Security Now 1029: The Illusion of Thinking

• In memoriam: Bill Atkinson
• Meta native apps & JavaScript collude for a localhost local mess.
• The EU rolls out its own DNS4EU filtered DNS service.
• Ukraine DDoS's Russia's Railway DNS ... and... so what?
• The Linux Foundation creates an alternative Wordpress package manager.
• Court tells OpenAI it must NOT delete ANYONE's chats. Period! :(
• A CVSS 10.0 in Erlang/OTP's SSH library.
• Can Russia intercept Telegram? Perhaps.
• Spain's ISPs mistakenly block Google sites.
• Reddit sues Anthropic.
• Twitter's new encrypted DM's are as lame as the old ones.
• The Login.gov site may not have any backups.
• Apple explores the question of recent Large Reasoning Models "thinking"

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1029-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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