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  • Episode 67: #67: “Your encryption is useless, Charlie Brown”

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about encrypting everything, why encryption doesn’t matter, and why we are all Charlie Brown now.

    Lucy, in the role of a cloud server provider. Or telco. Or regulator.
    • Every videogame memory from Gunnar’s childhood, implemented in JavaScript
      • Taipan!

      • UK spy chief, parroting his US counterparts, calls for crypto backdoors

      • End-to-End Gmail Encryption code is up.

      • New from the EFF: Secure Messaging Scorecard
        • Update for 2020 (HT Lydia Yates of Comparitech!): The best encrypted messaging apps (and their limitations) in 2020

        • PrivacyGrade: Grading The Privacy Of Smartphone Apps

        • Verizon and AT&T “supercookie” MITM attack. See if you’re being tracked at the obviously named amibeingtracked.com.

        • D&G bait of the week: Dropbox’s Drew Houston Responds To Snowden’s Privacy Criticism: It’s A Trade-Off

        • Aerophobia meets claustrophobia: Windowless Planes Will Give Passengers Panoramic Views. Ready To Use Within 10 Years.

        • Yay? Why Facebook Just Launched Its Own ‘Dark Web’ Site

        • Check your Hilton HHonors Points: Hackers plunder Hilton ‘HHonors’ rewards points, go on shopping spree

        • ORNL and Dave’s replay: GovLoop: How Open Source Can Help Overcome Government’s Biggest Challenges

        • OpenStack User Survey November 2014 are out. We maintain the vast majority of technologies used in computer, network, and storage, and 40% of the user base. Sweet!

        • Heroism as anti-pattern: “VPAT is Public Sector specific, and therefore all previous cases have been resolved successfully by referring to Gunnar.”

        • Ben Balter’s guide to communicating on GitHub works even without GitHub.

        • EFF guide to avoiding surveillance includes not just articles, but “playlists” based on user stories.

          • Cutting Room Floor

          • Good Grief! Cancer Boy! is a strange little film reveals the utter futility of Charlie Brown’s very existence – in German!
            • Related: Nein Quarterly

            • Windows93

            • Movie trailer of the week: Daylight Saving

            • Scientific paper of the week: The hipster effect:When anticonformists all look the same

            • YouTube Flight Training of the week: Practice landing a Boeing with a charming Lithuanian accent.


              • 57 min
            • Episode 66: #66: Old School

              This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about old-school network security, old-school email addresses, and an old-school partner with a new-school cloud broker.

              • Gunnar is delighted by Google Inbox, Pocket Casts, and Klipsch headphones.  Not so much by the Bose.
              • https podcast broken? Blame everyone.
              • VMware’s tool to harden virtual networks: a spreadsheet
              • RHEL 6.6, now with the SCAP Security Guide!
              • With Laplock, You Get A Text Message When Somebody Unplugs Your Laptop
              • Facebook and Yahoo Find a New Way to Save the Web’s Lost Email Addresses
              • Gunnar at the Red Hat Forum in Dallas on Wednesday, November 5
              • Jason Kincl of ORNL and Dave on GovLoop’s How Open Source Can Help Overcome Government’s Biggest Challenges on Thursday, November 6
              • BAH releases their cloud broker to the ManageIQ community
              • FICO Case Study: Your credit score depends on OpenShift
              • Fixing a profoundly broken company tool with OpenShift
              • Google “etymology companion”, and see a sweet diagram of the word’s origins

                • Cutting Room Floor

                • CARDIAC: CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation
                • Torturing virtual people with crowd simulation software
                • Bulgarian Folk Dancing with AC/DC
                • Plants Can Tell When They’re Being Eaten
                • Belly Armor: Faraday apparel
                • SkyMaul 2: Where America Buys His Stuff
                • Photojournalism in Grand Theft Auto

                  • 23 min
                • Episode 65: #65: Blue Glove Treatment

                  This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about encrypting everything, airplane simulation, retaliation as a service, and keeping score with Red Hat’s security team.

