This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about social media, which is broken. Also, BitCoin’s broken. And passwords are broken. Forge.mil is broken. Maker culture is broken. You get the idea.

• Dave finds out CatSip is a thing, and wasn’t what he purchased
• One more reason to increase VTC use: Marriott and Hilton Announce Penalty for Last-Minute Cancellations
• The winner is: Google Music, mostly because of Chromecast. That’s how they get ya. Spotify account deleted, because I’m not buying new hardware.
• Videoconferencing is broken, but Firefox now includes well-packaged WebRTC for real
• Konklone says: get yourself a hard token
• BitCoin: not super anonymous if you’ve got €1500, turns out
• Amnesty International launches Detekt, which looks for surveillance software on your computer
• Smartphones are broken. Phones from 3rd tier vendors come with “Deathring” built right in
• “The Product Is You”: Social Media Edition
  • Twitter’s taking an inventory of your running apps for advertising purposes. Opt out.
  • The Photos You Post Online With a Product Could Be Used By Marketers
  • Social Media Bots Offer Phony Friends and Real Profit
    • Hitchhiker’s Guide to Tweetbots: Hosting a Hubot on OpenShift
• USPTO DevOps Meetup January 14th, Alexandria, VA, starring Etsy
• New Red Hat Security Site
• Let’s talk about procurement from Paul Brubaker of VMware
• Forge.mil goes down. Did anyone notice?
• DevOps Cafe podcast. If you haven’t heard it yet, it’s worth hearing. Even if you don’t care about DevOps. Especially:
  • Matt Coté and Jay Lyman
  • Adrian Cockroft
• Economic failures of https
• Maker Culture is a kind of chauvinism. Gunnar’s convinced.

Cutting Room Floor

• D&G Book Club: If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript
• For Uzoma: Breakmaster Cylinder drops Lakshmi Singh
• Welcome to the delightful subculture of Lego Album Covers
• The most thorough dissection of “Alien”’s design and typography you could possibly hope for
• CIA Admits Role In 1985 Coup To Oust David Lee Roth: “The last thing we wanted was to have another ‘Panama’ on our hands”
• Docker on Raspberry Pi

9-Factor Auth: something you have, something you know, something you are, something you desire, something you fear, something from deep insi

— Parker Higgins (@xor) November 18, 2014

a kid in this coding class said “you use the hashtag key to add a comment” and i set myself on fire so that's basically why i'm on fire

— Andrew Dupont (@andrewdupont) July 26, 2014

We Give Thanks

• Robin Price and Shawn Wells for the security microsite
• Others?