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Show Notes:

Google Will Survive SESTA. Your Startup Might Not.

• Requires unreliastic levels of censorship by platforms; not even the big players will be able to comply 100%

• Proponents consider startups to be outliers, which “will be successfully prosecuted, civilly and criminally under this law”.

• Proponents are overstating the effectiveness of filtering

• Proposed standards actually discourage platforms from filtering

Companies Look to an Old Technology to Protect Against New Threats

• Tape is an old techology. It is also highly reliable and stable

• Tape sales are increasing

• Yep, backup to NAS is great, but do you have different versions of your data?

CBS’s Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers’ web browsers

• This isn’t about CBS. It’s about the potential for abuse by website owners

• Code unlikely to be official sanctioned / added by CBS; mure more likely it was a malicious third party or insider.

• The email address associated with the mining account is personal, not corporate

• Ethical issues for content providers to figure out

Feedback

• Funny sounds throughout the show

• Cox checking for credit score

Round Up:

• One week after

• SEC Announces Enforcement Initiatives to Combat Cyber-Based Threats and Protect Retail Investors

• APFS AND HFS+ BENCHMARKS

• What’s New in PostgreSQL 10?

• a 160-terabits-per-second cable

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