#28: Abandonment Issues

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Batman, Acxiom as your personal data custodian, the TSA Pre-✓ Class War, and the HACK REACTOR.

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• Dave visits an abandoned amusement park in Chippewa Lake, OH which was featured in a 10 min documentary and was the filming location of Closed for the Season
• Gunnar needs a Dark Knight intervention
• When not listening to D&G:
  • Windows XP apocalypse and your own countdown clock to April 8, 2014
  • Yahoo! doppelgängers



• KnowEm Tracks Down All the Sites You’ve Registered a Username


• Simply provide your name, address, birth date and last four digits of your Social Security Number: Data Broker Acxiom’s New Site Allows Users To View And Edit The Marketing Info It’s Collected


• How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking


• Great for converting lists of SSNs and photos of birth certificates: CloudConvert Converts Almost Any File Type Between Formats


• The TSA Racket is Now Selling Your Basic Rights Back to You


• TSA screening about to get a lot worse


• When not taking Klingon MOOCs: Apocalypse 101: Take the Free Walking Dead Online Course From UC Irvine
  • New Walking Dead Spinoff Coming to AMC in 2015



• Inside Hack Reactor, The Coding Bootcamp That Wants To Be The CS Degree Of The Future


• Google Releases Raspberry Pi Web Dev Teaching Tool, or spend less time yak shaving and learn web programming right away with OpenShift


• HT Major Hayden: Yahoo’s Mayer gives phone passcodes a pass


• Replay of GovLoop’s How to Securely Deploy Open Source Software featuring David A. Wheeler, Josh Davis, and Dave


• Dave was a panelist with friend of the show Dan Risacher at GovLoop’s Agency of the Future event


• NC Datapalooza was fantastic.


• Gunnar presenting at NIST Cloud Computing and Mobility workshop on October 1-3


• Dave as panelist at Symantec Government Symposium on October 2


• Gartner ITxpo on October 6-10


• Red Hat Government Symposium registration now open!


• Red Hat Software Collections and Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 are GA!


• HT @RedHatOpen: Emulate a Common Access Card in a VM by using certificates generated on the host


• Two factor auth site of the week is GitHub who has a nice security history page


• Technical Debt & Vendor Lock-In by friend of the show Matt Micene of DLT


• State of Texas wants $11 to receive updated address info


• Get hooked on a feeling with D&G’s word of the week: Haptography

Cutting Room Floor

• Box.net now “NSA-proof”
• OpenID vs IndieAuth
• Great photo of Sealand, courtesy of Gunnar’s mom
• Tweet2Cite: APA- and MLA-compliant citations for your toots
• Perfect for regional jets: USB powered soldering iron
• Epic blockbuster trailer: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• A scientific guide to saying “no”: How to avoid temptation and distraction
• Legal advice if you want to be a superhero in San Diego
• Send your teeth to the Tooth Fairy using a RaspberryPi and pneumatic tubes
• CERN Lecture Belt for the punishing environments of today’s physics lecture circuit

We Give Thanks

• Matt Micene for helping us stay technically debt free
• David A. Wheeler, Josh Davis, and Dan Risacher for advocating open source in the DoD