                  • https://dgshow.org!
                  • FBI director to citizens: Let us spy on you
                  • D&G Quote of the Week: “You can’t build a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through.”
                  • For when D&G wfh: Air Food One
                  • For $300, You Can “Fly” on a Perfectly Recreated Pan Am 747
                  • Airbus Patents a VR Helmet That’ll Make You Forget You’re on a Plane
                  • More travel tips: Think ahead when taking your Nobel Prize through TSA checkpoints
                  • Cyberattacks trigger talk of ‘hacking back’
                    • Hack 127.0.0.1
                    • Gunnar remembers when RoadRunner knocked on his door after every email he sent

                    • Gunnar suddenly welcomes the Singularity: Monsieur, the artificially intelligent robotic bartender

                    • Facebook’s Anonymous App Could Kill Trolls With Secret Identity
                      • “Anonymous login” <– oxymoron?

                      • Lauren gets blogged about by the Raspberry Pi Foundation

                      • Gunnar will be at the Red Hat Forum in DC on October 23 and Dallas on November 5

                      • The Source of Vulnerabilities, How Red Hat finds out about vulnerabilities.

                      • Noise Machines

                        • Cutting Room Floor

                        • Save a bundle on costly hotel stays: Wearable bed
                        • USB cufflinks
                        • Veggie burger that bleeds

                          • 57 min
                        • Episode 64: #64: A Pig We’ll Miss

                          This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about FBI Whining (aka “Clipper II”), Malvertising, Richard Branson’s alarming new PTO policy.

                          • Lauren: “R.I.P. to Ginners, the inspiration for this game. She had a long life and we loved her a lot, and got a lot of love in return.”
                          • Straight outta Akron: TinyCircuits’ new TinyScreen: A color display the size of your thumb!
                          • There’s lock-in, and then there’s RICO: Keurig coffee sued for $600M by Ontario-based Club Coffee
                          • Apple, Google default cell-phone encryption “concerns” FBI director
                            • “Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile,” said John J. Escalante, chief of detectives for Chicago’s police department. “The average pedophile at this point is probably thinking, I’ve got to get an Apple phone.”
                            • The level of privacy described by Apple and Google is “wonderful until it’s your kid who is kidnapped and being abused, and because of the technology, we can’t get to them,” said Ronald Hosko, who left the FBI earlier this year as the head of its criminal-investigations division. “Who’s going to get lost because of this, and we’re not going to crack the case?”
                            • Eric Holder says: “When a child is in danger, law enforcement needs to be able to take every legally available step to quickly find and protect the child and to stop those that abuse children. It is worrisome to see companies thwarting our ability to do so.”

                            • No fly list? Chinese security body-searches 10,000 pigeons

                            • Also in China: Firechat p2p chat is being used by protestors in Hong Kong… and it’s also not secure.
                              • Bonus link: Drone Shows Thousands Filling Hong Kong Streets

                              • This Week in Irony: Pakistani Man Indicted for Selling StealthGenie Spyware App

                              • Meanwhile, local law enforcement buys and gives away ComputerCop poorly designed spyware to the public
                                • Is your local law enforcement giving out ComputerCop, like Dave’s and Gunnar’s?

                                • How to steal ATM pins with an iPhone

                                • Immune to spyware: The NoPhone

                                • D&G Black List Term of the Week: Malvertising

                                • D&G White List Term of the Week: Provenance

                                • Cloudflare introduces Universal SSL

                                • MIT Students Battle State’s Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner’s Source Code

                                • Lauren and her juggling app featured in Raspberry Pi Today

                                • OwnCloud on Red Hat Storage! Here’s the Reference Architecture

                                • Hortonworks with Red Hat Storage? Why yes, we got that too!

                                • What to do about Shellshock?
                                  • Running RHEL 4? Make sure you have ELS which includes 10+ fixes to well known critical and important level security vulnerabilities!

                                  • Shawn Wells is not just our sponsor, but a GCN Rising Star winner and FedScoop50 nominee! Congrats Shawn!

                                  • 18F delights and amazes Gunnar with this open source guidance that doesn’t make him nauseous.

