This week, Dave and Gunnar open the Security Thunderdome, and talk about red-teaming large bureaucracies.
Verizon Wireless to Allow Complete Opt Out of Mobile ‘Supercookies’ (Soon)AT&T gives you a discount of $30/mo for monitoring your Internet OR charges you $30 unless you comply with their surveillance regime. You pick!Lenovo preinstalls MITM-enhanced adwareSuperfish is sure it’s all going to be fineFacebook is now tracking you across websites on advertiser’s behalf for a better ad experience, of courseGoogle Now now SLURPS data from third party apps so YOU don’t have to
Today In Creepy Privacy Policies, Samsung’s Eavesdropping TV diff this w/1984And there’s more: Samsung Smart TVs Don’t Encrypt Speech Or TranscriptionsBut wait, there’s more! Samsung smart TVs inserting ads into third-party appsUber Will Add Panic Button And Location/Journey Sharing In India On February 11 The Onion’s Take: “It’s nice knowing Uber is willing to do everything it can to protect its customers short of properly screening its drivers.”We’ve seen this beforeNRO releases MLS HPC systemBig ups to Matt Zager: Five ways open source middleware can impact unmanned systemsRHEV 3.5 is out!RHEL OSP 6 is out!Red Hat Mothership is written up in DesignMilkWillard event: Sonny Hashmi says “Open will win every time.” Oh, and private cloud isn’t a thing.Pop Quiz: How long does it take for your emails to no longer be private? 180 daysPop Quiz: Who’s in charge of Federal IT?Green bubbles and why small decisions make a big differenceAdobe Kickbox is liveBonus link: Author also wrote Make Room! Make Room! which became the movie Soylent GreenStainless Steel RatFor Soren’s birthday party: Highly Dexterous Robot Can Fold Balloon Animals, Close Zip-TiesEFF’s Parker Higgins on the DOJ’s abiding consistency wrt encryptionGuitar face instructional videosMattell’s ViewMaster relaunch!Fastest-selling toy of all time? Playmobil’s Martin LutherPerils of public code: Intel’s Galileo build scripts use some dude’s grub fork on GitHubLife Inside a Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine$160 for Sony 64 GB microSDXC card with Premium Sound
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