#77: Chilling Effects

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about surveillance on Main Street and China, reader mail about cutting costs in the DOD, and three new additions to the Security Doghouse.

• Ohio is cold in the winter: Akron and Cuyahoga Falls close ice rinks because of cold weather
• D&G Hobby of the week: FPV Quadcopter Racing
  • See also Cheerson CX10 Mini LED RC Quadcopter and cx10_redtx



• D&G This Week in Irony:
  • Cops decry Waze traffic app as a “police stalker”
  • DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US
    • More details and pics here

  
  
  • Meanwhile:
    • Delaware eyes digital driver’s licenses
    • Cop who stole nude pics off arrested women’s phones gets no jail time

  
  
  
  


• Everybody wants backdoors: China’s New Rules for Selling Tech to Banks Have US Companies Spooked


• Great Firewall of China, weaponized


• Camfrog DMCA’s themselves


• D&G Security Doghouse:
  • Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificate to users visiting YouTube
  • Meet KeySweeper, the $10 USB charger that steals MS keyboard strokes
  • NFL app sends user names, passwords, & email addresses as clear text



• Marriott Testing In-Room Access To Netflix, Hulu, And Other Streaming Services


• Windows 10 free for all Windows 8.1 and 7 users for first year after release
  • Apple anticipates Gunnar’s “consumption tools” worry.



• Crunchy and Red Hat on PostgreSQL on OpenShift


• Security Announcements
  • Update on FIPS 140-2 plans
  • GHOST: Get it?



• Reading
  • David Wheeler has a new paper on container security
  • Probably the best whitepaper you’ll ever read on Red Hat middleware
  • General Justice, on the record
  • Dave on containers and RHEL 7



• To-Do
  • Matt Micene is nominee for Opensource.com 2015 People’s Choice Awards
  • Vote for us on iTunes, while you’re at it
    • Dan Benjamin’s Podcast Method told us this is a good idea.

  
  
  
  


• OpenShift is InfoWorld technology of the year


• Purdue now has a “Red Hat Doctoral Researcher in Open Innovation Communities“


• When the European Space Agency needs a cloud, the come to Red Hat


• Kim Kardashian’s Butt delivered by Gluster


• D&G Coincidence of the Week: There’s a real company called Cyberdyne who makes HAL [Hybrid Assistive Limb], the world‘s first cyborg-type robot, by which a wearer‘s bodily functions can be improved, supported and enhanced
  • See also: The Open Prosthetics Project



• Nick Bostrom is a tremendous thinker, and is creating the antidote to Skynet

Cutting Room Floor

• 10 Funnier Alternatives to Lorem Ipsum
• Marshmallow Farming.Too much rain ruins marshmallow crop in North Carolina
• Christmas Serial (ft. Amy Adams Golden Globe® 2015 Winner) – Saturday Night Live
• Moon: The star or planet debate
• 15 Unique Illnesses You Can Only Come Down With in German
• Slackbot Bot Turns A Roomba And A Tornado Siren Into A Wonky Little Robot That DJs And Gives High Fives
• BusinessTown: Richard Scarry’s Busytown for the Modern Age
• 10 Things You Won’t Be Able To Do Anymore If SkyMall Goes Away
• Let’s watch an SLR work at 10,000 frames per second.

We Give Thanks

• Sparky for the mailbag letter!