                                  • Federal-wide open source policy? ¯\(ツ)/¯

                                  • Billionaire Richard Branson Wants Everyone to Have Unlimited Vacation

                                    • Cutting Room Floor

                                    • The Radio Hat is the perfect accessory for Faraday Pajamas!
                                    • Where the Wild Things Are (as read by Christopher Walken)
                                    • HT Mrs. Egts: Octoberfest in Kent featuring traditional food from Taco Tantos! Wait, what?
                                    • Windows 95 backpack
                                    • Zombie Safe Zone Map

                                      • We Give Thanks

                                      • Ginners for being the inspiration that launched Lauren’s open source career!
                                      • Ken Burns and TinyCircuits for the TinyScreen update!
                                      • Mrs. Egts for the Octoberfest update.

                                        • 1 hr 4 min
                                      • Episode 63: #63: Presidential Style

                                        This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about more about civet cat scat, the TI-84 racket, my mobile backend, and Red Hat Cloud for Government.

                                        Soren would like to apologize for screaming bloody murder for the duration of this episode.


                                        • Gunnar’s presentation au Quebec, mais pas en français.
                                        • Dave enjoys Hard Core History on the Silver Line
                                        • SELinux labeled NFS is super easy to configure on RHEL 7
                                        • HT Matt Micene:

                                          • Catching up on the podcast, your missing Indonesian coffee animal is the Civet Cat. There’s a huge deal around “sustainable” and cruelty free gathering of scat…

                                          • HT Erich Morisse:

                                            • Your show got me thinking of my long neglected Yahoo! email account, and I wanted to see if there was any signal buried in the years of neglected spam. On a whim, I tried regex figuring most real people would have their name as Firstname\sLastname. By gum! It worked: from:"^[^/s]* [^/s]*$" -in:trash
                                            Worst part: Nope, no signal in the noise. (see pie chart)

                                            • Ripe for disruption: The unstoppable TI-84 Plus: How an outdated calculator still holds a monopoly on classrooms
                                              • See also

                                              • Life imitating art: Facebook — for rich people (for just $9,000)
                                                • Let’s recall Metcalfe’s law
                                                • Related: New App Matches You With Others In Vicinity Who Wasted $2.99 On Same App

                                                • USSS to check visitor blocks before they arrive at the White House

                                                • Lauren is Code.org’s Student of the Week!

                                                • Gunnar will be at Code for America 2014 in San Francisco September 23-25, NASCIO 2014 in Nashville September 28 to October 1, and the Red Hat Forum in Washington DC October 23

                                                • RHEL 5.11 Risk Report

                                                • Red Hat welcomes FeedHenry!

                                                • Red Hat Cloud for Government launched

                                                • A Partner We Like: Autonomic’s ARCWRX Solution is Ready to Fill PaaS Void After DISA STAX Sunset

                                                • Another Partner We Like Just as Much: Booz Allen Hamilton and Red Hat have teamed up to host the ManageIQ Design Summit October 7-8

                                                • D&G Job Title of the Week: Chaos Commander

                                                • Gunnar did housekeeping this week
                                                  • Let’s talk about dotfiles and why they should all be on git
                                                  • Moved from screen to tmux, mostly because tmux is google-able
                                                  • Cupcake: help people avoid censorship by installing a Chrome extension

                                                    • Cutting Room Floor

                                                    • Prosthetic anti-surveillance face
                                                    • Goodnight, Dune
                                                    • George Mason University’s Green Machine pep band rages against the machine
                                                    • Hamster wheel standing desk
                                                    • Metástasis con Walter Blanco
                                                    • The Suitsy: The business suit onesie hybrid (“It’s like if a jumpsuit and a business suit had a lovechild.”)

                                                      • We Give Thanks

                                                      • Matt Micene and Erich Morisse for the follow up!

                                                        • 56 min
                                                      • Episode 62: #62: Gone With the Wind

                                                        This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about man-in-the-middle attacks, and that’s pretty much it.

