The Command Line Podcast

TCLP 2010-09-15 Interview: Randy Chertkow of Beatnik Turtle (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:29:57 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is the interview I recorded with Randy Chertkow of Beatnik Turtle. If you are interested, here are the 2007, 2008, and 2009 interviews as well. In the interview, we mention the Indie Guide web site, Randy and Jason's columns at Electronic Musician, and TrackMyDisc.com.

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TCLP 2010-09-08 Creative Commons, Legal Issue Panel from Dragon*Con 2010 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:22:18 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick end of month update on the podcast's finances and you can find all my posts from Dragon*Con past and present using the dragoncon tag.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is the panel audio from the Creative Commons and legal issues panel I moderated at Dragon*Con 2010. I was joined once again by Randy Chertkow of Beatnik Turtle and Courtney Perry, lawyer and now law professor. The new panelist this year was Brian Ibbott of Coverville who was very generous in sharing his experiences as an early and still active music podcaster. In the discussion we mention both "Free Culture", by Lawrence Lessig, and "The Public Domain", by James Boyle.

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TCLP 2010-08-25 Inner Chapter: Superstitions (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:46:09 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, the last reminder of my impending travel to Dragon*Con. Also a quick review of Neil Netanel's "Copyright's Paradox".

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Listener feedback is a thoughtful and thought provoking email from Grant who wrote in response to my discussion of ebooks in the developing world.

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The hacker word of the week this week is finger-pointing syndrome.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of superstitions.

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TCLP 2010-08-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:47:03 -0400

This is news cast 222, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an obligatory reminder there will be no new shows on the 29th, the 1st and the 5th because of Dragon*Con. Also, if you are in the north west of the UK, check out U^3 an UnWorkShop being held the 28th of August.

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This week's security alerts are a Firefox bug bypasses URL protection for embedded frames and an old Linux Kernel flaw allows exploits to acquire root privileges.

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In this week's news the end of privacy, a new probabilistic processor design, a thirty year old crypto system is resistant to quantum cryptanalysis, and privacy concerns (among others) over Facebook's new Places feature. The EFF already has a guide to protecting your privacy against it.

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Following up this week EFF appealing the Jewel v. NSA warrantless wiretapping case and negotiators concede ACTA isn't about counterfeiting after all.

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TCLP 2010-08-18 Inner Chapter: Scalability (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:55:18 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder about the upcoming CopyNight here in DC and of my impending travel to Dragon*Con.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of scalability. In it, I mention my previous discussion of speed and performance.

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TCLP 2010-08-15 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:51:17 -0400

This is news cast 222, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, letting everyone know Dragon*Con is coming up. I'll be taking a little more time this year off from the show to prepare for my travel there. There will be no news cast on either September 29th or the 5th. There will be no feature cast on the 1st and possibly the 8th, depending on what recordings I come back with and how much work they need.

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This week's security alerts are first Android SMS trojan and a vulnerability in OpenSSL 1.0.

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In this week's news artificial life evolves a basic memory, John Doe who challenged the FBI freed to speak, touch screens open to smudge attack, and the state of 3D printing. The book I mention in the a-life segment is "Complexity" by Mitch Waldrop.

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Following up this week just the announcement of what Google and Verizon were up to. There was an op-ed from the two CEOs though I don't think it added anything. There was also a ton of analysis and commentary though I am going to recommend that from EFF's Cindy Cohn. Not surprisingly, Google has already posted a defense.

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TCLP 2010-08-08 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:19:25 -0400

This is news cast 221, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, my thanks to Mike for his donation for which he has earned a merit badge. A final reminder there will not be a feature cast this coming week, I'll be out in San Francisco for most of the week. Also, a quick review of George Mann's "The Osiris Ritual". I reviewed his first novel, "The Affinity Bridge", earlier in the Summer.

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This week's security alerts are RFIDs can be provably read at over 60 meters and an algorithmic attack on reCAPTCHA.

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In this week's news an algorithm to improve the energy efficiency of mesh networks, concerns over a citizen vigilante group monitor ISPs though the groups claims may be overstated, Google ends Wave development though is dedicated to learning from its failure in this case probably from its complexity despite adding more resources and opening up to more users, and unpacking what exactly went on between Google and Verizon especially as they deny claims of an anti-neutrality pact (even on Twitter). Odds are good they are still meeting and talking to some end which may be why the NYT is sticking to its story. Cringely has the most intriguing guess at their possible goal.

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Following up this week EFF offers assistance to targets of the US Copyright Group and the FCC ends closed door discussions on its net neutrality plan.

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TCLP 2010-08-04 Habits of an Infovore (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:43:27 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, sharing Steve's badge photo, last month's revenue update, and a reminder there will be no feature cast next week as I'll be out of town.

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The hacker word of the week this week is finger trouble .

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The feature this week is a monologue my habits as an infovore. How I consume information is very much informed by current thinking on multitasking.

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TCLP 2010-08-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:19:08 -0400

This is news cast 220, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an apology for missing the last two shows, though I had good reason. I will be in San Francisco from August 9th to the 11th for Cassandra Summit and a training day. If anyone is interested in a meet up Monday or Tuesday night, let me know. And if you don't read the web site, I am a finalist for a Parsec award.

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This week's security alerts are Apple fixes the autofill bug in Safari that I didn't get to discuss last week and AT&T said it wouldn't interfere with a Black Hat demo and was true to its word.

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In this week's news EFF wins three DMCA exemptions with deeper analysis from both them and Public Knowledge. There were two additional exemptions granted and many others that were not. I get why most of the coverage is so positive but I cannot help but give voice to my inner cynic. Also, the Senate prepares privacy legislation as industry discusses self regulation, a couple of stories about e-books in developing nations, and Slashdot is losing relevance on the social web.

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Following up this week Al Franken frames net neutrality as key free speech issue and Canadian C-32 is clearly following the US DMCA.

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TCLP 2010-07-21 The True Burden of Forking (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:43:08 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick review of the tabletop game, "The Stars are Right".

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Listener feedback this week is from Andrew and Carey, both of home responded to the last feature on complex privacy .

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The hacker word of the week this week is Finagle's Law.

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The feature this week is a monologue considering the true burden of forking. It was inspired by my recent reading of Clay Shirky's excellent, "Here Comes Everybody".

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TCLP 2010-07-18 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:43:52 -0400

This is news cast 219, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an admission of a mistake around correctly observing the licenses of some works I used after I stopped using the non-commercial clause in the license for the podcast. The net effect should be none to you, the listener, but it seemed like a good teaching moment and a reminder that as easy as Creative Commons makes it to understand their licenses, that doesn't prevent making honest mistakes. Thanks, Randal.

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This week's security alerts are Mozilla blocking an add on that was nabbing passwords (via ZDNet) including how the backdoor was discovered and a crack that could affect libraries used to implement OAuth and OpenID.

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In this week's news Android App Inventor, in keeping with Google's spirit of developer inclusion vs. Apple's puzzling decisions, promises creating apps without coding though some interesting questions remain, a comic book on digital civil rights in Europe produce by EDRi among others that I think would be a good companion to Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother", NSA whistle blower exhausted all official channels to raise a complaint, and consider the question of search neutrality and whether co-opting the rhetoric of net neutrality is wise.

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Following up this week European ACTA negotiators update the EP in secret and ACTA is coming down to a fight between the US and the EU.

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TCLP 2010-07-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:31:35 -0400

This is news cast 218, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to new donor, Scott, and a request that existing donor Ryan contact me so I can send him his merit badge. Also, there will be new feature cast this week. I need to catch up on writing features for the show and I will be attending two events in DC this week: What Does Light Taste Like and Decoding Digital Activism.

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This week's security alerts are researchers form collective in response to Microsoft's dismissal of a security concern and REMnux, a linux distro designed for reverse engineering malware.

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In this week's news new quantum states could lead to new approaches to quantum computing, the Apache web server conquers the world, another constructive criticism of transparency, and the NSA is looking to implement domestic surveillance of our infrastructure though they are quick to deny any active monitoring.

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Following up this week, two UK ISPs are taking the Digital Economy Act to High Court.

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TCLP 2010-07-07 Will We Ever Have Effective Complex Privacy Controls? (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:01:38 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Listener feedback this week is from quite a few folks. Matt wrote in about outliners, asking what I do in particular to bend vim to this task. I use a vimrc line like "autocmd BufEnter,BufNew *.notes set sw=4 ts=4 expandtab spell tw=0 foldmethod=indent smartindent". Colin posted a comment about AAC and chapter marks. John had a much more incisive comment on my switching to an open stack segment. Ian also wrote about outliners, suggesting org-mode and in particular a couple of screencasts. And Max shared his experiences switching to Linux not once, but twice.

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The hacker word of the week this week is filter.

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The feature this week is a rant digging into the question of whether we'll ever develop effective controls that match our complex expectations of privacy and digging into the source of that complexity. I mention a couple of posts by danah boyd, some criticism of the demands made of Facebook by privacy advocates, my reading of Clay Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody", and small world networks.

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TCLP 2010-07-04 A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:54:27 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Rather than try to shoe horn a full news cast in, amongst the weekend's festivities, I figured I would share a reading of a piece inspired by the Holiday here in the US but more appropriate to an audience on the net: A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace, original penned by John Perry Barlow in 1996. The music I used underneath it is track 34 from Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts, used under a CC BY-NC-SA license.

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TCLP 2010-06-30 Cory Doctorow at CopyNight DC (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:17:16 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to my friend Chooch for saving my bacon with the event audio I am sharing as this week's feature. Also, with regards to the show's 5th anniversary, I realize I pretty much said my peace on the subject last week. Just trying to keep that spirit of being receptive to surprise alive going forward.

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I will save this week's feedback, of which there is rather a lot, until next week.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is a recording of the talk Cory Doctorow gave at this month's CopyNight, here in DC.

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TCLP 2010-06-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:59:50 -0400

This is news cast 217, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an apology for missing the last news cast.

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This week's security alerts are attacking the attackers and anti-malware is a poor substitute for common sense.

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In this week's news NY meet Silicon Valley, the first report from the new IP enforcement czar and some analysis and some reactions, looking at HTML5 beyond video, and an explanation why Share Alike is open and Non Commercial is not.

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Following up this week, the debate around C-32 turns adversarial and judge rules in Viacom case that YouTube is protected by DMCA safe harbors.

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TCLP 2010-06-23 Switching Back to an Open Stack (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:14:00 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to Paul, Steve and Ryan for their new monthly donations starting this week. Badges are on their way or should be soon. I also remark on my upcoming 5th anniversary as a podcaster for those that don't read the blog.

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Listener feedback this week is from Jed in response to the Inner Chapter on why programming is hard. I mention the news cast from the 13th, the piece Bruce Sterling mentions about smart-aleck programmers by Jonathan Edwards.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fence.

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The feature this week is a monologue discussing my decision to move back to an open stack here in the lab. I mention Dan Gillmor's Salon article discussing the very same thing and my Nowhere to Go rant.

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TCLP 2010-06-16: Inner Chapter: Why Programming is Hard (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:07:31 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a mention of the merit badges arriving and the first pictures.

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Also a quick review of "The Affinity Bridge" by George Mann.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is feetch feetch.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter consider the question of why programming is hard. In it, I mention "Dreaming in Code " by Scott Rosenberg, an interview about the CHAOS reports, Kolmogorov complexity, Jordan Peterson's talk on TVO's Big Ideas.

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TCLP 2010-06-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:02:46 -0400

This is news cast 216, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an update on the badge experiment.

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This week's security alerts are diffusing botnet control makes them more robust and bad passwords and the economics around perpetuating them.

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In this week's news open source could make attackers' jobs easier, understanding the real risks of Android fragmentation, programmers should stop being smart-alecks, and heated atomic force microscopes for 12nm graphene elements.

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Following up this week, another social network bill of rights and judge may dismiss most defendants from US Copyright Group suits.

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TCLP 2010-06-09 Free Yourself: Open Source Software for Everyday Use (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:38:35 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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I will save listener feedback for the next show.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature.

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The feature this week is the second of two panel recordings I captured at Balticon 44. The panel was titled, "Free Yourself: Open Source Software for Everyday Use". My co-panelists were Brad Smith and none other than Eric Raymond. I found ESR to be especially fascinating on this panel, with some thought provoking ideas and fun stories.

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TCLP 2010-06-06 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:41:04 -0400

This is news cast 215, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, just a pointer to my thoughts on Balticon 44 and a recap on advertising, the badge experiment, and Flattr so far.

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This week's security alerts are OS choice does not equal security and an Android rootkit.

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In this week's news Google drops Microsoft for internal use citing security reasons though some are skeptical, figuring out if Wikileaks spun up using documents intercepted from Tor with thoughts from both the Tor project and Wikileaks itself, IBM's 40 year old Muppet sales films, and a new paper debunks certain suggested advantages of quantum computing.

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Following up this week, if you are tired of Facebook then check out a Firefox extension that aims to help preserve your privacy while using it and India tries to gather opposition to ACTA.

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TCLP 2010-06-02 Art, Music and Literature in the Age of Digital Reproducibility (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:07:39 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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I will save listener feedback for the next show or the one after that.

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There is no listener feedback this week due to the length of the feature.

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The feature this week is the first of two panel recordings I captured at Balticon 44. The panel was titled, "Art, Music and Literature in the Age of Digital Reproducibility", and was a fantastic, far ranging discussion. My co-panelists where Norm Sherman of The Drabblecast, Dave Slusher of Evil Genius Chronicles, Phil Rossi, and Dan Tabor of Geekadelphia.

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TCLP 2010-05-26 Inner Chapter: Legacy Code (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 26 May 2010 21:32:28 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder there will be no news show this Sunday as I'll be at Balticon. Also, a quick review of "Dreaming in Code", by Scott Rosenberg.

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Listener feedback this week is from Randal on the Dr. Who as a hacker and DeepGeek in response to my discussion of Danah Boyd's essay on Facebook as a utility.

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The hacker word of the week this week is featurectomy.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of legacy code.

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TCLP 2010-05-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 23 May 2010 20:23:05 -0400

This is news cast 214, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to new monthly donor, John Taylor Williams and his wife, Mia. Thank you to fellow Flattr beta testers who have been flattring my posts. I should have an update on how this service compares to donations and ads at the end of the month. My Balticon schedule is up, if you are going to be there, come and say high. Better yet, join me for the unofficial FLOSS and Tech Geek BoF. There will be no news show that Sunday but should be feature casts before and after the weekend.

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This week's security alerts are Chrome's private mode leaks info and FTC looks into privacy concerns with digital copiers.

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In this week's news opening of VP-8 video codec becomes so much more including news event Microsoft will support it (kind of) and YouTube will switch to it for larger videos going forward, a technical analysis of VP-8 now that it is open, Facebook's urge towards social utility will invite regulation, and an early, official history of NSA computers.

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Following up this week The Pirate Party steps in to host The Pirate Bay and EFF issues a strong criticism of Google's latest privacy mistake.

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TCLP 2010-05-19 Interview: Cory Doctorow, "For the Win" (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 19 May 2010 21:32:19 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a few quick announcements. I will be at Balticon Memorial Day weekend and posting my speaking schedule soon. If you are going to be there, come and say, "Hi". May's CopyNight will be next Tuesday, the 25th, with special guest Carl Malamud. Next month's CopyNight will also have a special guest, Cory Doctorow as it happens. That CopyNight will be June 28th, a Monday. For more details about the DC CopyNight, visit the web site.

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Due to the length of the interview, I didn't get to any listener feedback this week. There also is no new hacker word of the week for the same reason.

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The feature this week is an interview with Cory Doctorow discussing the issues explored in his latest book just released from Tor, "For the Win". I caught up with him over Skype on his current book tour. We mention quite a bit of material, roughly in chronological order:

"Amerika"
"English as She Is Spoken"
Anda's Game
Beyond Circumvention, by Ethan Zuxker
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet, by Douglas Adams
It was Michael Weinberg, from Public Knowledge, on This Week in Law who proposed thinking about three strikes with the telephone
"Content" is the essay collection containing World of Democracycraft
Facebook is a Utility, All Utilities are Regulated, by Danah Boyd
Diaspora*, Kickstarter, and Quit Facebook Day
Jane McGonigal created Superstruct and the other game I couldn't remember properly is Evoke
Alice commissioned the award winning game, Smokescreen
Power Punctuation! in three parts: part 1, part 2, part 3
The Geertz mentioned is anthropologist, Clifford Geertz
io9 scooped me and has more details on "Rapture of the Nerds"

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TCLP 2010-05-12 Review: Postsingular and Hylozoic (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 12 May 2010 20:55:55 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Listener feedback this week is Philip, Jed and Brad who all commented on my Dr. Who monologue. Sergio, Claudio, and Curtis also chatted up the segment on Identi.ca. Mr wrote in about my NoSQL rant. And pseudomorph wrote in response to the Mozilla Account Manager story from the 2nd news cast. He shared a couple of links on digital identity and whether intellectual monopoly is making us dumb.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fear and loathing.

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The feature this week is an in depth book review of "Postsingular" and "Hylozoic" by Rudy Rucker. In the review, I mention the two short stories from which the first book was developed, Rucker's blog post questioning the wisdom of computronium, my earlier review of one of Rucker's non-fiction works, the internet of things, and the free download edition of "Postsingular".

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TCLP 2010-05-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 09 May 2010 22:06:18 -0400

This is news cast 213, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to new monthly donor, Jamie. Also, I was interviewed for Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio, part of Hacker Public Radio. My part starts around minute twenty-three. Lastly, I will be interviewing Cory Doctorow about his latest YA novel, "For the Win". I'm scheduled to do so on Thursday, the 13th, so if you have any questions for him, get them to me before then.

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This week's security alerts are a new attack technique that bypasses most common antivirus programs demonstrated by matousec.com and study that shows programming language choice doesn't affect security.

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In this week's news Hugo Gernsback as futurist (I've read more about him as a publisher) including some criticism of his views of the place of science in science fiction, why computers crash but biology does not, a rallying cry for parallelism even though the trend is well established and the challenges hard then first supposed, and Google releases a code lab and sources to teach and learn security through reading code and hands on exercises.

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Following up this week the FCC's third way to pursue network neutrality and the FCC allows selectable output control with some qualifications.

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TCLP 2010-05-05 Dr. Who as a Hacker (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 05 May 2010 21:15:19 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to Graham and [si]dragon for their donations. Also, a quick review of "Permanence", by Karl Schroeder.

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Listener feedback this week is from Robert who posted a comment in response to my NoSQL rant.

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The hacker word of the week this week is block transfer computations.

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The feature this week is a monologue consider Dr. Who as a hacker. In it, I mention a section from the Wikipedia page on Dr. Who.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-05-02 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 02 May 2010 19:50:51 -0400

This is news cast 212, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick update on the advertising experiment.

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This week's security alerts are Symantec plans to PGP and a massive quantity of GoDaddy hosted WordPress sites are under attack.

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In this week's news Cyber Privacy Act introduced that would use takedowns against personal info including the flaws that would go along with it, new report shows trillions contributed to the economy by fair use with specific examples of what that means though the point is how the report was produced, Mozilla releases first code for its identity system (which I briefly wrote about earlier ), and raised by Radio Shack inspired by a Wired article and resonating with Levy's "Hackers".

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Following up this week USTR claims official ACTA draft proves prior rumors were false and MSIE9 to support HTML5 video but only with H.264.

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TCLP 2010-04-28 Rant: NoSQL (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:38:29 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to Josh for his donation and a call for ideas for a premium for larger donations. I'm looking for something as unique and distinctive as the merit badges that would be appropriate for $50 or more and monthly donations of $5 or more.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fat-finger .

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The feature this week is a rant where I try to get to exactly what it is that bugs me about NoSQL. In it, I refer to my hacking 101 piece on databases.

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TCLP 2010-04-21 EFF on the Recent Al Haramain Ruling (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:51:45 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder that CopyNight here in DC is next Tuesday. Also, an update on the badge experiment. And thanks to Kevin M. and George for their donations this past week.

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Listener feedback this week is from Robert. He recommends the radio show and podcast, Media Matters.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fat electrons.

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The feature this week is an interview with Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at EFF. We discuss the recent ruling in the Al Haramain case, one of the many wrestling with the warrantless wire taps conducted under the Bush administration. I mention my previous interview with EFF's Rebecca Jeschke about the FISA Amendments Act. I also mention EFF's resource pages on the Hepting case, the Jewel case, and on this case.

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TCLP 2010-04-14 Free Press on Comcast-NBC Acquisition (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:33:38 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to Robert for his donation. Also an announcement, that there will be no news show this weekend due to time constraints resulting from family and personal commitments.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fascist .

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The feature this week is an interview Josh Stearns of Free Press about the Comcast-NBC acquisition. In it, we mention the Free Press resource page on the deal as well as the page from Comcast. This interview was prompted by an email from Josh about a story I posted on the FCC docket as part of their review of the deal.

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TCLP 2010-04-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:32:07 -0400

This is news cast 211, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to new donor this week, David.

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This week's security alerts are a new site collecting privacy and security info on apps and services and a vulnerability in WebKit's handling of the blink tag.

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In this week's news reverse engineering facial recognition to develop dazzle camouflage (a story I also wrote up on the web site), asking whether IBM broke its open source patent pledge with their response and clarifying commentary from a couple of knowledgeable folks, a new memory management technique that could boost performance for multiple cores, and contending format shifting a book you own is ethical with supporting and dissenting responses.

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Following up this week court rules against FCC in Comcast case barring neutrality regulation on ancillary authority but not through other means and the Digital Economy Bill has been passed including what we should do now.

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TCLP 2010-04-07 Java, the Gray Lady (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:06:27 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an update on the advertising experiment.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is farm .

