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This is news cast 149.
In the intro, final thoughts on the Reiser case.
This week’s security alerts are full details on the DNS flaw including attacks few had considered though there appears to be an exploitable regression in one patch already and three reporters ejected from Black Hat for hacking.
In this week’s news, a software solution [...]
This is a feature cast.
The hacker word of the week this week is demon.
The feature this week is a rant on my sole complaint with the genre of steam punk.
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This is news cast 149.
In the intro, a quick discussion of my new personal software project and a reminder on the testing of the new Ogg feed and contributions to the audio promo.
This week’s security alerts are an exploit that uses the near ubiquitous automatic software update channels and a new attack that embeds executable [...]
This is a feature cast.
Listener feedback this week is from Matt, Kaity and Bashar.
The hacker word of the week this week is demo.
The feature this week is a monologue on the topic of grass roots hacktivism.
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This is news cast 147.
In the intro, a quick review of Settlers of Catan.
The only security alert this week is a lengthy discussion of Kaminsky’s research on a DNS cache poisoning problem he discovered. Despite his plan not to disclose until vendors had thirty days to patch, details have been leaked. Wired caught [...]
This is a feature cast.
Listener feedback this week is from psionandy, who sent a couple of links, and Matt.
The hacker word of the week this week is demigod.
The feature this week is an interview with long time listener and friend, Wouter de Bie, who attended the Last HOPE in NYC this past weekend.
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This is news cast 147.
In the intro, a couple of requests for help with the show and Open Media Review.
The security alerts this week are research to be demonstrated on exploitable flaws in Intel chips and the rise and fall of CAPTCHAs.
In this week’s news, judge rules in favor of Blizzard on summary judgement against [...]
This is a feature cast.
Listener feedback this week is from Michel asking after an Ogg Vorbis feed, Ryan asking about past shows on contributing to open source projects, and Thomas asking about books to read on hacker culture and history. The two older books I mentioned are Mind Matters by James P. Hogan and [...]
This is news cast 146.
I will be taking a hiatus to catch up on planning and writing for the show. There will be no new shows in the feed for the next two weeks. The show will return with a feature cast on July 16th.
In the intro, a quick review of Wall*e based [...]
This is a feature cast.
The hacker word of the week this week is deep space.
The feature is a mild rant about what I am calling the Three Year Itch, a phenomenon I have observed in my professional life related to the typical duration of each of my successive jobs and how it seems to be [...]
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