Facebook and Encryption, Ransomware, Black Hat / Def Con, and More!
This week's stories
• A widespread false alarm about Facebook's planned subversion of end-to-end encryption
• Still more municipality Ransomware attacks
• Anti-encryption saber rattling among the Five Eyes nations
• Microsoft's discovery of Russian-backed IoT compromise
• Chrome 76's changes
• Black Hat and Def Con preview
• The challenge of synchronizing a working set of files between two locations
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Hosts: Steve Gibson, Leo Laporte
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