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The feature this week is a monologue on Java, the Gray Lady. In it, I mention COM, specifically criticisms against it. I also mention a timely piece by Neil McAllister and the Zen of Python.

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TCLP 2010-03-31 Why CopyNight is Important (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:18:50 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a call for help with topics for programming focused segments for the next few weeks and an announcement that there will be no news show this Sunday.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is faradize .

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The feature this week is a monologue on why CopyNight is important. In it I mention cultural critic, Mark Dery, and Christine Harold's book, "OurSpace".

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:38:01 -0400

This is news cast 210, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to new donors this week, Rhonda and Jonathan. Also a very quick update on the badge experiment.

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This week's security alerts are attackers using attack-in-depth and security alerts for Gmail.

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In this week's news a detailed proposal for copyright reform, a side channel info leak despite web encryption, Chris Soghoian and Sid Stamm publish a paper on SSL spoofing and EFF proposes some means to deal with it, and considering whether math skills are essential for programmers.

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Following up this week constitutional concerns over ACTA and the Digital Economy Bill is set to go to vote without further public debate.

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TCLP 2010-03-24 Rant: I Am Not a Pirate (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:29:53 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a correction on the rant (I recorded it previously) based on further explanation by Cory in the Lab Out Loud interview about price discrimination and demand elasticity. Also, Happy Ada Lovelace Day. As pledged, I've written a blog post for the day. I also share a badge update. And thanks go to new monthly donor, Andrew.

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Listener feedback this week is from an anonymous correspondent agreeing with my thoughts on the Apple developer license. Also, David shares another vim/eclipse plugin and Jed and John share their thoughts in response to the Inner Chapter of Tools.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fandango on core.

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The feature this week is a rant entitled, I Am Not a Pirate. (Although big content is starting to agree though for very different reasons.) Mostly this is in response to Ars Technica's ad blocking experiment, in particular my friend Nuri's thoughts on that story. I mention Mike Masnick, of Techdirt, who champions a model he calls connect with fans plus reason to buy. I also mention Flattr and the recent roundtable on free content versus paying the author on The Secret Lair podcast. I also refer to ideas explained by Cory Doctorow on an episode of the Beyond the Book podcast.

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TCLP 2010-03-17 Inner Chapter: Tools (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:42:44 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, my thanks to Lee and Cory for their generous support through their donations this past week. Both qualify for the limited edition cmdln merit badges. I also share an update on the badge experiment for the benefit of those who don't read the web site.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fall through .

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on tools. In it, I mention The Pragmatic Programmers.

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TCLP 2010-03-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:46:35 -0400

This is news cast 209, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a call for help with my new experiment, this time with a way to reward and encourage donors. Also, happy Pi Day.

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This week's security alerts are researchers build an 8K smart phone botnet and share their motivations for doing so and some findings and a serious Apache exploit is discovered.

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In this week's news theoretical breakthrough for quantum crypto, Apple iPhone developer agreement comes to light leading to my own moment of principle where I've decided once my iPod Touch is worn out I will be buying an Android based PMP, the value of BASIC as a first language, and improving the bandwidth of quantum memory.

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Following up this week web cames disabled in PA school laptops and Open Source for America rebuts IIPA's petition to the USTR including a post, a paper and a personal meeting.

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TCLP 2010-03-10 Hacking 101: Databases (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:13:44 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, my thanks to Kreg Steppe and Geoff for their generous support through their donations this past week. Also, if you have not taken the Ada Lovelace Day Pledge please do so. Sydney Padua's madcap web comic has my favorite depiction of Ada, one I'll bear in mind as I choose my subject to blog on the day.

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Listener feedback this week is from Eric and Jon in response to my interview with Nina Paley, specifically our discussion of the non-commercial option with the Creative Commons licenses. Jon shared a blog post on the fuzzy nature of non-commercial.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fairings.

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The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 on databases.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:43:33 -0500

This is news cast 208, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a huge thank you to Chris Miller for his ongoing donation. Also inspired by my latest appearance on The Secret Lair to discuss free content and supporting artists, some brief thoughts on my own views towards the show and earning something from it.

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This week's security alerts are a several OpenSSL flaw and research on statistical attacks on security questions. I recommend treating security answers where they are required like passwords, storing them in a password vault and securely, randomly generating them.

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In this week's news a fan sequel to King's Quest is shutting down (the original publisher playing a large role in Steven Levy's "Hackers" which I reviewed previously), a hearing was schedule last week to discuss internet freedom abroad including circumvention though we might do well to apply the same standards at home, two storied about plugless brain-computer interfaces with a compelling first hand account of one, and Google search index to go real time.

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Following up this week the USTR responds to Senator Wyden's letter about ACTA with some good analysis and the problems with a revised censorship amendment to the DEB that now targets weblockers.

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TCLP 2010-03-03 Chris Miller on PyCon 2010 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:44:38 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is an interview with my good friend and fellow podcaster, Chris Miller. Chris has provided me with conference reports twice before, for Google I/O in 2008 and SCALE 7x in 2009. This time he joins me to report on his experience at PyCon 2010. In the course of the discussion, we mention his employer, The Linux Outlaws, Watts Humphrey's Personal Software Process, David Beazley's presentation on the Python GIL, Mark Shuttleworth, and Catherine Devlin's presentation on cmd2.

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If you want to hear more conversation between Chris and myself on less technical but still crunchy subjects, check out episode 24 of The Secret Lair.

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TCLP 2010-02-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:38:14 -0500

This is news cast 207, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, explaining my advertise experiment, a change to the podcast's license going forward, and OggCamp 10.

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This week's security alerts are OpenDNS adopts and explains DNSCurve and anatomy of a SQL injection attack.

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In this week's news a new technique for improve random number generation, circumvention is not enough to foil censorship, trade association wants USTR to equate open source with piracy (I've talked about the watch list being abused previously and Jesse Brown at Search Engine has an excellent discussion), and an early computer manual encourage bypassing proto-DRM.

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Following up this week the internet chapter of ACTA has leaked.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-02-24 Interview: Nina Paley (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:36:07 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is an interview with cartoonist and animator, Nina Paley, creator of "Sita Sings the Blues". I've spoken and written about Nina's story before, the troubles clearing her use of Annette Hanshaw's torch songs that led her to work with Karl Fogel at QuestionCopyright.org. In the course of the interview, we also mention the store for "Sita" merchandise , the creator endorsed mark, "Minute Memes", the "Sita" soundtrack by Todd Michaelsen, "Sita" on a persistence of vision wheel based display, and Bill Cheswick's poster made from every frame of "Sita". Sadly, by the time you hear this, you'll have missed her talk at AU but I discuss it a bit in the intro to this episode.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-02-21 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:11:43 -0500

This is news cast 206, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder that CopyNight is Monday and that Nina Paley is speaking at American on Wednesday, the 24th.

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This week's security alerts are the first denial of service attack and botnets attacking each other.

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In this week's news PA school district caught spying on students via laptop web cams (which may be part of a larger trend) resulting in a letter from the school officials who feel they did no wrong though now the FBI and DA are looking into the incidents, an essay on when transparency is useful which is similar to Lessig's thoughts on the subject, and the 32nd anniversary of the BBS which is clearly a prescursor to the modern internet.

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Following up this week leak of details on last ACTA negotation round and the Jacobsen case is finally settled.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-02-17 Copyright, Copywrong (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:14:06 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week, due to the length of the feature.

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The feature this week is audio I recorded from a panel I moderated this past weekend at Farpoint. Farpoint was the first convention where I was invited as a participant, four years ago. The panel audio is from the Copyright, Copywrong discussion panel I moderated.

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TCLP 2010-02-09 Unscheduled Hiatus (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:40:11 -0500

This is just a quick meta-cast for the benefit of those who do not read the web site.

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TCLP 2010-02-03 Inner Chapter: Politics (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:42:45 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick review of Ed Piskor's latest installment in his WIZZYWIG series, Volume 3: Fugitive.

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Listener feedback this week is from Marc, Hugh and Joel who commented on my iPad remarks and yareckon who commented on the Hacker Hero monologue. Both of those segments were part of the episode from January 27th. MArc and Hugh shared their thoughts on the web site. Joel sent me Mark Pilgrim's post on iPad and I mention Fraser Speirs' in my response as well as my follow up blog post. yareckon sent his thoughts via Identi.ca including a clarification on Major Barbara.

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The hacker word of the week this week is eyeball search.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on politics.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-31 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:30:41 -0500

This is news cast 205, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, information about a couple of great upcoming events: Free Culture X and the Southern California Linux Expo.

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This week's security alert are fighting spam with captured botnets and examining an exploit kit.

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In this week's news what history can tell us about HTML5, open video and h.264 with confirmation that patented codecs aren't compatible with free software, a framework for a folk or para-copyright, Amazon and Macmillan go to war over a price point at the expense of their customers though the fate of an open e-book market may be at stake, and Google proposes extending DNS.

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Following up this week Jammie Thomas is offered a settlement but she refuses as the RIAA appeals the judge's reduction of their damage award against her and a guide to speaking out against ACTA.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-27 The Hacker Hero (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:50:10 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is eye candy.

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The feature this week is a monologue on the hacker hero in literature. I mention the myths of Enki and Prometheus. I refer to the Steampunk anthology and Paul diFilippo's Steampunk trilogy. I also cite the works of both Charlie Stross and Rudy Rucker. I even touch on Disney's Wall-E.

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TCLP 2010-01-24 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:04:19 -0500

This is news cast 204, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alert are an odd interaction between AT&T's mobile network and Facebook with some clarification and a seventeen year old Windows flaw.

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In this week's news CBS keeps some public domain videos locked away in its vault though the status of the video seems clear but the situation may have been exaggerated, another proposal to re-write HTTP, consequences of Google's map, reduce patent, and US secretary of state's speech on censorship and the Chinese response.

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Following up this week OGD deadline came for which the first data sets were released and you can track progress to the next deadline and warrant-less wiretapping case is dismissed though EFF says it will appeal.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-20 Interview: Danny O'Brien on ACTA (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:37:33 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is an interview with Danny O'Brien on ACTA. I was inspired to contact Danny after hearing him on FLOSS Weekly. In the course of the interview, we mention Michael Geist, Knowledge Ecology and Public Knowledge. Visit EFF to learn more about ACTA and the other issues on which Danny is working and take action at their action center.

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TCLP 2010-01-17 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:39:14 -0500

This is news cast 203, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro a quick overview on my convention schedule for this year.

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This week's security alert is just an in depth discussion of a concerning interview that revealed some internal privacy issues at Facebook.

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In this week's news I spend more time on Google's announcement that it is reviewing its operations in China. Wired has more details from an inside source. Glyn Moody suggests a reasonable hypothesis of why now. And Mac Slocum has a bevy of opinions at O'Reilly Radar. China has also already responded. The other stories this week are an essay on the benefit of viewing HTML source and its potentially endangered future and a new initiative that may ultimately allow users to build their own laptops.

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Following up this week a further refinement of the FLOSS license icons and the UK offers a compromise on the pirate catcher powers in the Digital Economy Bill.

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TCLP 2010-01-13 Inner Chapter: Accomplishment (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:06:49 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick recap of my experiences at World's Fair Use Day. I may share a longer blog post or podcast segment once I finally get a chance to sift through my notes.

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Listener feedback is from Philippe who mentions Xdebug and Philip who mentions Devel::NYTProf which just had a recent release. Both wrote in response to my Hacking 101 on speed and performance, specifically to my open question about profilers. Thanks for the leads.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Exploder.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on accomplishment.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:39:08 -0500

This is news cast 202, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro a shout out to SLUG and a huge thank you to Holger for his ongoing donation.

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Also, if you are a listener, reader or acquaintance of Tee Morris' and want to know how you can help in his time of need, you can donate to a fund for his daughter, participate in an auction schedule for next month, or buy one of his many excellent books.

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This week's security alerts are Adobe finally working on a software updater and 768-bit RSA modulus factored.

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In this week's news Jaron Lanier's Web 2.0 rant, whether cheap tech undermines legal protections including broader ramifications for online privacy, testing the first build of Mozilla's multi-process project which I first mentioned over six months ago, and the government is skeptical of an earlier suggestion that more wireless spectrum will increase broadband competition.

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Following up this week Tenenbaum P2P case defending seeking to overturn damages as unconstitutional and FCC seeks extension for broadband plan.

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TCLP 2010-01-06 Hacking 101: Speed and Performance (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:55:38 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, some thoughts on the loss of a friend.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on speed and the practice of performance tuning. I mention my previous Inner Chapters on complexity and debugging though I referred to it incorrectly as trouble shooting or problem solving. I also refer to Wikipedia's entry of Big O notation, specifically the orders of common functions section.

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TCLP 2009-12-20 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:40:51 -0500

This is news cast 201, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Apologies if you received a flood of old episodes as if they are new. This may be the result of some needed feed maintenance.

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This week's only security alerts is development of a counter tool to a forensics suite, COFEE, that Micrsoft offers but was leaked and the announcement to that counter tool, DECAF, was just a stunt.

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In this week's news an investigation into Monsanto's predatory patent licensing practices brought to my attention via Glyn Moody's comparison of the agri-giant to Microsoft, the latest developments with the Australian plan to filter net access including analysis of the test results they are claiming as a success, composeable icons for free software and open source licenses, and the first draft of the FCC's broadband plan.

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Following up this week just the news that the three strikes plan has returned in New Zealand despite its fundamental flaws.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-12-16 Hacking 101: Distributed Version Control (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:22:59 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, I urge you to consider Creative Commons and Public Knowledge in your year end giving as well as EFF. Also, I will be on hiatus after the show on the 20th. That will be the last show of the year and the first show of next year will be the feature cast on the 6th of January.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is exercise, left as an.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 considering the merits and demerits of distributed version control, in response to Chooch's question on the subject. You can listen to my earlier episode on source control as well as the other episodes I mentioned on team dynamics and code style. I also mention github's help document on forking using that site.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-12-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:18:36 -0500

This is news cast 200, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are attackers improve on techniques to use Twitter to conceal their efforts and malware found in a Gnome screen saver.

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In this week's news a massive class action suit against the labels for copyright infringement, a new open government directive from the Obama administration though it notably doesn't include making the White House's practices transparent and may present certain loop holes, quantum key distribution through possibility of sending a particle, and AI to undergo rebirth at MIT with new ambitious five year project.

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Following up this week the final ruling in the Tenenbaum P2P case which may be an unrealized opportunity for fair use reform or may not. Defense lawyer and Harvard law professor Nesson is seeking a retrial regardless.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-12-09 Monologue: Social Gravity Well (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:00:34 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick review of the film, "Astro Boy", based on the original manga by Osamu Tezuka. I also highly recommend Dan's review of the film on Geekadelphia.

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Listener feedback this week is from Philip who wrote in to comment on my nowhere to go rant.

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The hacker word of the week this week is exec.

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The feature this week is a monologue on the social gravity well.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-12-06 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:05:27 -0500

This is news cast 199, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are malware may start affecting non-jailbroken iPhones and testing whether Google's new DNS resolver is secure. I wrote about Google's new offering earlier in the week.

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In this week's news latest ACTA leak seems to confirm the worst exceeding EU and Canadian copyright policy and makes better sense of KEI Director James Love's encounter with USTR chief Ron Kirk, standalone JavaScript, historical antecedents to the current broadband regulation debate, and a new privacy reporting tool from the CDT which is part of a larger trend to try to improve awareness around online privacy.

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Following up this week one British politician pushed back on the Digital Economy Bill and evaluating the censorship risk of the current version of the Google Books settlement.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-29 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:46:29 -0500

This is news cast 198.

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In the intro, a quick Philcon recap. See my earlier post for more.

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This week's security alerts are details on an exploitable flaw in older versions of MSIE including news of an actual exploit and the latest iPhone worm snags bank credentials.

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In this week's news research suggesting combining the promising techniques in quantum computing to produce a viable system sooner (this builds on recent work by NIST and a design for a photon "machine gun" for producing larger registers of qubits), encoding shell code as English text, a client side file handling API for JavaScript and HTML5 which is already implemented in Firefox's latest beta build, and a site for sharing information about rejections for Apple's app store.

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Following up this week evaluating privacy in the revised Books settlement and two senators question ACTA secrecy.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-25 Interview: Cory Doctorow (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:59:53 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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I am delaying listener feedback until the next feature cast due to the holiday week and the length of the feature.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is my third interview with Cory Doctorow in as many years. This time, we speak mostly about his new novel, "MAKERS". My friend Dan, from Geekadelphia, took some great pictures while we were interviewing. You can see the best of those pictures here and all of my pictures from the entire convention, here.

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TCLP 2009-11-18 Rant: Nowhere to Go (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:41:49 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a final reminder I will be at Philcon this weekend, so no news show on Sunday. There almost definitely will be a feature show next week since I should have my interview with Cory to release. Also a revelation, that "Dreams with Sharp Teeth" has convinced me I am not much of a curmudgeon.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Evil Empire.

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The feature this week is a rant, though more of an emotional than a surly one, entitled nowhere to go.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-15 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:22:27 -0500

This is news cast 197.

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A reminder in the intro that I will be at Philcon this coming weekend, the 20th. I am going expressly to interview Cory Doctorow about his new book, MAKERS, as well as hopefully some of his other projects. If you have questions you'd like me to consider including in the interview, send them to me this week.

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This week's security alerts are Firefox bugs account for 44% of all browser bugs and considering whether antivirus is dead.

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In this week's news truly innovative mobile interface to be open source, Google shares open protocol for speeding up the web, the search giant also announces its new programming language developed by among others Rob Pike (who also co-authored on of my favorite technology books) and Ken Thompson of Unix fame, and a DoS attack against digital wire taps.

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Following up this week revisions to the Google Books settlement which exclude any privacy protections and oral arguments were heard by the Supreme Court in the Bilski case.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-11 Hacking 101: Front End, Back End (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:31:03 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a quick review of the expansion, On the Brink, to the game Pandemic. I reviewed Pandemic on the March 25th podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is evil.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 segment on the terms front end and back end development. I mention the model-viewer-controller design pattern and refer to my interview with Celeste Lyn Paul.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-08 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:21:16 -0500

This is news cast 196.

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This week's security alerts are the latest issues arising from Windows autorun and using cloud computing to brute force crypto.

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In this week's news more on the FCC's power to regulate the internet, first general election to test some novel election crypto, using better investigative techniques to help preserve online privacy, and a weekend hackathon for open government.

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Following up this week the latest info and analysis on ACTA.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-04 Monologue: Social Identity (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:35:42 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a reminder that if you want to win one of three signed copies of J.C. Hutchins' "7th Son: Descent" you need to get your email in to 7thSonNovel@gmail.com by this Friday. Use the subject line "cmdln sent me", and in the body include both the phrase, "Kilroy 2.0 is everywhere", and your mailing address.

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Also, I will be at Philcon, just for the day on Saturday the 21st of November. I will be heading up to meet up with some friends and to interview Cory Doctorow about his just released novel, "MAKERS". If anyone is interested in a meet up while I am there, send me a note at feedback@thecommandline.net.

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Lastly, the intro includes a brief clarification and comment about the experimental opening music from the last show.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Eric Conspiracy.

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The feature this week is a monologue on social identity.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:25:21 -0500

This is news cast 195.

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In the intro, an experiment, playing some CC-licensed and interesting music instead of the usual theme music.

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This week's security alerts are executing attack code via the ldd utility and a former anti-virus research seemingly turning against the industry.

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In this week's news in search of a truly open smart phone, an open protocol for aggregating comments, industry releases its first open source voting system which includes all of the sources for recording and management, and a startup produces the first 100-core processor.

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Following up this week Mandelson is still pushing for three strikes in the UK and unlikely opponents, law enforcers.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-28 Inner Chapter: Perfection and Compromise (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:56:05 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, two books that just launched that I want to recommend to you, J.C. Hutchins' "7th Son: Descent" is now in print and Cory Doctorow's "MAKERS" was released today. Additionally, J.C. has offered to give away three signed copies of his book to listeners. Send a note to 7thSonNovel at gmail dot com with the subject line, "cmdln sent me", and the phrase, "Kilroy 2.0 is everywhere", and your mailing address in the body. J.C. will draw three lucky winners on November 6th so get your emails in now.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is epsilon squared.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of perfection and compromise.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-25 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:21:52 -0400

This is news cast 194.

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In the intro, a quick reminder about tomorrow night's CopyNight here in DC.

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This week's security alerts are the "evil maid" attack on encrypted disks and first impressions of security in Google Wave.

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In this week's news considering the punk in steampunk which echoes a rant of mine, a plan for an open web of books, leaked voting machine code reveals a vendor's blunders, and new research into massively dense info storage.

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Following up this week raising concerns over jurisdiction and enforcement in the FCC's net neutrality plan and a House bill was introduced to curtail the PATRIOT Act during its consideration for renewal.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-21 Interview: Randal Schwartz (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:05:37 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, letting you know that part one of a two part interview with me is up at the Life after Law School podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the feature, there is no hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is an interview with Randal Schwartz. I first met Randal through his talk on his experience being snared under one of the problematic computer fraud and abuse laws. We don't discuss that topic in the interview but if you are curious, he recommends his appearance on the Security Catalyst podcast and his interview with Stephen Euin Cobb on the Future and You. Randal also mentions the Squeak by Example book in the interview which is available as a free electronic edition and a print-on-demand edition. You can also hear Randal on the excellent FLOSS Weekly podcast which I also recommend for its consistently superb coverage of free software and open source projects of all varieties.

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TCLP 2009-10-18 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:58:03 -0400

This is news cast 193.

