HTML emails can be a serious security risk. Simple version of the risk is that using the style-setting CSS feature of HTML email, completely different content can be substituted in various email viewing situations. The differning presentations can be used for phishing and other ill-intended games. More technical explanation: https://lutrasecurity.com/en/articles/kobold-letters/ What is Kobold? Kobold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobold […]

Is your signal going to be allowed to get out? Will it be spoofed? Will you be recorded? Will an “artificial you” be created from those recorded samples? Will your GPS-disciplined equipment be accurate (time and/or location)? All good questions. Working from the last question up, check out a little on GPS jamming: https://gpsjam.org/ It […]

Caught just before widespread distribution, few hams will have been exposed by this exploit which literally took years to install into a library of Linux. The exploit is well explained at (note there continues to be more coming out on this): Here is the ham radio minded takeaway – we need to always remember that […]