode, Twisted Sister, We're Not Gonna Take It, Mariah Carey, All I Want for Christmas Is You, plant wigs, Chia Pets, long eggs, Neural Yorker, New Yorker, cartoons, captions
  • Dave read Dune
  • Luminations
  • Antiwork Receipt Printers
  • Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme
  • Real-time deepfakes could bring chaos to your next Zoom call
  • Biometric auth bypassed using fingerprint photo, printer, and glue
  • Dr. David A. Wheeler, call your office: ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code

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  • Dave read Dune
  • Luminations
  • Antiwork Receipt Printers
  • Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme
  • Real-time deepfakes could bring chaos to your next Zoom call
  • Biometric auth bypassed using fingerprint photo, printer, and glue
  • Dr. David A. Wheeler, call your office: ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code

    • Cutting Room Floor

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    • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
    ]]>     Episode 229: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss https://dgshow.org/229 fd668fd0-1309-4de1-b92d-95a1b55e9599 Sat, 18 Dec 2021 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about getting more out of employees, noses, math, and jobs! 31:58 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about getting more out of employees, noses, math, and jobs! Dune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00nnKL87EwE) RHEL 9 Beta (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-rhel-90-beta) Pine Gap (https://www.netflix.com/title/80195198) Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/wanted-disgruntled-employees-to-deploy-ransomware/) Digital Nose Stimulation Enables Smelling in Stereo (https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-nose-stimulation-enables-smelling-in-stereo) A&W Turns its 'Worst Marketing Fail' Into a New Burger (https://www.qsrmagazine.com/news/aw-turns-its-worst-marketing-fail-new-burger) How Twitter Applied the “Jobs to Be Done” Approach to Strategy (https://hbr.org/2021/10/how-twitter-applied-the-jobs-to-be-done-approach-to-strategy) Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure (https://hbr.org/2005/12/marketing-malpractice-the-cause-and-the-cure) Cutting Room Floor * Hot dog candy canes (https://mcphee.com/collections/new/products/hot-dog-candy-canes) * Gilbert Gottfried reads the Bitcoin White Paper because you were too lazy to read it yourself (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGOOmcC5Cpw) * Straight Outta Compton - Oktoberfest Edition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLY4TsZBExY) * Create Some Cool Fart Licks With This Guitar Pedal Tuned for Toots (https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/651722/guitar-pedal-adds-farts-music) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Dune, IMAX, RHEL, RHEL 9, Pine Gap, Netflix, ransomware, stereo, smelling, smells, olfactory bulb, trigeminal nerve, A&W, burgers, math, 1/3, 1/4, 3/9, Twitter, jobs to be done, hot dogs, candy canes, Gilbert Gottfried, Bitcoin, Bitcoin whitepaper, Straight Outta Compton, Oktoberfest, guitar pedals This week Dave and Gunnar talk about getting more out of employees, noses, math, and jobs!

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    ]]>     Episode 224: Smells Like Sauerkraut https://dgshow.org/224 066877d6-6810-445e-8263-22a76751d94e Thu, 12 Aug 2021 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the norms of dream coercion, the norms of encrypted messaging, and the norms of ransomware game theory 41:23 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about the norms of dream coercion, the norms of encrypted messaging, and the norms of ransomware game theory Bo Burnham’s “Inside” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU) Foo Fighters at the ICON Music Center (https://iconmusiccenter.com/) Are advertisers coming for your dreams? (https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/are-advertisers-coming-your-dreams) Silent Lucidity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhat-xUQ6dw) by Queensryche Unrelated: Sleep Sensing on Nest Hub (2nd gen) (https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/10357288) Also unrelated: Amazon.com Wants to Monitor You in Your Sleep, for Your Benefit (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-09/amazon-com-wants-to-monitor-you-in-your-sleep-for-your-benefit) We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals (https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7b4gg/anom-phone-arcaneos-fbi-backdoor) Why everyone should use disappearing messages on WhatsApp and Signal (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/whatsapp-signal-disappearing-messages) Related XKCD (https://xkcd.com/538/) Opinion | Could Ransomware Become a Geopolitical Weapon? Game Theory Says Yes. (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/07/08/ransomware-game-theory-geopolitics-cyber-attack-498625) Cutting Room Floor * Smells Like Teen Spirit Cover In Classical Latin (75 BC to 3rd Century AD) Bardcore (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk) * Frozen’s “Let It Go” Performed in Klingon (https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/606709/frozens-let-it-go-in-klingon) * “Don’t Stop Believin’” Performed in Klingon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOJoOtk7Scw) * Subterranean Homesick Blues Performed in a Regional Jet Restroom (https://www.openculture.com/2021/06/the-airline-toilets-theatre-company.html) as performed by the Airline Toilets Theatre Company (and member of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (https://www.ukuleleorchestra.com/)) * ”Take on Me” Performed by Face Smacking (https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/o137d0/oc_i_discovered_that_i_can_play_a_melody_by/) * Sublime Text (https://what-i-got.glitch.me/) to get What I Got We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Bo Burnham, Inside, Foo Fighters, ICON Music Center, advertising, lucid dreams, lucid dreaming, Silent Lucidity, Queensryche, Nest Hub, Amazon, Alexa, FBI, criminals, Anom, Android, WhatsApp, Signal, ephemeral messaging, XKCD, ransomware, geopolitics, Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Latin, Frozen, Let It Go, Journey, Don't Stop Believin', Klingon, Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues, regional jet restrooms, a-ha, Take on Me, face smacking, Sublime, What I got This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the norms of dream coercion, the norms of encrypted messaging, and the norms of ransomware game theory

