The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending December 31st., Breaks out of 2024 and into 2025!

EP 223 For this update, a completely diverse collection of stories starting with Apple dodging the search engine game by insisting that search ads are not Apple's "core" expertise.Then another serving of fruit and Raspberry Pi’s billion-dollar boom proving that tiny computers with huge valuations says you don’t need size to make a big impact.Chinese hackers demonstrate that it makes "cents" to have the US Treasury's data on their holiday gift list.And then for your next security conference, forget peanuts on your flight, now you have to worry about missiles landing on your snack tray.Seniors swim in student loan debt while Grandma knits scarves—and tries to figure out how to pay off her 50 year old university degree.VW's massive EV data leak reveals that your car is smarter than ever and so are the hackers.Then, it's not only the North Koreans who can play at this game, Maine prisoners go remote, landing virtual gigs as legit IT staffers.This is a wild update, so let's use it to break out  of 2024 and into 2025! Find the full transcript to this podcast here.