If you want to know the joke behind the name just Google Serenity Now.
If you want to know what it is about, check out the Security Now page from Steve Gibson’s Gibson Research Corporation site. If you don’t know who Steve Gibson is then you have not been paying detailed attention to computer security for a long time.
Steve is an old school Internet guy who does his programming in Assembly Language and his web design in Plain Old Html (POH). So, while some of what he talks about seems very arcane he knows a lot about the basics of computers and networking.
I have been listening to his podcast for a few weeks now and have listened to just about all of them up to this point (#42 NAT Traversal is on my mp3 player right now). Each podcast episode has a high quality mp3 (12MB - 34MB) for broadband users, low quality mp3 (2MB - 8MB) for slower connection, transcripts (in html, txt, and pdf), and sometimes supplimentary notes).
The episodes on How the Internet Works, How Ethernet Works, WiFi Security, and desktop computer issues are quite an education in themselves.
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