This week, Dave and Gunnar open the Security Thunderdome, and talk about red-teaming large bureaucracies.

  • Gunnar is planning a visit to Akron
    • While in Akron, stop by Cleveland’s Randall Park Mall

  • D&G Security Doghouse Fantasy League ← VOTE HERE

  • Verizon Wireless to Allow Complete Opt Out of Mobile ‘Supercookies’ (Soon)

  • AT&T gives you a discount of $30/mo for monitoring your Internet OR charges you $30 unless you comply with their surveillance regime. You pick!
  • Lenovo preinstalls MITM-enhanced adware
    • Superfish is sure it’s all going to be fine
  • Facebook is now tracking you across websites on advertiser’s behalf
    • for a better ad experience, of course
  • Google Now now SLURPS data from third party apps so YOU don’t have to
  • Today In Creepy Privacy Policies, Samsung’s Eavesdropping TV
    • diff this w/1984
    • And there’s more: Samsung Smart TVs Don’t Encrypt Speech Or Transcriptions
    • But wait, there’s more! Samsung smart TVs inserting ads into third-party apps
  • Uber Will Add Panic Button And Location/Journey Sharing In India On February 11
    • The Onion’s Take: “It’s nice knowing Uber is willing to do everything it can to protect its customers short of properly screening its drivers.”
    • We’ve seen this before

In other news…

  • NRO releases MLS HPC system
  • Big ups to Matt Zager: Five ways open source middleware can impact unmanned systems
  • RHEV 3.5 is out!
  • RHEL OSP 6 is out!
  • Red Hat Mothership is written up in DesignMilk
  • Willard event: Sonny Hashmi says “Open will win every time.”Oh, and private cloud isn’t a thing.
  • Pop Quiz: How long does it take for your emails to no longer be private? 180 days
  • Pop Quiz: Who’s in charge of Federal IT?
  • Green bubbles and why small decisions make a big difference
  • Adobe Kickbox is live
    • Bonus link: Author also wrote Make Room! Make Room! which became the movie Soylent Green
    • Stainless Steel Rat

Cutting Room Floor

  • For Soren’s birthday party: Highly Dexterous Robot Can Fold Balloon Animals, Close Zip-Ties
  • EFF’s Parker Higgins on the DOJ’s abiding consistency wrt encryption
  • Guitar face instructional videos
  • Mattell’s ViewMaster relaunch!
  • Fastest-selling toy of all time? Playmobil’s Martin Luther
  • Perils of public code: Intel’s Galileo build scripts use some dude’s grub fork on GitHub
  • Life Inside a Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine
  • $160 for Sony 64 GB microSDXC card with Premium Sound

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