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In the intro, my initial impressions of Google's Wave. You can find me there as cmdln dot net at googlewave dot com. I have also stared public Waves which you are welcome to join for the DC area CopyNight and for this podcast.

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This week's security alerts are figuring out whether Facebook apps are safe and Microsoft's un-invited Firefox add-on has a vulnerability though Mozilla has acted to disable it for everyone.

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In this week's news Professor Lessig's provocative piece on naked transparency as inspired by Brandeis and some thoughtful responses, why Charlies Stross doesn't like Star Trek, a fundamental limit on the speed of computation, and working on a recommendation and plan for an open repository of the text of US law.

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Following up this week 42 people gain access under NDA to the ACTA drafts.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-14 Rant: My Love-Hate Relationship with CS (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:19:30 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, I mention two upcoming events you might like to check out. The first is OggCamp and the second is the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference.

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Listener feedback this week is from Kaity and from Erwin.

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The hacker word of the week this week is epsilon .

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The feature this week is a rant trying to explain my odd, love-hate relationship with computer science.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:07:00 -0400

This is news cast 192.

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In the intro, some information on a new conference, ConFoo.ca, being held in Montreal in March of next year. I will be adding this to my list for consideration as well as submitting for the CFP if I decide to go.

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This week's security alerts are researchers hijack a botnet to study drive-by attacks and Comcast to start sending warnings to customers whose PCs are snared in botnets.

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In this week's news the first application to make use of the Federal Register's open data, EFF's 2009 Pioneer Award winners, key ruling on the first sale doctrine may be more messy than we'd like, and Patriot Act renewal passes committee almost entirely without reforms.

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Following up this week copyright suit over distributing Green Dam and Senate panel to examine sale of Diebold's voting machine division.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-07 Inner Chapter: Personal Advocacy (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:18:07 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a request that you consider contributing to the Creative Commons 5th annual fundraising campaign.

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Listener feedback this week is from Eric who writes with a question about a disclaimer on public domain photos.

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The hacker word of the week this week is epoch.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on personal advocacy. This was inspired partly by a Coding Horror post and my reaction to it. I relate it to both effecting change and thought leadership which I've discussed previously.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-09-30 Copyright Panel at D*C 2009 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:14:52 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a correction from Randal on the correct pronunciation of "Kernighan". Also, Gail Martin interviewed me for her podcast, Ghost in the Machine. We chatted about peer media, open content and media advocacy. You can download the interview or subscribe to her feed, she interviews many other fascinating, aspiring authors on her show.

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I'm going to push off on listener feedback until next week. Also, no hacker word of the week for the same reason, the length of the feature.

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The feature this week is the recording of the "Creative Commons and Legal Issues" panel from the podcasting track at Dragon*Con 2009, otherwise known simply as the copyright panel. I was joined by Thomas Vincent, Randy Chertkow of Beatnik Turtle, and Courtney Lytle Perry. This is the third time Randy and Courtney have joined me for this panel and it was a sheer pleasure. The audio is a little over driven, we were having speaker issues this year, but I think I managed to get things a bit under control.

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TCLP 2009-09-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:17:06 -0400

This is news cast 191.

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In the intro, a reminder that this month's CopyNight here in DC is tomorrow night, at 6:30PM at the Teaism in Penn Quarter. The discussion will at least include the Google Books settlement and the FCC rules on network neutrality and more besides no doubt.

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This week's security alerts are AES explained by stick figures and bounties on infected Macs.

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In this week's news FCC chair calls for rules on network neutrality including early challenges and resistance and a web site detailing the details as the rules will be implemented, Netflix second release of anonymized data could be a privacy disaster, re-booting the book which at least partly continues Clive Thomson's consideration of the future of reading, and duct tape programmers.

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Following up this week authors and other plaintiffs ask for a delay in the Google Books settlement which is granted and the French Senate passes an amended three strikes law though it still requires debate and passage by the National Assembly.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-09-23 Importance of Open Formats (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:56:17 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, letting you know my interview with the ladies of Podioracket is now available. We discuss my recently released podiobook, a collection of the first set of Inner Chapters essays I produced for this very podcast. I also wanted to mention my last guest appearance before this one, in episode 24 of The Secret Lair podcast (because I am embarrassed to admit I think I forgot to mention it at that time).

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Listener feedback this week is a voice mail from Jed in response to my discussion of the Vanish project discussed in the September 13th news cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is EOU.

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The feature this week is the recording I took of my talk on the importance of open formats at the local Software Freedom Day celebration.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-09-16 Hacking 101: Golden Hammer Syndrome (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:51:10 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a request that you consider making a sustaining donation to your favorite free software project or open content producer, whether or not that happens to be me. The thought was inspired by my finally adding a recurring donation button to my web site.

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Also, a clarification in case there was any confusion. My talk for the local Software Freedom Day is at 11:30, the event starts at 10:30 in the computer lab at the Miller Branch of the Howard County Library. The schedule of talks is now available online.

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Listener feedback this week (catching up) comes from Paul Fischer who writes in response to the August 23rd show, specifically to the stories about Menuet and cracking the SecurID token.

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The hacker word of the week this week is ENQ.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on the subject of Golden Hammer Syndrome, something all beginning hackers need to beware of.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-09-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:52:41 -0400

This is news cast 190.

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In the intro, a reminder I will be speaking at the Maryland Ubuntu Loco for Software Freedom Day on the 19th. That will be at the Miller Branch of the Howard County Library. You can visit that second link to find an event in your area or to register to host your own.

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I also share a few thoughts on my experiences at this year's Dragon*Con including a round of thanks. First, thanks to my follow volunteers: Swoopy, Sam Chupp, Laura Ross, Andrew Wilson, Kreg Steppe and Jonathan Strickland. A special thanks to my room mates for the weekend, the hosts of Technorama, Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe. There wasn't time to thank them in the intro but I also wanted to thank my friends Chooch and Viv (of the COH Podcast and Into the Blender) who dragged me away from the podcast track to make sure I ate, saw the rest of the con and socialized (mostly with them and their own room mates, P.G. Holyfield and Patrick McLean.)

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I documented my experiences at the con extensively on the blog and may still try to sum up my experiences for this year, beyond just that journal of events.

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This week's security alerts are Windows 7 restores a vintage remote BSoD and researchers discover the first Linux web server based botnet.

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In this week's news emulating scarce property in an attempt to improve on DRM, Boyle's thoughts on the copyright black hole and the Google Books settlement, why motivation may matter to artificial intelligence which reminds me of my own ruminations on love, sex and artificial intelligence, and reliable remote file deletion in the cloud.

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Following up this week just i4i's side of the story about its patent claims against Microsoft.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-09-09 Interview: Beatnik Turtle (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:15:16 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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No hacker word of the week because of the length of the feature. Also, though I have some listener feedback, I am saving it until next Wednesday for the same reason.

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The feature this week is an interview with Beatnik Turtle, actually just Randy Chertkow, one of the band's members. Although there is no just about Randy if you've listened to the past two (Two! It's a tradition now!) interviews with members of the band.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-08-30 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:48:08 -0400

This is news cast 189.

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In the intro, the final reminder I will be at Dragon*Con over Labor Day weekend. No show on the 2nd or the 6th.

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This week's security alerts are an application the exposes how insecure the Facebook apps are building on prio warnings from the ACLU though Facebook has already promised to change its policies to address the issue and a so-called 60 second crack of WPA.

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In this week's news a new rapid application development tool for Linux building on past efforts to make development more accessible, James Boyle considers what IP law should learn from software, after last year's FCC ruling allowing them new technical specs for white space devices start to emerge, and using anti-ferromagnetism to potentially speed disk writes.

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Following up this week Nina Paley shares some positive economic data on sharing her work openly and Mozilla launches Test Swarm.

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TCLP 2009-08-26 Embracing Fair Use (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:31:02 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a quick review of the file, "Sita Sings the Blues", by Nina Paley.

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The hacker word of the week this week is enhancement.

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The feature this week is a monologue on embracing fair use. Here's the promised links defining fair use and fair use for trademarks. I mention Open Media Review and The Arbiter Chronicles.

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TCLP 2009-08-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:22:54 -0400

This is news cast 188.

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In the intro, I will be speaking at the Maryland gathering for Software Freedom Day on September 19th. More details after Dragon*Con.

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This week's security alerts are new research to predict online attacks and cracking real time ID generators.

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In this week's news new research into nanoscale lasers using surface plasmons to break the previous scale limits with some more good technical detail in Ars' coverage, an excellent discussion of transformative works, URL shortening service Tr.im cheats death by opening its source and its data, and an operating system programmed in assembly.

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Following up this week i4i confirms OpenOffice doesn't violate its patent and Nina Paley shares the source files to her wonderful open content work "Sita Sings the Blues".

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-08-19 Rant: Owning Innovation (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:23:45 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a quick review of the movie, District 9.

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The hacker word of the week this week is engine.

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The feature this week is a rant on owning innovation. In it I mention VoloMedia claiming to have the patent on podcasting including their own words on the matter, Iain Bank's publisher claiming first podcast novel, Christiana Ellis wins the preposterous claims contest that followed on Twitter, the Creative Commons and the Free Idea eXchange.

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TCLP 2009-08-16 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:46:44 -0400

This is news cast 187.

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In the intro, a quick reminder I will be at Dragon*Con September 4 through 7. My schedule is already on my Google calendar and will be updated as I learn more.

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This week's security alerts are self enforcing protocols and RSA threatens trademark infringment over a security disclosure.

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In this week's news super critical fluids may fuel future chip miniaturization, Twitter outages have folks considering the future of micro blogging, judge rules against Real in its DMCA suit though confusion remains on her remarks about fair use, and an XML patent ruling could have implications for open file formats.

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Following up this week researchers demonstrate that attacks on voting systems are practical without any special knowledge and the latest on the Supreme Court appeal of Bilski.

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TCLP 2009-08-12 Inner Chapter: Thought Leadership (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:18:42 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a mention that I will be at Dragon*Con September 4-7. My speaking commitments are on my Google calendar, otherwise I will be volunteering. If anyone else is attending or in the area and wants to have a meet up, let me know.

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Lots of listener feedback this week, so no hacker word of the week. Nido Media writes with a question about the phrase "reader's note" which I use occasionally in the hacker words of the week segments. Jed Reynolds and Jonas write in about my rant on software frameworks. Jonas recommends the Herding Code Podcast #56. Nah tass

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on thought leadership.

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TCLP 2009-08-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:21:25 -0400

This is news cast 186.

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

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This week's security alerts are a persistent attack through the firmware in new Mac keyboards and many XML libraries share common critical flaws.

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In this week's news small telcos and ISPs are making up the gap in fiber rollouts to rural areas, consumer friendly music services drop features to maintain uneasy alliance with big content, considering with Google's support of open source has patent defense implications a theory that builds on previous suggestions along these lines, and Microsoft finally joins the discussion of the HMTL5 standard with some further details of what that means.

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Following up this week a new network neutrality bill has been introduced and the EFF's analysis of potential outcomes for the Kindle class action suit.

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TCLP 2009-08-05 Rant: Software Frameworks (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:08:26 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro just sharing the news that my podiobook has been released. You can visit the new page for The Inner Chapters for details on how you can help promote it.

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The hacker word of the week this week is email.

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The feature this week is a rant on software frameworks.

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TCLP 2009-07-29 Inner Chapter: Tradition (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:19:04 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a heads up that there will be no news cast this weekend. And a bit of a mini rant and news discussion of the announcement of the awarding of a patent for podcasting. Dave Winer's blog, not surprisingly, has the details as well as a pretty strong claim that he has prior art.

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Listener Feedback this week comes from Randal Schwartz who adds some good explanation to my coverage of the OSFA announcement for the last news cast. Randal also points out an organization with which he works, LinuxFund, is a member of OSFA and worth your consideration for causes to help.

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The hacker word of the week this week is EMACS.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on tradition.

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TCLP 2009-07-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:22:07 -0400

This is news cast 185.

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

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This week's security alerts are Mozilla claims a new Firefox 3.5 flaw is not exploitable and a zero day PDF, Flash flaw is being exploited.

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In this week's news commenting on an article on the death of software engineering as a discipline by one of its earliest and staunchest advocates, a new coalition to advocate for open source in the federal government, Microsoft releases a driver under the GPL possibly because they were already in violation of that license though they claim otherwise, and Glyn Moody contemplates the productive tension between pragmatist and purists in open source.

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Following up this week Bezos personally apologizes for the remote Kindle deletions and GGF is back pedalling on its acquisition of The Pirate Bay.

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TCLP 2009-07-22 Hacking 101: How to Contribute to Open Source (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:06:09 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a heads up that I will be at CopyNight here in DC on Monday the 27th. We're being hosted by the ALA this time, please RSVP as they will be providing refreshments and will need a head count.

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The hacker word of the week this week is ELIZA effect

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 providing some advice and ideas for how to contribute to your first open source project.

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TCLP 2010-09-15 Interview: Randy Chertkow of Beatnik Turtle (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:30:14 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive.

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TCLP 2010-09-08 Creative Commons, Legal Issue Panel from Dragon*Con 2010 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:22:44 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick end of month update on the podcast's finances and you can find all my posts from Dragon*Con past and present using the dragoncon tag.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive.

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TCLP 2010-08-25 Inner Chapter: Superstitions (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:46:31 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, the last reminder of my impending travel to Dragon*Con. Also a quick review of Neil Netanel's "Copyright's Paradox".

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Listener feedback is a thoughtful and thought provoking email from Grant who wrote in response to my discussion of ebooks in the developing world.

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The hacker word of the week this week is finger-pointing syndrome.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of superstitions.

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More news and commentary and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive.

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TCLP 2010-08-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:47:17 -0400

This is news cast 222, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are a Firefox bug bypasses URL protection for embedded frames and an old Linux Kernel flaw allows exploits to acquire root privileges.

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Following up this week EFF appealing the Jewel v. NSA warrantless wiretapping case and negotiators concede ACTA isn't about counterfeiting after all.

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TCLP 2010-08-18 Inner Chapter: Scalability (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:55:33 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder about the upcoming CopyNight here in DC and of my impending travel to Dragon*Con.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of scalability. In it, I mention my previous discussion of speed and performance.

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TCLP 2010-08-15 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:51:33 -0400

This is news cast 222, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are first Android SMS trojan and a vulnerability in OpenSSL 1.0.

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TCLP 2010-08-08 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:21:59 -0400

This is news cast 221, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are RFIDs can be provably read at over 60 meters and an algorithmic attack on reCAPTCHA.

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Following up this week EFF offers assistance to targets of the US Copyright Group and the FCC ends closed door discussions on its net neutrality plan.

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TCLP 2010-08-04 Habits of an Infovore (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:43:47 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, sharing Steve's badge photo, last month's revenue update, and a reminder there will be no feature cast next week as I'll be out of town.

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The hacker word of the week this week is finger trouble .

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The feature this week is a monologue my habits as an infovore. How I consume information is very much informed by current thinking on multitasking.

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TCLP 2010-08-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:19:24 -0400

This is news cast 220, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are Apple fixes the autofill bug in Safari that I didn't get to discuss last week and AT&T said it wouldn't interfere with a Black Hat demo and was true to its word.

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Following up this week Al Franken frames net neutrality as key free speech issue and Canadian C-32 is clearly following the US DMCA.

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TCLP 2010-07-21 The True Burden of Forking (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:44:21 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick review of the tabletop game, "The Stars are Right".

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Listener feedback this week is from Andrew and Carey, both of home responded to the last feature on complex privacy .

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The hacker word of the week this week is Finagle's Law.

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The feature this week is a monologue considering the true burden of forking. It was inspired by my recent reading of Clay Shirky's excellent, "Here Comes Everybody".

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TCLP 2010-07-18 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:44:07 -0400

This is news cast 219, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Following up this week European ACTA negotiators update the EP in secret and ACTA is coming down to a fight between the US and the EU.

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TCLP 2010-07-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:31:48 -0400

This is news cast 218, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are researchers form collective in response to Microsoft's dismissal of a security concern and REMnux, a linux distro designed for reverse engineering malware.

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Following up this week, two UK ISPs are taking the Digital Economy Act to High Court.

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TCLP 2010-07-07 Will We Ever Have Effective Complex Privacy Controls? (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:01:54 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is filter.

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TCLP 2010-07-04 A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:54:33 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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TCLP 2010-06-30 Cory Doctorow at CopyNight DC (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:17:38 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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I will save this week's feedback, of which there is rather a lot, until next week.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is a recording of the talk Cory Doctorow gave at this month's CopyNight, here in DC.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. There are no detailed show notes for this episode.

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TCLP 2010-06-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:00:09 -0400

This is news cast 217, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an apology for missing the last news cast.

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This week's security alerts are attacking the attackers and anti-malware is a poor substitute for common sense.

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Following up this week, the debate around C-32 turns adversarial and judge rules in Viacom case that YouTube is protected by DMCA safe harbors.

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TCLP 2010-06-23 Switching Back to an Open Stack (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:14:16 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fence.

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TCLP 2010-06-16: Inner Chapter: Why Programming is Hard (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:08:06 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a mention of the merit badges arriving and the first pictures.

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Also a quick review of "The Affinity Bridge" by George Mann.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is feetch feetch.

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TCLP 2010-06-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:03:12 -0400

This is news cast 216, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an update on the badge experiment.

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This week's security alerts are diffusing botnet control makes them more robust and bad passwords and the economics around perpetuating them.

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Following up this week, another social network bill of rights and judge may dismiss most defendants from US Copyright Group suits.

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TCLP 2010-06-09 Free Yourself: Open Source Software for Everyday Use (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:39:56 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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I will save listener feedback for the next show.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-06-06 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:41:30 -0400

This is news cast 215, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, just a pointer to my thoughts on Balticon 44 and a recap on advertising, the badge experiment, and Flattr so far.

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This week's security alerts are OS choice does not equal security and an Android rootkit.

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Following up this week, if you are tired of Facebook then check out a Firefox extension that aims to help preserve your privacy while using it and India tries to gather opposition to ACTA.

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TCLP 2010-06-02 Art, Music and Literature in the Age of Digital Reproducibility (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:08:03 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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I will save listener feedback for the next show or the one after that.

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There is no listener feedback this week due to the length of the feature.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-05-26 Inner Chapter: Legacy Code (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 26 May 2010 21:32:49 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder there will be no news show this Sunday as I'll be at Balticon. Also, a quick review of "Dreaming in Code", by Scott Rosenberg.

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Listener feedback this week is from Randal on the Dr. Who as a hacker and DeepGeek in response to my discussion of Danah Boyd's essay on Facebook as a utility.

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The hacker word of the week this week is featurectomy.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of legacy code.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-05-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 23 May 2010 20:23:29 -0400

This is news cast 214, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are Chrome's private mode leaks info and FTC looks into privacy concerns with digital copiers.

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Following up this week The Pirate Party steps in to host The Pirate Bay and EFF issues a strong criticism of Google's latest privacy mistake.

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TCLP 2010-05-19 Interview: Cory Doctorow, "For the Win" (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 19 May 2010 21:32:42 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Due to the length of the interview, I didn't get to any listener feedback this week. There also is no new hacker word of the week for the same reason.

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"Amerika"
"English as She Is Spoken"
Anda's Game
Beyond Circumvention, by Ethan Zuxker
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet, by Douglas Adams
It was Michael Weinberg, from Public Knowledge, on This Week in Law who proposed thinking about three strikes with the telephone
"Content" is the essay collection containing World of Democracycraft
Facebook is a Utility, All Utilities are Regulated, by Danah Boyd
Diaspora*, Kickstarter, and Quit Facebook Day
Jane McGonigal created Superstruct and the other game I couldn't remember properly is Evoke
Alice commissioned the award winning game, Smokescreen
Power Punctuation! in three parts: part 1, part 2, part 3
The Geertz mentioned is anthropologist, Clifford Geertz
io9 scooped me and has more details on "Rapture of the Nerds"

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TCLP 2010-05-12 Review: Postsingular and Hylozoic (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 12 May 2010 20:56:14 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fear and loathing.

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TCLP 2010-05-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 09 May 2010 22:07:48 -0400

This is news cast 213, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Following up this week the FCC's third way to pursue network neutrality and the FCC allows selectable output control with some qualifications.

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TCLP 2010-05-05 Dr. Who as a Hacker (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 05 May 2010 21:15:44 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to Graham and [si]dragon for their donations. Also, a quick review of "Permanence", by Karl Schroeder.

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Listener feedback this week is from Robert who posted a comment in response to my NoSQL rant.

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The hacker word of the week this week is block transfer computations.

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The feature this week is a monologue consider Dr. Who as a hacker. In it, I mention a section from the Wikipedia page on Dr. Who.

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TCLP 2010-05-02 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 02 May 2010 19:53:27 -0400

This is news cast 212, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick update on the advertising experiment.

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This week's security alerts are Symantec plans to PGP and a massive quantity of GoDaddy hosted WordPress sites are under attack.

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Following up this week USTR claims official ACTA draft proves prior rumors were false and MSIE9 to support HTML5 video but only with H.264.

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TCLP 2010-04-28 Rant: NoSQL (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:39:03 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fat-finger .

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The feature this week is a rant where I try to get to exactly what it is that bugs me about NoSQL. In it, I refer to my hacking 101 piece on databases.

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TCLP 2010-04-21 EFF on the Recent Al Haramain Ruling (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:53:46 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder that CopyNight here in DC is next Tuesday. Also, an update on the badge experiment. And thanks to Kevin M. and George for their donations this past week.

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Listener feedback this week is from Robert. He recommends the radio show and podcast, Media Matters.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fat electrons.

