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

Posted by cmdln on January 27th, 2008

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.

Download the show directly. Grab the detailed show notes with time offsets and additional links either as PDF or OPML.

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One Response to “TCLP 2008-01-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)”

  1. First Electronica Album Released under CC, with Radio Royalties Too | Open Media Review Says:

    [...] I saw this on Boing Boing last week and discussed it on my last podcast. [...]

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