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  • Episode 77: #77: Chilling Effects

    This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about surveillance on Main Street and China, reader mail about cutting costs in the DOD, and three new additions to the Security Doghouse.

    Candid photo of Sparky.
    • Ohio is cold in the winter: Akron and Cuyahoga Falls close ice rinks because of cold weather
    • D&G Hobby of the week: FPV Quadcopter Racing
      • See also Cheerson CX10 Mini LED RC Quadcopter and cx10_redtx

      • D&G This Week in Irony:
        • Cops decry Waze traffic app as a “police stalker”
        • DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US
          • More details and pics here

          • Meanwhile:
            • Delaware eyes digital driver’s licenses
            • Cop who stole nude pics off arrested women’s phones gets no jail time



            • Everybody wants backdoors: China’s New Rules for Selling Tech to Banks Have US Companies Spooked

            • Great Firewall of China, weaponized

            • Camfrog DMCA’s themselves

            • D&G Security Doghouse:
              • Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificate to users visiting YouTube
              • Meet KeySweeper, the $10 USB charger that steals MS keyboard strokes
              • NFL app sends user names, passwords, & email addresses as clear text

              • Marriott Testing In-Room Access To Netflix, Hulu, And Other Streaming Services

              • Windows 10 free for all Windows 8.1 and 7 users for first year after release
                • Apple anticipates Gunnar’s “consumption tools” worry.

                • Crunchy and Red Hat on PostgreSQL on OpenShift

                • Security Announcements
                  • Update on FIPS 140-2 plans
                  • GHOST: Get it?

                  • Reading
                    • David Wheeler has a new paper on container security
                    • Probably the best whitepaper you’ll ever read on Red Hat middleware
                    • General Justice, on the record
                    • Dave on containers and RHEL 7

                    • To-Do
                      • Matt Micene is nominee for Opensource.com 2015 People’s Choice Awards
                      • Vote for us on iTunes, while you’re at it
                        • Dan Benjamin’s Podcast Method told us this is a good idea.



                        • OpenShift is InfoWorld technology of the year

                        • Purdue now has a “Red Hat Doctoral Researcher in Open Innovation Communities“

                        • When the European Space Agency needs a cloud, the come to Red Hat

                        • Kim Kardashian’s Butt delivered by Gluster

                        • D&G Coincidence of the Week: There’s a real company called Cyberdyne who makes HAL [Hybrid Assistive Limb], the world‘s first cyborg-type robot, by which a wearer‘s bodily functions can be improved, supported and enhanced
                          • See also: The Open Prosthetics Project

                          • Nick Bostrom is a tremendous thinker, and is creating the antidote to Skynet

                            • Cutting Room Floor

                            • 10 Funnier Alternatives to Lorem Ipsum
                            • Marshmallow Farming.Too much rain ruins marshmallow crop in North Carolina
                            • Christmas Serial (ft. Amy Adams Golden Globe® 2015 Winner) – Saturday Night Live
                            • Moon: The star or planet debate
                            • 15 Unique Illnesses You Can Only Come Down With in German
                            • Slackbot Bot Turns A Roomba And A Tornado Siren Into A Wonky Little Robot That DJs And Gives High Fives
                            • BusinessTown: Richard Scarry’s Busytown for the Modern Age
                            • 10 Things You Won’t Be Able To Do Anymore If SkyMall Goes Away
                            • Let’s watch an SLR work at 10,000 frames per second.

                              • We Give Thanks

                              • Sparky for the mailbag letter!

                                • 1 hr 9 min
                              • Episode 76: #76: Tallest Guys in the Room

                                This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about the history of Red Hat with Brian Mikkelsen, head of DOD sales, elder statesman, and tall guy.

                                • JonAS was our first foray into J2EE application servers, but nobody remembers that.
                                • Beer and a culture of sharing.
                                • Brian’s 5 Pillars: RHEL, RHEV, JBoss, Storage and Cloud
                                • The original team: Nathan Jones, Brian Mikkelsen, Chris Runge, Wayne Rhone, Mary Beekman. Anyone remember Jeff Kidwell?
                                • The infamous memo-list.
                                • A baby Spot was Brian’s first sales engineer, even before he could drink.
                                • The transition from rip-and-replace to innovator.
                                • “Where the STIG scripts at?” From Justin to OpenSCAP.
                                • General Justice and FBCB2, the “Blue Force Tracker“.
                                • Want to work for Brian? Hit him up.