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TCLP 2010-04-14 Free Press on Comcast-NBC Acquisition (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:34:59 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to Robert for his donation. Also an announcement, that there will be no news show this weekend due to time constraints resulting from family and personal commitments.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fascist .

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TCLP 2010-04-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:32:38 -0400

This is news cast 211, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to new donor this week, David.

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This week's security alerts are a new site collecting privacy and security info on apps and services and a vulnerability in WebKit's handling of the blink tag.

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TCLP 2010-04-07 Java, the Gray Lady (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:07:18 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an update on the advertising experiment.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is farm .

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The feature this week is a monologue on Java, the Gray Lady. In it, I mention COM, specifically criticisms against it. I also mention a timely piece by Neil McAllister and the Zen of Python.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-31 Why CopyNight is Important (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:21:25 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a call for help with topics for programming focused segments for the next few weeks and an announcement that there will be no news show this Sunday.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is faradize .

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The feature this week is a monologue on why CopyNight is important. In it I mention cultural critic, Mark Dery, and Christine Harold's book, "OurSpace".

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:39:09 -0400

This is news cast 210, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to new donors this week, Rhonda and Jonathan. Also a very quick update on the badge experiment.

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This week's security alerts are attackers using attack-in-depth and security alerts for Gmail.

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Following up this week constitutional concerns over ACTA and the Digital Economy Bill is set to go to vote without further public debate.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-24 Rant: I Am Not a Pirate (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:30:12 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fandango on core.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-17 Inner Chapter: Tools (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:44:11 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fall through .

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on tools. In it, I mention The Pragmatic Programmers.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:47:17 -0400

This is news cast 209, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a call for help with my new experiment, this time with a way to reward and encourage donors. Also, happy Pi Day.

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This week's security alerts are researchers build an 8K smart phone botnet and share their motivations for doing so and some findings and a serious Apache exploit is discovered.

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Following up this week web cames disabled in PA school laptops and Open Source for America rebuts IIPA's petition to the USTR including a post, a paper and a personal meeting.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-10 Hacking 101: Databases (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:14:00 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fairings.

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The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 on databases.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:43:52 -0500

This is news cast 208, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Following up this week the USTR responds to Senator Wyden's letter about ACTA with some good analysis and the problems with a revised censorship amendment to the DEB that now targets weblockers.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-03 Chris Miller on PyCon 2010 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:45:32 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

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If you want to hear more conversation between Chris and myself on less technical but still crunchy subjects, check out episode 24 of The Secret Lair.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-02-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:38:52 -0500

This is news cast 207, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, explaining my advertise experiment, a change to the podcast's license going forward, and OggCamp 10.

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This week's security alerts are OpenDNS adopts and explains DNSCurve and anatomy of a SQL injection attack.

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Following up this week the internet chapter of ACTA has leaked.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-02-24 Interview: Nina Paley (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:44:32 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-02-21 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:12:18 -0500

This is news cast 206, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder that CopyNight is Monday and that Nina Paley is speaking at American on Wednesday, the 24th.

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This week's security alerts are the first denial of service attack and botnets attacking each other.

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Following up this week leak of details on last ACTA negotation round and the Jacobsen case is finally settled.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-02-17 Copyright, Copywrong (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:16:46 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week, due to the length of the feature.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-02-09 Unscheduled Hiatus (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:42:32 -0500

This is just a quick meta-cast for the benefit of those who do not read the web site.

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TCLP 2010-02-03 Inner Chapter: Politics (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:43:01 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick review of Ed Piskor's latest installment in his WIZZYWIG series, Volume 3: Fugitive.

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The hacker word of the week this week is eyeball search.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on politics.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-31 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:31:19 -0500

This is news cast 205, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, information about a couple of great upcoming events: Free Culture X and the Southern California Linux Expo.

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This week's security alert are fighting spam with captured botnets and examining an exploit kit.

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Following up this week Jammie Thomas is offered a settlement but she refuses as the RIAA appeals the judge's reduction of their damage award against her and a guide to speaking out against ACTA.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-27 The Hacker Hero (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:51:50 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is eye candy.

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TCLP 2010-01-24 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:05:29 -0500

This is news cast 204, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alert are an odd interaction between AT&T's mobile network and Facebook with some clarification and a seventeen year old Windows flaw.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-20 Interview: Danny O'Brien on ACTA (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:37:50 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-01-17 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:39:31 -0500

This is news cast 203, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro a quick overview on my convention schedule for this year.

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This week's security alert is just an in depth discussion of a concerning interview that revealed some internal privacy issues at Facebook.

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Following up this week a further refinement of the FLOSS license icons and the UK offers a compromise on the pirate catcher powers in the Digital Economy Bill.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-13 Inner Chapter: Accomplishment (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:08:00 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick recap of my experiences at World's Fair Use Day. I may share a longer blog post or podcast segment once I finally get a chance to sift through my notes.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Exploder.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on accomplishment.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:39:25 -0500

This is news cast 202, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro a shout out to SLUG and a huge thank you to Holger for his ongoing donation.

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This week's security alerts are Adobe finally working on a software updater and 768-bit RSA modulus factored.

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Following up this week Tenenbaum P2P case defending seeking to overturn damages as unconstitutional and FCC seeks extension for broadband plan.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-06 Hacking 101: Speed and Performance (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:57:55 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, some thoughts on the loss of a friend.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-12-20 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:41:21 -0500

This is news cast 201, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Apologies if you received a flood of old episodes as if they are new. This may be the result of some needed feed maintenance.

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This week's only security alerts is development of a counter tool to a forensics suite, COFEE, that Micrsoft offers but was leaked and the announcement to that counter tool, DECAF, was just a stunt.

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Following up this week just the news that the three strikes plan has returned in New Zealand despite its fundamental flaws.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-12-16 Hacking 101: Distributed Version Control (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:23:13 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is exercise, left as an.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2009-12-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:18:56 -0500

This is news cast 200, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are attackers improve on techniques to use Twitter to conceal their efforts and malware found in a Gnome screen saver.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-12-09 Monologue: Social Gravity Well (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:19:03 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick review of the film, "Astro Boy", based on the original manga by Osamu Tezuka. I also highly recommend Dan's review of the film on Geekadelphia.

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Listener feedback this week is from Philip who wrote in to comment on my nowhere to go rant.

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The hacker word of the week this week is exec.

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The feature this week is a monologue on the social gravity well.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-12-06 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:07:38 -0500

This is news cast 199, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are malware may start affecting non-jailbroken iPhones and testing whether Google's new DNS resolver is secure. I wrote about Google's new offering earlier in the week.

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Following up this week one British politician pushed back on the Digital Economy Bill and evaluating the censorship risk of the current version of the Google Books settlement.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-29 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:46:53 -0500

This is news cast 198.

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In the intro, a quick Philcon recap. See my earlier post for more.

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This week's security alerts are details on an exploitable flaw in older versions of MSIE including news of an actual exploit and the latest iPhone worm snags bank credentials.

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Following up this week evaluating privacy in the revised Books settlement and two senators question ACTA secrecy.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-25 Interview: Cory Doctorow (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:03:08 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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I am delaying listener feedback until the next feature cast due to the holiday week and the length of the feature.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-18 Rant: Nowhere to Go (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:41:54 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Evil Empire.

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The feature this week is a rant, though more of an emotional than a surly one, entitled nowhere to go.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-15 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:22:46 -0500

This is news cast 197.

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This week's security alerts are Firefox bugs account for 44% of all browser bugs and considering whether antivirus is dead.

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Following up this week revisions to the Google Books settlement which exclude any privacy protections and oral arguments were heard by the Supreme Court in the Bilski case.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-11 Hacking 101: Front End, Back End (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:32:08 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a quick review of the expansion, On the Brink, to the game Pandemic. I reviewed Pandemic on the March 25th podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is evil.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 segment on the terms front end and back end development. I mention the model-viewer-controller design pattern and refer to my interview with Celeste Lyn Paul.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-08 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:21:12 -0500

This is news cast 196.

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This week's security alerts are the latest issues arising from Windows autorun and using cloud computing to brute force crypto.

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Following up this week the latest info and analysis on ACTA.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-04 Monologue: Social Identity (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:36:11 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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Lastly, the intro includes a brief clarification and comment about the experimental opening music from the last show.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Eric Conspiracy.

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The feature this week is a monologue on social identity.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:26:33 -0500

This is news cast 195.

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In the intro, an experiment, playing some CC-licensed and interesting music instead of the usual theme music.

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This week's security alerts are executing attack code via the ldd utility and a former anti-virus research seemingly turning against the industry.

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Following up this week Mandelson is still pushing for three strikes in the UK and unlikely opponents, law enforcers.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-28 Inner Chapter: Perfection and Compromise (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:58:07 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is epsilon squared.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of perfection and compromise.

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TCLP 2009-10-25 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:24:46 -0400

This is news cast 194.

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In the intro, a quick reminder about tomorrow night's CopyNight here in DC.

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This week's security alerts are the "evil maid" attack on encrypted disks and first impressions of security in Google Wave.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-21 Interview: Randal Schwartz (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:09:01 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, letting you know that part one of a two part interview with me is up at the Life after Law School podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the feature, there is no hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-18 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:59:06 -0400

This is news cast 193.

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This week's security alerts are figuring out whether Facebook apps are safe and Microsoft's un-invited Firefox add-on has a vulnerability though Mozilla has acted to disable it for everyone.

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Following up this week 42 people gain access under NDA to the ACTA drafts.

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TCLP 2009-10-14 Rant: My Love-Hate Relationship with CS (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:21:50 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, I mention two upcoming events you might like to check out. The first is OggCamp and the second is the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference.

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Listener feedback this week is from Kaity and from Erwin.

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The hacker word of the week this week is epsilon .

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The feature this week is a rant trying to explain my odd, love-hate relationship with computer science.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:07:23 -0400

This is news cast 192.

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This week's security alerts are researchers hijack a botnet to study drive-by attacks and Comcast to start sending warnings to customers whose PCs are snared in botnets.

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Following up this week copyright suit over distributing Green Dam and Senate panel to examine sale of Diebold's voting machine division.

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TCLP 2009-10-07 Inner Chapter: Personal Advocacy (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:18:51 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a request that you consider contributing to the Creative Commons 5th annual fundraising campaign.

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Listener feedback this week is from Eric who writes with a question about a disclaimer on public domain photos.

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The hacker word of the week this week is epoch.

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TCLP 2009-09-30 Copyright Panel at D*C 2009 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:16:48 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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I'm going to push off on listener feedback until next week. Also, no hacker word of the week for the same reason, the length of the feature.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-09-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:18:48 -0400

This is news cast 191.

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This week's security alerts are AES explained by stick figures and bounties on infected Macs.

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TCLP 2009-09-23 Importance of Open Formats (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:56:28 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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Listener feedback this week is a voice mail from Jed in response to my discussion of the Vanish project discussed in the September 13th news cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is EOU.

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The feature this week is the recording I took of my talk on the importance of open formats at the local Software Freedom Day celebration.

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TCLP 2009-09-16 Hacking 101: Golden Hammer Syndrome (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:51:35 -0400

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Listener feedback this week (catching up) comes from Paul Fischer who writes in response to the August 23rd show, specifically to the stories about Menuet and cracking the SecurID token.

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The hacker word of the week this week is ENQ.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on the subject of Golden Hammer Syndrome, something all beginning hackers need to beware of.

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TCLP 2009-09-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:55:52 -0400

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I documented my experiences at the con extensively on the blog and may still try to sum up my experiences for this year, beyond just that journal of events.

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This week's security alerts are Windows 7 restores a vintage remote BSoD and researchers discover the first Linux web server based botnet.

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Following up this week just i4i's side of the story about its patent claims against Microsoft.

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TCLP 2009-09-09 Interview: Beatnik Turtle (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:16:06 -0400

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TCLP 2009-08-30 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:50:47 -0400

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In the intro, the final reminder I will be at Dragon*Con over Labor Day weekend. No show on the 2nd or the 6th.

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Following up this week Nina Paley shares some positive economic data on sharing her work openly and Mozilla launches Test Swarm.

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TCLP 2009-08-26 Embracing Fair Use (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:33:25 -0400

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In the intro a quick review of the file, "Sita Sings the Blues", by Nina Paley.

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The hacker word of the week this week is enhancement.

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The feature this week is a monologue on embracing fair use. Here's the promised links defining fair use and fair use for trademarks. I mention Open Media Review and The Arbiter Chronicles.

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TCLP 2009-08-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:23:16 -0400

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In the intro, I will be speaking at the Maryland gathering for Software Freedom Day on September 19th. More details after Dragon*Con.

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This week's security alerts are new research to predict online attacks and cracking real time ID generators.

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Following up this week i4i confirms OpenOffice doesn't violate its patent and Nina Paley shares the source files to her wonderful open content work "Sita Sings the Blues".

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TCLP 2009-08-19 Rant: Owning Innovation (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:24:10 -0400

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In the intro a quick review of the movie, District 9.

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The hacker word of the week this week is engine.

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TCLP 2009-08-16 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:47:03 -0400

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In the intro, a quick reminder I will be at Dragon*Con September 4 through 7. My schedule is already on my Google calendar and will be updated as I learn more.

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This week's security alerts are self enforcing protocols and RSA threatens trademark infringment over a security disclosure.

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Following up this week researchers demonstrate that attacks on voting systems are practical without any special knowledge and the latest on the Supreme Court appeal of Bilski.

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TCLP 2009-08-12 Inner Chapter: Thought Leadership (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:18:54 -0400

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on thought leadership.

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TCLP 2009-08-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:24:37 -0400

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

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This week's security alerts are a persistent attack through the firmware in new Mac keyboards and many XML libraries share common critical flaws.

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Following up this week a new network neutrality bill has been introduced and the EFF's analysis of potential outcomes for the Kindle class action suit.

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TCLP 2009-08-05 Rant: Software Frameworks (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:08:53 -0400

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In the intro just sharing the news that my podiobook has been released. You can visit the new page for The Inner Chapters for details on how you can help promote it.

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The hacker word of the week this week is email.

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The feature this week is a rant on software frameworks.

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TCLP 2009-07-29 Inner Chapter: Tradition (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:19:44 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is EMACS.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on tradition.

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TCLP 2009-07-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:22:31 -0400

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

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This week's security alerts are Mozilla claims a new Firefox 3.5 flaw is not exploitable and a zero day PDF, Flash flaw is being exploited.

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Following up this week Bezos personally apologizes for the remote Kindle deletions and GGF is back pedalling on its acquisition of The Pirate Bay.

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TCLP 2009-07-22 Hacking 101: How to Contribute to Open Source (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:05:45 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is ELIZA effect

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 providing some advice and ideas for how to contribute to your first open source project.

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TCLP 2009-07-19 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:07:39 -0400

This is news cast 184.

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

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This week's security alert is a critical flaw in Firefox 3.5 for which there is already an exploit. Thankfully, there is also already a fix.

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In this week's news a new free and open source software law journal, an Ignite talk on hackers in DC, new technology to update a running Linux kernel without restarting, and Amazon remote deletes unathorized editions remotely from Kindles.

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Following up this week the state of Neuros' set top box (I'm also a big fan of their Unlocked mark which folks are free to use) and details on GGF's plan for The Pirate Bay site.

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TCLP 2009-07-15 Inner Chapter: Focus (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:47:23 -0400

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In the intro a quick review of the family friendly game, Qwirkle.

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Listener Feedback this week comes from Marc who commented on the new Inner Chapter theme music and Dave who commented on the Inner Chapter of the role of leader as law giver.

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The hacker word of the week this week is elite

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on focus. This builds on my previous chapters on will and yak shaving.

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TCLP 2009-07-12 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:17:00 -0400

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook and unbook projects.

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This week's security alert is new research allows better than random guessing of SSNs.

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In this week's news the big story is Google announcing its own operating system. Ars has some good detail on the challenges and potential up side. Also in the news decoding the HTML5 video codec debate and Chris Anderson considering how to manage technology for abundance.

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Following up this week SoundExchange and the webcasters reach and agreement but it definitely isn't all it is cracked up to be.

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TCLP 2009-07-08 Inner Chapter: Leader as Law Giver (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:39:47 -0400

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In the intro a quick review of the family friendly game, Cheeky Monkey.

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Listener Feedback this week comes from Philip Durbin who writes about using frameworks to help manage code complexity and Gladwell's review of Anderson's new book, "Free".

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The hacker word of the week this week is elephantine .

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on when a leader must act as law giver. This builds on my previous chapter on leadership.

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TCLP 2009-07-05 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:06:32 -0400

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In the intro, a reflection on liberty, in honor of the Holiday this weekend in the US.

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This week's security alerts are a a new form of click fraud and a new attack on the AES encryption algorithm .

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In this week's news the big story is that of The Pirate Bay selling its web site. Both the crew and the buyer have issued statements. The site has also undergone some technical changes in its operation. This has also raised interesting questions around who owns the site with some surprising new information. Also in the news BPI thinks better of having pursued Napster and asking whether the hacker ethic is harming programmers.

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Following up this week the current state of Blu-ray's DRM and a Linux kernel patch to circumvent patent claims against the FAT filesystem.

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TCLP 2009-07-01 Ideas vs. Execution (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:42:37 -0400

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In the intro a discussion of my recently started podiobook and unbook projects. I just wrote this up for the blog, too.

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Listener feedback this week is from Thomas Vincent with some more info on the USTR including the only story he could find on the current appointee, rglog on Twitter asking about the privacy risk of appliancized clients like Hulu Desktop, and Vasking curious about the history and current state of open codecs and HTML5.

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The hacker word of the week this week is elegant.

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The feature this week is a monologue on ideas vs. execution inspired by the FLOSS Weekly discussing the CouchDB project. I mention the idea-expression dichotomy in copyright and the News from Poughkeepsie blog series by Mur Lafferty.

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TCLP 2009-06-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:39:01 -0400

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In the intro, a discussion of starting a podiobook of the first set of Inner Chapters. More details to come as the project progresses.

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This week's security alerts are a new project from Mozilla to help cope with XSS attacks and a security expert urges rewards for disposing of weak, MD5 based SSL certificates.

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In this week's news organizing to improve access to the Internet's middle-mile, a consideration of when to use and not use a CC license, a usability guru recommends against using password masking, and IBM claims a privacy breakthrough for cloud computing.

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Following up this week could the massive award in the Thomas retrial invite reform around statutory damages? And more on the Chinese mandated filter-ware.

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TCLP 2009-06-24 4th Anniversary (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:46:04 -0400

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In the intro the winners of the prize drawing. The personalized copy of J.C. Hutchins' "Personal Effects: Dark Art" goes to Kevin Crosby and the signed galley of Cory Doctorow's "Makers" goes to Jonathan David.

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The story submission, in order of receipt and playback, are from Kevin Crosby, Nido Media, Chris Miller, imag1nary number and Jonathan David.

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The feature this week is a a monologue on the state of the podcast. I mention the SPaMCast, Fanboyhell, The Secret Lair and Teaching for the Future. I also mention Tee Morris as my role model for public speaking and participation at cons.

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TCLP 2009-06-17 Hacking 101: Responsibilities and Relationships (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:11:49 -0400

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In the intro sharing my decision to extend the submission deadline for stories for my 4th anniversary show.

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Listener feedback this week is from nahtass who writes about the evolution of print on demand, imag1nary_number who writes about a more chilling unintended use of the Chinese PC filter software, and Philip who shares a conversation about open data. The group blog I mentioned in response is autonomo.us.

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The hacker word of the week this week is elder days.

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The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 piece of approaching design by understanding responsibilities and relationships.

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TCLP 2009-06-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:24:57 -0400

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In the intro, yet another reminder to get your submissions in for the upcoming anniversary show and to qualify for one of two amazing prizes: a personalized copy of J.C. Hutchins' and Jordan Weisman's new book, "Personal Effects: Dark Art" or a signed homemade, limited edition galley of Cory Doctorow's forthcoming novel, "Makers". Submissions are due by this Wednesday, the 17th but I may extend the deadline to Friday if folks need more time.

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This week's security alerts are new researcher further weakening SHA1 and a JavaScript attack against intranets and VPNs.

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In this week's news the Pirate Party in Sweden wins an EU Parliament seat standing by their commitment after failing two years ago, China mandates filtering software on new PCs, a service to help standards tags for categorizing content, and a new low power, cheap to produce memristor further the state of this six month old breakthrough.

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Following up this week French three strikes law is gutted and Obama administration commits to ACTA.

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TCLP 2009-06-10 Balticon 43: Copyright (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:29:46 -0400

This is a feature cast.

In the intro a correction and a reminder about my upcoming 4th anniversary show.

There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature.

The feature this week is the recording of the Copyright panel at Balticon 43. I was joined by Thomas Vincent, a former congressional staffer and known amongst podcasters for his work on the upcoming Parsec Awards for this year.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-06-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:54:54 -0400

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In the intro, a quick review of J.C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman's new book launching this Tuesday and more details on how you can contribute to my upcoming anniversary show and possibly even win a prize for doing so. Visit J.C.'s site for more details about his work and for the prequel novella he is podcasting for a taste of what to expect in the novel. The reason I am reviewing this book, other than the fact that I am friends with one of the authors, is that Jordan Weisman is a giant in the gaming industry, largely responsible for fleshing out the genre of Alternate Reality Games but going all the way back to table top and RPG games and having worked with video games and some very recognizable franchies. PE:DA includes an ARG that ties in with the very compelling psychological thriller that is the novel itself.

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This week's security alerts are a mass drive by injection attack and the .org zone moving forward with DNSSEC.

