#69: Supercookies

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about mobile phone surveillance that you pay for, peer-to-peer dropbox replacements, and the many faces of lock-in.

• Peaky Blinders is like a watered-down Deadwood and will suffice for now
• AT&T Stops Using ‘Super Cookies’ To Track Cellphone Data
• Word of the week: “Middlebox”. 4G carriers don’t care one bit for your SPDY-laden, encrypted traffic. Hippie.
• BitTorrent Sync vs Cloud: Where Can You Trust Your Personal Data?
• Anybody try Syncthing.net or Transporter?
• Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority from the EFF and friends
• Tyranny of the default: Firefox dumps Google for search, signs on with Yahoo
• HT James Kirkland: E-Cigarettes From China Spreading Malware Through USB Charger
• 10,000 pay phones to become Wifi base stations in NYC
  • see also: Ricochet Wireless



• This Week in Vendor Lockin: Anti-Competitive Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X


• This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Netflix Kills Off Its Public API, Takes A Few Applications Down With It


• Lawsuits as an Investment: Crowdfund Your Next Lawsuit With LexShares


• Gunnar helps give The Watchful Eye: Mitigating Risk in the Cloud on December 3 in Washington, DC


• Red Hat Private PaaS Workshop on December 11 in Washington, DC


• Red Hat Summit CFP now open!


• HT Itamar Heim: RHEV compliance policy scans with Nessus!


• FIPS compliant password vault with JBoss EAP and RHEL, thanks to Rich Lucente


• How have we not heard of DavMail? Connects standards-compliant clients to Exchange. Thanks, French defense establishment!

Cutting Room Floor

• Save a bundle by anesthetizing octopi yourself: How to anesthetize an octopus
• Parakeet that sounds (and kinda looks) just like R2-D2!
• Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut, A 19 Minute Music Video
• Ground Drone: Low cost mobile robotics platform
• Brain transplant: OpenWorm’s mind in a LEGO robot’s body
• Browser based fluid dynamics simulator
• JS1K Night Highway

We Give Thanks

• James Kirkland for the e-cigarette word of warning
• Itamar Heim for the Nessus and RHEV good news!
• Rich Lucente for the FIPS compliant password vault