                                  • 1 hr 1 min
                                • Episode 75: #75: Panopticon on the Shelf

                                  This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about the new mail bag, joke kit, two-factor auth, and unmanagement.

                                  • Lauren unleashes her software and hardware hacking skills: Best of open hardware in 2014
                                  • Raspberry Pi B+ and camera module
                                  • SimCity: It’s as bad as Civilization
                                  • Amex Chip-and-Signature: What’s the point?
                                  • D&G Joke Kit of the Week: An Automated Cat Litter Box With DRM
                                    • CatGenie community custom firmware and cartridge emulator!

                                    • NYPD Cop Killer Used App to Track Police Movements Since Early December

                                    • He sees you when you’re sleeping: Santa Claus and the Surveillance State

                                    • You no longer need to check your tuba: U.S. Department of Transportation Issues Final Rule Regarding Air Travel with Musical Instruments
                                      • Don’t be this guy

                                      • Help Wanted (must be proficient at barn door closing): Director of Vulnerability Management at Sony
                                        • Let’s Talk Calmly About Security and Privacy

                                        • Two-factor authentication oversight led to JPMorgan breach, investigators reportedly found
                                          • Meanwhile in IdM in RHEL 7.1 beta: one time passwords

                                          • Marriott petitions FCC to block personal WiFi to protect their $750/day conference WiFi

                                          • Computer solves the Erdős discrepancy problem. Punchline: the proof is 13GB long, larger than the entire Wikipedia.

                                          • SkipLagged is discrete math for travel nerds. Oh, and they’re getting sued. Of course.

                                          • Unmanagement and unleadership

                                          • New Year’s Resolution: Replace “I Have To” with “I Get To” To Be More Thankful and Mindful
                                            • Sort of like saying “my wife”?
                                            • I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

                                              • Cutting Room Floor

                                              • 3D-Printed Gun Folds and Shoots Paper Airplanes
                                              • Lorem Ipsum, but for Beyonce. (ht @leahbannon)
                                              • Dinner Scrum
                                                • Almost related: The Dining Cryptograhers Problem

                                                  • We Give Thanks

                                                  • Matt Micene for our first Mailbag letter!

                                                    • 1 hr 4 min
                                                  • Episode 74: #74: NEST 9000

                                                    This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about your singular uniqueness on the web, miniaturizing almost everything, and Dell IT using OpenShift.

                                                    • One of these things is not like the other: Fodor’s Go List 2015
                                                    • “A foreign language has been creeping into many of the presentations I hear and the memos I read. It adds nothing to a message but noise, and I want your help in stamping it out. It’s called gobbledygook. There’s no shortage of examples. Nothing seems to get finished anymore it gets “finalized.” Things don’t happen at the same time but “coincident with this action.” Believe it or not, people will talk about taking a “commitment position” and then because of the “volatility of schedule changes” they will “decommit” so that our “posture vis-à-vis some data base that needs a sizing will be able to enhance competitive positions.” That’s gobbledygook.” – Thomas J. Watson
                                                    • OpenShift’s Joe Fernandes’ comes out swinging in 2015.
                                                    • Endui App Looks To End DUIs
                                                    • Microsoft releases Project Orleans, code behind Halo 4
                                                    • Jessica Silbey on Berkman Center’s Radio Berkman Podcast: determining the effect of copyright law and regulation through interviews with creators
                                                      • She’s promoting her new book, “The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property”

                                                      • Chromium to start marking HTTP as insecure

                                                      • AmIUnique.org: Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet

                                                      • Google integrates Nest with Google Now, Gunnar sets himself on fire

                                                      • USB Armory: Open Source USB Stick Computer

                                                      • USBdriveby: covertly install a backdoor and override DNS settings with style

                                                      • This Board Lets You Give Any Arduino Project Predator-Style Heat Vision

                                                      • Outsmarting traffic together: People finding their ‘waze’ to once-hidden streets

                                                      • Dell IT uses Red Hat OpenStack after stumbling with some other guys

                                                      • OpenShift at SPAWAR, so that’s nice

                                                      • If you don’t have an opinion about the North Korea thing, may we suggest Pete W Singer’s?
                                                        • Alamo Drafthouse NSFW PSA:
                                                        • See also: Team America: World Police

                                                        • Oblique Strategies: Something Don Draper would say?