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In this week's news gathering support for native media support in HTML5, Knuth speaks out against software patents, the EFF launches a terms of service change tracker, and a dreaded intellectual monopoly for fashion bill is resurrected including a form you can use to lodge your complaint and even an email address of a House Judiciary Committee member looking for feedback.

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Following up this week the Bilksi appeal moves forward and a preview of the Jammie Thomas re-trial.

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TCLP 2009-06-03 Balticon 43: Technology, Podcasting's Rocket Fuel (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:18:42 -0400

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In the intro a reminder that the 4th anniversary episode of the show is coming up, June 24th. Please send me any recollections, thoughts, or well wishes you'd like me to share on that show.

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There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature.

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The feature this week is the recording of the Technology: Podcasting's Rocket Fuel panel at Balticon 43. I was joined by Steve Eley, Jim Van Verth and Chooch Schubert.

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TCLP 2009-05-31 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 31 May 2009 18:41:43 -0400

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In the intro, a reminder that the show's 4th anniversary is coming up. The June 24th feature cast will be the anniversary show. Send in your recollections of the past four years or anything else you want to share to celebrate.

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This week's security alerts are research demonstrating that the Twitter API is not equipped to handled the coming security threats and a dangerous vulnerability in DirectX with an in the wild exploit.

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In this week's news research on a new type of memory that could last one billion years solving at least one problem discussed in a recent Spark episode, the EFF launches a new educational effort around copyright, Google re-invents online communications, and Wikipedia bans the Church of Scientology.

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Following up this week another new wrinkle in the already fascinating Pirate Bay case and judge threatens sanctions in the NSA wiretap case.

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TCLP 2009-05-27 Balticon 43: Peer Media vs. Broadcast Media (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 27 May 2009 20:23:55 -0400

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In the intro a heart felt thank you to my good friend, Chris Miller, for his support and advice without which my recent experience at Balticon would not have been anywhere near as phenomenal.

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There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature.

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The feature this week is the recording of the Peer Media vs. Broadcast Media panel at Balticon 43. I was joined by Earl Newton, Dave Slusher and Patrick McLean all of whom I owe a debt of gratitude for this great discussion. For clarification, the book Patrick mentions is "Against Intellectual Monopoly" by Michele Boldrin and David Levine. Patrick also sent me a link to an interview with Boldrin which led me to the web site, Against Monopoly, which furthers the discussion with contributions from several other scholars.

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TCLP 2009-05-20 Inner Chapter: Criticism (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 20 May 2009 21:15:36 -0400

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In the intro a final reminder I will be at Balticon this weekend, so new news show this Sunday. If you are going to be at Balticon, come and find me in the bar area Friday night, after opening ceremonies.

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Listener Feedback this week comes from Billy, Randal, Jed and Evan. Billy shares his thoughts on the corrections of my pronunciations. Randal sends a citation for the correct pronunciation of MySQL. Jed send another video of Monty Widenius from LFNW. Evan posted a thoughtful comment, with a question, in response to my recent monologue on the amateur-pro divide.

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The hacker word of the week this week is egg.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the practice of criticism.

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TCLP 2009-05-17 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 17 May 2009 18:57:41 -0400

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In the intro, an explanation of what happened for my live appearance on Teaching for the Future. We'll reschedule for after Balticon, which leads me to a reminder there will be no news show on the 24th.

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I also want to thank Verbal, who found my show from my appearance on The Linux Link Tech Show, and Emil for their donations this week.

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This week's security alerts are D-Link adds CAPTCHAs to its home routers and Apple hires OLPC's former security chief.

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In this week's news Apple removes BitTorrent remote control application from its App Store, free books effects on sales, the NYT considers current trends in copyright infringement of print books featuring a couple of others who have clashed on this topic, and is Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 an also ran?

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Following up this week The Pirate Bay's plan for paying its fine and Monty on the fate of MySQL post-Oracle, a bit of video from Linuxfest Northwest.

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TCLP 2009-05-13 Monologue: Amateur-Pro Divide (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 13 May 2009 20:02:26 -0400

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In the intro another mention of my very enjoyable interview on Fanboyhell.

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Listener Feedback this week is Nahtass with some additional thoughts on learning new languages, Randal with a correction of my pronunciation of MySQL, and Sarah with the correct, full content feed for 2D Goggles.

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The hacker word of the week this week is ed.

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The feature this week is a monologue consider the gap between amateur and professional creatives and what it is exactly that makes up the gap. This builds a bit on my previous monologue on peer media.

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TCLP 2009-05-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 10 May 2009 20:36:43 -0400

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In the intro, an update on my schedule at Balticon 43 which is May 22nd to the 25th. In addition to my official schedule, I will be reprising my role as Doc Tech for the Live Mr. Adventure, Saturday night at 10PM.

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Cory posted an article of Locus mentioning flashbake, to welcome to any new readers or listeners checking the show out from that. Additionally, thanks to Adam Mercer (ram), flashbake is now available through MacPorts. I'll post a bit later on with more details and update the project's wiki to reflect the even easier installation for Mac users.

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A reminder that I'll be on The Linux Link Tech Show live this Wednesday, the 13th, at 8:30PM Eastern. I've also been invited on Dave LaMorte's Teaching for the Future podcast where he's recently been discussing open source and free software in the class room. We're going to attempt a live show on his UStream.tv channel. We're targeting this Thursday, the 14th, at 8:30PM. More details as they develop and for both those appearances I'll post links to the regular podcast episodes if you cannot view the live events themselves.

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This week's security alerts are researchers hijack and dissect a botnet and a Windows 7 rootkit already.

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In this week's news a conflict between two Firefox extensions and the policy Mozilla issues in response, the US places Canada on its priority IP watch list, Mozilla is planning on separating UI and content handling into separate processes in future Firefox versions, and the maker of the long promised Duke Nukem Forever closes its doors.

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Following up this week the European Parliament rejects the three strikes rule as part of the pending telecoms reform package and Oracle's views on the future of some Sun projects after the acquisition.

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TCLP 2009-04-29 Inner Chapter: Research (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 06 May 2009 20:13:25 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a reminder that my interview with Thomas Cagley of the SPamCast is up if you haven't checked it out already. Also a quick and spoiler free review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

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Listener Feedback this week is from Alex who compliments and asks after the audio from my interview with Jonathan Zittrain. He also has a meta-correction, yes, I got DEE-bold wrong yet again.

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The hacker word of the week this week is eat flaming death.

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on the practice of research.

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TCLP 2009-04-29 Hacking 101: Learning New Languages (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:26:10 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a welcome to LifeHacker readers coming from Gina Trapani's article. Also there may not be a news program this weekend, if not there will still be a new feature cast next Wednesday. And lastly, I will be at Balticon 43 Memorial Day weekend, May 22-25. I will be speaking a variety of topics, including copyright, technical audio geekery at a variety of experience levels, and more. See my Google calendar for details. I will also be volunteering with recording author readings for the Balticon Podcast as I have for the past two years.

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Listener Feedback this week is from Alex who corrects my pronunciation of Brendan Eich's name with multiple citations. Thanks as always for the constructive and well put feedback.

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The hacker word of the week this week is easter egg.

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The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 segment on learning new programming languages.

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TCLP 2009-04-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:57:48 -0400

This is news cast 175.

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In the intro, more updates on my upcoming guest appearances. The latest episode of the SPaMCast went out on the 20th and I am next in the pipe, so my appearance there should be out on May 4th. I recorded a review of the film, "Six String Samurai", for Fanboy Hell, just yesterday and that should also be out the week of the 4th. Dan and M.A. release every two weeks and just but out a new episode, today. Dan takes a very similar approach to his show's production to mine and M.A. and he delve into wonderful depths in their discussions. I cannot recommend their show highly enough. Last but certainly not least, I was invited onto the live streaming of The Linux Link Tech Show. I will be on the stream the evening of the 13th and the podcast version should be available soon after.

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This week's security alert is just how the OAuth protocol was founded to have a critical flaw and the astonishing story of the coordination and efforts that went into fixing the highest profile services using it.

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In this week's news Anonymous targets copyright enforcers, Wikipedia pursues trademark and domain name disputes with a pair of artists despite reasonable fair use, cable operators try to convince Congress that deep packet inspection is harmless, and questioning whether CAPTCHAs are measuring the right human qualities.

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Following up this week a conflict of interest has arisen in The Pirate Bay sentencing and a call for re-trial.

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TCLP 2009-04-22 Interview: Jonathan Zittrain (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:06:26 -0400

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In the intro I point out that I have been using Herdict Web for a while now. I encourage you to check it out, as well. This is one of the projects Prof. Zittrain has started to tackle the challenges discussed in his book.

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Listener Feedback this week is from Nido who sent a link to the Hacking at Random 2009 event coming up in The Netherlands in August. There's plenty of time to plan if this is within reasonable travel distance and looks like a great hacker gathering. They also have an audio promo, which I share, that has all the details.

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The feature this week is an interview with Harvard Law professor, Jonathan Zittrain, where we discuss his latest book, "The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It", as well as his work more generally. I mentioned a TED talk given by Clay Shirky during the interview but in searching for the link I was clearly thinking of Shirky's Web 2.0 Expo talk. Both talks are worth checking out.

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TCLP 2009-04-19 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:55:37 -0400

This is news cast 174.

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In the intro, a heads up on some future guest appearances. Thomas Cagley Jr. of the very enjoyable Software Process and Measurement Podcast (SPaMCast) interviewed me this past week and that should go out two weeks for Monday, the 20th. If you like Software Engineering Radio, I think you'll like the SPaMCast. I will also be the guest blogger this coming Saturdy at Oh Get a Grip! the group blog written by six writers working in the genre of erotica. My piece will be safe for work but I will warn you that you might not find the site in general safe for work if you are concerned about such things. My article was inspired by a panel I was on with Helen Madden, one of the bloggers at OGG, discussing some of the more profound threads of love, sex and artificial intelligence. Look for my post to go up on April 25th.

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This week's security alert is just a discussion of arguably the first all Mac botnet on which Brian Krebs sheds a bit more light.

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In this week's news TorrentFreak's analysis of the recently leaked ACTA draft, a rant on the fragmentation in the space of social messaging, experiments in 'hyperlocal' news sites on the web, and JavaScript's creator Brendan Ellch discusses the final draft of ECMAScript 3.1.

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Following up this week an update on EFF's wiretap cases and The Pirate Bay found guilty.

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TCLP 2009-04-15 Book Review: Hackers, by Steven Levy (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:40:30 -0400

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In the intro I chat up Penguicon and share a promo. Also, on a sadder note, the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, Dave Arneson passed away recently. Tor.com has a very nice remembrance.

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Listener Feedback this week is from Naht Ass who writes with some clarifications on the Shepard Fairey, Manny Garcia, AP case over the Obama Hope image. He shared a link to an episode of NPR's Fresh Air on which most of the principals were interviewed.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dumpster diving.

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The feature this week is a book review of an excellent book I finished recently, Hackers by Steven Levy. As I mention in the review, the first two chapters are freely available.

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TCLP 2009-04-08 Monologue: Choosing a Development Platform (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:22:53 -0400

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In the intro a quick review of the geek family friendly movie, Monsters vs. Aliens.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dump.

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The feature this week is a monologue on choosing development platforms. I wrote this in response to a question from Brand Gamblin the genius behind Calls for Cthulhu. Brand is one of the first people I know personally who got a G1 and also recently looked into learning Flex.

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TCLP 2009-04-01 Inner Chapter: Team Dynamics (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:40:09 -0400

This is a feature cast and I remember Joe Murphy.

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Listener feedback this week is from Jon who highly recommends the podcast software, BeyondPod, for any G1 users. Both Jon and I would like to know if there is any software for the G1 for reading OPML or PDF files.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Duff's device.

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on team dynamics. I mention a study on the benefit of info sharing and teams and a forthcoming book from O'Reilly.

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TCLP 2009-03-29 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:31:06 -0400

This is news cast 173.

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I will be traveling from the 4th of April to the 13th and will not have my audio gear with me. This is a family trip, not a conference or convention. I should be able to keep on writing for the show but no promises on the blog. There will be no news shows on the 5th or the 12th but I should be able to produce a second feature this week to post on the 8th. I'll include reminders in the next couple of shows of the missed news shows.

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This week's security alerts are FireFox fixes two critical flaws including one exploited at Pwn2Own at CanSecWest and the first 3D CAPTCHAs are implemented which reminds me of my discussion of next generation CAPTCHAs from back in January.

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In this week's news Shepard Fairey talks about the infringement claims against his Hope poster, a new tool for crowd sourcing JavaScript testing, a breakthrough using Graphene for computing elements, and Google announces a project to speed up Python.

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Following up this week controversional section 92a copyright amendment completely scrapped in New Zealand and the troubling EU telecoms package is back along with its three strikes amendment.

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TCLP 2009-03-25 Inner Chapter: Coding Style (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:27:05 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is drunken mouse syndrome.

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on coding style. I mentioned this article of Python do's and don't's and Sun's coding conventions for Java. And here is the Wikipedia article on Hungarian notation if you are unfamiliar.

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TCLP 2009-03-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:58:09 -0400

This is news cast 172.

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This week's security alerts are community driven malware defense and Mozilla releases a CSS fuzzer.

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In this week's news a new tool for parallel programming in embedded environments, IBM may be in talks to purchase Sun, Chris Soghoian betters Google's opt out plugin and releases his own, and RMS on the JavaScript "Trap".

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Following up this week research being on memristance, adding spintronics.

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And Now for the Lab, Carpet

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:04:23 -0400

As promised, here's another weekly update. Week two of my semi-hiatus should see new carpet and the furniture moved. I should be back to regular production next Sunday. I especially appreciate the new listeners who are checking the show out as a result of hearing my promo on Linux Outlaws. Hopefully you are checking out some of the archived shows in the meantime.

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The other news of the week is that I received the new computer I ordered, a Mac Pro. I believe I may have gotten the last Harpertown eight core system Apple assembled. Unfortunately, the price point for Apple's least expensive eight core is now higher. That system ships with more memory and storage than the one I ordered. Compared to my G5, though, this new system is a rocket and I am happier with my budgeting choice. 8GB of after market RAM also helps smooth out the difference between the 5400 and 5500 based system.

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I spent yesterday afternoon configuring a dual boot for Linux. It went smoothly and I am happy to have a native Linux system, again, for working from home and testing my personal projects. Since the new system is a desktop, Linux recognized all of the hardware with no trouble at all. I may experiment with Audacity, just to see how it compares, now that I can do so easily. +
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This week I received a bit of feedback. I have one questions for Vaskin and I to dig into in the planned show on license choices for hackers. Paul Fischer also sent a bit of audio feedback asking after location capabilities for flashbake. He suggests that I ought to be able to code something up similar to the iPod Touch which doesn't have a GPS chip but can still approximate location. It turns out he is right and there are plenty of tools for doing location based on public IP address. I expect to have something hacked together in the next week or two.

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I have been hesitant about location services as part of my own lifestream, just because of the privacy risk. But for a private, local-only git repository, I think it would make sense for users who travel a lot, as a more fine grained bit of context than the city used for the time zone module. I have to say that on the whole, flashbake has me thinking a bit more about the various social services and pieces of other information I publish as more of a cohesive whole, as the term life stream suggests.

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The next update on the lab will be on the log Wednesday night. I may post another update Thursday for with photos of the furniture on place. If I still have a good number of books and other material to move in, I may wait for a final update when everything is in place.

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Lab Move Status and Show Hiatus

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:38:01 -0400

As I mentioned in the last two shows, I am in the process of moving my lab to a different room in my home. I call it my lab because it is both a home office and a studio. That and I have the domain name, bitbucketlabs.net.

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Today we cleared one of the major hurdles in this process. I completely emptied the old room. We moved my younger son's bedroom into the old room and cleared the room into which my lab will be moved in the process. The room into which I am moving my lab was our original nursery for the boys and has been hard used as such, then a shared bedroom, and then just a bedroom for the younger of the two. It needs paint, carpeting, and several small repairs.

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Now that it is empty, we can schedule the painting. We have a contractor that we've used for some other serious home improvement work who coincidentally called the other day offering a discount on painting for the rest of this month. Hopefully once we have the estimate and date, then everything else should go quickly. We've used a national carpet retailer who does installation before with good results so are confident we can have that done within days of the paint being dry.

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I have my great grandfather's large, nara wood desk which is the last obstacle. I love this desk since it is simply huge so affords plenty of space for my mixer, mics, monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc. It has several slide out panels, too, for temporary, additional workspace. It is, however, quite huge. I cannot move it myself up two flights of tight stairs and I am thinking it is probably worth the price to pay for a few hours of some professional movers time to move it. I also have my father-in-law's tall, teak book shelves which will line one wall of the new lab. If we are getting pro movers, they can take care of those, too.

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Painting, carpeting, and moving will probably take a couple of weeks. I am optimistic I can have it all done by the end of the month, before I am scheduled to interview Jonathan Zittrain.

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In the meantime, I'll experiment with trying to get one or the other computer setup in a temporary space for recording in the meantime. I am less optimistic about that working so well. I get the house to myself on Sundays, which may be workable, but the only space I can use is adjacent to our living room, which simply may not work for weeknight recording.

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I will post some audio tonight with this same explanation and to announce that the show will be on semi-hiatus for the next couple of weeks. I will post regular updates, both on the blog and will try to get corresponding audio out for those who do not subscribe to the blog. If I can, I'll try to get a few episodes out during this transition but realistically, it just may not happen until my new computer is hooked up to the new FIOS router in the new lab. Regardless of my audio production, I have a couple of ideas for the next features so may just be able to get a bit ahead of writing for the show if I don't get any episodes out.

TCLP 2009-02-25 SCaLE7x (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:29:55 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is drop-outs.

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The feature this week is Chris Miller's report from SCaLE7x. Here's Ars Technica's coverage of Bradley Kuhn's key note which we discuss. The key note was similar to a talk he shared on his podcast, the Software Freedom Law Show. The Franklin Street Statement is the position paper that informed the development of the Affero GPL.

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TCLP 2009-03-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:14:52 -0500

This is news cast 171.

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This week's security alerts are a remotely exploitable flaw in Flash and Microsoft fixes a problem in dealing with autorun exploits.

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In this week's news Amazone caves to the demands of the authors' guild (their exact statement on the matter) and the troubling antecedents and precedents, Microsoft releases some promising research on secure browsing though Neil McAllister reminds us where we've seen this before, Microsoft sues TomTom possibly over Linux patent infringment though I remain to be entirely convinced, and proxying data to JavaScript through Flash.

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Following up this week the D programming language has been ported to OS X. I wrote about D's 1.0 release a while back.

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TCLP 2009-02-25 Flashbake (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:02:35 -0500

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The hacker word of the week this week is drool-proof paper.

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The feature this week is a monologue on flashbake, the scripting project I launched last week.

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TCLP 2009-02-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:03:16 -0500

This is news cast 170.

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This week's security alerts are a new SSL man-in-the-middle attack and cooperating intelligent agents for network defense.

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In this week's news The Pirate Bay copyright case started this week in Sweden though the prosecution already dropped half the charges, Facebook updates then thinks better of its Terms of Service, pondering why we haven't seen a CC model for privacy yet, and Hulu requests content removal from Boxee.

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Following up this week Mozilla and Skype add their support to the EFF's DMCA petition.

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TCLP 2009-02-18 Copyright Panel at Farpoint (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:05:14 -0500

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The feature this week is a recording of the copyright panel I moderated at Farpoint this past weekend. Please bear with the audio quality as I used the unpowered mic that came with my record. I was joined in the discussion by Helen Madden (who mentions Epicon and ERWA), Paul Fischer and Martha Holloway of the Balticon Podcast and the ADDCast, Jared Axelrod of too many creative projects to name but notably the creator of my podcast's cover art, J.R. Blackwell, an amazing photographer and writer as well, and aspiring writer Paulette Jaxton who also recently started the Form Letter Rejection Theater podcast.

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The book I mention is "The Pirate's Dilemma" and it was in the context of Gail Z. Martins forthcoming interview with me. I also mentioned the 75/22/3 rule, explored by PhD economics candidate David Blackburn. Doctorow's Law, that I cited but never explained was coined by Andrew Savikas in his coverage of the Tools of Change conference: "If someone takes something that belongs to you, and puts a lock on it that you don't have a key for, that lock isn't in your best interests". I also mentioned Bookworm which was covered at ToC. Paulette mentioned that she uses Fictionwise which may support ePub but I couldn't find any clear and easier reference for such support.

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TCLP 2009-02-11 Shmoocon V (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:26:39 -0500

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In the intro, a shout out to the Traveling Terabyte project and to the Linux Outlaws podcast.

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Also, there will not be a news show this weekend, again, as I will be at Farpoint.

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There hacker word of the week this week is droid

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The feature this week are highlights from the talks I attended at Shmoocon V this past weekend. Here is the coverage of Hamiel and Moyer's Fail 2.0 talk. You can follow CSRF blocker at hexsec labs. And here's the site for The Agreement.

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TCLP 2009-02-04 Monologue: Peer Media (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:20:10 -0500

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There hacker word of the week this week is driver

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The feature this week is a monologue deconstructing my issues with the term, "new media", and suggesting a more evocative alternative (at least for my own use), "peer media".

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TCLP 2009-02-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:25:01 -0500

This is news cast 169.

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In the intro, a reminder that I will be at Shmoocon this weekend. Contact me if you are interested in a listener meetup. I've also got the list of panels I will be on at Farpoint the following weekend. Some really good discussions await.

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This week's security alerts are using TinyURL to bypass browser safety filters and ICANN tackles but doesn't commit to doing anything about fast flux hosting.

