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Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 52

David and Jeff discuss Fortnite (again!), the T-Mobile data breach, and how a fish tank helped, in a way, with the development of the modern Internet.

David Buxton
August 30, 2018

In the anniversary episode of the Kaspersky Lab podcast, Jeff and I discuss some hot IT-related topics. Keeping it to 20 minutes or less, as always, we sort out the spat between Epic Games and Google intensifying after Google disclosed a vulnerability in Fortnite, what the recent US T-Mobile data breach means for you, and how a fish tank helped (in a small way) to develop some of the modern Internet protocols and systems we still use today.

Further reading:

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