This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about police, criminals, and ISO 216! Gunnar endorsed: Outlanders ! Dave endorsed: OBS: Open Broadcast Studio (see YouTube video ) Rectangle (see YouTube video ) Change the behavior of the modifier keys on Mac John le Carré NYPD Considers Using Encryption to Block Public From Radio Scanner Broadcasts US Police Warn of Parking Meters with Phishing QR Codes ICE set up a fake college to catch fraudsters. Students say they were duped. Check out unnj.edu on the Wayback...
Dec 15, 2022•34 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Apple-inspired VR devices, keyboards, and Tobasco sauce! Karate! In the metaverse, no one can hear you scream: Bizarre Muzzle Microphone Keeps Your Mouth in the Metaverse Sold out: Cargo swim briefs This Website Can Figure Out What You're Typing Just By Listening to Your Loud Mechanical Keyboard Kinesis Advantage360 Type on Any Surface with the TypeAnywhere Fingers-Only Keyboard Related: Free Drum How did a bottle of Tabasco sauce find its way into a painting...
Nov 18, 2022•26 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Hellekson’s Law and LARPs! GovCon Expert David Egts Joins MuleSoft as Public Sector Field CTO Pocket Drafts The Pentagon may require vendors certify their software is free of known flaws. Experts are split. Related: Brondell S1000-E Swash 1000 Elongated Bidet Toilet Seat With Remote Control Meet the Polish LARPers Who Pretend to Be American Cleveland Dyngus Day An Excursion Through This Polish Village Will Make You Feel Thousands Of Miles Away From Cleveland ...
Nov 11, 2022•29 min
This week Dave talks with Mike Bursell about his new book, Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud ! Check out Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum on episode 237 ! Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud by Mike Bursell Profian Defcon Blockchain Zero Trust : Poorly named? Would Explicit Trust be more accurate? Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Hardware Security Module (HSM) Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) Trusted computing Confidential computing – th...
Nov 04, 2022•29 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about stable coins and slippery slopes SANDMAN Dave is now a TODAQ advisor! (See also D&G 216 !) What’s more stable than Bitcoin or UST? AriZona Iced Tea To learn more, check out their whitepaper D&G This Week in Slippery Slopes Quest 2 Add-On Increases VR Immersion by Making You Suffocate Finally, VR for your mouth This Controller Lets You Feel VR Objects Slip Between Your Fingers, and the Possibilities Are Endless Instead of telling you when it's safe to ...
Oct 01, 2022•29 min
This week Dave talks with Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum about confidential computing! Check out Mike on D&G 201 from 2020! Enarx Red Hat Profian McCallum-Relyea exchange Trusted computing Confidential computing – the new HTTPS? Confidential Computing Consortium Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) Digital Rights Management (DRM) Intel SGX AMD SEV AWS Nitro System What is attestation for Confidential Computing? WebAssembly Bytecode Alliance Drawbridge Keep S...
Sep 20, 2022•44 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about technology-enhanced sleep, technology-enhanced image generation, and technology-enhanced job hunting Gunnar endorses: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Simply Piano Pianos.pub : Find a public piano to play Sur l'air de service ← Burger King in France Red Hat Summit ! Dave endorses: Grammarly Premium Google Calendar appointment scheduling! Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web AI-Generated Sleep Podcast Urges You To...
May 31, 2022•26 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Dan Walsh about his new crayon-free book Podman in Action ! The Container Commandos Coloring Book Podman Podman in Action by Dan Walsh! Docker systemd Kubernetes OpenShift Get started with RHEL for Edge rpm-ostree podman-machine Docker Desktop Podman Desktop What Is Confidential Computing? virtiofs podman-tui SCaLE 19x Red Hat Summit Flatpak Fedora Silverblue Toolbx Singularity We Give Thanks Dan Walsh for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Dan Walsh...
May 19, 2022•52 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about clever uses of malware, cows, virtual reality, augmented reality, cryptocurrency, and the Denver Broncos (not all at the same time) Keychain garage door openers : they’re great! How to See Your Uber Passenger Ratings Breakdown (and Improve Your Score) How to Download Everything Amazon Knows About You (It's a Lot) Dave endorsed: Grammarly Premium iOS malware can fake iPhone shut downs to snoop on camera, microphone Farmer gives cows VR headsets to reduce anxie...
May 06, 2022•31 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reverse engineering taste and reverse engineering AI training sets! Google Meet bot Drafts Todoist The Eisenhower Matrix Tech Startup Wants To Gamify the U.S. Court System Using Crypto Tokens No one asked for lickable TV, and yet… This Weight-Changing Cup Alters Your Perception of Flavor This X Does Not Exist Artist uses AI to perfectly fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles This Olesya Does Not Exist AI fake-face generators can be rewound ...