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In this week's news possible problems with an Android app though the issue may have less to do with Google's model than an irate community, video tutorials for programming the PDP 11/10, Google launches a program to measure the open-ness of the net, and processing using the waste heat from CPUs.

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Following up this week a new edition of the anti-DRM kid's book, "The Pig and the Box" and judge rules against WoW bot maker.

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TCLP 2009-01-28 Interview: Celeste Lyn Paul (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:59:23 -0500

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I forget to mention that the folks who run the superb EFF track at Dragon*Con have a new web site. You can find archival audio and video from last year and this will be the first place to find programming information for this year. They will post links to older archival material as it becomes available.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the interview.

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The feature this week is an interview with usability expert and interaction architect, Celeste Lyn Paul. Here is the link to her discussion and research in response to the Canonical notification proposal. We also discussed the KDE project, specifically the KDE usability project, and the open usability project.

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TCLP 2009-01-25 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:02:23 -0500

This is news cast 168.

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In the intro, a reminder that I will be at Shmoocon in a little under two weeks. I won't be speaking, just going as an attendee but for this con, I enjoy just soaking up all the great presentations and activities. The week after I will be on panels at Farpoint talking about the usual topics, plus I may manage to get some new panels on the schedule. Also, in a bit of good news, though this affects my schedule farther out, I will be going to Dragon*Con this year after all.

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This week's security alerts are an expert is claiming a single re-write pass may be enough to securely delete data though he has drawn critics from credible experts and the new and highly infectious Conficker worm may affect the forthcoming Windows 7 .

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In this week's news a new Gnome project that brings JavaScript to that desktop with what looks like impressive results, COPA is finally dead, next generation CAPTCHAs, and Twitter is experimenting with OAuth to better secure third party access to their data.

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Following up this week ACTA's secret negotiations may run afoul of EU law and how will Obama's DoJ appointees act on the issue of warrant-less wire tapping.

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TCLP 2009-01-21 Hacking 101: Build Tools (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:27:12 -0500

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The DC area CopyNight is next week, Tuesday the 27th, at the Teaism in Penn Quarter, starting around 6:20PM. Join us to discuss the first week of Obama's administration with regards to concerns of intellectual property.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Dr. Fred Mbogo.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 segment on build tools.

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TCLP 2009-01-14 Inner Chapter: Effecting Change (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:53:42 -0500

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I have two promos I wanted to share, for the Law after Law School podcast and SCALE X7.

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The hacker word of the week this week is down.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on effecting change.

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TCLP 2009-01-11 News Fixed (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:02:38 -0500

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Apologies for a cut and paste mistake in the original feed entry, you should get the correct episode with this entry.

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In the intro, a quick discussion of Professor Lessig's appearance on the Colbert Report. I have included the first audio remix of that interview as the outro bed music, the rights to that belong to Sam King though I am assuming replaying such a mash up is OK despite the lack of info at his MySpace page. Also a bit of confusion over the availability of Remix from the Colbert Nation site. I am sure it is just a consequence of the delay of the CC-licensed e-book.

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This week's security alert is just 1 in 7 SSL certificates are based on the weaker MD5 hash though I've talked about how you can use SSL Black List to help spot these and DNSSEC now has a flaw (via slashdot).

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In this week's news a lot of press over an EU council to broaden use of remote searching (via slashdot) though all may not be as dire as it appears, the best indie film you may never see because of barriers to distribute over music sync rights though you can donate and help, Wikipedia over DNS, and the OLPC project under takes some severe belt tightening.

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Following up this week the EFF will be able to continue pursuing a key warrant-less wiretapping case and Reznor's Ghosts I-IV tops Amazon's digital music chart for 2008.

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TCLP 2009-01-07 Year in Review, Part 3 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:52:52 -0500

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The feature this week is part three of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is the future of computing and we got into a fun, far ranging discussion of cloud computing and some of the technical and non-technical issues it raises.

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TCLP 2009-01-04 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:37:45 -0500

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In the intro, just a quick round up of events for this month and the coming year including Farpoint, Balticon 43 and Shmoocon. I'll also be attending Wiki White House at Google's DC office this week and a luncheon discussion of the Jacobsen case put together by the DC bar. The former appears to be full up and the latter does involve a fee.

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This week's security alert is just a lengthy discussion of an attack on the public key infrastructure based on the well researched possibility of collisions with the MD5 algorithm.

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In this week's news the web comic User Friendly calls attention to the end of the VHS, a new project exploring molecular computing, a book and project bring design patterns to social activism much like they were adopted for software development (you can purchase the book on Amazon), and a paper testing how well the four common browsers handle private data, the problem of Flash cookies being the most disturbing finding.

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Following up this week Flickr's The Commons project put into question with a Yahoo layoff and an unconfirmed report that the RIAA may be firing MediaSentry.

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TCLP 2008-12-31 Year in Review, Part 2 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:51:43 -0500

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In the intro, I share my review of Ed Piskor's "Wizzywig Volume 1: Phreak".

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The feature this week is part two of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is where we are at with copyright infringement and enforcement. Most recently the RIAA has announced it is stopping its individual law suits. However, they are pressing an unusual criminal case against an individual. The risk of the urge to perfect enforcement is the increasing irrelevance of copyright to the average person.

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TCLP 2008-12-24 Year in Review, Part 1 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:22:37 -0500

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The feature this week is part one of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is the state of copyright, taking into consideration this year's petitions for exemptions to the DMCA and the defeated Canadian DMCA. We quickly veered into a discussion of generation gaps and norms, however.

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TCLP 2008-12-21 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:36:24 -0500

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This week's security alerts are disappointing security test results for browsers' password handling and Microsoft announces and delivers a critical patch to the IE flaw I discussed last week.

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In this week's news the Wall Street Journal confuses Google's efforts to spread caching with backing down on net neutrality thankfully Lessig and Google have responded directly, a new tool to make access tor's hidden services easier, a very clever use of existing DNS queries for dead drop messaging, and Neuros announces software development bounties for their latest offering, the Link.

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Following up this week the Open Rights Group has some good analysis of the IWF/Wikipedia fiasco and McAllister digs out some more details about Google's native client.

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TCLP 2008-12-17 Rant: Race to the Bottom (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:56:52 -0500

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In the intro, a quick wrap up on the Creative Commons 6th birthday part hosted by Public Knowledge and the DC CopyNight crew. The first set of pictures are already up. The other pictures don't appear to be up yet, I'll post separately with the link once I have it. I could not find the band the SoundSprout guys brought, if anyone else remembers and sends it to me, I'll also post that link.

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Listener feedback this week is from Jed who had some thoughts on the recent discussion of MVC, unity and PHP.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dot file.

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The feature this week is a rant inspired by this article about Dell's race to the bottom.

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TCLP 2008-12-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:26:36 -0500

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If you are in the DC area, come to the Creative Commons 6th Birthday Party being coordinated by the DC CopyNight crew and generously hosted by Public Knowledge.

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This week's security alerts are a massive distributed attack on SSH servers and a zero day exploit in Microsoft's WordPad and Internet Explorer the latter apparently affecting all versions of the browser.

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In this week's news British ISPs catch Wikipedia in their censorship net then relent, Google introduces a way to run native code in browsers, Ed Piskor releases a graphic novel covering the history of hackers and phreakers, a self destructing poem from Agrippa, an art book launched in the early nineties, has been recovered and run under emulation.

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Following up this week RedBox continues to fight for survival and the UK and the EU again consider term extensions for music copyrights.

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TCLP 2008-12-10 Book Review: The Hacker Ethic (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:55:10 -0500

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Listener feedback this week is from Vaskin continuing the discussion of git.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dongle.

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The feature this week is a review of the book, "The Hacker Ethic", by Pekka Himanen. Here's the synthetic biology debate that I mention in the piece in relation to Castells tie-in of bio-science with informationalism.

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TCLP 2008-12-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:01:40 -0500

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This week's security alerts are confusion around Apple's recommendation of AV software then their retraction and a Firefox trojan that identifies itself as the popular Greasemonkey extenions.

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In this week's news worry over a change for one BitTorrent client to favor UDP traffic along with a clarification of their intentions about network congestion management, Facebook rolls out their latest data sharing effort though it is far from a true data portability play, the EFF and others file their petitions for DMCA exemptions, and Python 3.0 has been released amidst criticism of its breaking backwards compatibility though some are offering very well reasoned defenses.

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Following up this week the judicial oversight amendment to the EU telecoms package has been stripped and Spore is the most pirated game of the year despite EA's insistence of draconian DRM.

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TCLP 2008-11-26 Inner Chapter: Mastery (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:51:12 -0500

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Listener feedback this week is from Walker Hale continuing the discussion of git.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dogpile.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on mastery.

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TCLP 2008-11-30 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:29:15 -0500

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In the intro, a correction on the authorship and history of git from Randal Schwartz.

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This week's security alerts are WordPress fixes a critical XSS flaw and a rootkit found in some network security software.

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In this week's news the final SCO judgement, Sealand's data haven goes dark, a triple engine web browser, and tackling the erosion of MVC based designs by the adoption of AJAX.

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Following up this week the EU rebuffs the French three strikes rule and a Quicktime update relaxes HDCP for standard defintion video.

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TCLP 2008-11-26 Hacking 101: Source Control (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:20:48 -0500

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Listener feedback this week is from Paul Fischer on my coverage of DRM concerns with video in the iTunes store.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dogcow.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on source control.

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TCLP 2008-11-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:46:29 -0500

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This week's security alerts are a hard to exploit but critical crypto flaw in SSH and a new bit of malware for the Mac.

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In this week's news the state of free software friendly social networking, Apple has added DRM supporting hardware to its new unibody Mac portables, a great how to on using the project hosting site, github, and screen casts on more advanced git usage, and a contentious but thoughtful paper that considers the open nature of the internet as more likely to preserve neutrality than legislation.

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Following up this week Adobe says it will still back standards despite loss in JavaScript 2.0 fight and Apple is in talks with the other three labels over DRM-free music.

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TCLP 2008-11-19 Hacking 101: Structured Data (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:12:43 -0500

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The hacker word of the week this week is documentation.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on structured data and designing your own file formats.

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No Podcast Tonight

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:22:37 -0500

I was out of town over night last night, taking a much deserved break. My voice is a bit shot from partying last night and, well, instead of doing my reading and researching I was playing my reward for successfully securing a job offer: Lego Batman.

TCLP 2008-11-13 Inner Chapter: Overcoming Obstacles (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:41:03 -0500

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Listener feedback this week is from Robert, Michael and Bruce on info overload, access to info in the hacking with a social conscience piece and weighing in against re-recordinbg the early Inner Chapters respectively.

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The hacker word of the week this week is do protocol.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on overcoming obstacles. Kaity's site and online support group for generalized dystonia is here.

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TCLP 2008-11-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:25:52 -0500

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This week's security alerts are a severe bug in the G1 and more research on cracking WPA at least partially.

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In this week's news new version of the GNU Free Document License would allow Wikipedia to re-license under a CC license which may yield more freedom than GFDL, Diebold being sued for a GPL violation, Android based G1 is jail broken then re-jailed by Google, and new research disputing the Long Tail model with a response from its author.

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Following up this week FCC approves white spaces for unlicensed use and the WIPO broadcast treaty is back though no imminent threat.

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TCLP 2008-11-05 Monologue: Hacking with a Social Conscience (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:15:03 -0500

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In the intro, a correction on my pronunciation of Diebold. Alex offers a CNN story, a a PBS story, and this one on the research out of Princeton to substantiate the case for the correct pronunciation. Also note that the first two YouTube links are to specific time codes--kewl.

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Listener feedback this week is from Alex and Wouter, both in response to the last Inner Chapter on Info Overload. Here's the Waxy story about using Amazon Mechanical Turk for transcription and the Firefox extension Alex recommends. Here's the screen cast and the features apparently include Google Reader integration, syncing between systems and offline reader.

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The hacker word of the week this week is distribution.

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The feature this week is a monologue on hacking with a social conscience.

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TCLP 2008-11-02 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:24:16 -0500

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In the intro, a reminder to vote, news that I will be attending the debate between Zittrain and Thierer at the New America Foundation, and asking your opinions on releasing archival material through podiobooks.com and PodDisc.com.

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This week's security alerts are more info on remote key logging and software research to duplicate physical keys from photos.

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In this week's news the EFF launches a new election monitoring project, Microsoft announces their cloud OS, Windows Azure, and Neil McAllister offers some initial analysis, Schneier and colleagues announce their submission for NIST's secure hash algorithm competition, and the Bilski decision on busines method patents is in from the Federal Circuit.

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Following up this week just a guide to the news that the Google Books case has reached settlement plus one particular criticism that stands out.

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TCLP 2008-10-29 Rant: Information Overload (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:21:36 -0400

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In the intro, a quick review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem.

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Listener feedback this week is from Alex and Paul Fischer. The RADIUS server that Paul mentioned is StellarRADIUS.

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The hacker word of the week this week is display hack.

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The feature this week is a rant on the phenomenon of information overload.

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TCLP 2008-10-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:58:23 -0400

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This week's security alerts are the first security flaw in the new G1 and vendor offers a security suite for Android.

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In this week's news the 40th anniversary of the FCC's Carterfone ruling, content aware image resizing with an open source implementation already, Android first impressions along with news Google has released all the sources and that there may be some availability issues, and virtual crimes with real punishments, a digital theft and a virtual murder.

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Following up this week EFF, Public Citizen respond to McCain's YouTube letter and Amazon deletes negative reviews for another EA video game riddled with DRM.

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TCLP 2008-10-22 Inner Chapter: Emotional Investment (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:22:18 -0400

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In the intro, the reveal of the new audio promo. I mentioned that I'd reveal the winners and then forgot to do so. I'll announce them here, Lutz and Paul are the two winners and I will make arrangements directly with them to send them their prizes. Thanks to everyone who participated. You can check out the final product at http://thecommandline.net/promos/.

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The hacker word of the week this week is deliminator.

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on the topic of emotional investment and how it can affect, for good and ill, our experience of hacking.

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TCLP 2008-10-19 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:45:56 -0400

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This week's security alerts are Elcomsoft declares WPA dead due to their new GPU/distributed attack software though Schneier is skeptical and dealing with the privacy risks of Flash's "cookies".

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In this week's news latest response to RMS' critic of cloud computing which is pretty consistent with one of the quickest reponses originally, more details and questions about Obfuscated TCP, Yahoo's usability study around OpenID suggests why adoption may be slow, and McCain seeks special treatment for his fair use under the DMCA.

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Following up this week Bush signs Pro-IP bill into law and the EFF presses the fight against the FISA Amendments Act in federal court, as promised.

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TCLP 2008-10-15 Hacking 101: Static Analysis (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:17:20 -0400

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In the intro, a quick review of Charles Stross' Halting State and some final thoughts on the collaborative audio promo contest.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dinosaur.

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The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 segment on the practice of static analysis of source code.

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TCLP 2008-10-08 Inner Chapter: Job Search (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:41:19 -0400

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The feature this week is a longer Inner Chapter sharing my thought, experiences and advice for conducting a job search inspired by my own recent transition and Chris Miller's request.

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No Podcast Tonight

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:14:24 -0400

I let half the day get away from me and am feeling a bit under the weather, so no new show, tonight. I should, however, be able to produce the Wednesday feature cast as planned.

TCLP 2008-10-01 Interview: Evan Prodromou (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:27:41 -0400

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The feature this week is an interview with super prolific hacker and entrepreneur, Evan Prodromou. Even may be most known for Wikitravel but has been garnering a lot of attention for Laconi.ca and identi.ca.

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TCLP 2008-09-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:51:53 -0400

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This week's security alerts are a full security suite on a phone and a new or under appreciated browser exploit with some practical defense but also a bit of skepticism.

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In this week’s news, Iron produced as a more privacy protecting variation of Google's Chromium code, Muxtape is the latest pirate's dilemma, open source life streaming, and Adobe's reasons, such as they are, for keeping Flash closed.

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Following up this week, the PRO-IP act passes the Senate without the troubling civil enforcement provision but plenty more to worry about and Senate updates allowable internet service policies.

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TCLP 2008-09-24 Interview: Brad Sucks (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:47:42 -0400

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The feature this week is an interview with indie musician and open source techie, Brad Sucks. He has a brand new album out, "Out of It", which is a worthy successor to his first album, "i don't know what i'm doing". You can preview his music on his site and all of his music is podsafe. Oh, and he publishes the source, too.

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TCLP 2008-09-21 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:50:13 -0400

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In the intro, I will be at CopyNight DC this Tuesday, it will be at Teaism on 8th Street near the Chinatown Metro Station. Also, tomorrow is One Web Day. And lastly, I have started some planned improvements by renaming the blog to The Command Line Citizen, more to come.

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This week's security alerts are anti key logging software and using password recovery options more securely.

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In this week’s news, Tim Berners-Lee announces a new World Wide Web Foundation, open source database replication, Mozilla clarifies some confusion around a new popup license ultimately revising it to address community criticism, and the RIAA wants to fine defense attorney Ray Beckerman.

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Following up this week, the latest IP bill is being fast track make sure you take action now and Neuros launches their latest set top box adding HD encoding along with a bevy of other improvements.

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TCLP 2008-09-10 New Book: Content (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:17:43 -0400

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In the intro, a quick review of Cory Doctorow's new book, hist first non-fiction title, (c)ontent: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dink.

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The feature this week is a reading of two of my favorite selections from Cory's new book.

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TCLP 2008-09-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:27:57 -0400

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In the intro, remarking the end on the Voice of Free Planet X.

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This week's security alerts are malware has started generating fake infringement notices and incidental risks to privacy and security exposed with the iPhone.

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In this week’s news, Real set to launch a DVD copying product despite the presence of existing better though not entirely legal tools and the history of DVD copying product thus far, user reaction to EA's choice of DRM for the hot game Spore inspires them to bomb its Amazon reviews so much so that there were some shenanigans around those reviews, a legislative test balloon for giving open source more support in government IT, Samba's Jeremy Allison talks about mentors and other tools to help the self taught programmer.

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Following up this week, it is that time to start talking about e-voting as the GAO criticize the certification process for testing labs and Neil McAllister takes a look at the Chromium source code in the wake of the big launch.

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TCLP 2008-09-10 Interview: Beatnik Turtle, Fixed (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:49:37 -0400

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Listener feedback is overdue this week in the form an a lengthy but appreciated email from Walker.

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The feature this week is an interview with indie band and all around superb guys, Beatnik Turtle. Mentioned in the show is the awesome companion site, The Indie Band Survival Guide, to go along with Jason's and Randy's newly published book. We also mentioned Brad Sucks who as it happens just released his second album.

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TCLP 2008-09-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:38:02 -0400

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This week's security alerts are captcha solving services raise difficult security questions and an up tick in the number of zombie PCs.

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In this week’s news, Google enters the browser war with a comic explaining their technology and goals meanwhile Mozilla seems unconcerned, Googles over reaching EULA is definite cause for concern though they reacted quickly to address the criticisms, Washington state court deals a blow against unbalanced EULAs, and Neal Stephenson explains what is wrong with cell phones.

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Following up this week, a new report shows internet capacity is outpacing demand despite the recurrent claims of a bandwidth meltdown and the Canadian DMCA may be about to fail.

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TCLP 2008-09-03 Copyright Panel at Dragon*Con 2008 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:31:18 -0400

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I'm back from Dragon*Con with the first of two pieces of audio I acquired there. Thanks to the entire DragonPod staff for making this my best one yet, especially as a volunteer. Special thanks above and beyond to Sam Chupp for making this audio, in particular, possible.

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The feature this week is the audio from the legal issues and podcasting panel at Dragon*Con 2008, otherwise known as the copyright or creative commons panel. I was delighted to have Randy and Jason from Beatnik Turtle and Courtney back this year. It was a treat to have Geek Radio's The Vicar, Jon Stallard, on the panel and a regret that Matthew Wayne Selznick was not at Dragon*Con this year so unable to join us.

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TCLP 2008-08-24 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:49:34 -0400

This is news cast 152.

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In the intro, the last reminder I'll be at Dragon*Con from the 29th to the 1st so there'll be no show on the 27th or the 31st.

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This week's security alerts are a clipboard hijacknig attack and a new crypto attack from Adi Shamir.

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In this week’s news, recent Google outages beg some serious questions about cloud computing, a new visual search engine for finding possible infringements, a judge rules fair use should be a consideration in DMCA takedowns, and question whether standardizing on JavaScript may have been a mistake.

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Following up this week, Elektra v. Barker was settled and a victory for the MIT students against the MBTA though the 1st Amendment issues were dodged. Apparently the transit authority itself has admitted to problems and is undertaking some spin control though the students story has consistently been one of cooperation throughout.

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TCLP 2008-08-20 Hacking 101: Errors and Exceptions (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:06:43 -0400

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In the intro, a heads up that I will again be traveling to Dragon*Con in one weeks where I will be volunteering, among other things, on the podcasting track. If you'll be at the con or live in the area, let me know, I'd love to organize a mini-meetup.

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There is also time to submit questions, written or as audio, for the audio promo. And if you don't regularly read the web site, there has been an interesting discussion on the latest week in review post.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dike.

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The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 on errors and exceptions. You may also be interested in the older Inner Chapter on failures and errors, I think the two pieces complement each other nicely. Also, here is the Wikipedia entry on design by contract which I mention in the feature.

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TCLP 2008-08-17 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:45:57 -0400

This is news cast 151.

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In the intro, another reminder I'll be at Dragon*Con from the 29th to the 1st so there'll be no show on the 27th or the 31st. Also, send me your audio or written questions to help with the audio promo.

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This week's security alerts are an automated tool for hijacking session cookies and password reset tools are almost as bad as poor password security itself.

