Latest Ultralight Podcast Episodes
331: Bonsai Herbs
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - April 13, 2024 01:37 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric pulls out the BBQ, taunting the Rain Gods. Jon checks on his bees and deserves a third wire. Hackers lure folks with AI promises from hijacked social accounts while a software supply chain narrowly avoids a big oopsie. Eric dips his toes in hydroponic herb gardening while Jon eyes smart con...
330: Robust Investigation
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - April 06, 2024 14:34 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric gets back home from vacation and Jon (tries to) defy range anxiety in his new car. Google has a proposed settlement for their harvesting of incognito browsers and the big AT&T breach has 'encrypted' PINs but are easily reversed. The first Neuralink transplant recipient pulls an all nighter ...
329: It Looks Exactly Like the License Plate
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - March 30, 2024 16:46 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric and Jon chat about vacations, Jon looks for whales in Washington while Eric searches for license plates in Utah. Eric finds 3 million hotel room doors can be opened while Jon finds a company playing boths sides. Eric discovers he's a Lightweaver while Jon is an Elsecaller who also likes a w...
328: Taunting Spring
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - March 22, 2024 23:51 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsPi day, wasps about, new 3d printer, Dune 2, and a bee update. Stroustrup objects to the characterization of (modern) C++ as unsafe (but are any projects in C++ fully modern??), Apex Legends tourney participants forced to cheat, swappers come for the eSIMs, and your connected car is probably sel...
327: I'm Not Confused
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - March 16, 2024 17:21 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric survives a birthday at Benihana, laments the inability to game the system and looks forward to building a new 3D Printer. Jon is giddily gearing up for bee season and educates Eric on Yellowjackets. Roku discovers what its user accounts are worth on the dark web and Jon needs to update his ...
326: 3d Printer Brick
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - March 09, 2024 14:57 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric's 'things are breaking' woes continue and Jon has a nice trip to UW. Info stealers are targeting ChatGPT creds, beware cheap IOT devices (like that's new advice), and Anycubic's cloud MQTT service is hacked (or misconfigured). Bumblebees exhibit cumulative culture (!!), Eric says to watch R...
325: Building a Sarcophagus
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - March 01, 2024 03:49 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric has a phone again! AT&T: 1, Apple: 0... then discovers wind chimes are not awesome at 4am. Jon puts his woodworking skills to ancient use and starts housing chickens in the bathroom. Don't miss the private lander relaxing on the moon. The White House says "Use Memory Safe Programming Langua...
324: Atomic Freeze Frame
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - February 24, 2024 16:28 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric wardials and Jon fails to locate. Falling for scams is easier than you think and how threat actors are using LLMs. Oregon fails to adopt standard time, NASAs new moon landing, and snapshotting activity on the attosecond scale. 0:00 - Intro 12:48 - Eric Topic 18:26 - {color}{weather eve...
323: Wallow into a Hole
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - February 16, 2024 01:10 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSportsball weekend. Jon can't pause TV and he's annoyed. Eric still has negative opinions of JavaScript and adds cell towers to the list. Followup on political ad clones. Eric uses ChatGPT to find missing US States. Almost. LassPass is not a Dating App. Phishception is the word of the day. FTC s...
322: No Words Minced
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - February 10, 2024 15:26 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric Laser Tags and Jon's bees are (mostly) alive; arrests in a 400m crypto heist that may or may not have been from FTX, and the FBI cleans up old routers infected with a PRC botnet; a Chinese company announces new hyperloop speed record, and the winners of the Scrollprize demonstrate extractin...
321: Bacterial DOOM
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - February 03, 2024 02:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric has an eye for pain while Jon admires his bees and discovers upgrade issues with his TV. Google ads can send you to malicious software and Facebook has 2000+ companies send them your data. Doom runs everywhere, including bacteria while gene therapy treats hearing loss for kids. 0:00 - Intr...
320: Onion Volcano
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - January 27, 2024 17:34 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe Oregon Thaw has happened and Eric and Jon can leave their houses. There was much rejoicing. Are or will AI Sleeper Agents be a thing, a President Biden Deepfake encouraging New Hampshire voters to stay home, and an extremely large data breach posted to Have I Been Pwned. For fun, the soon to...
319: Ice Skating in the Backyard
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - January 20, 2024 00:58 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIt is all about the Ice. Kids out of school, but no Snow Days for the WFH crowd - and Jon avoids walking out his front door. Serving a court summons via Bitcoin is now a thing and irritating Mandiant is generally not a good move. Eric shares fun facts about Ice and Jon talks Noble Gas Clusters. ...
318: Cloudy With A Chance Of Cellphones
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - January 13, 2024 22:56 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric struggles with plane and weather issues (thanks Alaska!), and Jon drives in the Snow. Researchers demonstrate Denial of Wrench, the SEC is hacked to promote Bitcoin ETFs so they join the party, and Ransomware in 2023. For fun we have the Peregrine lunar lander and the first (?) person to be...
317: Not A Pleasant Noise
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - January 05, 2024 23:01 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHappy New Year! Adult Diapers, what? Eric jumps a car, Jon eats brisket and has a stinkin' dishwasher. Security Best Practices for Earth and Beyond with more Triangulation Details. Eric likes a space picture and Jon shares a handful of the Good Stories you missed in 2023. 0:00 - Introduction ...
