Dave & Gunnar Show

Episode 69: #69: Supercookies

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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

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