#17: An Internet of *My* Things

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: Evolution of evolution, skeumorphism (again), Onion Pi, Brick Pi, Red Hat Summit 2013, an interview with Nirmal Mehta and some lessons learned from Google and NSA.

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So this is an enormous episode, the longest we’ve done yet. If you just want to hear from Nirmal, jump to 1:00:00. Yes, an hour in. This episode is epic.

• Deepest apologies to Rackspace: it was another user hogging all the swap. Related
• Red Hat Summit keynote and session videos
• Death of skeumorphism: iOS7
• OMB asks for 10% discretionary cut citing redundancy — previous plan was 5%
• This Week in Pi
  • BrickPi
  • Onion Pi
  • Gunnar helps out the good people at the Open Technology Fund



• This Week in Panopticon
  • Google is different from NSA because one of them has to get a court order. Discuss.
  • NSA leak via USB drive. Time for a security check.
  • Disable USB in RHEL
  • Confine users in RHEL (featuring Dave)
  • Google to keep its calendar CalDAV API public after developer backlash, debuts contacts CardDAV API to boot
  • Foreign hackers seek a soft target at VA
  • Takeaways:
    1. Dave gets to say cyber to wind up Gunnar
    2. Hackers (and proctologists?) type wearing latex gloves (picture of the week runner up)
    3. A chain is only as strong as the weakest link
  • Whatever happened to Google?
  • Services from multiple vendors with loose integration better than monolithic tight integration?
  • Google buys Waze
  • NSA Leaks Present a Business and Ethics Crisis for Silicon Valley
  • Google Reader deathwatch: CommaFeed is getting better and better!
  • Must see demo video, but seems to only work for Pasadena
  • Please vote up Dave’s feature request!



• AFCEA DC Emerging Technologies Symposium 2013 on June 20 in Washington, DC


• Defense in Depth Workshop on June 26 in Tysons Corner, VA


• An award-winning customer we like: Nirmal Mehta of Booz Allen Hamilton

Cutting Room Floor

• What happens when you give a guinea pig a cherry?
• Guinea pig armor
• Atari 2600 Superman
• 49th parallel — border skirmishes waiting to happen: “Canada & The United States: Bizarre Borders Part 2”

We Give Thanks

• Glyn Moody making our day by letting us know about CalDAV’s and CardDAV’s return to Google
• Gunnar’s sister Wendy, for her Guinea Pig enthusiasm.