                                                        • Oblique strategy generator

                                                          • Cutting Room Floor

                                                          • The Creepy, Kitschy and Geeky Patches of US Spy Satellite Launches
                                                          • Panda: The Action Movie
                                                          • Ayn Rand Reviews Children’s Movies
                                                          • Also from Mallory Ortberg: Literary Break-up Texts

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                                                            We Give Thanks

                                                            • Dr. David A. Wheeler for the mobile browser suggestion!

                                                              • 1 hr 3 min
                                                            • Episode 73: #73: Devil Giraffe

                                                              This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about forks, k-cups, and a Very Special Solutions Architect.

                                                              • Gunnar’s favorite tips on zoning policy in SimCity
                                                              • HT Robin Price: Keurig 2.0 Genuine K-Cup Spoofing Vulnerability
                                                              • Future of Popular Coding Tool in Doubt After It Splits in Two
                                                              • Let’s build a fingerprint reader into a trackpad
                                                              • Identity theft man bites dog
                                                                • New Red Hat Reference Architecture: Deploying Oracle Database 12c on Red Enterprise Linux 7- Recommended Practices
                                                                • Give the gift of RTM and get bonus months
                                                                • Margaret Hamilton is the coolest developer you’ve never heard of, looking like a 2014 hipster in 1972 and taking humans to the Moon
                                                                • Red Hat Solutions Architects are multi-dimensional
                                                                  • Example: Ben Breard, his guitar, and the Purdie Shuffle

                                                                    • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                    • D&G Christmas ideas
                                                                      • Brilliant guerrilla marketing: This Year You Can Rent Your Ugly Holiday Sweater
                                                                      • Makes the perfect Christmas gift: Gently used Rapiscan backscatter body scanner for $8K
                                                                      • For the child who has everything: Devil Giraffe
                                                                      • For the man without beard Christmas decorations: Beard Christmas decorations
                                                                      • Speech synthesis Christmas choir

                                                                      • A table held up by buckets resting on it

                                                                      • Mathematically perfect donuts

                                                                      • At last: an in-browser Spirograph

                                                                        • We Give Thanks

                                                                        • Ben Breard for the Chick’n Pick’n Blues!
                                                                        • Robin Price for the Keurig announcement

                                                                          • 35 min
                                                                        • Episode 72: #72: Everything’s broken.

                                                                          This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about social media, which is broken. Also, BitCoin’s broken. And passwords are broken. Forge.mil is broken. Maker culture is broken. You get the idea.

                                                                          • Dave finds out CatSip is a thing, and wasn’t what he purchased
                                                                          • One more reason to increase VTC use: Marriott and Hilton Announce Penalty for Last-Minute Cancellations
                                                                          • The winner is: Google Music, mostly because of Chromecast. That’s how they get ya. Spotify account deleted, because I’m not buying new hardware.
                                                                          • Videoconferencing is broken, but Firefox now includes well-packaged WebRTC for real
                                                                          • Konklone says: get yourself a hard token
                                                                          • BitCoin: not super anonymous if you’ve got €1500, turns out
                                                                          • Amnesty International launches Detekt, which looks for surveillance software on your computer
                                                                          • Smartphones are broken. Phones from 3rd tier vendors come with “Deathring” built right in
                                                                          • “The Product Is You”: Social Media Edition
                                                                            • Twitter’s taking an inventory of your running apps for advertising purposes. Opt out.
                                                                            • The Photos You Post Online With a Product Could Be Used By Marketers
                                                                            • Social Media Bots Offer Phony Friends and Real Profit
                                                                              • Hitchhiker’s Guide to Tweetbots: Hosting a Hubot on OpenShift



                                                                              • USPTO DevOps Meetup January 14th, Alexandria, VA, starring Etsy

                                                                              • New Red Hat Security Site

                                                                              • Let’s talk about procurement from Paul Brubaker of VMware

                                                                              • Forge.mil goes down. Did anyone notice?

