This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about surveillance on Main Street and China, reader mail about cutting costs in the DOD, and three new additions to the Security Doghouse.

Candid photo of Sparky.

Ohio is cold in the winter: Akron and Cuyahoga Falls close ice rinks because of cold weather
D&G Hobby of the week: FPV Quadcopter Racing

See also Cheerson CX10 Mini LED RC Quadcopter and cx10_redtx


D&G This Week in Irony:

Cops decry Waze traffic app as a “police stalker”
DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US

More details and pics here


Meanwhile:

Delaware eyes digital driver’s licenses
Cop who stole nude pics off arrested women’s phones gets no jail time




Everybody wants backdoors: China’s New Rules for Selling Tech to Banks Have US Companies Spooked
Great Firewall of China, weaponized
Camfrog DMCA’s themselves
D&G Security Doghouse:

Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificate to users visiting YouTube
Meet KeySweeper, the $10 USB charger that steals MS keyboard strokes
NFL app sends user names, passwords, & email addresses as clear text


Marriott Testing In-Room Access To Netflix, Hulu, And Other Streaming Services
Windows 10 free for all Windows 8.1 and 7 users for first year after release

Apple anticipates Gunnar’s “consumption tools” worry.


Crunchy and Red Hat on PostgreSQL on OpenShift
Security Announcements

Update on FIPS 140-2 plans
GHOST: Get it?


Reading

David Wheeler has a new paper on container security
Probably the best whitepaper you’ll ever read on Red Hat middleware
General Justice, on the record
Dave on containers and RHEL 7


To-Do

Matt Micene is nominee for Opensource.com 2015 People’s Choice Awards
Vote for us on iTunes, while you’re at it

Dan Benjamin’s Podcast Method told us this is a good idea.




OpenShift is InfoWorld technology of the year
Purdue now has a “Red Hat Doctoral Researcher in Open Innovation Communities“
When the European Space Agency needs a cloud, the come to Red Hat
Kim Kardashian’s Butt delivered by Gluster
D&G Coincidence of the Week: There’s a real company called Cyberdyne who makes HAL [Hybrid Assistive Limb], the world‘s first cyborg-type robot, by which a wearer‘s bodily functions can be improved, supported and enhanced

See also: The Open Prosthetics Project


Nick Bostrom is a tremendous thinker, and is creating the antidote to Skynet

Cutting Room Floor

10 Funnier Alternatives to Lorem Ipsum
Marshmallow Farming.Too much rain ruins marshmallow crop in North Carolina
Christmas Serial (ft. Amy Adams Golden Globe® 2015 Winner) – Saturday Night Live
Moon: The star or planet debate
15 Unique Illnesses You Can Only Come Down With in German
Slackbot Bot Turns A Roomba And A Tornado Siren Into A Wonky Little Robot That DJs And Gives High Fives
BusinessTown: Richard Scarry’s Busytown for the Modern Age
10 Things You Won’t Be Able To Do Anymore If SkyMall Goes Away
Let’s watch an SLR work at 10,000 frames per second.

We Give Thanks

Sparky for the mailbag letter!

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