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    • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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    ]]>     Episode 141: Download This Podcast Or We Shoot This CloudPet https://dgshow.org/141 7dc6967d-097f-4c2b-909e-fb8da531f00d Tue, 25 Apr 2017 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: remotely controlling dolls, remotely controlling computers, remotely controlling football teams, and remotely controlling TVs (but w/o a TV remote control) 22:31 no Two million recordings of families imperiled by cloud-connected toys' crappy MongoDB (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/cloudpets_database_leak/) CloudPets' woes worsen: Webpages can turn kids' stuffed toys into creepy audio bugs (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/cloudpets_woes_worsen_mics_can_be_pwned/) Exploit code has been open sourced here (https://github.com/pdjstone/cloudpets-web-bluetooth) Speaking of remote control… Watch: The first pro football team where fans called the plays. Here's what happened. (http://www.si.com/indoor-football/salt-lake-screaming-eagles-nebraska-danger-indoor-football-league) Satan enters roll-your-own ransomware game (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/23/satan_enters_blackhat_ransomware_game/) Ransomware for Dummies: Anyone Can Do It (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/03/ransomware-for-dummies-anyone-can-do-it/) Dave got published 4x How agencies can take a page out of industry's open playbooks (https://fcw.com/articles/2017/01/27/comment-egts-open.aspx) How to get up and running with sweet Orange Pi (https://opensource.com/article/17/1/how-to-orange-pi) Internet-enable your microcontroller projects for under $6 with ESP8266 (https://opensource.com/article/17/2/internet-microcontroller-board-esp8266) Book review: Up to no good with 'Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents' (https://opensource.com/article/17/3/book-review-raspberry-pi-secret-agents) Faking TV Remote Control with Paper and a Lighter (http://hackaday.com/2017/02/07/faking-tv-remote-control-with-paper-and-lighter/) Cutting Room Floor KISS is selling air guitar strings! (http://dangerousminds.net/comments/kiss_is_selling_air_guitar_strings) 45 minutes of Paul Stanley’s stage banter (http://dangerousminds.net/comments/kiss_this_45_shitastic_minutes_of_paul_stanleys_stage_banter) This Gallery Of Vintage Clowns Proves They’ve Always Been Scary (http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/this-gallery-of-vintage-clowns-proves-theyve-always-been-scary/) (see all 3 pages!)
  • Two million recordings of families imperiled by cloud-connected toys' crappy MongoDB
  • CloudPets' woes worsen: Webpages can turn kids' stuffed toys into creepy audio bugs
    • Exploit code has been open sourced here
  • Speaking of remote control… Watch: The first pro football team where fans called the plays. Here's what happened.
  • Satan enters roll-your-own ransomware game
  • Ransomware for Dummies: Anyone Can Do It
  • Dave got published 4x
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  • Two million recordings of families imperiled by cloud-connected toys' crappy MongoDB
  • CloudPets' woes worsen: Webpages can turn kids' stuffed toys into creepy audio bugs
    • Exploit code has been open sourced here
  • Speaking of remote control… Watch: The first pro football team where fans called the plays. Here's what happened.
  • Satan enters roll-your-own ransomware game
  • Ransomware for Dummies: Anyone Can Do It
  • Dave got published 4x
  • Faking TV Remote Control with Paper and a Lighter

    • Cutting Room Floor

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