Feb 28, 2022•32 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fish, rats, cockroaches, and screaming Drafts ! From fish out of water to new insights on navigation mechanisms in animals See also: D&G 43 -- Goldfish driving a robot car -- Feb 2014! Rats in Doom VR Remote Control Cockroach Ingenious new search and rescue drone finds people by listening for screams I, Libertine by Frederick R. Ewing Jean Shepherd Non-Fungible Olive Gardens Cutting Room Floor Busy Simulator : Feign importance with repeating app sounds! C...
Feb 16, 2022•27 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about automating ransomware, automating prosecution, automating defense attorneys, and a bridge “Sent from my iPhone”: 5 Helpful Tips on How to Write Emails from Your Phone Air Conditioning test in Allendale FBI: FIN7 hackers target US companies with BadUSB devices to install ransomware See also: D&G 138 (from 2017!) Almost related: Remote staff are using ‘mouse movers’ to keep their computer awake and fool the boss Chinese scientists develop AI ‘prosecutor’ th...
Feb 07, 2022•25 min
Dave read Dune The Dune Encyclopedia Luminations Antiwork Receipt Printers Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme Real-time deepfakes could bring chaos to your next Zoom call Check the examples: GitHub - iperov/DeepFaceLive Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings Biometric auth bypassed using fingerprint photo, printer, and glue Dr. David A. Wheeler , call your office: ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code Cutting Room Floor We're ...
Dec 23, 2021•34 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about getting more out of employees, noses, math, and jobs! Dune RHEL 9 Beta Pine Gap Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware Digital Nose Stimulation Enables Smelling in Stereo A&W Turns its 'Worst Marketing Fail' Into a New Burger How Twitter Applied the “Jobs to Be Done” Approach to Strategy Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure Cutting Room Floor Hot dog candy canes Gilbert Gottfried reads the Bitcoin White Paper because you were too lazy...
Dec 18, 2021•32 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the weaponization of your voice, the weaponization of deepfakes, and the weaponization of the future of air travel iPad Mini remains excellent Leaf blower paradox of choice A New Navy Weapon Actually Stops You From Talking Deepfakes Are Now Making Business Pitches People are hiring out their faces to become deepfake-style marketing clones How I Sent Over 10,000 Personal Thank You Videos To My Customers in 2 Months Watch video here Don't duct tape unruly passe...
Nov 17, 2021•41 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about meetings with VR, VR with prison, prison with meetings, and brains with eyes David Macaulay books and Turing Tumble Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains'. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes Blob of human brain grows functioning eyes in lab dish sparking 'horror' Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious Gather Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom...
Oct 04, 2021•40 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about appreciating our listeners, gassing bank robbers, wardriving smart meters Marriott misses Dave New Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard Hogwarts Castle Lego is a journey D&G Viewer Mail Uzoma Nwosu rejoices Norm Joseph endorses Norms Dr. David A. Wheeler says: “Podcast didn’t mention by name “ Law(s) of War ”, yet I think that’s what you meant” Pyrotechnic-Aspyhxiation-Burglar Alarm, or P.A.B. Alarm: This Anti-Burglar Device From 1923 Was Inspired by Horrific Gas...
Sep 27, 2021•34 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about backdoor innovation, gig economy innovation, and deep work retro innovation Microsoft Natural Keyboards are not water-resistant Mini Metro Critics Say Apple Built a 'Backdoor' Into Your iPhone With Its New Child Abuse Detection Tools Related: The CEO of WhatsApp Attacked Apple Over Privacy. He Seems to Have Forgotten He Works for Facebook “The nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation also critical Apple’s plans, stating that “even a carefully documented, care...
Aug 24, 2021•48 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the norms of dream coercion, the norms of encrypted messaging, and the norms of ransomware game theory Bo Burnham’s “Inside” Foo Fighters at the ICON Music Center Are advertisers coming for your dreams? Silent Lucidity by Queensryche Unrelated: Sleep Sensing on Nest Hub (2nd gen) Also unrelated: Amazon.com Wants to Monitor You in Your Sleep, for Your Benefit We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals Why everyone should use disappearing messages on W...
Aug 12, 2021•41 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about teaching AI art and sarcasm, teaching humans dark patterns, and teaching all dogs new tricks Apple AirCans Mi Band 6 New mystery AWS product 'Infinidash' goes viral — despite being entirely fictional Introducing AWS Infinidash - WITH DEMO! Open Thread: The Unreal Engine Trick Today in Tabs by Rusty Foster A DARPA Sarcasm Detector Is Good 'Terms & Conditions Apply' Is a Game That Dares You to Opt-Out Paranoia RPG DOOM Captcha Giving a Dog the Ability to Sp...
