This Week's Stories

• Yet another capitulation in the (virtually lost) battle against tracking our behavior on the Internet with URL "ping" tracking.
• UK government's plan to legislate, police and enforce online social media content
• Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser's security
• Improvements to Windows 10's update management
• News from the "spoofing biometrics" department
• The worrisome state of Android mobile financial apps
• NSA's GHIDRA software reverse engineering tool suite
• Perhaps the dumbest thing Facebook has done yet (and by policy, not by mistake)
• An important change in Win10 1809 external storage caching policy

Hosts: Jason Howell and Steve Gibson

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