How much do you trust the people who work at your VPN provider? How are folks fighting facial recognition? And what on earth is Ray-Ban thinking getting into bed with Facebook?

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

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Special Guest: Mark Stockley.

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Links:

• Three Former U.S. Intelligence Community and Military Personnel Agree to Pay More Than $1.68 Million to Resolve Criminal Charges Arising from Their Provision of Hacking-Related Services to a Foreign Government — Department of Justice.
• DarkMatter.
• Ex-NSA cyberspies reveal how they helped hack foes of UAE — Reuters.
• Daniel Gericke and ExpressVPN – Official Response — ExpressVPN.
• Trust, but verify: An in-depth analysis of ExpressVPN's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week — ZDNet.
• Facebook debuts its Ray-Ban Stories smart sunglasses — TechCrunch.
• Facebook warned over ‘very small’ indicator LED on smart glasses, as EU DPAs flag privacy concerns — TechCrunch.
• Mark Zuckerberg introduces Ray-Ban Stories — YouTube.
• Computer Vision Dazzle Camouflage — CV Dazzle.
• Researchers Defeated Advanced Facial Recognition Tech Using Makeup — Vice.
• Dodging Attack Using Carefully Crafted Natural Makeup — YouTube.
• How to Play the Piano by James Rhodes — Amazon UK.
• Music and the inner self, TEDx talk by James Rhodes — YouTube.
• Yamaha P-45 — Thomann.
• Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell — Amazon UK.
• Life Lines — BBC Radio 4.
• Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)