The Recompiler Podcast

This episode we talk about Amazon’s AI recruiting fail, WordPress accessibility issues, Google+ and more. 

This episode we talk about Chinese spy chips, new sophisticated voice phishing schemes, and Facebook’s huge security breach.

This episode we talk about moral clauses in FOSS licenses, ShotSpotter’s partnership with Verizon, how Buffer bought out its VCs, and WayMo.

This episode we’re talking about Wickr’s use of domain-fronting and other anti-censorship techniques, HashWick vulnerability, Verizon throttling emergency responders data cellular connections, licensing shenanigans.

This week Audrey and I chat about about Las Vegas Hotel security issues during DefCon, Foreshadow speculative execution vulnerability, and issues with the music industry business model and copyright.

• [01:06] Devopsdays Portland - SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2018 - RECOMPILERFRIENDS 20% discount
• [01:54] Community Event Planning pre-order
• [02:34] Survey for event organizers
• [03:15] Call for Contributors, Issue 12 Machines and Things
• [04:09] In post-massacre Vegas, security policies clash with privacy values - The Parallax
• [07:48] Open letter to the Hacker Community. | Marc's Security Ramblings
• [22:15] Chris Dagdigian on Twitter: "this happened to me as well at a Marriott owned hotel property..."
• [23:33] Foreshadow: Breaking the Virtual Memory Abstraction with Transient Out-of-Order Execution
• [31:07] Artists Made Only 12% of Music Industry Revenue in 2017, Citigroup Report Finds | Pitchfork
• [40:01] Recording Industry Hypocrisy On Full Display In Continuing To Push The CLASSICS Act That Expands Copyright | Techdirt
• [50:17] USB Dongle Authentication
• [51:36] Two Factor Auth List
• [54:09] Thru-hiking the US/Mexico border
• [56:04] Natives Outdoors
• [32:45] PUTTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER: Remastering the World of Music (pdf)

This week Audrey and I chat about a security incident with Homebrew (the macOS package manager), Twitter’s refusal to moderate hate speech, and Firefox’s upcoming support of DNS over HTTP.

• [03:42] Devopsdays Portland - SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2018 - RECOMPILERFRIENDS 20% discount
• [04:06] Recompiler DevOpsDays ticket giveaway, deadline August 20
• [04:25] Community Event Planning pre-order
• [04:54] Survey for event organizers
• [06:08] Call for Contributors, Issue 12 Machines and Things
• [07:08] Security Incident Disclosure — Homebrew
• [08:16] How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
• [11:39] How I gained commit access to all Jenkins projects in 30 minutes…and how security warnings to the
• [16:19] jack on Twitter: "We didn’t suspend Alex Jones or Infowars yesterday..."
• [19:49] Jay Rosen on Twitter: "It's been called the bullshit asymmetry:..."
• [22:16] Political Strategy and Buzzfeed’s analysis of "the Twitter problem"
• [33:02] I’m done with Twitter
• [35:10] Episode 57: Do we have to do more Facebook? – The Recompiler
• [36:22] Improving DNS Privacy in Firefox – Firefox Nightly News
• [37:54] ungleich Blog - Mozilla's new DNS resolution is dangerous
• [45:45] BearCam
• [47:51] Books by Gerald M. Weinberg

This week we’re talking about Reddit’s security breach, retail spearfishing indictments, ghost characters, and surveillance capitalism.

• [01:29] Devopsdays Portland - SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2018 - RECOMPILERFRIENDS 20% discount
• [02:17] Community Event Planning book pre-order
• [02:51] Survey for event organizers
• [03:22] Call for Contributors, Issue 12 Machines and Things
• [04:16] We had a security incident. Here's what you need to know.
• [09:24] How Criminals Recruit Telecom Employees to Help Them Hijack SIM Cards
• [15:43] Community questions following the eslint security incident
• [18:51] Ukrainian hackers arrested for stealing 15 million credit cards - The Verge
• [22:13] Three Members of Notorious International Cybercrime Group “Fin7” In Custody for Role in Attacking Over 100 U.S. companies | OPA | Department of Justice
• [24:57] A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
• [28:09] Decolonizing Unicode
• [29:43] I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name
• [33:39] Let’s make private data into a public good
• [35:47] Out of the frying pan and into the fire
• [44:19] NowThis on Twitter: "118 goats took over the streets of this Boise suburb — and it was baaaaaaaaad… "
• [45:43] James Wong on Twitter: "Maize is an artificial species created entirely thanks to human ingenuity (right). ..."

This week we’re talking about the ethics of corporate research and how your data is used, Twitter's developer API changes, how Amazon Prime Day went, and more.

• [01:08] Devopsdays Portland - SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2018 - RECOMPILERFRIENDS 20% discount
• [01:37] DevOpsDays ticket giveaway - enter by Aug 20!
• [01:59] The Recompiler Issue 8: Wildcard
• [03:43] Responsible Communication Style Guide reprint
• [04:19] New developer requirements to protect our platform
• [13:59] Dropbox still has questions to answer after claims of improper data sharing | ZDNet
• [15:43] A Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate
• [23:44] How collaborating in Dropbox helps NICO advance scientific research
• [31:01] Pandora’s Checkbox – Emily St＊
• [31:28] Private and secure multiparty histograms
• [35:23] Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies?
• [38:10] Amazon’s facial-recognition tool misidentified 28 lawmakers as people arrested for a crime, study finds - The Washington Post
• [41:41] The Motherboard Guide to Amazon Prime Day's Best Deals
• [44:23] Amazon warehouse workers are striking across Europe on Prime Day
• [44:33] Muslim Amazon Employees Protest Increased Workload During Ramadan | Observer
• [45:15] The Hidden Environmental Cost of Amazon Prime’s Free, Fast Shipping
• [45:22] I'm Starting to Have Serious Doubts About Amazon Prime
• [53:24] #124 The Magic Store by Reply All from Gimlet Media
• [57:19] Lina Khan and the “Hipster Antitrust” Movement - The Atlantic
• [59:25] Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed
• [1:00:35] The Library Music Project Will Surprise and Delight Your Ears - Music - Portland Mercury