#64: A Pig We’ll Miss

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about FBI Whining (aka “Clipper II”), Malvertising, Richard Branson’s alarming new PTO policy.

• Lauren: “R.I.P. to Ginners, the inspiration for this game. She had a long life and we loved her a lot, and got a lot of love in return.”
• Straight outta Akron: TinyCircuits’ new TinyScreen: A color display the size of your thumb!
• There’s lock-in, and then there’s RICO: Keurig coffee sued for $600M by Ontario-based Club Coffee
• Apple, Google default cell-phone encryption “concerns” FBI director
  • “Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile,” said John J. Escalante, chief of detectives for Chicago’s police department. “The average pedophile at this point is probably thinking, I’ve got to get an Apple phone.”
  • The level of privacy described by Apple and Google is “wonderful until it’s your kid who is kidnapped and being abused, and because of the technology, we can’t get to them,” said Ronald Hosko, who left the FBI earlier this year as the head of its criminal-investigations division. “Who’s going to get lost because of this, and we’re not going to crack the case?”
  • Eric Holder says: “When a child is in danger, law enforcement needs to be able to take every legally available step to quickly find and protect the child and to stop those that abuse children. It is worrisome to see companies thwarting our ability to do so.”



• No fly list? Chinese security body-searches 10,000 pigeons


• Also in China: Firechat p2p chat is being used by protestors in Hong Kong… and it’s also not secure.
  • Bonus link: Drone Shows Thousands Filling Hong Kong Streets



• This Week in Irony: Pakistani Man Indicted for Selling StealthGenie Spyware App


• Meanwhile, local law enforcement buys and gives away ComputerCop poorly designed spyware to the public
  • Is your local law enforcement giving out ComputerCop, like Dave’s and Gunnar’s?



• How to steal ATM pins with an iPhone


• Immune to spyware: The NoPhone


• D&G Black List Term of the Week: Malvertising


• D&G White List Term of the Week: Provenance


• Cloudflare introduces Universal SSL


• MIT Students Battle State’s Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner’s Source Code


• Lauren and her juggling app featured in Raspberry Pi Today


• OwnCloud on Red Hat Storage! Here’s the Reference Architecture


• Hortonworks with Red Hat Storage? Why yes, we got that too!


• What to do about Shellshock?
  • Running RHEL 4? Make sure you have ELS which includes 10+ fixes to well known critical and important level security vulnerabilities!



• Shawn Wells is not just our sponsor, but a GCN Rising Star winner and FedScoop50 nominee! Congrats Shawn!


• 18F delights and amazes Gunnar with this open source guidance that doesn’t make him nauseous.


• Federal-wide open source policy? ¯\(ツ)/¯


• Billionaire Richard Branson Wants Everyone to Have Unlimited Vacation

Cutting Room Floor

• The Radio Hat is the perfect accessory for Faraday Pajamas!
• Where the Wild Things Are (as read by Christopher Walken)
• HT Mrs. Egts: Octoberfest in Kent featuring traditional food from Taco Tantos! Wait, what?
• Windows 95 backpack
• Zombie Safe Zone Map

We Give Thanks

• Ginners for being the inspiration that launched Lauren’s open source career!
• Ken Burns and TinyCircuits for the TinyScreen update!
• Mrs. Egts for the Octoberfest update.