#95: Run By Horses

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: San Jose’s license-plate opportunity, AT&T’s wifi opportunity, UK government’s Oracle opportunity, and DISA’s email opportunity.

• Gunnar’s font and dotfile guidance
• License plate reader led police to man who killed reporter, cameraman
• Forget license plate readers on police cars, how about on garbage trucks?
• D&G Security Doghouse: Adobe and AT&T
  • Adobe Digital Editions 4 lets you install Norton Security Scan by default
  • Hackers Exploit Adobe Flash Vulnerability In Yahoo Ads
  • Swift on Security has an eloquent piece on the nightmare of general purpose computing.
  • AT&T Hotspots: Now with Advertising Injection
    • Meanwhile: Ad Blockers Will Prevent You From Seeing $22B Worth Of Unwanted Ads This Year

  
  
  
  


• UK government reportedly working to end its reliance on Oracle


• UK government inks fresh deal with Oracle


• D&G Bait of the Week: DISA cracks down on email storage


• Widespread Use of Yammer Social Network at VA Ran Afoul of Agency Rules, Watchdog Says


• HHS won’t stop using Yammer despite security warning at VA

• Lauren and the Fighting Unicorns picked up by…
  • Crain’s Business Cleveland: A young group of fans
  • The Plain Dealer: NASA robotics tournament in Brook Park inspires youth, volunteers

• How to make a minority look like a majority with Social Networks
  • Julian sez: “epistemic closure”

Cutting Room Floor

• 1982 DC Comics Style Guide
• Stock photos from the 1970s
• Mad Max Ancient Mythology
• A-ha’s “Take On Me” Performed by North Korean Kids with Accordions
• The Chickeneers (via jduncan and jcallaway)
• Oracle doesn’t need your security help, so stop reverse engineering their code already (h/t matt.micene)
• Passion comes from work and experience not the other way around (h/t matt.micene)