Episode 176 - The Jingle Free Episode

<p><strong>This week in InfoSec  (09:40)</strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><p>24th November 2014: The Washington Post published an article which included a photo of TSA master keys. A short time later functional keys were 3-d printed using the key patterns in the photo. </p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1728048404452782497">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1728048404452782497</a></p><p>26th November 2001: "In an effort to turn the tide in the war on terrorism", Cult of the Dead Cow offered its expertise to the FBI. How did it plan on helping? By architecting a new version of Back Orifice for use by the US federal government.</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025180334/http://w3.cultdeadcow.com/cms/2001/11/the-cult-of-the.html">"THE CULT OF THE DEAD COW OFFERS A HELPING HAND IN AMERICA'S TIME OF NEED"</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1728998509033238952">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1728998509033238952</a>   </p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week (18:55)</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/01/interpol_biohub_arrest/">Interpol makes first border arrest using Biometric Hub to ID suspect</a></p><p>European police have for the first time made an arrest after remotely checking Interpol's trove of biometric data to identify a suspected smuggler.</p><p>The fugitive migrant, we're told, gave a fake name and phony identification documents at a police check in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, while traveling toward Western Europe. And he probably would have got away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids Interpol's Biometric Hub – a recently activated tool that uses French identity and biometrics vendor Idemia's technology to match people's biometric data against the multinational policing org's global fingerprint and facial recognition databases.</p><p>"When the smuggler's photo was run through the Biometric Hub, it immediately fla