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SN 1031: How Salt Typhoon Gets In - What "AI" Really Means

2025/6/25
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  • China's Salt Typhoon claims another victim (or two).

  • State healthcare portals are tracking and leaking. No kidding.

  • Apple adopts FIDO's Passkeys and other credentials transport.

  • Facebook gets Passkey logon.

  • TikTok continues ticking for at least another 90 days.

  • Canadian telco admits they were infiltrated by Salt Typhoon.

  • Microsoft to remove unwanted (and hopefully unneeded) hardware drivers.

  • The Austrian government legislates court-warranted message decryption.

  • I (Steve) finally get full clarity on what today's "AI" means.

  • A deep dive into the Salt Typhoon's operation and how they got in

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1031-Notes.pdf)

Hosts: Steve Gibson) and Leo Laporte)

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