This week Dave and Gunnar talk about encrypting everything, why encryption doesn’t matter, and why we are all Charlie Brown now.

Lucy, in the role of a cloud server provider. Or telco. Or regulator.

Every videogame memory from Gunnar’s childhood, implemented in JavaScript

Taipan!


UK spy chief, parroting his US counterparts, calls for crypto backdoors
End-to-End Gmail Encryption code is up.
New from the EFF: Secure Messaging Scorecard

Update for 2020 (HT Lydia Yates of Comparitech!): The best encrypted messaging apps (and their limitations) in 2020


PrivacyGrade: Grading The Privacy Of Smartphone Apps
Verizon and AT&T “supercookie” MITM attack. See if you’re being tracked at the obviously named amibeingtracked.com.
D&G bait of the week: Dropbox’s Drew Houston Responds To Snowden’s Privacy Criticism: It’s A Trade-Off
Aerophobia meets claustrophobia: Windowless Planes Will Give Passengers Panoramic Views. Ready To Use Within 10 Years.
Yay? Why Facebook Just Launched Its Own ‘Dark Web’ Site
Check your Hilton HHonors Points: Hackers plunder Hilton ‘HHonors’ rewards points, go on shopping spree
ORNL and Dave’s replay: GovLoop: How Open Source Can Help Overcome Government’s Biggest Challenges
OpenStack User Survey November 2014 are out. We maintain the vast majority of technologies used in computer, network, and storage, and 40% of the user base. Sweet!
Heroism as anti-pattern: “VPAT is Public Sector specific, and therefore all previous cases have been resolved successfully by referring to Gunnar.”
Ben Balter’s guide to communicating on GitHub works even without GitHub.
EFF guide to avoiding surveillance includes not just articles, but “playlists” based on user stories.

Cutting Room Floor

Good Grief! Cancer Boy! is a strange little film reveals the utter futility of Charlie Brown’s very existence – in German!

Related: Nein Quarterly


Windows93
Movie trailer of the week: Daylight Saving
Scientific paper of the week: The hipster effect:When anticonformists all look the same
YouTube Flight Training of the week: Practice landing a Boeing with a charming Lithuanian accent.

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