Truth emerges from the clash of ideas.

We follow up on critical feedback of last week's show. Dave describes how online extortionists have pivoted from sex to explosives. We've got an auto-responding catch of the day from one of Joe's colleagues. Guest is Sean Brooks, Director of the Citizen Clinic and a Research Fellow at the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley. He shares their research into online attacks of politically vulnerable organizations.

From our EV certs follow-up:

https://www.troyhunt.com/extended-validation-certificates-are-dead/

https://casecurity.org/2018/12/06/ca-security-council-casc-2019-predictions-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

Bomb threat catch of the day:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/extortion-emails-carrying-bomb-threats-cause-panic-across-the-us/

Sean Brooks interview:

Report: http://cltc.berkeley.edu/defendingpvos/

Clinic: http://cltc.berkeley.edu/citizen-clinic/

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