TCLP 2008-03-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is news cast 136.

In the intro, just a reminder that there will be no show on the 30th. There will be a feature cast on the 26th, it may even come out a little early, and one on the 2nd, assuming I get some writing done in the coming week.

Security alerts this week are an evolving iFrame injection attack and evading Facebook’s privacy controls.

In this week’s news, in the wake of a push to investigate voting errors in Union Count, NJ Professor Felten receives a threatening letter from the voting systems vendor, Sequoia. The county received their own letter and backed down. Even though the investigation was cancelled, Felten posted details of the problem and part of Sequoia’s response. Also, a silicon based high temperature super conductor, the CBc will experiment with DRM-free, BitTorrent distribution of a new video program, and Schneier contemplates the challenges of teaching a hacking mindset.

Following up this week, the 700Mhz spectrum auction winds up. The d block reserve was unmet and there is a question of fraud or misinformation. Google did not win any licenses but Verizon and AT&T did.

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TCLP 2008-03-19 Hacking 101: Parallel Computing, Programming (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a brief remark on the passing of Arthur C. Clarke.

The hacker word of the week this week is cyberpunk.

The feature is a new Hacking 101 segment on parallel computing and programming.

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TCLP 2008-03-16 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is news cast 135.

In the intro, a request for help on behalf of Escape Pod. Listen to Metacast #3 for more details or just head over and donate if you like what you hear.

Security alerts this week are more details on hacking implantable medical devices and inappropriate ads showing up on kids’ sites.

In this week’s news, an insider’s story about working at Atari during its heyday, a Kentucky legislator wants to suppress anonymous free speech online, Professor Ed Felten considers the gap between expected and accepted privacy and some possible, though not perfect, solutions, and Verizon and others working on improving P2P technology rather than simply banning it.

Following up this week, more examples of fan funded artists and John Scalzi’s critique of Kelly’s essay on one thousand true fans.

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TCLP 2008-03-12 Inner Chapter: Pulling Your Own Weight (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is a feature cast.

The hacker word of the week this week is crunch.

The feature is a new Inner Chapter on the practice of pulling your own weight.

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TCLP 2008-03-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is news cast 134.

In the intro, a quick review of productivity software OmniFocus and a general exhortation to hack whatever issues are plaguing you.

Security alerts this week are malware authors pre-testing their works to better evade detection and a new tool that cracks Windows passwords in seconds.

In this week’s news, Rudy Rucker vs. the Singularity, Johnny Long the no tech hacker, Kevin Kelly on 1000 true fans, and doubting technology will foil the problem of warrantless wiretaps.

Following up this week, Norwegian broadcaster NRK discusses the results of their BitTorrent experiment and the case against Wikileaks has been dropped.

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TCLP 2008-03-05 Farpoint 2008 IP Panel (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a moment of silence to commemorate the passing of role playing game luminary, E. Gary Gygax and a few remembrances of how his co-invention, D&D, affected my geek life.

The feature this week is the audio I recorder of the IP discussion panel I moderated a few weeks back at Farpoint 2008. Panelists were Steve Kramer of Secret Frequency, Steve Wilson the director of Farpoint’s podcasting track (hence the boss reference) and of Prometheus Radio Theatre, and Brand Gamblin the writer, voice and puppeteer for Calls for Cthulhu.

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TCLP 2008-03-02 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is news cast 133.

In the intro, a thank you to Brain for the audio tips and a quick review of Mission: Red Planet.

This week’s security alerts are a password disclosing vulnerability in OSX and spammers crack Gmail’s captcha.

In this week’s news, Judge reverses Wikileaks decision, Apple may be secretly tipping the scales in favor of its own applications, AppleTV requires HDMI DRM support, and a new programming language promises best features of ones that came before.

Following up this week, re-visiting Amie Stree and Judge rejects making available theory.

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TCLP 2008-02-24 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is news cast 132.

