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DISCUSSED: Gong Hei Fat Choy!; follow-up on the FaceTime bug and the complexity of getting bug and security reports from normals; the weirdness of bug-finders demanding a bounty; Merlin is fascinated to learn about "combinatorial explosion" and how it helps to explain why power-cycling fixes stuff; why you should always blow the dust out of the plug; recent examples of how restarting just fixes stuff; Merlin logs out of email apps and recommends an iOS calendar app; a case for killing OAuth where you don't need it; and, finally, your hosts respond to a listener question about whether podcasts can be "evil." Links for this episode:How to say Happy New Year in Chinese, just in time for Chinese New Year | Metro NewsHow a teenage 'Fortnite' player found Apple's FaceTime bug — and why it was so hard to report it[53:35] Apple goes to war with Facebook and Google — The Vergecast — OvercastCombinatorial explosion - WikipediaIn mathematics, a combinatorial explosion is the rapid growth of the complexity