                                                                              • DevOps Cafe podcast. If you haven’t heard it yet, it’s worth hearing. Even if you don’t care about DevOps. Especially:
                                                                                • Matt Coté and Jay Lyman
                                                                                • Adrian Cockroft

                                                                                • Economic failures of https

                                                                                • Maker Culture is a kind of chauvinism. Gunnar’s convinced.

                                                                                  • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                  • D&G Book Club: If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript
                                                                                  • For Uzoma: Breakmaster Cylinder drops Lakshmi Singh
                                                                                  • Welcome to the delightful subculture of Lego Album Covers
                                                                                  • The most thorough dissection of “Alien”’s design and typography you could possibly hope for
                                                                                  • CIA Admits Role In 1985 Coup To Oust David Lee Roth: “The last thing we wanted was to have another ‘Panama’ on our hands”
                                                                                  • Docker on Raspberry Pi

                                                                                    • 9-Factor Auth: something you have, something you know, something you are, something you desire, something you fear, something from deep insi

                                                                                    — Parker Higgins (@xor) November 18, 2014

                                                                                    a kid in this coding class said “you use the hashtag key to add a comment” and i set myself on fire so that's basically why i'm on fire

                                                                                    — Andrew Dupont (@andrewdupont) July 26, 2014

                                                                                    We Give Thanks

                                                                                    • Robin Price and Shawn Wells for the security microsite
                                                                                    • Others?

                                                                                      • 52 min
                                                                                    • Episode 71: #71: Everyone gets a lollipop.

                                                                                      This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Lollipop, and a little Inbox. But mostly Lollipop.

                                                                                      • Android Official Blog: A sweet Lollipop, with a kevlar wrapping: New security features in Android 5.0.
                                                                                      • Android Clipboards: it’s complicated
                                                                                      • Gunnar explains how Chromecast transforms his Tinder experience.
                                                                                      • WhatsApp now includes a TextSecure backend and is encrypted by default
                                                                                        • Metadata. It’s a thing.

                                                                                        • Wearable black box: Fitbit Data Now Being Used In The Courtroom

                                                                                        • Google Inbox update: Why Did Google Decide To Split Inbox From Gmail?

                                                                                        • Gmail API


                                                                                          • 44 min
                                                                                        • Episode 70: #70: A TAM We Like

                                                                                          This week, Dave and Gunnar talk to Dave Sirrine, Technical Account Manager and delightful human being.

                                                                                          • Welcome Dave!
                                                                                          • Mmmm… Cookies FTW and Because BACON!
                                                                                          • What is a TAM?
                                                                                            • We’re hiring by the way

                                                                                            • Check out the Customer Portal’s Red Hat Access Labs like the IAVM to CVE mapper!

                                                                                            • CLI based cve mapper written in Python – cvewatch

                                                                                            • Red Hat Certificate System, Red Hat Directory Server, and Identity Management

                                                                                            • Dealing with angry people

                                                                                              • We Give Thanks

                                                                                              • Dave Sirrine for joining us on the show today!

                                                                                                • 41 min
                                                                                              • Episode 69: #69: Supercookies

                                                                                                This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about mobile phone surveillance that you pay for, peer-to-peer dropbox replacements, and the many faces of lock-in.

                                                                                                • Peaky Blinders is like a watered-down Deadwood and will suffice for now
                                                                                                • AT&T Stops Using ‘Super Cookies’ To Track Cellphone Data
                                                                                                • Word of the week: “Middlebox”. 4G carriers don’t care one bit for your SPDY-laden, encrypted traffic. Hippie.
                                                                                                • BitTorrent Sync vs Cloud: Where Can You Trust Your Personal Data?
                                                                                                • Anybody try Syncthing.net or Transporter?
                                                                                                • Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority from the EFF and friends
                                                                                                • Tyranny of the default: Firefox dumps Google for search, signs on with Yahoo
                                                                                                • HT James Kirkland: E-Cigarettes From China Spreading Malware Through USB Charger
                                                                                                • 10,000 pay phones to become Wifi base stations in NYC
                                                                                                  • see also: Ricochet Wireless

