Smashing Security podcast #304: Oxford’s dating disaster, cheap security robots, and faking a suicide

Someone called OxShagger thinks he has come up with the perfect Valentine’s surprise for Oxford students, but is the way he has gone about “bookworms with benefits” really a good idea? Robot security guards are trundling the streets of – you guessed it – America. And a writer of paranormal bully romances (no, we don’t know what that means either) returns from the grave…

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Host Unknown’s Andrew Agnês.

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Graham Cluley – @gcluley
Carole Theriault – @caroletheriault

Guest:

Andrew Agnês

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Theme tune: “Vinyl Memories” by Mikael Manvelyan.
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