Aug 02, 2021•41 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about optimizing your ad experience, hypocrisy in politics, making pressure sensors with a pencil and a piece of foam, and breathing exercises! Jurassic Park Ohio Vax-a-Million What is the New Jersey “Shot and a Beer” program? What breweries are participating? This amazing AI tool lets you create human faces from scratch Thanks To Merriam-Webster, You Can Now Own The NFT Of The Definition Of "NFT" Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immed...
May 30, 2021•36 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Eric Burger about secure, insecure, and mostly secure computing, and a whole lot more! HPE Public Sector Summit : 5G: The Future Connectivity at the Edge panel Shockey’s Law Software Bill of Materials Dr. David A. Wheeler Digital signatures Homomorphic encryption Information warfare The Tor Project CyberCorps at Georgetown FCC Combating Spoofed Robocalls with Caller ID Authentication Suicide Prevention Hotline - 988 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline - (800)...
May 19, 2021•46 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about abusing Whatsapp, abusing Twitter, abusing LinkedIn, and abusing GPT-3 Austin has passed Prop B, reinstating the public camping ban. What happens now? Meanwhile in Richmond: Steelers draft pick Najee Harris throws party at homeless shelter where he once lived FTC issues stern warning: Biased AI may break the law How a WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cyberstalkers Face editing: Japanese biker tricks internet into thinking he is a young woman Twitter images ...
May 10, 2021•27 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about word and object AI chimeras, animal and machine chimeras, and Chef Boyardee! @dgshowDotOrg ! Cloud Player crushes YouTube Music Bitsbox You only need pen and paper to fool this OpenAI computer vision code. Just write down what you want it to see A world first: A robot able to "hear" through the ear of a locust The Smellicopter is an obstacle-avoiding drone that uses a live moth antenna to seek out smells Chef Boyardee Found His Start In Cleveland, Ohio… Then ...
Apr 27, 2021•29 min
101st Airborne Division D&G 189: Marlie Moxinspike The battle inside Signal See also: Can WhatsApp stop spreading misinformation without compromising encryption? What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting The ‘Batman Effect’: How having an alter ego empowers you Cutting Room Floor DIY latex glove bagpipes Bagpipe swing with Gunhild Carling in Central Park NY Menu items renamed as expense-able office items Blue Check Homes: Apply now! Evidence of Life: Two Photographers Show Us Myster...
Apr 14, 2021•41 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about mind-controlled computing, computer-controlled minds, and AI-controlled doppelgangers Texas Deep Freeze Apocalypse Watch Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Bitwarden Is Now the Best Free Alternative to LastPass Dave’s to-do list to review the state of to-do lists: ✅ Remember the Milk Google Tasks ❓ Todoist todoist-shortcuts is a browser extension or greasemonkey script which adds a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to Todoist Human or GPT-2? Designed t...
Mar 23, 2021•43 min
This week Dave talks with Hassan Khan and Dann Toliver about containerizing assets with containers! Quantius Bento Miso (now Gamma Space ) Toronto JavaScript Haskell Toronto Clojure Toronto CS Cabal WebRTC TODA Proof of Provenance ADOT TODAQ TODA-As-A-Service Enterprise ADOT Server OpenShift We Give Thanks Hassan Khan and Dann Toliver for being our special guest stars! Shermineh Salehi Esmati for making this episode possible! Special Guests: Dann Toliver and Hassan Khan....
Mar 15, 2021•47 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about COVID, masks, and cannibalism Apple M1 on the way Lockdown has affected your memory – here’s why Wearing someone else's face: Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan Get paid to have your face printed onto a creepy, super realistic mask Maskalike : Your face on an N95 mask for $30 Freak Masks : Scare everyone for only $19 Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food Steaks Grown From Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage Ourochef...
Feb 22, 2021•30 min
This week Dave and Gunnar hear voices, talk to computers, count holes, and qualify sandwiches Lockdown has affected your memory – here’s why The five taxonomies of hand foods These Are the Creepiest Gadgets of 2020, According to Mozilla Full list here and scroll down to increase creepiness level New device puts music in your head — no headphones required A New Way to Plug a Human Brain Into a Computer: via Veins How many holes does a given object have? Cutting Room Floor Booting [DOS] from a vin...
Feb 16, 2021•28 min
This week Dave talks with Joshua Powers about using AI to make AI more ethical! D&G 207 with John Janek! An AI Looks At Human Writings On Ethical Artificial Intelligence Asilomar AI Principles The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis Joint Artificial Intelligence Center AI Ethics Principles Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on AI Ethics We Give Thanks Joshua Powers for being our special guest star! John Janek for introducing us to Joshua! Special Guest: Joshua Powers....
Feb 08, 2021•22 min
