This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about mobile phone surveillance that you pay for, peer-to-peer dropbox replacements, and the many faces of lock-in.



Peaky Blinders is like a watered-down Deadwood and will suffice for now
AT&T Stops Using ‘Super Cookies’ To Track Cellphone Data
Word of the week: “Middlebox”. 4G carriers don’t care one bit for your SPDY-laden, encrypted traffic. Hippie.
BitTorrent Sync vs Cloud: Where Can You Trust Your Personal Data?
Anybody try Syncthing.net or Transporter?
Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority from the EFF and friends
Tyranny of the default: Firefox dumps Google for search, signs on with Yahoo
HT James Kirkland: E-Cigarettes From China Spreading Malware Through USB Charger
10,000 pay phones to become Wifi base stations in NYC

see also: Ricochet Wireless


This Week in Vendor Lockin: Anti-Competitive Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X
This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Netflix Kills Off Its Public API, Takes A Few Applications Down With It
Lawsuits as an Investment: Crowdfund Your Next Lawsuit With LexShares
Gunnar helps give The Watchful Eye: Mitigating Risk in the Cloud on December 3 in Washington, DC
Red Hat Private PaaS Workshop on December 11 in Washington, DC
Red Hat Summit CFP now open!
HT Itamar Heim: RHEV compliance policy scans with Nessus!
FIPS compliant password vault with JBoss EAP and RHEL, thanks to Rich Lucente
How have we not heard of DavMail? Connects standards-compliant clients to Exchange. Thanks, French defense establishment!

Cutting Room Floor

Save a bundle by anesthetizing octopi yourself: How to anesthetize an octopus
Parakeet that sounds (and kinda looks) just like R2-D2!
Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut, A 19 Minute Music Video
Ground Drone: Low cost mobile robotics platform
Brain transplant: OpenWorm’s mind in a LEGO robot’s body
Browser based fluid dynamics simulator
JS1K Night Highway

 
We Give Thanks

James Kirkland for the e-cigarette word of warning
Itamar Heim for the Nessus and RHEV good news!
Rich Lucente for the FIPS compliant password vault

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