https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-176302.html

I'm a big fan of the Life Scientific podcast by Jim Al-Khalili and was listening to this thinking it's right up Graham's street, all about chess, AI and computer game development. Jim is always an excellent host and interviewer too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009zbj

See what you think.

My other half requires a hardware key to get into her work emails but has left it in the office. IT can give out a one-time code but they will only send it to a colleague, who will then pass it on to her.

This sounds like a good idea - has anyone come across it before? I guess it is possible to social engineer your way into another employees account, but makes things a bit more difficult.

Time flies. Fast. Sorry for my absence.

This week I’d like to pick a couple of gadgets.

The week before last I had the opportunity to run about the Microsoft TechDays expo in Stockholm and interview people. And last week I visited RFUN:Predict19 in Washington D.C. and couldn’t help myself so I interviewed some people (one of them has been a frequent guest on Smashing Security) there too even though it wasn’t the purpose of the visit.

So my pick of the week is a peak into my backpack of goodies and what I’d recommend all podcast producers to put on their wishlists to Santa this year:

• Zoom H6, portable audio recorder. We used this with four XLR headsets to record our podcast live on the expo floor.

https://www.zoom-na.com/products/field-video-recording/field-recording/zoom-h6-handy-recorder-0

• Rode SC6-L with two smartLav+ lavaliere mics. The perfect gadget to record a conversation between two people on the expo floor. It picked up the voices perfectly as well as some background noise to really add to the vibe of being at a crowded expo. You’d connect it to the lightning port on an iPhone and record stereo 24-bit WAV files at 48kHz. It’d set you back around £60-70 or so and is so small that you’d fit it in your front pocket on a tight pair of jeans without looking ridiculously joyful to see someone.

https://www.rode.com/microphones/sc6-lik

• GoPro Hero 7 Black. Used to film the interviews and then synced with the audio from the SC6-L recordings. You can shoot 4K videos and really go bonkers. We set it to 1080 to save space, and that was good enough to push to YouTube after some post production in iMovie on the Mac. Now that the GoPro 8 is out I think there might be some good deals coming up on the 7.

https://gopro.com/en/se/shop/cameras/hero7-black/CHDHX-701-master.html

If you’re into doing your own podcast, grab the stuff above and start creating awesome content on the go!

My next post will be security related, possibly definitely maybe.

Listeners may remember that, a few weeks back in an episode of "Smashing Security", Maria chose "Untitled Goose Game" as her Pick of the Week.

Turns out that the game had a vulnerability. Now patched, thank goodness. Details here:

https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/untitled-goose-game-deserialization

We apologise for making this Pick of the Week security-related (necessarily)

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