This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: credit card vulnerabilities, Dell vulnerabilities, and whether programmers are engineers.
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Lauren, now in book form: See page 18 of The Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book
How to defeat Chip and Signature: A $10 Tool Can Guess (And Steal) Your Next Credit Card Number
Hilton’s point of sale system is a POS: Hilton Worldwide Has Identified and Taken Action to Eradicate Malware
Starwood too: Another Day, Another Hack: Credit Card Stealing Malware Hits Hotel Chain Slate Money Gabfest on, among other things, the economics of rewards programs.Those Gas Pump “Anti-Skimming” Stickers Are Really Just Pointless Decoration
Lenovo no longer has a monopoly on pre-installed PC security vulnerabilities: Dell apologizes for HTTPS certificate fiasco, provides removal tool
Security enhanced body cams: Police body cams found pre-installed with notorious Conficker worm
Man-in-the-middle attack on Vizio TVs coughs up owners’ viewing habits
Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections
Let’s Encrypt now in public beta!
Seeing through walls with Wi-Fi We guess it’s healthier than X-ray vansEstonia and e-Residency through blockchain (h/t emorisse)
Signal is now available in Chrome
Jim Whitehurst blogs about a question from his appearance on D&G 100
Programmers, Let’s Earn the Right to Be Called Engineers
I Write Like: Dave writes like Cory Doctorow, Gunnar writes like H. P. Lovecraft
D&G Joke Kit of the Week: CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless, Kafkaesque Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)
This can’t possibly go wrong: robots taught to disobey humans (h/t emorisse)Impress your TSA friends: Knife wielding tentacle tentacleGreat News! Groupon Has a Sale on Clip-on Man BunsD&G This Week in Cognitive Surplus: Check Which McDonald’s Restaurants Are Serving All-Day Hash Browns Before You GoHappy Thanksgiving, everyone. It’s a time for sharingFor UzomaClick-o-Tron auto-generates clickbait with recurrent neural networksThe D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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