Security News > 2021 > December > S3 Ep62: The S in IoT stands for security (and much more) [Podcast+Transcript]

DUCK. That's worrying, because when I checked my Tor browser version, it didn't have the latest NSS, but it had a more recent one than 1999, so that timestamp may be wrong.

DUCK. Yes, of all the browsers that you probably want to avoid having [LAUGHS] exploitable privacy violating holes in.

DUCK. Yes, Chester and I spoke about that in a recent podcast, I think when you were on vacation, Doug.

DUCK. I suspect that will be the most controversial with manufacturers, because they'll go, "Well, we don't know. It depends. We might not sell many of that device, and then we'll make another one, and that sells brilliantly. And we don't have to put the same amount of security effort into both of them."

DUCK. I'm guessing that they're remembering that Poly Networks hack that we spoke about a few weeks back, where somebody pinched $600 million, if you don't mind, and then started bragging about it.

DUCK. The thing is, why would it be *faster*?

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