Episode 44 - Fly My Pretties, Fly!

<p><strong>This week in Infosec</strong></p><p>Liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account:</p><p>25th February 1989: Knight Lightning published an Enhanced 911 technical doc (it had been stolen from a BellSouth computer) to Phrack under the pseudonym "The Eavesdropper".</p><p><a href="http://phrack.org/issues/24/5.html#article">http://phrack.org/issues/24/5.html#article</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Riggs">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Riggs</a></p><p>On This Day: Feb. 25, 2005, authorities arrested Dennis Rader, a municipal employee and church leader, for the so-called BTK (blind, torture, kill) serial killings that terrorized Wichita, Kan. Rader was convicted and sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms.</p><p>Between 1974 and 1991, he murdered at least 10 people in Wichita, Kansas. He apparently got away with it for over a decade.</p><p>In 2004 an article was published suggesting that nobody remembered him.</p><p>Desperate for notoriety, he began to write to the police and media gloating and showboating.</p><p>In 2005 he sent a floppy disk with some bragging. When police examined the disk, they found metadata of an old word document on it which revealed the name of the Church where he worked and his surname.</p><p><a href="https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/how_the_cops_caught_btk">https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/how_the_cops_caught_btk</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Big Balls of the Week</strong></p><p>I use an email tracker to spy on people I work with. This is why</p><p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/email-trackers-how-to-work-b1806723.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/email-trackers-how-to-work-b1806723.html</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p>Apple has long held its position on iCloud backups. It has focused on usability rather than total security. If a user changes iPhone and wants all their old iMessages, the easiest way to retrieve them is by getting Apple to store an