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Oct 2024
2h 32m

SN 996: BIMI (up Scotty) - NPD Goes Brok...

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About this episode
  • uBlock Origin to the rescue
  • National Public Data files for bankruptcy
  • Will the .IO top level domain be disappearing?
  • Patch Tuesday
  • Firefox under attack
  • Miscellany
  • Sci-Fi
  • The Sequence
  • uBlock Origin
  • Eero Routers
  • Pep Link Router
  • BIMI (up Scotty)

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-996-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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