This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Batman, Acxiom as your personal data custodian, the TSA Pre-✓ Class War, and the HACK REACTOR.


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Dave visits an abandoned amusement park in Chippewa Lake, OH which was featured in a 10 min documentary and was the filming location of Closed for the Season
Gunnar needs a Dark Knight intervention
When not listening to D&G:

Windows XP apocalypse and your own countdown clock to April 8, 2014
Yahoo! doppelgängers

KnowEm Tracks Down All the Sites You’ve Registered a Username
Simply provide your name, address, birth date and last four digits of your Social Security Number: Data Broker Acxiom’s New Site Allows Users To View And Edit The Marketing Info It’s Collected
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
Great for converting lists of SSNs and photos of birth certificates: CloudConvert Converts Almost Any File Type Between Formats
The TSA Racket is Now Selling Your Basic Rights Back to You
TSA screening about to get a lot worse
When not taking Klingon MOOCs: Apocalypse 101: Take the Free Walking Dead Online Course From UC Irvine

New Walking Dead Spinoff Coming to AMC in 2015

Inside Hack Reactor, The Coding Bootcamp That Wants To Be The CS Degree Of The Future
Google Releases Raspberry Pi Web Dev Teaching Tool, or spend less time yak shaving and learn web programming right away with OpenShift
HT Major Hayden: Yahoo’s Mayer gives phone passcodes a pass
Replay of GovLoop’s How to Securely Deploy Open Source Software featuring David A. Wheeler, Josh Davis, and Dave
Dave was a panelist with friend of the show Dan Risacher at GovLoop’s Agency of the Future event
NC Datapalooza was fantastic.
Gunnar presenting at NIST Cloud Computing and Mobility workshop on October 1-3
Dave as panelist at Symantec Government Symposium on October 2
Gartner ITxpo on October 6-10
Red Hat Government Symposium registration now open!
Red Hat Software Collections and Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 are GA!
HT @RedHatOpen: Emulate a Common Access Card in a VM by using certificates generated on the host
Two factor auth site of the week is GitHub who has a nice security history page
Technical Debt & Vendor Lock-In by friend of the show Matt Micene of DLT
State of Texas wants $11 to receive updated address info
Get hooked on a feeling with D&G’s word of the week: Haptography

Cutting Room Floor

Box.net now “NSA-proof”
OpenID vs IndieAuth
Great photo of Sealand, courtesy of Gunnar’s mom
Tweet2Cite: APA- and MLA-compliant citations for your toots
Perfect for regional jets: USB powered soldering iron
Epic blockbuster trailer: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
A scientific guide to saying “no”: How to avoid temptation and distraction
Legal advice if you want to be a superhero in San Diego
Send your teeth to the Tooth Fairy using a RaspberryPi and pneumatic tubes
CERN Lecture Belt for the punishing environments of today’s physics lecture circuit

We Give Thanks

Matt Micene for helping us stay technically debt free
David A. Wheeler, Josh Davis, and Dan Risacher for advocating open source in the DoD

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Batman, Acxiom as your personal data custodian, the TSA Pre-✓ Class War, and the HACK REACTOR.

Subscribe via RSS or iTunes.

Dave visits an abandoned amusement park in Chippewa Lake, OH which was featured in a 10 min documentary and was the filming location of Closed for the Season
Gunnar needs a Dark Knight intervention
When not listening to D&G:

Windows XP apocalypse and your own countdown clock to April 8, 2014
Yahoo! doppelgängers



KnowEm Tracks Down All the Sites You’ve Registered a Username

Simply provide your name, address, birth date and last four digits of your Social Security Number: Data Broker Acxiom’s New Site Allows Users To View And Edit The Marketing Info It’s Collected

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking

Great for converting lists of SSNs and photos of birth certificates: CloudConvert Converts Almost Any File Type Between Formats

The TSA Racket is Now Selling Your Basic Rights Back to You

TSA screening about to get a lot worse

When not taking Klingon MOOCs: Apocalypse 101: Take the Free Walking Dead Online Course From UC Irvine

New Walking Dead Spinoff Coming to AMC in 2015



Inside Hack Reactor, The Coding Bootcamp That Wants To Be The CS Degree Of The Future

Google Releases Raspberry Pi Web Dev Teaching Tool, or spend less time yak shaving and learn web programming right away with OpenShift

HT Major Hayden: Yahoo’s Mayer gives phone passcodes a pass

Replay of GovLoop’s How to Securely Deploy Open Source Software featuring David A. Wheeler, Josh Davis, and Dave

Dave was a panelist with friend of the show Dan Risacher at GovLoop’s Agency of the Future event

NC Datapalooza was fantastic.

Gunnar presenting at NIST Cloud Computing and Mobility workshop on October 1-3

Dave as panelist at Symantec Government Symposium on October 2

Gartner ITxpo on October 6-10

Red Hat Government Symposium registration now open!

Red Hat Software Collections and Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 are GA!

HT @RedHatOpen: Emulate a Common Access Card in a VM by using certificates generated on the host

Two factor auth site of the week is GitHub who has a nice security history page

Technical Debt & Vendor Lock-In by friend of the show Matt Micene of DLT

State of Texas wants $11 to receive updated address info

Get hooked on a feeling with D&G’s word of the week: Haptography

Cutting Room Floor

Box.net now “NSA-proof”
OpenID vs IndieAuth
Great photo of Sealand, courtesy of Gunnar’s mom
Tweet2Cite: APA- and MLA-compliant citations for your toots
Perfect for regional jets: USB powered soldering iron
Epic blockbuster trailer: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
A scientific guide to saying “no”: How to avoid temptation and distraction
Legal advice if you want to be a superhero in San Diego
Send your teeth to the Tooth Fairy using a RaspberryPi and pneumatic tubes
CERN Lecture Belt for the punishing environments of today’s physics lecture circuit

We Give Thanks

Matt Micene for helping us stay technically debt free
David A. Wheeler, Josh Davis, and Dan Risacher for advocating open source in the DoD

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