------------------------------- Wed Oct 20 06:38:28 PM EDT 2021 ------------------------------- Transcript of Chat box from BLU meeting, Wed, Oct 20, 2021 Meeting held online via Jitsi Meet In attendance (23 total): speaker(s): * Federico Lucifredi BLU officers: * John Abreau * Jerry Feldman Attendees (named): * Benjamin Li * Bill Horne * Edward Piecewicz * Eric Chadbourne * Ian Kelling * Jon Grosjean * Jon "maddog" Hall * Juozas Kazlauskas * Kurt Keville * Mike Small * Paul Jameson * Randy Cole * Robert Luoma * Shankar Viswanathan Attendees (anonymous): * arnie * FrankSD * Michael I * fsd * Curt * Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Piecewicz No audio here 18:36 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman ed you are muted 18:37 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Piecewicz Still not hearing any audio Have audio now. 18:38 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne I like Jon's background! Look at all that cool hardware! i can see him in the live stream redsox are down by 3. 😢 18:54 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Juozas Kazlauskas David Bombal just had an episode on this subject two weeks ago. 18:58 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne yes! 19:08 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman Ive used similar devices 19:42 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Piecewicz Thank you. 20:16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau Thanks, Federico 20:16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne Excellent and informative talk! Thanks! 20:16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael I (he/him) So glad so many laptops are going to USB-C as only source of power. 20:16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne Useful for wifi https://www.nzyme.org/ 20:21 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shankar Viswanathan My mic is not cooperating - but I wanted to ask if there have been any further reports of such eavesdropping devices being snuck in via supply chain attacks 20:33 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- yes, the Supermicro news is the only one I have heard so far 20:37 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Grosjean I would think wireless keyboards and mice would be very risky. 20:43 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shankar Viswanathan Thanks Federico! 20:44 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau Does the TPM requirement mean you can't win Windows 11 in a VM? 20:57 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Grosjean Thanks Federico for a very interesting presentation. 21:03 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- It is easy to make a secure charging adapter. Just get a USB plug and jack and wire only the power pins together or get a USB extension cable and carefully cut it open and cut the data wires. 21:07 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman Jonathan McDowell mentioned to ping him next year. So I will try back in January 21:10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau federico is speaking in january 21:11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman The point I was making he said to try back next year, so I will email him in January 21:11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy Cole Rebar is expensive now 21:15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Kelling thank you! 21:19 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- meeting ended at 9:21 pm