Episode 80: #80: Security Thunderdome

This week, Dave and Gunnar open the Security Thunderdome, and talk about red-teaming large bureaucracies. Gunnar is planning a visit to Akron While in Akron, stop by Cleveland’s Randall Park Mall D&G Security Doghouse Fantasy League ← VOTE HERE 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 adware Superfish is sure it’s all going to be fine Facebook is now tracking you across websites on advertiser’s behalf for a better ad experience, of course Google 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/1984 And there’s more: Samsung Smart TVs Don’t Encrypt Speech Or Transcriptions But wait, there’s more! Samsung smart TVs inserting ads into third-party apps Uber 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 before In other news… NRO releases MLS HPC system Big ups to Matt Zager: Five ways open source middleware can impact unmanned systems RHEV 3.5 is out! RHEL OSP 6 is out! Red Hat Mothership is written up in DesignMilk Willard 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 days Pop Quiz: Who’s in charge of Federal IT? Green bubbles and why small decisions make a big difference Adobe Kickbox is live Bonus link: Author also wrote Make Room! Make Room! which became the movie Soylent Green Stainless Steel Rat Cutting Room Floor For Soren’s birthday party: Highly Dexterous Robot Can Fold Balloon Animals, Close Zip-Ties EFF’s Parker Higgins on the DOJ’s abiding consistency wrt encryption Guitar face instructional videos Mattell’s ViewMaster relaunch! Fastest-selling toy of all time? Playmobil’s Martin Luther Perils of public code: Intel’s Galileo build scripts use some dude’s grub fork on GitHub Life Inside a Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine $160 for Sony 64 GB microSDXC card with Premium Sound