                                                        • TORNADO!
                                                        • Chromebook update: OpenVPN now works out of the box on Chrome OS 37.0.2062.119 (Platform version: 5978.80.0/5978.81.0) or higher
                                                        • Google Hangouts gets a huge update, including Google Voice integration
                                                        • Meanwhile: AT&T to Launch WiFi Calling in 2015
                                                        • Gunnar visits OTF
                                                        • Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies
                                                        • Totally creepy: A New Type of Phishing Attack
                                                        • Canvas fingerprinting is creepy, and how it’s being delivered (by AddThis) is creepier.
                                                        • Gunnar will be at Salon du Logiciel Libre et des technologies ouvertes du Québec le 17 septembre 2014
                                                        • SLED Red Hat Virtual Summit 2014 on Sept 24 and 25
                                                        • From the Gospel of St. Kurt: Is your software fixed?
                                                        • Satellite 6 is GA: Get started here
                                                        • Red Hat Open Demos
                                                        • HT Dave Sirrine: Awesome RHEL 6 to 7 cheat sheet!
                                                        • Microsoft, eBay apps open to man-in-the-middle diddle
                                                          • Check the list
                                                          • Finding Android SSL Vulnerabilities with CERT Tapioca

                                                          • The Man in the middle: Comcast Wi-Fi serving self-promotional ads via JavaScript injection

                                                          • Rogue ‘Cell Towers’ Can Intercept Your Data; At Least One Found In Chicago
                                                            • Bonus: “The police seem to have interpreted the agreement to bar them even from revealing their use of Stingrays to judges, who we usually rely on to provide oversight of police investigations”
                                                            • Top Secret America

                                                            • Solutions:
                                                              • RedPhone
                                                              • TextSecure
                                                              • Tox

                                                                • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                • Poststructuralism explained with hipster beards
                                                                • Breast pump hackathon
                                                                • More clothing as survelliance countermeasure

                                                                  • 44 min
                                                                • Episode 61: #61: Monkey Business

                                                                  This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: monkey selfies, elephant-based coffee, and yak shaving with OpenStack.

                                                                  • Dave is all all Skyped up on RHEL 7
                                                                    • Provides 32 bit qtwebkit which isn’t in EPEL

                                                                    • HTTPS mandates: “With great power comes a tiny amount of responsibility.”

                                                                    • D&G Joke Kit of the Week: Monkey’s selfie cannot be copyrighted, US regulators say

                                                                    • Open source intelligence: Gun Safety, Self Defense, and Road Marches – Finding an ISIS Training Camp
                                                                      • Hard Core History
                                                                      • Shamless plug for my friend Graeme’s wonderful ISIS piece

                                                                      • Stealing encryption keys through the power of touch

                                                                      • When not working for America’s Got Talent finalists, Lauren spends her free time working at NASA.
                                                                        • #2!!! –> Top 5 articles of the week: Linux, Hadoop, and NASA!
                                                                        • Lauren’s Raspberry Pi virtual reality wall at NASA

                                                                        • Dave takes RH254R for RHEL 7

                                                                        • Now with less yak shaving: Red Hat Introduces Open Virtual Appliance for Seamless OpenStack Evaluations
                                                                          • Almost related: OpenShift Enterprise Offline Developer Virtual Machine Image

                                                                          • CloudForms 3.1 released

                                                                          • Lonely jobs, part 2: No. 1 Most Expensive Coffee Comes From Elephant’s No. 2

                                                                            • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                            • Ben Balter’s Glossary of Government Acronyms
                                                                            • IBM’s 1937 corporate songbook
                                                                            • Pop songs as Shakespearean sonnets
                                                                            • InternetSteamGauge: a pressure gauge to display Internet usage
                                                                            • 26 Famous (And Free) Fonts You’ll Want To Start Using Immediately
                                                                            • 15 foot tall parking sign
                                                                            • Meanwhile in Japan: Apologies as a Service

                                                                              • We Give Thanks

                                                                              • Brian Stevens for his leadership and mentorship

                                                                                • 47 min
                                                                              • Episode 60: #60: Faraday Pajamas

                                                                                This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about vampire plants, spider oaks, and ultrasonic potatoes.