                                                                                                  • This Week in Vendor Lockin: Anti-Competitive Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X

                                                                                                  • This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Netflix Kills Off Its Public API, Takes A Few Applications Down With It

                                                                                                  • Lawsuits as an Investment: Crowdfund Your Next Lawsuit With LexShares

                                                                                                  • Gunnar helps give The Watchful Eye: Mitigating Risk in the Cloud on December 3 in Washington, DC

                                                                                                  • Red Hat Private PaaS Workshop on December 11 in Washington, DC

                                                                                                  • Red Hat Summit CFP now open!

                                                                                                  • HT Itamar Heim: RHEV compliance policy scans with Nessus!

                                                                                                  • FIPS compliant password vault with JBoss EAP and RHEL, thanks to Rich Lucente

                                                                                                  • How have we not heard of DavMail? Connects standards-compliant clients to Exchange. Thanks, French defense establishment!

                                                                                                    • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                                    • Save a bundle by anesthetizing octopi yourself: How to anesthetize an octopus
                                                                                                    • Parakeet that sounds (and kinda looks) just like R2-D2!
                                                                                                    • Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut, A 19 Minute Music Video
                                                                                                    • Ground Drone: Low cost mobile robotics platform
                                                                                                    • Brain transplant: OpenWorm’s mind in a LEGO robot’s body
                                                                                                    • Browser based fluid dynamics simulator
                                                                                                    • JS1K Night Highway

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                                                                                                      We Give Thanks

                                                                                                      • James Kirkland for the e-cigarette word of warning
                                                                                                      • Itamar Heim for the Nessus and RHEV good news!
                                                                                                      • Rich Lucente for the FIPS compliant password vault

                                                                                                        • 58 min
                                                                                                      • Episode 68: #68: Not my circus, not my monkey.

                                                                                                        This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: computers that think, computers that think they’re thinking, and people that think computers are people.

                                                                                                        • Gunnar is a Trello addict
                                                                                                        • The Mother of all Web Tracking Catalogs. I think we’re done now.
                                                                                                        • Housewarming gift via Heat template: Germans get free heating from the cloud
                                                                                                        • BrowserStack gets utterly humiliated
                                                                                                        • ChatOps is just thrilling
                                                                                                        • User modeling with Watson
                                                                                                        • That Time 2 Bots Were Talking, and Bank of America Butted In
                                                                                                        • The ultimate weapon against GamerGate time-wasters: a 1960s chat bot that wastes their time
                                                                                                        • Lauren and her juggling app mentioned on Gizmodo and Lifehacker UK
                                                                                                        • GCN wins Gunnarbait of the week
                                                                                                          • Preceded by this article on DHS and Coverity.
                                                                                                          • Succeeded by Dave’s article 6 tips for adopting open source published on GCN

                                                                                                          • RHEL Atomic beta now out!
                                                                                                            • Dave keeps the SELinux on in the Docker docs

                                                                                                            • OpenShift Enterprise 2.2 is out, with Fuse and A-MQ Messaging cartridges (xPaaS!) and CloudForms integration
                                                                                                              • https://install.openshift.com/ is mind-blowing.

                                                                                                              • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 to 6.6 risk report

                                                                                                              • Google Cloud Platform says: “Red Hat has contributed tirelessly to almost every component of the stack and has been instrumental in shaping and improving the overall production readiness of Kubernetes.”

                                                                                                              • Not my circus, not my monkey: Idioms of the World
                                                                                                                • HT Bob St. Clair and related: Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey? 

                                                                                                                  • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                                                  • Cat Math
                                                                                                                  • What Happens When A Photographer Secretly Takes Over A Town’s Surveillance Camera
                                                                                                                  • Software-Defined Talk Podcast

                                                                                                                    • We Give Thanks

                                                                                                                    • Bob St. Clair for monkey management tips

                                                                                                                      • 36 min

                                                                                                                    About Dave & Gunnar Show

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                                                                                                                    David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.