Episode 17
#17: An Internet of *My* Things
June 19th, 2013
1 hr 11 mins 26 secs
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About this Episode
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.
![Nirmal big and small.](https://dgshow.org/files/2013/06/nirmal-mehta-bah-summit-500x666.jpg)
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:
- Dave gets to say cyber to wind up Gunnar
- Hackers (and proctologists?) type wearing latex gloves (picture of the week runner up)
- 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.