In the intro, a quick run down of my attendance of the USACM Executive Committee policy retreat today.

Listener feedback is from Jon I. who corrected my misattribution of DTrace and namae who suggested I should produce audio exclusively in Ogg Vorbis format.

This week’s security alerts are cDc releases Goolag scanner and a troubling paper on the state of wireless implementations.

In this week’s news, the limits of quantum computing, Adobe bringing DRM to Flash, the socio-economics of Legos, and a cold reboot attack on hard drive encryption.

No follow ups this week, though I did spend more time of several of the news items.

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TCLP 2008-02-20 Eben Moglen: The Danger of Software Patents, Part 1 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is a feature cast.

The feature this week is the first half of a lecture given by Professor Eben Moglen on the danger of software patents. This first part is fifty minutes, so no new hacker word of the week this week.

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TCLP 2008-02-13 Inner Chapter: Debugging (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is a feature cast.

In the intro a quick review of the card game, Infernal Contraption.

Also, a reminder that there will be no news cast this weekend as I will be at Farpoint. Listen to the last show for more details on my appearance there.

The hacker word of the week this week is crock.

The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on the practice of debugging.

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TCLP 2008-02-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is news cast 131.

In the intro, a reminder that I’ll be at Farpoint from the 15th to the 17th to kick of my 2008 con season.

Listener feedback is from Jed this week, suggesting AOP can be thought of as a macro language.

This week’s security alerts are a security industry criticizes current best practices and a Firefox update was released though though it may not have been as complete as possible.

In this week’s news, considering the issues involved with internet voting, the life of a software engineer, a new study shows the gap between parents expectations of what kids do online and what they actually do, and the RIAA chief considers filtering on end user PC’s though he was apparently only speculating.

Following up this week, Minister Prentice is set to re-introduce the Canadian DMCA and the EFF fights potential distortion of precent and case law by the RIAA’s aggressive tactics.

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TCLP 2008-02-06 Hacking 101: Aspect Oriented Programming (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is a feature cast.

In the intro a quick review of the video game, No More Heroes, for the Nintendo Wii game console.

The hacker word of the week this week is crippleware, creeping featurism and creeping featuritis.

The feature this week is the next installment of Hacking 101, a discussion of aspected oriented programming.

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TCLP 2008-02-03 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is news cast 130.

In the intro, a short review of the book, Men of Tomorrow, by Gerard Jones.

This week’s security alerts are a Skype flaw persisting despite patching and session sidejacking in Gmail despite use of SSL.

In this week’s news, the German government is trying to circumvent Skype encryption, Kevin Kelly considers what could be better than free, Bruce Schneier discusses what is really at stake in the argument of security vs. privacy, and demo programs as art.

Following up this week, the reserve has been met on the C block of the 700Mhz spectrum activating the open access conditions and Danish collecting society, KODA, extends support for NC CC licenses to all its members.

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No Show Tonight

I did record a special apology, if you are interested. The net-net is that the live audio I recorded at CopyNight is as bad as, if not worse than, the audio I recorded last March. I received a lot of negative feedback for the quality of that particular episode. I am making the hard call, especially since I was too busy to have a plan B for the episode, of skipping tonight.

The good news is most of my looming deadlines will pass at the end of this week so I should be able to get back on top of the content and interview planning.

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TCLP 2008-01-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is news cast 129.

In the intro, an announcement that a new site, Open Media Review, has launched to which I will be regular contributor.

Listener feedback was from Wouter discussing the under reported privacy concerns around the hacked Dutch RFID transit card. The video he mentioned can be found here.

This week’s security alerts are a home router exploit spotted in the wild and a data leakage bug in Firefox.

In this week’s news, tiny distributed virtual worlds, first album to launch with a free CC version and be able to collect radio play royalties, inefficient code may be less green, and SpaceShip 2 will have an open architecture.

Following up this week, a clear explanation of MSIE8’s rendering modes and the 700Mhz spectrum auction started.

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