Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: WiFi Toasters in Space

Episode 118

Somebody’s watching me, Fines aren’t fine, and Slack hates your eyeballs

Hosts

Ned Bellavance

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52

@Ned1313

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner

Brenda Heisler, Resource Coordinator

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/

Longer Topics

Surveillance, Surveillance Everywhere

* China is installing monitoring malware on tourist phones

* DMV photos are being used for facial recognition requests

* An article came out a few weeks ago detailing the progression of private satellite surveillance

Lightning Round

* TL;DR… FaceApp is a privacy nightmare.. But it’s no worse than Facebook

* Autsch! mein Knie!

* Intuit uses misleading TurboTax website and text to trick people into paying for product they should get for free

* Productivity sieve Slack shut down popular user workaround that made the desktop experience tolerable

* 50 years ago this Saturday, the whole world watched as Ryan Gosling became the First Man on the Moon

* The original source code for Apollo 11 is available on github

* Pluralsight also has a free 30-minute primer on the codebase that powered the Apollo Guidance Computer.

* Microsoft shows off hologram speaking Japanese

Music Credits

Intro: Jason Shaw – Tech Talk

Outro: Jason Shaw –