Episode 42 - Advocates for the Masses

<p>10 minutes before rolling, our show notes were empty. This is what you get when you are dealing with professionals.</p><p>This week in Infosec</p><p>Tweet of the Week</p><p>Billy Big Balls</p><p>Rant of the week</p><p>Industry News</p><p>Sticky Pickle of the Week</p><p> </p><p><strong>This week in Infosec</strong></p><p>(Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account):</p><p>11th February: </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>1956: 'Cambridge spies' surface in Moscow</p><p>Two British diplomats who vanished in mysterious circumstances five years ago have reappeared in the Soviet Union.</p><p>Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean handed a statement to four representatives from the press in a hotel room overlooking Moscow's Red Square.</p><p>In their 1,000-word statement the former diplomats denied ever having been Soviet agents.</p><p>They said they had come to the USSR to "work for the aim of better understanding between the Soviet Union and the West".</p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/11/newsid_2721000/2721413.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/11/newsid_2721000/2721413.stm</a></p><p>Agent Garbo: <a href="https://www.mi5.gov.uk/agent-garbo">https://www.mi5.gov.uk/agent-garbo</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Billy Big Balls</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/12/kpmg-bill-michael-resigns-after-telling-staff-to-stop-moaning?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1613120699">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/12/kpmg-bill-michael-resigns-after-telling-staff-to-stop-moaning</a></p><p>KPMG’s UK chairman, Bill Michael, has resigned after telling staff to “stop moaning” during a virtual meeting about the coronavirus pandemic and the impact of lockdown on people’s lives.</p><p>Michael, who has headed the company since 2017, was speaking at a virtual town hall meeting on Monday with members of the firm’s financial services consulting team when he made the comments.</p><