Dave & Gunnar Show

Not our circus, not our monkey.

About the show

David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.

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Episodes

  • Episode 152: A Rasputin with Dreadlocks

    February 8th, 2018  |  31 mins 52 secs
    aliexpress, brushing, coreos, jaron lanier, linkedin, ripple, steelers, tinder

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: from Tinder with love, from China with hair bands, and from law enforcement with malware

  • Episode 151: The masses have sharp eyes

    January 18th, 2018  |  45 mins 20 secs
    black mirror, lede, meltdown, openwrt, pagers, scotus, social credit score, spectre, tesla

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: security awareness meets art, the Supreme Court meets fantasy sports, your Party loyalty meets your credit score, and some Russians meet in San Francisco

  • Episode 150: Stubbornness and Vanity

    December 19th, 2017  |  40 mins 35 secs

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: bots that want to be your lawyer, bots that want to waste scammers’ time, bots that want to be your therapist, and bots that want to be your friend

  • Episode 149: Bully Stick

    December 5th, 2017  |  31 mins 34 secs
    beef pizzle, bully stick, facebook, open technology fund

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about a communications device nobody wants, domain names nobody wants, TV standards nobody wants, and pictures Facebook wants

  • Episode 148: Our Friend Adrian

    November 21st, 2017  |  15 mins 14 secs
    ansible, red hat government symposium, red hat mobile

    This week Dave talks with Adrian Keward about Ansible use in public sector and lessons learned from public sector customers around the globe

  • Episode 147: Dadbag

    October 31st, 2017  |  40 mins 9 secs
    akron, coinhive, cryptojacking, dadbag, pacemakers, pocket, tom bihn, travel, unicode

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Game Boys in your medical devices, unicode in your domain names, cryptocurrency miners in your browser, and commercial software in your national security systems

  • Episode 146: The Mutability of History

    August 31st, 2017  |  39 mins 49 secs
    biometrics, fashion, keystroke logging, meetings, number stations, pacemakers, waze

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about repurposing voices, videos, keystrokes, and pacemaker programming

  • Episode 145: Mark Giveth, Mark Taketh Away

    August 22nd, 2017  |  39 mins 27 secs
    audit, btrfs, nbde, openscap, overlayfs, permabit, rhel, security, selinux, storage, usbguard

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mark Thacker about RHEL 7.4 security and storage, and how to kill a feature

  • Episode 144: Mark Thacker: Product Management Zelig

    August 15th, 2017  |  12 mins 34 secs
    open organization, technical product management

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mark Thacker about technical product management and getting things done in open source and proprietary organizations

  • Episode 143: Ostensibly Helpful, But Actually Dangerous

    August 1st, 2017  |  40 mins 36 secs
    fast forward, running, tom bihn, vpns, wings

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about things that are ostensibly helpful, but actually dangerous: robotic tutors, voice modulators, autocomplete, and the hellscape of Android VPN apps

  • Episode 142: Spring Cleaning

    July 25th, 2017  |  36 mins 48 secs
    airgaps, airpods, chat systems, orange vests

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about power with stomach fluids (and blood), networks with light, and communication networks without people.

  • Episode 141: Download This Podcast Or We Shoot This CloudPet

    April 25th, 2017  |  22 mins 31 secs
    cloudpets, clowns, kiss, ransomware

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: remotely controlling dolls, remotely controlling computers, remotely controlling football teams, and remotely controlling TVs (but w/o a TV remote control)

  • Episode 140: Hansel and Gretel

    April 18th, 2017  |  23 mins 30 secs
    containers, crio, docker, oci, summit

    This week Dave talks with Dan Walsh about what he’s saying at Red Hat Summit including how to increase Linux container community participation!

  • Episode 139: Travel and Leisure

    March 7th, 2017  |  14 mins 8 secs

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Taxi drones, adult wrapping, and carrying strangers’ things on airplanes for profit.

  • Episode 138: Listen To Your Furby

    February 28th, 2017  |  19 mins 42 secs

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about self destructive behavior and playing with dolls.

  • Episode 137: The Invisible Hand

    February 14th, 2017  |  24 mins 54 secs

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: heart, blood, noseprints, and invisible octopus drones.