Smashing Security podcast #466: Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired

Meta’s smart glasses promise privacy “designed for you” – but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in Nairobi to label by hand. When those workers blew the whistle, Meta sacked all 1,108 of them.

Meanwhile, the IT press is in a frenzy over a new Linux bug called “Copy Fail” – complete with logo, dedicated website, and a marketing-friendly name. But is it really the disaster everyone’s making it out to be?

And in our featured interview, Jake Moore of ESET explains how he tricked a company into offering his deepfake clone a job – after a perfectly normal-looking video interview.

All this and more in episode 466 of the “Smashing Security” podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, joined this week by special guest Paul Ducklin.

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Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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Smashing Security podcast #466: Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired

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