Description

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about social media, which is broken. Also, BitCoin’s broken. And passwords are broken. Forge.mil is broken. Maker culture is broken. You get the idea.

• Dave finds out CatSip is a thing, and wasn’t what he purchased
• One more reason to increase VTC use: Marriott and Hilton Announce Penalty for Last-Minute Cancellations
• The winner is: Google Music, mostly because of Chromecast. That’s how they get ya. Spotify account deleted, because I’m not buying new hardware.
• Videoconferencing is broken, but Firefox now includes well-packaged WebRTC for real
• Konklone says: get yourself a hard token
• BitCoin: not super anonymous if you’ve got €1500, turns out
• Amnesty International launches Detekt, which looks for surveillance software on your computer
• Smartphones are broken. Phones from 3rd tier vendors come with “Deathring” built right in
• “The Product Is You”: Social Media Edition
  • Twitter’s taking an inventory of your running apps for advertising purposes. Opt out.
  • The Photos You Post Online With a Product Could Be Used By Marketers
  • Social Media Bots Offer Phony Friends and Real Profit
    • Hitchhiker’s Guide to Tweetbots: Hosting a Hubot on OpenShift
• USPTO DevOps Meetup January 14th, Alexandria, VA, starring Etsy
• New Red Hat Security Site
• Let’s talk about procurement from Paul Brubaker of VMware
• Forge.mil goes down. Did anyone notice?
• DevOps Cafe podcast. If you haven’t heard it yet, it’s worth hearing. Even if you don’t care about DevOps. Especially:
  • Matt Coté and Jay Lyman
  • Adrian Cockroft
• Economic failures of https
• Maker Culture is a kind of chauvinism. Gunnar’s convinced.

Cutting Room Floor

• D&G Book Club: If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript
• For Uzoma: Breakmaster Cylinder drops Lakshmi Singh
• Welcome to the delightful subculture of Lego Album Covers
• The most thorough dissection of “Alien”’s design and typography you could possibly hope for
• CIA Admits Role In 1985 Coup To Oust David Lee Roth: “The last thing we wanted was to have another ‘Panama’ on our hands”
• Docker on Raspberry Pi

9-Factor Auth: something you have, something you know, something you are, something you desire, something you fear, something from deep insi

— Parker Higgins (@xor) November 18, 2014

a kid in this coding class said “you use the hashtag key to add a comment” and i set myself on fire so that's basically why i'm on fire

— Andrew Dupont (@andrewdupont) July 26, 2014

We Give Thanks

• Robin Price and Shawn Wells for the security microsite
• Others?