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In this week’s news, the EFF has stepped in to defend the MIT students who were enjoined from presenting at DefCon even though the students clearly cooperated with the MBTA and an official back their version of events but despite considerable support the the gag order stands until at least next week, a key decision in support of open source licenses which may mean it is time to get more legal experts involved and that there may be a need to clarify who this may also affect the enforcement of EULAs, using CAPTCHAs to help digitize text, and the push for JavaScript has renewed despite some change in focus.

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Following up this week, music streaming service Pandora may be closing up shop and RIAA pays defendants legal fees with interest.

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TCLP 2008-08-13 Inner Chapter: Inspiration (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:30:23 -0400

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In the intro, a heads up that I will again be traveling to Dragon*Con in two short weeks where I will be volunteering, among other things, on the podcasting track.

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The hacker word of the week this week is defflicted.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on inspiration.

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TCLP 2008-08-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:47:59 -0400

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In the intro, final thoughts on the Reiser case.

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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.

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In this week’s news, a software solution to unreliable storage media, HEA act finalized in both the House and Senate including provisions for universities to filter their networks, the EFF launches a new project to educate and protect coders, and considering ubiquitous data in the cloud.

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Following up this week, Judge in Thomas case may consider a mistrial/re-trial and Blizzard seeking to stop open source release of Glider code.

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TCLP 2008-08-06 Rant: Steam Punk (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:05:24 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is demon.

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The feature this week is a rant on my sole complaint with the genre of steam punk.

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TCLP 2008-08-03 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:57:22 -0400

This is news cast 149.

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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.

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This week's security alerts are an exploit that uses the near ubiquitous automatic software update channels and a new attack that embeds executable Java in innocuous image files.

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In this week’s news, debating whether Congress members should be able to use the same online tools as the rest of us, affordable ads for individual to buy speaking out against telecom immunity, the EFF releases their ISP testing tool, and a Congressional investigation turns up the DHS procedures on the contested US border seizures of personal laptops.

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Following up this week, the FCC rules against Comcast though some are questioning its legal ability to enforce that ruling and Tim O'Reilly's thoughts on open cloud computing.

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TCLP 2008-07-30 Grass Roots Hacktivism (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:27:04 -0400

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Listener feedback this week is from Matt, Kaity and Bashar.

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The hacker word of the week this week is demo.

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The feature this week is a monologue on the topic of grass roots hacktivism.

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TCLP 2008-07-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:10:25 -0400

This is news cast 147.

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In the intro, a quick review of Settlers of Catan.

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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 up with Dan to discuss how he discovered the problem and other information about it.Bruce Schneier uses the efforts to coordinate patches as an example of why the discover-disclose-patch cycle is not enough. Since details have been leaked, there is now attack code in the wild. Many of the big ISPs are still dragging their feet though you can protect yourself by using a trusted provider like OpenDNS.

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In this week’s news, a comment and link from Mike Linksvayer have me considering this piece on open cloud computing, FCC comment period on MPAA's plea for a waiver on SOC with a summary of initial comments and a clearer explanation than mine from Jef at PK, asking whether some current case activity woudl invalidate many if not most software patents though PK at Groklaw is skeptical, and a new foundation to support open web standards that is different from the W3C and IETF..

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Following up this week, the researchers who demonstrated the cold boot crypto attack release their code and a lament for the state of OpenID adoption.

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TCLP 2008-07-23 The Last HOPE (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:25:43 -0400

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Listener feedback this week is from psionandy, who sent a couple of links, and Matt.

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The hacker word of the week this week is demigod.

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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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TCLP 2008-07-20 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:29:33 -0400

This is news cast 147.

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In the intro, a couple of requests for help with the show and Open Media Review.

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The security alerts this week are research to be demonstrated on exploitable flaws in Intel chips and the rise and fall of CAPTCHAs.

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In this week’s news, judge rules in favor of Blizzard on summary judgement against MDY with opinions from Patry and Public Knowledge about potential harms, some issues with Android revealing development is not being done as openly as promised by Google, another next generation P2P research effort similar to P4P and Pando, and recovering old software from casette.

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Following up this week, the EU considers copyright term extension again and passes it with an odd provision, and more analysis on ACTA.

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TCLP 2008-07-16 EFF on FISA Amendments Act (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:51:02 -0400

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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 Complexity by Mitchell Waldrop.

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The hacker word of the week this week is defenestration.

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For this week's feature I contacted the EFF to talk to someone about the recent passage of the FISA Amendments Acts. I am joined by Rebecca Jeschke, EFF's media coordinator.

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TCLP 2008-06-29 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:22:03 -0400

This is news cast 146.

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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.

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In the intro, a quick review of Wall*e based on my taking my two sons to see it this weekend. I highly and thoroughly recommend this film. I think it has an overlooked hacker theme to it, to boot.

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The only security alert this week is just discussing some new malware for OS X which may be new or an existing but recent one and simple advice on how to protect yourself. The folks over at ZDNet's Zero Day blog also think Snow Leopard is a good opportunity to get ahead of any uptick in malware for the operating system.

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In this week’s news, opening of Java sources to be completed this year though some question its relevance, the future of JavaScript, ICANN considering opening up top level domain names, and the risks in a new wave of remove kill switches in consumer devices.

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Following up this week, just the FISA Amendments Act with news that several senators have voiced strong opposition including willingness to filibuster, and that the vote has been delayed until July 8th, that there may be some passable compromises if outright rejection fails.

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TCLP 2008-06-25 3rd Anniversary Show (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:54:31 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is deep space.

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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 biasing me towards voluntarily splitting my career up on that particular interval.

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TCLP 2008-06-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:49:34 -0400

This is news cast 145.

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In the intro, just a quick mention of the end of Search Engine on CBC Radio One, that I wrote about on the blog, previously.

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The only security alert this week is a couple of security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3 already though a fix is on the way and eavesdropping on encrypted VoIP.

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In this week’s news, top woman coder explains gender differences in coding styles, UCITA sneaks back inside on the new anti-spyware bill, AP issues legal notice to a blogger that leads to a discussion of guidelines with a group whose legitimacy is unclear, and the house passes telecom immunity as part of a new FISA bill.

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Following up this week, an interview with Minister Prentice and first responses to Judge Davis' call for comments on the Jammie Thomas case.

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TCLP 2008-06-18 Inner Chapter: Hacker Work Ethic (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:50:51 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is deep magic.

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The feature is an Inner Chapter on the hacker work ethic, drawing heavily from my own experience on what motivates me to hack.

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TCLP 2008-06-15 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:50:10 -0400

This is news cast 144.

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In the intro, a consideration of my geek dad in light of Father's Day, a reminder of the upcoming 3rd anniversary of the show, and a thank you for all feedback past.

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The only security alert this week is a discussion of an update to existing ransomware with a stronger encryption key and one security vendor's desire to crack it despite skepticism from the experts.

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In this week’s news, The Piracy Bureau speaks on the inevitable failure of copyright on digital goods, what is at stake with the success or failure of white space devices, a new algorithm that exploits symmetries, and Google is preparing a neutrality measurement tool for the average user.

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Following up this week, just the introduction of the Canadian DMCA which I wrote about but the best analysis if from Michael Geist about which I've already commented, twice. Ars Technica has a concise overview and there is a neat bit of hacktivism in the form of a comic book made out of linked, remixed quotes.

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Grab the detailed show notes with time offsets and additional links either as PDF or OPML.

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TCLP 2008-06-11 Monologue: Unintended Uses (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:21:55 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is DEC.

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The feature is a monologue trying to answer a question Kreg Steppe, a listener and fellow podcaster, posed about unintended use of free software.

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TCLP 2008-06-08 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:15:59 -0400

This is news cast 143.

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Security alerts this week are researching new counter measures against worms and Mozilla contemplating a successor to the same origin policy.

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In this week’s news, a new paper from Princeton on open government, the real threat posed by ACTA including some history and an opportunity to act as well as commentary from Bill Patry, the ease of spoofing copyright infringement with some additional points to consider from Ed Felten, and reverse engineering the brain.

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Following up this week, Media Defender doesn't defend itself very well and Apple fixes OS X's implementation of DTrace.

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TCLP 2008-06-05 Interview: Chris Miller about Google I/O (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:33:28 -0400

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Sorry about the delay, as commented previously on the web site, we were without power last night.

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The book Chris mentions in the interview is Build Scalable Web Sites, I think, so the speaker he mentioned would be Cal Henderson.

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The hacker word of the week this week is death code.

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The feature is an interview with Chris Miller discussing his recent experiences at Google I/O.

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TCLP 2008-06-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:42:48 -0400

This is news cast 142.

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In the intro a review of my latest gadget purchase, a new iPod Touch.

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Security alerts this week are an exploitable flaw in a very popular make of cell phone and a Firefox extension for identifying bad Debian SSL certificates which I discussed previously. There's a lot more detail about the extensions at the developer's site including a page with a known bad certificate so you can test and see how the extension is meant to work.

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In this week’s news, code katas, TJX fires an employee for discussing lax security, Neuros selects VideoLAN for use in its forthcoming set top device, and Revision3 uncovers Media Defender shenanigans during a recent outage, Media Defender already having received scrutiny for suspect activity recently..

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Following up this week, just that NBC and Microsoft claim to have gotten to the bottom of the recent broadcast flag snafu.

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TCLP 2008-05-28 Monologue: Volunteerism (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 28 May 2008 21:16:27 -0400

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In the intro, just a quick mention of Balticon and memorial day. My write ups of Balticon are on my LiveJournal for day 1, day 2, day 3, the wrap up, and a bit of memetic silliness.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dead lock.

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The feature is a monologue considering the topic of volunteerism, inspired by my work at Balticon and the holiday, especially a friend who as decided to re-enlist.

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TCLP 2008-05-21 Interview: Cory Doctorow (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 May 2008 20:50:10 -0400

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A reminder that there will be no news cast this weekend as I'll be at Balticon 42.

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There is no new hacker word of the week.

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The feature is an interview with Cory Doctorow in which we talk about his new book, Little Brother

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TCLP 2008-05-18 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 18 May 2008 20:35:34 -0400

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I will be at Balticon 42 next weekend, so no news show that Sunday. I was going to skip the feature cast, too, to make more time to prepare, but I lucked into a last minute interview which I will share on Wednesday. More details when that show goes live.

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Security alerts this week are the Debian GNU/Linux project fixes a critical crypto bug and PayPal is proven vulnerable despite using an enhancement to plain SSL security.

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In this week’s news, researchers look at providing social interactions for remote workers though I worry this may exacerbate some other workplace trends, the USAF contemplates building a botnet, some of the risks of the cutover to digital TV, and NBC briefly activates thier broadcast flag although the EFF defended device makers' right to ignore the flag.

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Following up this week, a couple of cases go against the RIAA in particular Judge Davis in the Thomas case thinks he made an error.

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TCLP 2008-05-14 Monologue: Online Identity (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:24:53 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is dead code.

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The feature is a monologue considering the questions presented by online identity.

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TCLP 2008-05-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:27:10 -0400

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Security alerts this week are a security flaw turns Gmail into an open relay and Google launches a security group to help with open source software.

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In this week’s news, consider how a suit against Psystar might affect the legality of EULAs, the copyright claims in the Blizzard v. Glider case, a procedural gaffe could impact thousands of patent rulings, and correct chip defects after they have been manufactured.

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Following up this week, the PRO-IP bill passes the house and the RIAA claims DRM is not dead though most of us remain skeptical.

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TCLP 2008-05-07 Hacking 101: Complexity (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 May 2008 22:05:32 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is de-rezz.

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Listener feedback is an email from Christopher.

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The feature is a new Hacking 101 exploring the concept of complexity.

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TCLP 2008-05-04 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 04 May 2008 20:00:13 -0400

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In the intro a quick recap of our Free Comic Day and review of the movie, Iron Man.

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Security alerts this week are EULAs for malware and the security risks of social network applications.

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In this week’s news, Linux file system developer Hans Reiser is convicted of murder, implementing the Java and Ruby VMs in JavaScript, tracking down hidden kill switches in ICs, and the missing link in electronic circuitry.

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Following up this week, a favorable ruling in the Howell file sharing case with Patry's commentary and Radiohead is not going to repeat their download experiment.

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TCLP 2008-04-30 The Effect of Coding on Thought (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:17:10 -0400

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In case you missed it, a reminder to check your feed for the special edition to commemorate the launch of Cory Doctorow's latest novel, Little Brother. Also, here's my interview for the Future and You which was recorded this past weekend at RavenCon.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dd.

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Listener feedback is a voice mail from C.A. Sizemore commenting on the Social Spaces 2 feature.

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The feature is a monologue considering the effects of coding on thought.

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Little Brother

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:27:56 -0400

I am pleased to be able to help promote the launch of Cory Doctorow's latest book, Little Brother. I was privileged to be able to read an early draft of this book and cannot recommend it highly enough to my listeners. So much so that I am taking Cory up on his offer to share an excerpt from my own purchased copy of the audiobook with his permission.

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I encourage you to pick up your own copy, in your favorite format, right away. You can find details on the launch at Cory's site and you can buy the book in audio or dead tree formats. The link to the free electronic text is not up yet, I will post an update as soon as it is.

TCLP 2008-04-23 Secure Computing Environments with Vernor Vinge (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:25:05 -0400

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Don't forget, no news show this Sunday as I will be at RavenCon.

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Despite getting to meet the maintainer of The Jargon File, no new hacker word this week due to the length of the feature.

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I received a voice mail but I will hold that until next time because the feature audio is around fifty minutes long.

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The feature is some panel audio I recorded at Penguicon this past weekend. I was joined on the panel by noted science fiction author, Vernor Vinge, and the topic was secure computing environments.

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TCLP 2008-04-16 Social Spaces 2 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:46:01 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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Don't forget, no news show this Sunday as I will be at Penguicon 6.0.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dangling pointer.

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Listener feedback is a voice mail from Jed with a few observations on scripting languages.

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The feature is a monologue revisiting social spaces which I last talked about on the August 22nd show.

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TCLP 2008-04-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:57:11 -0400

This is news cast 138.

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In the intro a quick discussion of our trip up to Philadelphia to see the Star Wars exhibit at the Franklin Institute. Also, you can hear me on an upcoming episode of The Voice of Free Planet X discussing the place of Star Wars within SF fandom and whether we can move beyond it.

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Listener feedback this week is a voice mail from David LaMorte of the Teaching for the Future podcast weighing in on the question of always producing an episode on schedule or taking the time to review and edit as needed.

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Security alerts this week are whether the Kraken worm is now the biggest or the research supporting that is valid and a security research develops and demonstrates malware counter hacks.

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In this week's news, Gmail is starting to feel the effects of the CAPTCHA crack last month, Google launchs App Engine for application hosting and questions surrounding it, how introversion may lead to reluctance towards tech even among geeks, and two rulings that may lessen protections for ISPs under Section 230.

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Following up this week, the first participate in Flickr's The Commons project after the LoC and carriers start trying to argue the development of P4P lessens the need for neutrality regulation.

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TCLP 2008-04-09 Inner Chapter: Stretching Yourself (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:18:48 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is daemon.

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The feature is an Inner Chapter on stretching yourself.

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TCLP 2008-04-06 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:03:34 -0400

This is news cast 137.

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In the intro a quick discussion of the paper that Jon mentioned in last week's feedback.

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More listener feedback this week, including some comments and clarification from Randal Schwartz on the nature of Perl5 and 6 parsing, compilation and execution models. Bruce Barr left a voice mail detailing his experiences with macro languages and reminding us that Ruby and Python existed as standalone scripting languages before their use in web environments. David also shared some of his experiences hacking with scripting languages and offered a correction, that Microsoft does indeed have free entry level tools.

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Security alerts this week are yet another RFID encryption scheme has been cracked and a key logger like tool for capturing biometric credentials.

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In this week's news, an update on Mozilla Labs' project for sync and collaboration, Creative acts to stifle a modder supporting their semi-abandonware including the modder's version of the story and Creative ultimately backing down, NYC lawyers subpoena text messages and code in relation to suits from protests at the RNC, and a disappointing consideration of the opportunities for policy participation by engineers in the US.

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Following up this week, just some developments in the legal question of whether making digital files available constitutes infringement including new rulings in Elektra v. Barker and Atlantic v. John Does 1-21, now known as London-Sire v. Doe. The EFF has some further analysis of the Barker case as does Patry.

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TCLP 2008-04-03 Hacking 101: Scripting Languages (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:28:13 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is cycle.

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A large amount of listener feedback, almost all with links. Here is the audio of the NPR show that [Si] dragon mentioned. And here's the NRK news story Tor sent in. And here is the paper that Jon mentioned on the problem with multi-threading. Here's also a link to a clearer explanation of the dining philosophers problem.

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The feature is a Hacking 101 segment on scripting languages.

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TCLP 2008-03-26 Interview: Ed Felten (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:29:51 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is cyberspace.

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The feature is an interview I recently recorded with Princeton Professor Ed Felten who teaches information security and technology policy. Professor Felten contributes to the blog, Freedom to Tinker and is director of the newly launched Center for Information Technology Policy also at Princeton.

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TCLP 2008-03-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:39:30 -0400

This is news cast 136.

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In the intro, just a reminder that there will be no show on the 30th. There will be a feature cast on the 26th, it may even come out a little early, and one on the 2nd, assuming I get some writing done in the coming week.

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Security alerts this week are an evolving iFrame injection attack and evading Facebook's privacy controls.

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In this week's news, in the wake of a push to investigate voting errors in Union Count, NJ Professor Felten receives a threatening letter from the voting systems vendor, Sequoia. The county received their own letter and backed down. Even though the investigation was cancelled, Felten posted details of the problem and part of Sequoia's response. Also, a silicon based high temperature super conductor, the CBc will experiment with DRM-free, BitTorrent distribution of a new video program, and Schneier contemplates the challenges of teaching a hacking mindset.

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Following up this week, the 700Mhz spectrum auction winds up. The d block reserve was unmet and there is a question of fraud or misinformation. Google did not win any licenses but Verizon and AT&T did.

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TCLP 2008-03-19 Hacking 101: Parallel Computing, Programming (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:48:13 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a brief remark on the passing of Arthur C. Clarke.

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The hacker word of the week this week is cyberpunk.

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The feature is a new Hacking 101 segment on parallel computing and programming.

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TCLP 2010-09-15 Interview: Randy Chertkow of Beatnik Turtle (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:30:14 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive.

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TCLP 2010-09-08 Creative Commons, Legal Issue Panel from Dragon*Con 2010 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:22:44 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick end of month update on the podcast's finances and you can find all my posts from Dragon*Con past and present using the dragoncon tag.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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TCLP 2010-08-25 Inner Chapter: Superstitions (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:46:31 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, the last reminder of my impending travel to Dragon*Con. Also a quick review of Neil Netanel's "Copyright's Paradox".

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Listener feedback is a thoughtful and thought provoking email from Grant who wrote in response to my discussion of ebooks in the developing world.

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The hacker word of the week this week is finger-pointing syndrome.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of superstitions.

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More news and commentary and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive.

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TCLP 2010-08-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:47:17 -0400

This is news cast 222, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are a Firefox bug bypasses URL protection for embedded frames and an old Linux Kernel flaw allows exploits to acquire root privileges.

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Following up this week EFF appealing the Jewel v. NSA warrantless wiretapping case and negotiators concede ACTA isn't about counterfeiting after all.

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TCLP 2010-08-18 Inner Chapter: Scalability (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:55:33 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder about the upcoming CopyNight here in DC and of my impending travel to Dragon*Con.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of scalability. In it, I mention my previous discussion of speed and performance.

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TCLP 2010-08-15 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:51:33 -0400

This is news cast 222, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are first Android SMS trojan and a vulnerability in OpenSSL 1.0.

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TCLP 2010-08-08 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:21:59 -0400

This is news cast 221, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are RFIDs can be provably read at over 60 meters and an algorithmic attack on reCAPTCHA.

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Following up this week EFF offers assistance to targets of the US Copyright Group and the FCC ends closed door discussions on its net neutrality plan.

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TCLP 2010-08-04 Habits of an Infovore (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:43:47 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, sharing Steve's badge photo, last month's revenue update, and a reminder there will be no feature cast next week as I'll be out of town.

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The hacker word of the week this week is finger trouble .

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The feature this week is a monologue my habits as an infovore. How I consume information is very much informed by current thinking on multitasking.

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TCLP 2010-08-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:19:24 -0400

This is news cast 220, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are Apple fixes the autofill bug in Safari that I didn't get to discuss last week and AT&T said it wouldn't interfere with a Black Hat demo and was true to its word.

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Following up this week Al Franken frames net neutrality as key free speech issue and Canadian C-32 is clearly following the US DMCA.

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TCLP 2010-07-21 The True Burden of Forking (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:44:21 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick review of the tabletop game, "The Stars are Right".

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Listener feedback this week is from Andrew and Carey, both of home responded to the last feature on complex privacy .

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The hacker word of the week this week is Finagle's Law.

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The feature this week is a monologue considering the true burden of forking. It was inspired by my recent reading of Clay Shirky's excellent, "Here Comes Everybody".

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TCLP 2010-07-18 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:44:07 -0400

This is news cast 219, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Following up this week European ACTA negotiators update the EP in secret and ACTA is coming down to a fight between the US and the EU.

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TCLP 2010-07-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:31:48 -0400

This is news cast 218, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are researchers form collective in response to Microsoft's dismissal of a security concern and REMnux, a linux distro designed for reverse engineering malware.

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Following up this week, two UK ISPs are taking the Digital Economy Act to High Court.

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TCLP 2010-07-07 Will We Ever Have Effective Complex Privacy Controls? (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:01:54 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is filter.

