Tech Co No-Nos: Recent Episodes
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A podcast about tech companies behaving badly. Join Riley and Jay as we explore the intricacies of technology and society gone wrong.
In today's Pod we have a guest! Riley, Jay, and Byron brave DRM, DMCA takedowns, and Elon Musk for your listening pleasure.
The Sources (we have a lot of them this time)
Bloomberg (boo, also soft paywall) - Microsoft and Apple Wage War on Gadget Right-to-Repair Laws
NPR - Apple Agrees To Pay $113 Million To Settle 'Batterygate' Case Over iPhone Slowdowns
ifixit - Apple Emails Reveal Internal Debate on Right to Repair
MacRumors - Apple Fights Proposed Right to Repair Legislation With Warnings of Consumer Harm
MacRumors - Apple Lobbies Against 'Right to Repair' Bill Over Privacy Concerns of Third Party Repair Shops Accessing User Data
NY Times (soft paywall) - Fix, or Toss? The ‘Right to Repair’ Movement Gains Ground
EFF - John Deere Really Doesn’t Want You to Own That Tractor
Agri Pulse - A ‘right-to-repair’ conversation with a John Deere exec
Motherboard - Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly
Wired - John Deere Just Swindled Farmers out of Their Right to Repair
sick.codes - Leaky John Deere API’s: Serious Food Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Discovered by Sick Codes, Kevin Kenney & Willie Cade.
Forbs (boo) - 184 Years In: Ag Giant John Deere Awaits Its First Software Vulnerability
Vice - Newly Passed Right-to-Repair Law Will Fundamentally Change Tesla Repair
electrek - Tesla dissolves its PR department — a new first in the industry
electrek - Tesla is making ‘DLCs for cars’ and it might just be the beginning
The Manual - BMW’s In-Car Subscription Feature Is a No-Good, Terrible Idea
The Drive - Tesla Can Detect Aftermarket Hacks Designed to Defeat EV Performance Paywalls
Motherboard - 'I’m Possibly Alive Because It Exists:' Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely on a CPAP Machine Hacker
The Register - Proprietary software puts pacemaker users at risk
Popular Mechanics - Hospitals Need to Fix Ventilators. Why Won't Manufacturers Let Them?
U.S. PIRG - Right to Repair is a simple way to cut health care costs
Louis Rossmann - STERIS fights efforts to repair medical equipment, sends iFixit cease & desist.
On the very fourth episode of Tech Co No-Nos we have a quick chat about Turbo Tax, Intuit, and the whole shady industry of tax preparation.
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
IRS Urges E-Filing — But by Vendors Only, Please
The IRS Admits It Doesn’t Audit the Rich Because It’s Too Hard
Today on the pod we talk about Zoom's sloppy security practices and how it misleads the public about end to end encryption.
Mac Camera Exploit
Facebook API Misuse
Zoom lies about E2E Encryption
Today we discuss privacy on the web (or rather the lack thereof) covering cookies, AMP links, and FLoC.
Our sources:
Firefox blocks cookies by default - PC Magazine
Why Google AMP is a threat to the Open Web - socPub
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea - EFF
Today we discuss algorithmic bias in computing.
Our sources:
Technically Wrong
The Wall Street Journal
A Popular Algorithm Is No Better at Predicting Crimes Than Random People - The Atlantic
Whistleblowers: Software Bug Keeping Hundreds Of Inmates In Arizona Prisons Beyond Release Dates - KJZZ