Glad you enjoyed the podcast Danny, even if it did give you some criminal career advice…

Prosecutors said Fleming knowingly enabled illegal spying and even promoted the software for catching "cheaters" in YouTube videos.

It’s a rare stalkerware prosecution - and a reminder that selling such tools can come back to bite you. Especially if you can’t even secure your own servers.

Plenty, as it turned out. pcTattletale was hacked thanks to a glaring security vulnerability, exposing data from more than 100,000 customers.

And now Bryan Fleming, founder of pcTattletale, has pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy and unauthorised access to computers.

I think if the deepfake nudes were of the editor of the Daily Mail Starmer would act more quickly...

Don't worry, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that he will ban apps, like X, that create deepfake porn of women and young girls.

We know that because he posted about it just a couple of weeks ago on err... X.

Thanks for agreeing to come on @smashingsecurity.com Lesley! A fun conversation that I'm looking forward to sharing with our listeners. :)

Reminds me of a couple of occasions when the UK's Ministry of Defence has made similar boo-boos when publishing improperly "redacted" PDFs containing sensitive information:

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grahamcluley.com/how-redact-p...

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Plus a blast from 2021's "summer of ransomware" returns to haunt Ireland's Health Service Executive, as victims are offered €750 each.

And because it's the last show before the Xmas break, there's also a Pick of the Week that veers from cosy rom-com comfort to pointy-polygon Lara Croft nostalgia.

Of course, that doesn’t help people who are visually-impaired. They have just as much right to privacy as the rest of us. So the visual warning should be accompanied by a clear and loud audible warning:

“WARNING! A TWAT WEARING FACEBOOK-CONNECTED SPECTACLES IS IN THE VICINITY”

How about if the spectacles had an additional dot matrix display above them, which scrolled a message that announced to bystanders that they might be being filmed?

What do you think? Is a ban a good thing?

They look like regular glasses, but can capture images and video (they can even live stream to the internet)... why would *anyone* be upset about being surreptitiously filmed on board a cruise?