                                                                                No radiation gets in, only creepy vibes get out.
                                                                                • Lauren’s latest project now published: Raspberry Pi powered juggling performance
                                                                                • Gunnar loves pajamas, especially these
                                                                                • HT Matt Micene: Ultrasonic everything
                                                                                • Gunnar removes chips, water, and plants from the Faraday cage in his basement: Researchers reconstruct human speech by recording a potato chip bag
                                                                                • The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on Conversations
                                                                                • Bad Bio: Evil Talking Plants Use DNA Communication
                                                                                • Open source mind control: A new brain-computer interface lets DIYers access their brain waves
                                                                                • Yahoo to provide PGP encryption for mail
                                                                                  • Almost related: AOL still has 2.3 million dialup subscribers

                                                                                  • SpiderOak Implements A Warrant Canary

                                                                                  • Google Says Website Encryption – Or Lack Thereof – Will Now Influence Search Rankings

                                                                                  • In-Q-Tel CISO Dan Geer: Security expert calls home routers a clear and present danger

                                                                                  • More from Dan Geer: CIA’s venture firm security chief: US should buy zero-days, reveal them

                                                                                  • Good news/bad news for Shawn Wells: Ohio Turnpike says sponsorships, ads OK, but not naming rights to tollway

                                                                                  • Formal ALUG Meeting: Controlling juggling pins with Raspberry Pi – Lauren Egts on September 4

                                                                                  • Try the tel:// hack yourself by clicking here to call Red Hat’s 800 number and buy something

                                                                                    • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                    • Google Mesa is crazytown
                                                                                      • From O’Reilly Radar’s Four short links: “Paper by Googlers on the database holding G’s ad data. Trillions of rows, petabytes of data, point queries with 99th percentile latency in the hundreds of milliseconds and overall query throughput of trillions of rows fetched per day, continuous updates on the order of millions of rows updated per second, strong consistency and repeatable query results even if a query involves multiple datacenters, and no SPOF. (via Greg Linden)”

                                                                                        • We Give Thanks

                                                                                        • Matt Micene for making us more paranoid
                                                                                        • Mr Porter for the thumbnail on this post.

                                                                                          • 52 min
                                                                                        • Episode 59: #59: Alphabet Soup

                                                                                          This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: GSA USDS 18F OMB OSS LOL BBQ & RHEL SSG, RHEL VPAT, KVM, EAP GA, IBM+BRMS.

                                                                                          • Dave gets all Chromebooked up
                                                                                            • How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Google Cloud Print Server

                                                                                            • Gunnar gets all RØDE Podcastered up

                                                                                            • Calling Dr. Clater: Star Trek Axanar and Star Trek Phase II

                                                                                            • Correction: MSFT wasn’t subject to EU data protections, and in fact that’s what the Judge’s decision was about: whether they could comply with the warrant given the nexus of jurisdiction

                                                                                            • GSA and 18F: Open Source First
                                                                                              • 18F goes open first.
                                                                                              • GSA follows suit.
                                                                                              • US Digital Service announced, with Playbook and TechFAR.
                                                                                                • Bonus Gunnar press hit



                                                                                                • Lessons from the UK’s Govt Digital Service
                                                                                                  • Gunnar’s posts on 18F and USDS

                                                                                                  • More transparency made the Fed quieter, more conservative, more worried about how smart it sounds

                                                                                                  • Gunnarbait of the week: Microsoft’s Olivier Bloch Explains Microsoft Open Source (Video)

                                                                                                  • This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Rackspace bows out commodity IaaS market in favor of ‘managed cloud’

                                                                                                  • Lauren’s new Raspberry Pi project’s maiden voyage: Impossible Deceptions, Charles Peachock & Jason Alan Magic on August 23

                                                                                                  • Formal ALUG Meeting: Controlling juggling pins with Raspberry Pi – Lauren Egts on September 4

                                                                                                  • Dave bait: Docker kicks KVM’s butt in IBM tests
                                                                                                    • Performance Analysis of Docker on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

                                                                                                    • RHEL 6.6 Beta is out
                                                                                                      • Includes the SCAP Security Guide!!!

                                                                                                      • VPAT for RHEL 7!

