#97: Less than Lethal Manbun

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: smartphone messes, flying messes, policy messes, Uber messes.

• Apple Is Taunting Publishers With Ad-Blocking and Apple News
  • Apple’s ‘Move to iOS’ app is now available on Android
  • Android fanboys are trolling Apple’s Move to iOS app with 1-star reviews



• 9 year old with a Muslim name arrested for making bomb. Or clock. Whatever.
  • There’s a guy collecting offers on how to help the kid. (h/t emorisse)



• Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US


• 20+ Chinese Android Smartphones Models Come With Pre-Installed Malware


• Remember all those app permissions you blindly agreed to?  Android ransomware lures with porno, takes your picture and then ‘fines’ you


• D&G Quote of the Week: “From a gov­ern­ment side, our re­spons­ib­il­ity is to talk to folks and ex­plain to them: We’re not ma­ni­acs. The FBI is not an ali­en force im­posed on the Amer­ic­an people,” said FBI Dir­ect­or James Comey
  • Coincidence? The X-Files returns on January 24
  • Totally not related: The Expert



• Back doors, like TSA luggage lock master keys (which are now self 3D printable and on github), don’t work


• Uber ride data publicly accessible through Google
  • Meanwhile… Uber Gives $5.5M To Make Amends For Stealing Carnegie Mellon’s Self-Driving Car Scientists



• This week in “Airlines are garbage”: American Airlines flies uncertified plane to Hawaii


• Weaponized police drones are now legal in North Dakota


• California wants to enhance your driver’s license experience


• DoD looking to replicate the successes of 18F/USDS in Force of the Future plan (h/t matt.micene)


• Silicon Valley is more biased against women than USN (h/t matt.micene)


• Congressional polarization, visualized. (h/t emorisse)

Cutting Room Floor

• How to Write an Error Message (h/t unwosu)
• Tiny fedora for your manbun
• Hipster Barbie Is So Much Better at Instagram Than You
• Artisanal Firewood
• Punk stock photography
• Directions to Schrödinger’s elevators in the Möbius building
• Man flying 54 propeller super drone
• 1976 NASA Graphics Standards Manual
• Interactive Tor map
• 15 Rules From the Hobo Ethical Code of 1889
• Gunnar’s new homepage until further notice
• This AWS in Plain English is the best, esp. Direct Connect.
• What DevOps needs to learn from USSOCOM (h/t matt.micene)
• OpenOffice is a disaster

We Give Thanks

• D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!