Description

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

• Just sayin’: 13 'brain belts' where the world's smartest people reside
• Vogue: 6 Reasons Akron, Ohio, Should Be On Your Radar
• Pocket
• Tom Bihn Tristar and Daylight combo
• Hyatt Regency DFW International Airport
• 465k patients told to visit doctor to patch critical pacemaker vulnerability
• Meanwhile: Game Boy Advance Hiding In a Medical Device
• Fake domain names with unicode characters: Chrome, Firefox, and Opera users beware: This isn’t the apple.com you want
  • Try this: Go to https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/
    • YMMV depending upon browser (works on Firefox, but not on Chrome)
• Coinhive: "Monetize Your Business With Your Users' CPU Power"
  • D&G Term of the Week: Cryptojacking
    • Coinhive Is Rapidly Becoming a Favorite Tool Among Malware Devs
    • Chrome Extension Embeds In-Browser Monero Miner That Drains Your CPU
    • Showtime Websites Used to Mine Monero, Unclear If Hack or an Experiment
    • Someone Made an Ad Blocker But for Cryptocurrency Mining
• Symantec CEO: Get Commercial Software Off National Security Systems
• Exclusive: Symantec CEO says source code reviews pose unacceptable risk
• Would You Video Chat With An Airline Customer Service Rep?

Cutting Room Floor

• Robots, Now Wielding Nunchucks
• The Dadbag
  • See the whole product line
• Sony Releases New Earbud Detangling Spray
• Quickly Find the Hipster Neighborhoods in Any Major City With This Tool
• Emacs client for Slack brings Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment to 2017
  • See also Emacs client for Rocketchat (HT Anthony Green)
• Greek philosopher or ailment?
• Memory Chemicals: For more information, please reread

We Give Thanks

• Anthony Green
• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!