Episode 132 - The Dan Cuthbert Keynote Episode

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec (11:40)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>7th December 1999: RIAA Sues Napster</p><p>The <a href="http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/12/1207riaa-sues-napster/">Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file sharing service Napster</a> alleging copyright infringement for allowing users to download copyrighted music for free. The RIAA would eventually win injunctions against Napster forcing the service to suspend operations and eventually file bankruptcy. In the end the RIAA and its members would settle with Napster’s financial backers for hundreds of millions of dollars.</p><p>While the case was ostensibly about copyright violations, the bigger picture for the RIAA was also about control. The recording industry in general was caught with its pants down when it came to digital music and the Internet. They were not prepared for the sudden popularity of digital music downloads that Napster introduced and were not ready with a model to monetise downloaded music. This lawsuit, along with future lawsuits targeting individuals, was intended to squash the practice of downloading music as much as it was to recover compensation. However, the practice of downloading music could not be stopped as other non-centralised peer-to-peer file sharing services popped up in place of Napster. </p><p>4th December 2001: Goner Worm Hits the Internet</p><p>Disguised as a screen saver and spread through an infected user’s Microsoft Outlook e-mail software, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98170">the Goner worm spreads through the Internet</a> at a pace second only to the <a href="https://thisdayintechhistory.com/05/04/love-stinks/">Love Bug virus</a> the previous year. Goner was estimated to cause about $80 million dollars in damage.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (20:41)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/08/apple_encryption_icloud/">Egad, did Apple do somethi