316: A Firestick, Hotel TV, And A Mobile Phone
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - December 30, 2023 15:19 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsJon has a relaxing Christmas while Eric faces More Water Issues. Also, tire size matters. The first two Lapsus$ teens are sentenced in the UK, Japan plans to crack down on app stores, Ukraine hacks back for Kyivstar, and SSH servers under attack. What is a Flow Battery and is it better than Lith...
315: Poprocks are next...
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - December 22, 2023 06:14 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric recounts a 2500 mile roadtrip that includes a kidnapping while Jon enjoys concert week. Eric has a secret shoe shopping habit that has been compromized while Jon moots about a map mess. Garage chemists powered by ChatGPT and the world revolves around checks. 0:00 - Introduction 10:36 - V...
314: Magic Is Real
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - December 16, 2023 14:24 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric and Jon depart in two directions on road trips, Vans, Zoo Lights, and Bee Hives. Binance will be scoured for {evil,taxes}, Beeper Blues, and Push Notification spying by governments. A fun bonanza with We Are Bob, Humane, and Cassiopeia A in stereo(-ish). 0:00 - Intro 11:23 - Binance Scou...
313: A Spinny Router
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - December 09, 2023 02:53 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric gets a new toy and installs a license plate holder thanks to Amazon - and no thanks to Amazon subscriptions. Jon gets his new router table set up and finds a photo frustration. Eric uses an (invalid) excuse to be annoyed with JavaScript while Jon checks in on iOS zero-days and Citrix bugs. ...
312: Nice And Cozy
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - December 02, 2023 16:01 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric travels for Thanksgiving and Jon goes there and back again. Adversarial ML against LLMs, whether generated code is secure (it's not), the demise of a Crypto Drainer, and a complaint against Meta's new policy of pay-us-so-we-don't-track-you. For fun we have the California Railroad Museum and...
311: The Next Domino
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - November 24, 2023 04:59 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHappy Thanksgiving Everyone! Eric goes to visit family in California, Jon does a lot of driving and preemptively eats pumpkin pie. Fidelity National Financial has an ooopsie. Something something OpenAI something something. Binance is fined despite not being a US company. Eric takes the family to...
310: Squintworthy
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - November 18, 2023 18:52 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsJon constructs and Eric cleans house. Let google send your spam, bipartisan (??) surveillance reform bill, and how AI may change democracy. Quantitatively adults have better attention spans now than 30 years ago, and you should read Seth Ring's novels (start with the Titan series). 0:00 - Intro...
309: Nothing Untoward Going On
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - November 10, 2023 19:11 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric wrote some code and was reminded what "at the speed of government" means while Jon did some travel and acquired discount Halloween candy. Google introduces a real-time code analysis for side-loaded Android apps and Krebs drops some education on how criminal reshipping services work. Eric su...
308: Pollute The Internet
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - November 03, 2023 04:16 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric hobnobs with forecasters and Jon has an Electrical Mystery. How Kaspersky intercepted 'Operation Triangulation', Apple's new iMessage contact security, what if YouTube just used the tag, and maybe Microsoft shouldn't be putting 'generative AI engagement polls' next to *all* articles. For...
307: Migratory Gravel
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - October 28, 2023 01:59 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe rains have returned, Eric's Electric Car Experiment continues, Jon eats weeds and becomes tired. Despite an Oktaober event, 1Password is ok. IOS (the other IOS) has some issues to work through. A Space Winnebago is looking for a reentry permit from the FAA and Jon wants to buy some uncomfort...
Aviation News from Ireland Week October 23rd
Squawk7000 - Aviation news from Ireland, - October 22, 2023 18:51 - 13 minutesWelcome to Squawk 7000's weekly round-up of aviation news from Ireland, brought to you in partnership with Flying In Ireland.com and www.Pilot.ie, for the week starting October 23rd. The headlines this week; 1. "2023 Kinsale Aviation Festival Takes Place with 'Irish Airlines – Past, Prese...
306: Treat Wilma Right
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - October 21, 2023 16:20 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric gets a car and Jon doesn't quite get into an AirBnB. Sourdough and roast failures. Virtual gaming company hacked via Discord, a part time DJ selling fake or unqualified airplane parts, and Slack's Google Drive integration allows information disclosure. For fun we have roll your own ambient ...
305: Here Come the Passkeys!
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - October 14, 2023 01:06 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric gets some 100 year old sourdough starter and Jon gets an oboe fixed despite the Jason mixup. Microsoft reveals more on a CVE. Have you been squatted? Here Come the Passkeys! Confluence gets a perfect score. Cloud providers weather a DDoS. Eric reveals some astroid dust while Jon goes to wat...
Winter Bonus Edition
Squawk7000 - Aviation news from Ireland, - October 08, 2023 16:13 - 20 minutesGASCI hold regular events on safety - among the topics was flying in Winter - here's Gerry Humphrey's presentation that gets us ready for snow and ice. Ironically, we are publishing this on the warmest Sunday in October 2023. The General Aviation Safety Council of Ireland is a volunteer body com...
304: Fuzzed To The Nines
Backpacking Light Magazine Podcasts - October 07, 2023 14:53 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEric crochets and Jon ... doesn't. Deep fakes of Hanks, Gayle King, and Mr. Beast, Google to enforce eMail security standards to send to gMail users, and highs and lows of reproducing a tricky zero day in the libwebp library. For fun we have the Nimbus EV -- a small three wheeled, two seater ele...
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