Deepfake expert Nina Schick joins us as we discuss synthetic media, Facebook's latest data fiasco, and some less-than-brilliant April Fool's tricks.

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast, hosted by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

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Special Guest: Nina Schick.

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Links:

• Stolen Data of 533 Million Facebook Users Leaked Online — Business Insider.
• Mark Zuckerberg is on Signal — Dave Walker on Twitter.
• The Facebook Phone Numbers Are Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned — Troy Hunt.
• Facebook isn’t sorry for letting someone steal personal details of half a billion users — Graham Cluley.
• Smashing Security episode 75: Quitting Facebook.
• Deep Fakes - the coming infocalypse. — Nina Schick.
• This Person Does Not Exist.
• ai-trump-impersonator-highlights-election-fake-news-threat.html">'Deepfake' AI Trump impersonator highlights election fake news threat — CNBC.
• Past Google April Fools Pranks As It Cancels 2021's Over COVID — Newsweek.
• "Joke" tweet by Piers Morgan — Twitter.
• The joke is on Volkswagen after April Fool’s name change debacle — Al Jazeera.
• Deliveroo April Fool's joke backfires in France — BBC News.
• The 8 Generations of Video Game Consoles — BBC Archive.
• The Terror — BBC iPlayer.
• Pretend it's a city — Netflix.
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