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This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: authentication, password management, and robot lawyers.

  • Major Hayden has a new SELinux t-shirt!
  • HT @PetrosinoKyle: Cyborg locusts could play an important role in national security
  • Human remote control (not cockroaches this time): A YouTuber’s Goofy Helmet Lets You Operate a Human Like a Remote-Controlled Car
  • American Airlines’ Rewards Will Be Based On Ticket Price, Not Miles

  • Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest password was ‘dadada’

    • Yahoo and Twitter CEOs Have Their Twitter Accounts Compromised
    • Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account has been hacked
  • @Deray’s Twitter Hack Reminds Us Even Two-Factor Isn’t Enough
    • See also: So Hey You Should Stop Using Texts for Two-Factor Authentication
  • Be warned, there’s a nasty Google 2 factor auth attack going around
  • Google enables new two-step ‘prompt’ log-in verification from your phone
  • KeePass Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Steal Your Passwords With Shady Updates
    • KeePass responds
  • D&G Term of the Week: Typosquatting… How a college student tricked 17k coders into running his sketchy script
  • This segment sponsored by Ansible: Coder fired after 6 years for automating his job
  • Speaking of robots, rise of the robot lawyers: This chatbot appeals parking tickets and wins 60 percent of the time

  • DevNation Federal on July 28!

  • D&G Product Marketing 101: Sears Expanding DieHard Brand With Foray Into The Car Tire Business

    • Related: Sears takes its Kenmore brand out of the Kitchen with new line of TVs

Cutting Room Floor

  • Making an Edible Virtual Reality Viewer for Your Phone
  • Web App Reveals How Misleading Maps Really Are
  • “Wonderful fenced community”: An Entire West Virginia Town That Was Formerly a Spy Base Is for Sale
  • Stephen King’s The Shining Is Now an Opera, and The Tickets Are All Sold Out
  • CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice
  • Highlights From The Online Knitting Reference Library 1849 to 2012
  • Historical Dandies: British Cigarette Cards (1932)
  • This paparazzi-proof scarf is the closest thing to an invisibility cloak
  • Webaround: a 52″ Webcam Background
  • Fake fingerprints: The latest tactic for protecting privacy
  • The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies

We Give Thanks

  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
  • Kyle Petrosino for giving us new ways to turn insects into cyborgs!