Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired

Meta's smart glasses promise privacy "designed for you" - but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in Nairobi to label by hand. When those workers blew the whistle, Meta sacked all 1,108 of them.

Meanwhile, the IT press is in a frenzy over a new Linux bug called "Copy Fail" - complete with logo, dedicated website, and a marketing-friendly name. But is it really the disaster everyone's making it out to be?

And in our featured interview, Jake Moore of ESET explains how he tricked a company into offering his deepfake clone a job - after a perfectly normal-looking video interview.

All this and more in episode 466 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, joined this week by special guest Paul Ducklin.

EPISODE LINKS:

• Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs - Krebs On Security.
• Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha - Bleeping Computer.
• Trellix confirms data breach after hack of 'a portion' of its source code - TechRadar.
• Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything” - Svd.
• Dispute over fate of Kenyan workers who saw Meta AI glasses films - BBC News.
• Copy Fail - CVE-2026-31431.
• Copy Fail: Hype versus reality - the full story - SolCyber.
• Flight into Danger: The Original Airplane! - BBC Sounds.
• The Luton writer behind the original Airplane! - BBC News.
• Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia - Pan Macmillan.
• The Code Book - Simon Singh.
• Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)

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