This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Batman, Acxiom as your personal data custodian, the TSA Pre-✓ Class War, and the HACK REACTOR.

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  • Dave visits an abandoned amusement park in Chippewa Lake, OH which was featured in a 10 min documentary and was the filming location of Closed for the Season
  • Gunnar needs a Dark Knight intervention
  • When not listening to D&G:
    • Windows XP apocalypse and your own countdown clock to April 8, 2014
    • Yahoo! doppelgängers
  • KnowEm Tracks Down All the Sites You’ve Registered a Username
  • Simply provide your name, address, birth date and last four digits of your Social Security Number: Data Broker Acxiom’s New Site Allows Users To View And Edit The Marketing Info It’s Collected
  • How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
  • Great for converting lists of SSNs and photos of birth certificates: CloudConvert Converts Almost Any File Type Between Formats
  • The TSA Racket is Now Selling Your Basic Rights Back to You
  • TSA screening about to get a lot worse
  • When not taking Klingon MOOCs: Apocalypse 101: Take the Free Walking Dead Online Course From UC Irvine
    • New Walking Dead Spinoff Coming to AMC in 2015
  • Inside Hack Reactor, The Coding Bootcamp That Wants To Be The CS Degree Of The Future
  • Google Releases Raspberry Pi Web Dev Teaching Tool, or spend less time yak shaving and learn web programming right away with OpenShift
  • HT Major Hayden: Yahoo’s Mayer gives phone passcodes a pass
  • Replay of GovLoop’s How to Securely Deploy Open Source Software featuring David A. Wheeler, Josh Davis, and Dave
  • Dave was a panelist with friend of the show Dan Risacher at GovLoop’s Agency of the Future event
  • NC Datapalooza was fantastic.
  • Gunnar presenting at NIST Cloud Computing and Mobility workshop on October 1-3
  • Dave as panelist at Symantec Government Symposium on October 2
  • Gartner ITxpo on October 6-10
  • Red Hat Government Symposium registration now open!
  • Red Hat Software Collections and Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 are GA!
  • HT @RedHatOpen: Emulate a Common Access Card in a VM by using certificates generated on the host
  • Two factor auth site of the week is GitHub who has a nice security history page
  • Technical Debt & Vendor Lock-In by friend of the show Matt Micene of DLT
  • State of Texas wants $11 to receive updated address info
  • Get hooked on a feeling with D&G’s word of the week: Haptography

Cutting Room Floor

  • Box.net now “NSA-proof”
  • OpenID vs IndieAuth
  • Great photo of Sealand, courtesy of Gunnar’s mom
  • Tweet2Cite: APA- and MLA-compliant citations for your toots
  • Perfect for regional jets: USB powered soldering iron
  • Epic blockbuster trailer: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • A scientific guide to saying “no”: How to avoid temptation and distraction
  • Legal advice if you want to be a superhero in San Diego
  • Send your teeth to the Tooth Fairy using a RaspberryPi and pneumatic tubes
  • CERN Lecture Belt for the punishing environments of today’s physics lecture circuit

We Give Thanks

  • Matt Micene for helping us stay technically debt free
  • David A. Wheeler, Josh Davis, and Dan Risacher for advocating open source in the DoD

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