Episode 115: #115: Automate Your Curmudgeonry

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about kill switches, killer robots, killer apps, and killing products.

• David Grohl Alley: Mission Accomplished!
• Bruce Willis is not moving to Dave’s neighborhood
• Pycon 2018-2019 in Cleveland?
• SleepBot
• Sign up for Gunnar’s Newsletter
• Remember our discussion about data tampering?  Malware scam appears to use GPS data to catch speeding Pennsylvania drivers
• Meanwhile: Build your own speed trap camera system with a Raspberry Pi and OpenCV
• MIT Develops Accurate System for Tracking People, Objects via WiFi
  • Enjoy Architecture of Radio



• SkullConduct: Biometric User Identification on Eyewear Computers Using Bone Conduction Through the Skull


• KillerDrone = drone + chainsaw


• Hacker reveals $40 attack that steals $28k police drones from 2km away


• Android’s unpatched dead device jungle is good for security


• D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google reaches into customers’ homes and bricks their gadgets
  • Don’t forget to set your Google Living Will



• D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment (Page 2): TSA spent $47,000 on an app that just randomly picks lanes for passengers


• Speaking of travel: Poor-taste wi-fi name grounds Perth flight


• D&G Joke Kit of the Week: TSA Lines Causing Frowns? Send in the Clowns! (and Tiny Horses)


• Websites take control of USB devices: Googlers propose WebUSB API


• Meanwhile… Half of people plug in USB drives they find in the parking lot


• Speaking of Google: Google Spaces and Google Allo and Google Duo


• Red Hat Product Security Risk Report: 2015


• Red Hat Summit Government Luncheon and Red Hat Summit Government Breakout


• Fighting Unicorns in the latest issue of NASA’s AeroSpace Frontiers (bottom of page 4)


• D&G This Week in Product Design: Why do BIC pen caps have holes in them?


• The part of the show where Dave causes Gunnar to have a seizure: The perfect suffix for your “cyber-” buzzword

Cutting Room Floor

• Containerizing Ave Maria
• Barbershop solo?
• A Metal Tribute to iPhone Ringtones
• Arduino-powered LEGO nuclear reactor
• Bistrobot: Sandwich making robot
• Milk-based 3D scanner
• Your Amazon Echo can now teach you all about The Art of War
• PAC-MAN suit
• The Swedish Number: Get connected to a random Swede and talk about anything
• Simulate electronics circuits in your browser w/HTML5
• CIA Operative’s 9-Step Hotel Safety Checklist
• Terrifying Workplace Safety Video Is a 4-Minute Horror Movie
• Chinese opsec funnies: your foreign boyfriend is a western spy!
• ShadyURL: Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
• Super 8 hotel art gallery
• Hopefully, You’ll Never Need to Use Polycom’s High-Tech Prison Phone
• Classic Programmer Paintings
• Creating sparklines in unicode (h/t emorisse)
• Visual search engine for satellite imagery (h/t emorisse)

We Give Thanks

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