Episode 139 - No Burt Bacharach Wrote The Tunes

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (09:53)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>10th February 199</p><p>Deep Blue Defeats Kasparov</p><p>In the first game of a six game match, IBM's Deep Blue chess computer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov. No computer had ever won a game against a world champion in chess. Kasparov would eventually win the series 4-2, but would lose to Deep Blue in a re-match a year later.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1623061186307584002">7th February 2000</a></p><p>Dennis Michael Moran (aka Coolio) performed a smurf attack against Yahoo's routers, causing its websites to be inaccessible for hours. Conversations on an IRC channel led to him being identified and convicted for a series of DDoS and website defacement crimes.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (16:34)</strong></p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/want-to-delete-your-twitter-dms-good-luck-with-that/">Want to delete your Twitter DMs? Good luck with that</a></p><p>People make requests to delete their private messages, but Twitter ignores them.</p><p>Twitter’s direct messages have always been a security liability. The DMs you send to friends and Internet strangers aren’t end-to-end encrypted, making your conversations potentially accessible if <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-mega-breach-what-if/">Twitter suffers a data breach</a>, or to company staffers with the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/elon-musk-s-twitter-trust-safety-head-ella-irwin-breaks-rules-for-him?leadSource=uverify%20wall">right permissions to access them</a>. </p><p>Both scenarios are arguably more likely in Elon Musk’s version of Twitter, where <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/15/twitter-elon-musk-acting-dpo/">key security and data protection staff have departed</a>.</p><p>Since Musk acquired Twitter and started <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/musk-layoffs-twitter-management/">layin