Election Security and Digital Dangers

In this week's episode your hosts practice standing on one leg, Carole gives Graham a deepfake quiz, and we investigate how Strava may be exposing the movements of world leaders.

All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

Episode links:

• Smashing Security #063: Carole’s back.
• Privacy of fitness tracking apps in the spotlight after soldiers' exercise routes shared online - We Live Security.
• Smashing Security #330: Deepfake Martin Lewis, and a deadly jog in the park.
• How Emmanuel Macron can be tracked - Le Monde.
• How Emmanuel Macron can be tracked - YouTube.
• The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users - Intercept.
• Is AI eroding democracy ahead of the US election? - BBC News.
• Fooled twice: People cannot detect deepfakes but think they can - PMC.
• Detect Fakes - Kellogg Northwestern.
• DON'T LET AI STEAL YOUR VOTE! - YouTube.
• Deepfakes fool more than half of Americans, UVU study shows - KLS News radio.
• Crocodiles Of The World.
• Here's How Long You Should Be Able To Stand On 1 Leg By Age - Huffington Post.
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