Episode 104: #104: Tamper Evident

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: credit card vulnerabilities, Dell vulnerabilities, and whether programmers are engineers.

• “We Care”

  Lauren, now in book form:  See page 18 of The Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book

• Speaking of Raspberry Pi…
  • Turn your Raspberry Pi into FM Transmitter
  • Raspberry Pi Zero
    • Not everyone is impressed: Raspberry Pi Zero, or Minus One?

  
  
  • Entropy drought hits Raspberry Pi harvests, weakens SSH security
  
  
  
  


• How to defeat Chip and Signature: A $10 Tool Can Guess (And Steal) Your Next Credit Card Number


• Hilton’s point of sale system is a POS: Hilton Worldwide Has Identified and Taken Action to Eradicate Malware


• Starwood too: Another Day, Another Hack: Credit Card Stealing Malware Hits Hotel Chain
  • Slate Money Gabfest on, among other things, the economics of rewards programs.



• Those Gas Pump “Anti-Skimming” Stickers Are Really Just Pointless Decoration


• Lenovo no longer has a monopoly on pre-installed PC security vulnerabilities: Dell apologizes for HTTPS certificate fiasco, provides removal tool


• Security enhanced body cams: Police body cams found pre-installed with notorious Conficker worm


• Man-in-the-middle attack on Vizio TVs coughs up owners’ viewing habits


• Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections


• Let’s Encrypt now in public beta!


• Seeing through walls with Wi-Fi
  • We guess it’s healthier than X-ray vans



• Estonia and e-Residency through blockchain (h/t emorisse)


• Signal is now available in Chrome


• Jim Whitehurst blogs about a question from his appearance on D&G 100


• Programmers, Let’s Earn the Right to Be Called Engineers


• I Write Like: Dave writes like Cory Doctorow, Gunnar writes like H. P. Lovecraft


• D&G Joke Kit of the Week: CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless, Kafkaesque Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)

Cutting Room Floor

• This can’t possibly go wrong: robots taught to disobey humans (h/t emorisse)
• Impress your TSA friends: Knife wielding tentacle tentacle
• Great News! Groupon Has a Sale on Clip-on Man Buns
• D&G This Week in Cognitive Surplus: Check Which McDonald’s Restaurants Are Serving All-Day Hash Browns Before You Go
• Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. It’s a time for sharing
• For Uzoma
• Click-o-Tron auto-generates clickbait with recurrent neural networks

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!