Anniversary Kitten BBQ: Biometrics for all the wrong reasons

Episode: 51Published: 3/28/2023

Biometric Authentication going mainstream for all the wrong reasons

• Panera Bread announced that they are rolling out biometric identification system as a part of their loyalty program
• Windows Hello was hacked back in 2021 with security researchers being able to fake a USB camera, feed Hello an image, and get Hello to unlock
• Amazon is closing the Go at a pace
• Amazon was also sued in New York City for inadequately informing customers of just how much surveillance goes on in there
• In 2021 a report came out showing that Amazon had no real security policy to speak of, and that all customer data was basically available to everyone inside the company
• There are many pages out there that list Amazon���s myriad failures to protect customer data

Lightning Round

• Even Consultants Get the Blues
• For the millionth time, we don���t have to change passwords every 90 days
• Look MA, the FTC is doing something good!
• TikTok CEO testifies to Congress: Everyone ends up looking bad
• Creator of the first Ethernet, Robert Metcalfe wins Turing Award
• CISA releases weirdly named tool to help investigate possible Microsoft 365 breaches

Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022