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Episode Synopsis
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about kill switches, killer robots, killer apps, and killing products.
David Grohl Alley: Mission Accomplished!
Bruce Willis is not moving to Dave’s neighborhood
Pycon 2018-2019 in Cleveland?
SleepBot
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Remember our discussion about data tampering? Malware scam appears to use GPS data to catch speeding Pennsylvania drivers
Meanwhile: Build your own speed trap camera system with a Raspberry Pi and OpenCV
MIT Develops Accurate System for Tracking People, Objects via WiFi
Enjoy Architecture of Radio
SkullConduct: Biometric User Identification on Eyewear Computers Using Bone Conduction Through the Skull
KillerDrone = drone + chainsaw
Hacker reveals $40 attack that steals $28k police drones from 2km away
Android’s unpatched dead device jungle is good for security
D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google reaches into customers’ homes and bricks their gadgets
Don’t forget to set your Google Living Will
D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment (Page 2): TSA spent $47,000 on an app that just randomly picks lanes for passengers
Speaking of travel: Poor-taste wi-fi name grounds Perth flight
D&G Joke Kit of the Week: TSA Lines Causing Frowns? Send in the Clowns! (and Tiny Horses)
Websites take control of USB devices: Googlers propose WebUSB API
Meanwhile… Half of people plug in USB drives they find in the parking lot
Speaking of Google: Google Spaces and Google Allo and Google Duo
Red Hat Product Security Risk Report: 2015
Red Hat Summit Government Luncheon and Red Hat Summit Government Breakout
Fighting Unicorns in the latest issue of NASA’s AeroSpace Frontiers (bottom of page 4)
D&G This Week in Product Design: Why do BIC pen caps have holes in them?
The part of the show where Dave causes Gunnar to have a seizure: The perfect suffix for your “cyber-” buzzword
Cutting Room Floor
Containerizing Ave Maria
Barbershop solo?
A Metal Tribute to iPhone Ringtones
Arduino-powered LEGO nuclear reactor
Bistrobot: Sandwich making robot
Milk-based 3D scanner
Your Amazon Echo can now teach you all about The Art of War
PAC-MAN suit
The Swedish Number: Get connected to a random Swede and talk about anything
Simulate electronics circuits in your browser w/HTML5
CIA Operative’s 9-Step Hotel Safety Checklist
Terrifying Workplace Safety Video Is a 4-Minute Horror Movie
Chinese opsec funnies: your foreign boyfriend is a western spy!
ShadyURL: Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
Super 8 hotel art gallery
Hopefully, You’ll Never Need to Use Polycom’s High-Tech Prison Phone
Classic Programmer Paintings
Creating sparklines in unicode (h/t emorisse)
Visual search engine for satellite imagery (h/t emorisse)
We Give Thanks
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
David Grohl Alley: Mission Accomplished!
Bruce Willis is not moving to Dave’s neighborhood
Pycon 2018-2019 in Cleveland?
SleepBot
Sign up for Gunnar’s Newsletter
Remember our discussion about data tampering? Malware scam appears to use GPS data to catch speeding Pennsylvania drivers
Meanwhile: Build your own speed trap camera system with a Raspberry Pi and OpenCV
MIT Develops Accurate System for Tracking People, Objects via WiFi
Enjoy Architecture of Radio
SkullConduct: Biometric User Identification on Eyewear Computers Using Bone Conduction Through the Skull
KillerDrone = drone + chainsaw
Hacker reveals $40 attack that steals $28k police drones from 2km away
Android’s unpatched dead device jungle is good for security
D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google reaches into customers’ homes and bricks their gadgets
Don’t forget to set your Google Living Will
D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment (Page 2): TSA spent $47,000 on an app that just randomly picks lanes for passengers
Speaking of travel: Poor-taste wi-fi name grounds Perth flight
D&G Joke Kit of the Week: TSA Lines Causing Frowns? Send in the Clowns! (and Tiny Horses)
Websites take control of USB devices: Googlers propose WebUSB API
Meanwhile… Half of people plug in USB drives they find in the parking lot
Speaking of Google: Google Spaces and Google Allo and Google Duo
Red Hat Product Security Risk Report: 2015
Red Hat Summit Government Luncheon and Red Hat Summit Government Breakout
Fighting Unicorns in the latest issue of NASA’s AeroSpace Frontiers (bottom of page 4)
D&G This Week in Product Design: Why do BIC pen caps have holes in them?
The part of the show where Dave causes Gunnar to have a seizure: The perfect suffix for your “cyber-” buzzword
Cutting Room Floor
Containerizing Ave Maria
Barbershop solo?
A Metal Tribute to iPhone Ringtones
Arduino-powered LEGO nuclear reactor
Bistrobot: Sandwich making robot
Milk-based 3D scanner
Your Amazon Echo can now teach you all about The Art of War
PAC-MAN suit
The Swedish Number: Get connected to a random Swede and talk about anything
Simulate electronics circuits in your browser w/HTML5
CIA Operative’s 9-Step Hotel Safety Checklist
Terrifying Workplace Safety Video Is a 4-Minute Horror Movie
Chinese opsec funnies: your foreign boyfriend is a western spy!
ShadyURL: Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
Super 8 hotel art gallery
Hopefully, You’ll Never Need to Use Polycom’s High-Tech Prison Phone
Classic Programmer Paintings
Creating sparklines in unicode (h/t emorisse)
Visual search engine for satellite imagery (h/t emorisse)
We Give Thanks
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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