                                                                                                      • JBoss EAP 6.3 is GA

                                                                                                      • Reminder: JBoss BRMS and IBM are the only BRMS worth looking at, per Forrester

                                                                                                      • OpenShift now up at UNC

                                                                                                      • The copy of the U.S. Constitution that’s installed on every Mac

                                                                                                        • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                                        • Fold a shirt in 2 seconds
                                                                                                        • TBD: A SkyMall catalog of the future
                                                                                                        • Philosophy Referee Hand Signals
                                                                                                        • Beautiful Open Source Project Sites
                                                                                                        • Building a Better Butter Knife

                                                                                                          • 52 min
                                                                                                        • Episode 58: #58: You Will Know Dave’s Vacation By the Trail of Destruction

                                                                                                          This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Barthelona, Gaudi, Toledo, Detroit, the Stasi, and why cloud providers can’t have nice things.

                                                                                                          • Barcelona and Detroit trip report
                                                                                                            • Barcelona
                                                                                                            • Uber is there but illegal
                                                                                                            • Nova Icària is the Egts family’s preferred Barcelona beach
                                                                                                            • When in town, be sure to check out Montserrat, Las Ramblas, and Sagrada Família
                                                                                                            • Detroit Maker Faire
                                                                                                            • Dave highly recommends: The Henry, Autograph Collection
                                                                                                            • The Stasi almost caught up to Dave
                                                                                                              • Truck crashes into East Toledo Tony Packo’s
                                                                                                              • Toledo faces water crisis after dangerous toxin found in supply
                                                                                                              • Don’t Drink the Water … In Lake Erie
                                                                                                              • “Don’t order the Toledo Outback Bloomin’ Algae. It’s terrible.”



                                                                                                              • Gunnar can’t stop watching the new Mad Max trailer

                                                                                                              • Stasi doppelgänger follow up: Chinese 3D Printer Allows You to 3D Print a Human Sized 1:1 Wax Replica of Yourself
                                                                                                                • Almost related: Bannerman = Uber for bodyguards

                                                                                                                • Chromecast to use ULTRASOUND

                                                                                                                • Striesand is an onramp-to-darkweb-in-a-box. Think of the Streisand Effect.

                                                                                                                • HT Robin Price: Google’s Project Zero

                                                                                                                • Now you can experience the ultimate joy like never before using Pinwheel!

                                                                                                                • Obama administration says the world’s servers are ours

                                                                                                                • Is AWS stumbling?

                                                                                                                • Lowering Cost of Government IT on August 21

                                                                                                                • Lauren’s new Raspberry Pi project’s maiden voyage: Impossible Deceptions, Charles Peachock & Jason Alan Magic on August 23

                                                                                                                • Dear EPA: Please buy CloudForms. Love, Dave and Gunnar.
                                                                                                                  • Start here with James Labocki and Thomas Cameron

                                                                                                                  • InfoWorld ♥s OpenShift
                                                                                                                    • OpenShift Enterprise on Autonomic Resources’ PaaS solution, ARCWRX, is “in evaluation” for FedRAMP authorization
                                                                                                                    • Want to learn more? Dan Walsh on Docker Security

                                                                                                                      • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                                                      • Weird Al’s Foil — stay for the plot twist
                                                                                                                      • David A. Wheeler bait! Mathematically-proved OS kernel is open source (on Github)
                                                                                                                      • Watch James Baldwin debate William F. Buckley at Cambridge in 1966
                                                                                                                      • Gunnar is ready for this 34″ monitor
                                                                                                                      • Bertolt Brecht sings “Mack the Knife” and creeps Gunnar out
                                                                                                                      • Declassified: The Government’s Secret Plan For a Military Moon Base
                                                                                                                      • That Time The CIA Kidnapped A Soviet Spacecraft
                                                                                                                      • MakerBot 3D printers now available in a dozen Home Depot stores
                                                                                                                      • Tips For Crafting A Strong Password That Really Pops

                                                                                                                        • We Give Thanks

                                                                                                                        • HT Robin Price for the Project Zero heads up

                                                                                                                          • 39 min

                                                                                                                        About Dave & Gunnar Show

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