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TCLP 2010-07-04 A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:54:33 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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TCLP 2010-06-30 Cory Doctorow at CopyNight DC (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:17:38 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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I will save this week's feedback, of which there is rather a lot, until next week.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is a recording of the talk Cory Doctorow gave at this month's CopyNight, here in DC.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. There are no detailed show notes for this episode.

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TCLP 2010-06-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:00:09 -0400

This is news cast 217, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an apology for missing the last news cast.

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This week's security alerts are attacking the attackers and anti-malware is a poor substitute for common sense.

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Following up this week, the debate around C-32 turns adversarial and judge rules in Viacom case that YouTube is protected by DMCA safe harbors.

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TCLP 2010-06-23 Switching Back to an Open Stack (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:14:16 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fence.

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TCLP 2010-06-16: Inner Chapter: Why Programming is Hard (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:08:06 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a mention of the merit badges arriving and the first pictures.

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Also a quick review of "The Affinity Bridge" by George Mann.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is feetch feetch.

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TCLP 2010-06-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:03:12 -0400

This is news cast 216, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an update on the badge experiment.

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This week's security alerts are diffusing botnet control makes them more robust and bad passwords and the economics around perpetuating them.

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Following up this week, another social network bill of rights and judge may dismiss most defendants from US Copyright Group suits.

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TCLP 2010-06-09 Free Yourself: Open Source Software for Everyday Use (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:39:56 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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I will save listener feedback for the next show.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature.

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TCLP 2010-06-06 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:41:30 -0400

This is news cast 215, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, just a pointer to my thoughts on Balticon 44 and a recap on advertising, the badge experiment, and Flattr so far.

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This week's security alerts are OS choice does not equal security and an Android rootkit.

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Following up this week, if you are tired of Facebook then check out a Firefox extension that aims to help preserve your privacy while using it and India tries to gather opposition to ACTA.

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TCLP 2010-06-02 Art, Music and Literature in the Age of Digital Reproducibility (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:08:03 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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I will save listener feedback for the next show or the one after that.

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There is no listener feedback this week due to the length of the feature.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-05-26 Inner Chapter: Legacy Code (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 26 May 2010 21:32:49 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder there will be no news show this Sunday as I'll be at Balticon. Also, a quick review of "Dreaming in Code", by Scott Rosenberg.

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Listener feedback this week is from Randal on the Dr. Who as a hacker and DeepGeek in response to my discussion of Danah Boyd's essay on Facebook as a utility.

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The hacker word of the week this week is featurectomy.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of legacy code.

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TCLP 2010-05-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 23 May 2010 20:23:29 -0400

This is news cast 214, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are Chrome's private mode leaks info and FTC looks into privacy concerns with digital copiers.

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Following up this week The Pirate Party steps in to host The Pirate Bay and EFF issues a strong criticism of Google's latest privacy mistake.

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TCLP 2010-05-19 Interview: Cory Doctorow, "For the Win" (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 19 May 2010 21:32:42 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Due to the length of the interview, I didn't get to any listener feedback this week. There also is no new hacker word of the week for the same reason.

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"Amerika"
"English as She Is Spoken"
Anda's Game
Beyond Circumvention, by Ethan Zuxker
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet, by Douglas Adams
It was Michael Weinberg, from Public Knowledge, on This Week in Law who proposed thinking about three strikes with the telephone
"Content" is the essay collection containing World of Democracycraft
Facebook is a Utility, All Utilities are Regulated, by Danah Boyd
Diaspora*, Kickstarter, and Quit Facebook Day
Jane McGonigal created Superstruct and the other game I couldn't remember properly is Evoke
Alice commissioned the award winning game, Smokescreen
Power Punctuation! in three parts: part 1, part 2, part 3
The Geertz mentioned is anthropologist, Clifford Geertz
io9 scooped me and has more details on "Rapture of the Nerds"

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TCLP 2010-05-12 Review: Postsingular and Hylozoic (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 12 May 2010 20:56:14 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fear and loathing.

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TCLP 2010-05-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 09 May 2010 22:07:48 -0400

This is news cast 213, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Following up this week the FCC's third way to pursue network neutrality and the FCC allows selectable output control with some qualifications.

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TCLP 2010-05-05 Dr. Who as a Hacker (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 05 May 2010 21:15:44 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to Graham and [si]dragon for their donations. Also, a quick review of "Permanence", by Karl Schroeder.

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Listener feedback this week is from Robert who posted a comment in response to my NoSQL rant.

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The hacker word of the week this week is block transfer computations.

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The feature this week is a monologue consider Dr. Who as a hacker. In it, I mention a section from the Wikipedia page on Dr. Who.

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TCLP 2010-05-02 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 02 May 2010 19:53:27 -0400

This is news cast 212, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick update on the advertising experiment.

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This week's security alerts are Symantec plans to PGP and a massive quantity of GoDaddy hosted WordPress sites are under attack.

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Following up this week USTR claims official ACTA draft proves prior rumors were false and MSIE9 to support HTML5 video but only with H.264.

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TCLP 2010-04-28 Rant: NoSQL (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:39:03 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fat-finger .

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The feature this week is a rant where I try to get to exactly what it is that bugs me about NoSQL. In it, I refer to my hacking 101 piece on databases.

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TCLP 2010-04-21 EFF on the Recent Al Haramain Ruling (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:53:46 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder that CopyNight here in DC is next Tuesday. Also, an update on the badge experiment. And thanks to Kevin M. and George for their donations this past week.

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Listener feedback this week is from Robert. He recommends the radio show and podcast, Media Matters.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fat electrons.

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TCLP 2010-04-14 Free Press on Comcast-NBC Acquisition (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:34:59 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to Robert for his donation. Also an announcement, that there will be no news show this weekend due to time constraints resulting from family and personal commitments.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fascist .

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TCLP 2010-04-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:32:38 -0400

This is news cast 211, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to new donor this week, David.

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This week's security alerts are a new site collecting privacy and security info on apps and services and a vulnerability in WebKit's handling of the blink tag.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-04-07 Java, the Gray Lady (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:07:18 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an update on the advertising experiment.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is farm .

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The feature this week is a monologue on Java, the Gray Lady. In it, I mention COM, specifically criticisms against it. I also mention a timely piece by Neil McAllister and the Zen of Python.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-03-31 Why CopyNight is Important (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:21:25 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a call for help with topics for programming focused segments for the next few weeks and an announcement that there will be no news show this Sunday.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is faradize .

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The feature this week is a monologue on why CopyNight is important. In it I mention cultural critic, Mark Dery, and Christine Harold's book, "OurSpace".

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-03-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:39:09 -0400

This is news cast 210, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to new donors this week, Rhonda and Jonathan. Also a very quick update on the badge experiment.

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This week's security alerts are attackers using attack-in-depth and security alerts for Gmail.

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Following up this week constitutional concerns over ACTA and the Digital Economy Bill is set to go to vote without further public debate.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-24 Rant: I Am Not a Pirate (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:30:12 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fandango on core.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-03-17 Inner Chapter: Tools (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:44:11 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fall through .

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on tools. In it, I mention The Pragmatic Programmers.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-03-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:47:17 -0400

This is news cast 209, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a call for help with my new experiment, this time with a way to reward and encourage donors. Also, happy Pi Day.

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This week's security alerts are researchers build an 8K smart phone botnet and share their motivations for doing so and some findings and a serious Apache exploit is discovered.

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Following up this week web cames disabled in PA school laptops and Open Source for America rebuts IIPA's petition to the USTR including a post, a paper and a personal meeting.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-10 Hacking 101: Databases (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:14:00 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fairings.

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The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 on databases.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-03-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:43:52 -0500

This is news cast 208, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Following up this week the USTR responds to Senator Wyden's letter about ACTA with some good analysis and the problems with a revised censorship amendment to the DEB that now targets weblockers.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-03 Chris Miller on PyCon 2010 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:45:32 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

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If you want to hear more conversation between Chris and myself on less technical but still crunchy subjects, check out episode 24 of The Secret Lair.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-02-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:38:52 -0500

This is news cast 207, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, explaining my advertise experiment, a change to the podcast's license going forward, and OggCamp 10.

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This week's security alerts are OpenDNS adopts and explains DNSCurve and anatomy of a SQL injection attack.

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Following up this week the internet chapter of ACTA has leaked.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-02-24 Interview: Nina Paley (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:44:32 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-02-21 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:12:18 -0500

This is news cast 206, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder that CopyNight is Monday and that Nina Paley is speaking at American on Wednesday, the 24th.

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This week's security alerts are the first denial of service attack and botnets attacking each other.

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Following up this week leak of details on last ACTA negotation round and the Jacobsen case is finally settled.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-02-17 Copyright, Copywrong (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:16:46 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week, due to the length of the feature.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-02-09 Unscheduled Hiatus (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:42:32 -0500

This is just a quick meta-cast for the benefit of those who do not read the web site.

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TCLP 2010-02-03 Inner Chapter: Politics (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:43:01 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick review of Ed Piskor's latest installment in his WIZZYWIG series, Volume 3: Fugitive.

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The hacker word of the week this week is eyeball search.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on politics.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-01-31 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:31:19 -0500

This is news cast 205, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, information about a couple of great upcoming events: Free Culture X and the Southern California Linux Expo.

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This week's security alert are fighting spam with captured botnets and examining an exploit kit.

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Following up this week Jammie Thomas is offered a settlement but she refuses as the RIAA appeals the judge's reduction of their damage award against her and a guide to speaking out against ACTA.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-27 The Hacker Hero (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:51:50 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is eye candy.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-01-24 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:05:29 -0500

This is news cast 204, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alert are an odd interaction between AT&T's mobile network and Facebook with some clarification and a seventeen year old Windows flaw.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-20 Interview: Danny O'Brien on ACTA (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:37:50 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-01-17 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:39:31 -0500

This is news cast 203, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro a quick overview on my convention schedule for this year.

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This week's security alert is just an in depth discussion of a concerning interview that revealed some internal privacy issues at Facebook.

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Following up this week a further refinement of the FLOSS license icons and the UK offers a compromise on the pirate catcher powers in the Digital Economy Bill.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-13 Inner Chapter: Accomplishment (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:08:00 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick recap of my experiences at World's Fair Use Day. I may share a longer blog post or podcast segment once I finally get a chance to sift through my notes.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Exploder.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on accomplishment.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-01-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:39:25 -0500

This is news cast 202, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro a shout out to SLUG and a huge thank you to Holger for his ongoing donation.

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This week's security alerts are Adobe finally working on a software updater and 768-bit RSA modulus factored.

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Following up this week Tenenbaum P2P case defending seeking to overturn damages as unconstitutional and FCC seeks extension for broadband plan.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-06 Hacking 101: Speed and Performance (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:57:55 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, some thoughts on the loss of a friend.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2009-12-20 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:41:21 -0500

This is news cast 201, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Apologies if you received a flood of old episodes as if they are new. This may be the result of some needed feed maintenance.

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This week's only security alerts is development of a counter tool to a forensics suite, COFEE, that Micrsoft offers but was leaked and the announcement to that counter tool, DECAF, was just a stunt.

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Following up this week just the news that the three strikes plan has returned in New Zealand despite its fundamental flaws.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2009-12-16 Hacking 101: Distributed Version Control (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:23:13 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is exercise, left as an.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2009-12-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:18:56 -0500

This is news cast 200, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are attackers improve on techniques to use Twitter to conceal their efforts and malware found in a Gnome screen saver.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2009-12-09 Monologue: Social Gravity Well (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:19:03 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick review of the film, "Astro Boy", based on the original manga by Osamu Tezuka. I also highly recommend Dan's review of the film on Geekadelphia.

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Listener feedback this week is from Philip who wrote in to comment on my nowhere to go rant.

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The hacker word of the week this week is exec.

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The feature this week is a monologue on the social gravity well.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2009-12-06 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:07:38 -0500

This is news cast 199, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are malware may start affecting non-jailbroken iPhones and testing whether Google's new DNS resolver is secure. I wrote about Google's new offering earlier in the week.

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Following up this week one British politician pushed back on the Digital Economy Bill and evaluating the censorship risk of the current version of the Google Books settlement.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-29 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:46:53 -0500

This is news cast 198.

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In the intro, a quick Philcon recap. See my earlier post for more.

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This week's security alerts are details on an exploitable flaw in older versions of MSIE including news of an actual exploit and the latest iPhone worm snags bank credentials.

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Following up this week evaluating privacy in the revised Books settlement and two senators question ACTA secrecy.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-25 Interview: Cory Doctorow (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:03:08 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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I am delaying listener feedback until the next feature cast due to the holiday week and the length of the feature.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2009-11-18 Rant: Nowhere to Go (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:41:54 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Evil Empire.

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The feature this week is a rant, though more of an emotional than a surly one, entitled nowhere to go.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-15 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:22:46 -0500

This is news cast 197.

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This week's security alerts are Firefox bugs account for 44% of all browser bugs and considering whether antivirus is dead.

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Following up this week revisions to the Google Books settlement which exclude any privacy protections and oral arguments were heard by the Supreme Court in the Bilski case.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-11 Hacking 101: Front End, Back End (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:32:08 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a quick review of the expansion, On the Brink, to the game Pandemic. I reviewed Pandemic on the March 25th podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is evil.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 segment on the terms front end and back end development. I mention the model-viewer-controller design pattern and refer to my interview with Celeste Lyn Paul.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-08 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:21:12 -0500

This is news cast 196.

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This week's security alerts are the latest issues arising from Windows autorun and using cloud computing to brute force crypto.

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Following up this week the latest info and analysis on ACTA.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-04 Monologue: Social Identity (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:36:11 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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Lastly, the intro includes a brief clarification and comment about the experimental opening music from the last show.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Eric Conspiracy.

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The feature this week is a monologue on social identity.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:26:33 -0500

This is news cast 195.

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In the intro, an experiment, playing some CC-licensed and interesting music instead of the usual theme music.

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This week's security alerts are executing attack code via the ldd utility and a former anti-virus research seemingly turning against the industry.

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Following up this week Mandelson is still pushing for three strikes in the UK and unlikely opponents, law enforcers.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-28 Inner Chapter: Perfection and Compromise (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:58:07 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is epsilon squared.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of perfection and compromise.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-25 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:24:46 -0400

This is news cast 194.

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In the intro, a quick reminder about tomorrow night's CopyNight here in DC.

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This week's security alerts are the "evil maid" attack on encrypted disks and first impressions of security in Google Wave.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-21 Interview: Randal Schwartz (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:09:01 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, letting you know that part one of a two part interview with me is up at the Life after Law School podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the feature, there is no hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-18 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:59:06 -0400

This is news cast 193.

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This week's security alerts are figuring out whether Facebook apps are safe and Microsoft's un-invited Firefox add-on has a vulnerability though Mozilla has acted to disable it for everyone.

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Following up this week 42 people gain access under NDA to the ACTA drafts.

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TCLP 2009-10-14 Rant: My Love-Hate Relationship with CS (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:21:50 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, I mention two upcoming events you might like to check out. The first is OggCamp and the second is the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference.

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Listener feedback this week is from Kaity and from Erwin.

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The hacker word of the week this week is epsilon .

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The feature this week is a rant trying to explain my odd, love-hate relationship with computer science.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:07:23 -0400

This is news cast 192.

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This week's security alerts are researchers hijack a botnet to study drive-by attacks and Comcast to start sending warnings to customers whose PCs are snared in botnets.

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Following up this week copyright suit over distributing Green Dam and Senate panel to examine sale of Diebold's voting machine division.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-07 Inner Chapter: Personal Advocacy (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:18:51 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a request that you consider contributing to the Creative Commons 5th annual fundraising campaign.

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Listener feedback this week is from Eric who writes with a question about a disclaimer on public domain photos.

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The hacker word of the week this week is epoch.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-09-30 Copyright Panel at D*C 2009 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:16:48 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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I'm going to push off on listener feedback until next week. Also, no hacker word of the week for the same reason, the length of the feature.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-09-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:18:48 -0400

This is news cast 191.

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This week's security alerts are AES explained by stick figures and bounties on infected Macs.

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TCLP 2009-09-23 Importance of Open Formats (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:56:28 -0400

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Listener feedback this week is a voice mail from Jed in response to my discussion of the Vanish project discussed in the September 13th news cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is EOU.

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The feature this week is the recording I took of my talk on the importance of open formats at the local Software Freedom Day celebration.

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TCLP 2009-09-16 Hacking 101: Golden Hammer Syndrome (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:51:35 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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Listener feedback this week (catching up) comes from Paul Fischer who writes in response to the August 23rd show, specifically to the stories about Menuet and cracking the SecurID token.

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The hacker word of the week this week is ENQ.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on the subject of Golden Hammer Syndrome, something all beginning hackers need to beware of.

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TCLP 2009-09-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:55:52 -0400

This is news cast 190.

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I documented my experiences at the con extensively on the blog and may still try to sum up my experiences for this year, beyond just that journal of events.

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This week's security alerts are Windows 7 restores a vintage remote BSoD and researchers discover the first Linux web server based botnet.

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Following up this week just i4i's side of the story about its patent claims against Microsoft.

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TCLP 2009-09-09 Interview: Beatnik Turtle (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:16:06 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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No hacker word of the week because of the length of the feature. Also, though I have some listener feedback, I am saving it until next Wednesday for the same reason.

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TCLP 2009-08-30 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:50:47 -0400

This is news cast 189.

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In the intro, the final reminder I will be at Dragon*Con over Labor Day weekend. No show on the 2nd or the 6th.

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Following up this week Nina Paley shares some positive economic data on sharing her work openly and Mozilla launches Test Swarm.

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TCLP 2009-08-26 Embracing Fair Use (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:33:25 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a quick review of the file, "Sita Sings the Blues", by Nina Paley.

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The hacker word of the week this week is enhancement.

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The feature this week is a monologue on embracing fair use. Here's the promised links defining fair use and fair use for trademarks. I mention Open Media Review and The Arbiter Chronicles.

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TCLP 2009-08-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:23:16 -0400

This is news cast 188.

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In the intro, I will be speaking at the Maryland gathering for Software Freedom Day on September 19th. More details after Dragon*Con.

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This week's security alerts are new research to predict online attacks and cracking real time ID generators.

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Following up this week i4i confirms OpenOffice doesn't violate its patent and Nina Paley shares the source files to her wonderful open content work "Sita Sings the Blues".

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TCLP 2009-08-19 Rant: Owning Innovation (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:24:10 -0400

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In the intro a quick review of the movie, District 9.

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The hacker word of the week this week is engine.

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TCLP 2009-08-16 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:47:03 -0400

This is news cast 187.

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In the intro, a quick reminder I will be at Dragon*Con September 4 through 7. My schedule is already on my Google calendar and will be updated as I learn more.

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This week's security alerts are self enforcing protocols and RSA threatens trademark infringment over a security disclosure.

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Following up this week researchers demonstrate that attacks on voting systems are practical without any special knowledge and the latest on the Supreme Court appeal of Bilski.

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TCLP 2009-08-12 Inner Chapter: Thought Leadership (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:18:54 -0400

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on thought leadership.

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TCLP 2009-08-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:24:37 -0400

This is news cast 186.

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

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This week's security alerts are a persistent attack through the firmware in new Mac keyboards and many XML libraries share common critical flaws.

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Following up this week a new network neutrality bill has been introduced and the EFF's analysis of potential outcomes for the Kindle class action suit.

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TCLP 2009-08-05 Rant: Software Frameworks (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:08:53 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro just sharing the news that my podiobook has been released. You can visit the new page for The Inner Chapters for details on how you can help promote it.

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The hacker word of the week this week is email.

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The feature this week is a rant on software frameworks.

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TCLP 2009-07-29 Inner Chapter: Tradition (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:19:44 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is EMACS.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on tradition.

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TCLP 2009-07-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:22:31 -0400

This is news cast 185.

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

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This week's security alerts are Mozilla claims a new Firefox 3.5 flaw is not exploitable and a zero day PDF, Flash flaw is being exploited.

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Following up this week Bezos personally apologizes for the remote Kindle deletions and GGF is back pedalling on its acquisition of The Pirate Bay.

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TCLP 2009-07-22 Hacking 101: How to Contribute to Open Source (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:05:45 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is ELIZA effect

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 providing some advice and ideas for how to contribute to your first open source project.

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TCLP 2009-07-19 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:07:39 -0400

This is news cast 184.

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

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This week's security alert is a critical flaw in Firefox 3.5 for which there is already an exploit. Thankfully, there is also already a fix.

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Following up this week the state of Neuros' set top box (I'm also a big fan of their Unlocked mark which folks are free to use) and details on GGF's plan for The Pirate Bay site.

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TCLP 2009-07-15 Inner Chapter: Focus (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:47:23 -0400

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In the intro a quick review of the family friendly game, Qwirkle.

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Listener Feedback this week comes from Marc who commented on the new Inner Chapter theme music and Dave who commented on the Inner Chapter of the role of leader as law giver.

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The hacker word of the week this week is elite

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on focus. This builds on my previous chapters on will and yak shaving.

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TCLP 2009-07-12 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:17:00 -0400

This is news cast 183.

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook and unbook projects.

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This week's security alert is new research allows better than random guessing of SSNs.

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Following up this week SoundExchange and the webcasters reach and agreement but it definitely isn't all it is cracked up to be.

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TCLP 2009-07-08 Inner Chapter: Leader as Law Giver (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:39:47 -0400

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In the intro a quick review of the family friendly game, Cheeky Monkey.

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Listener Feedback this week comes from Philip Durbin who writes about using frameworks to help manage code complexity and Gladwell's review of Anderson's new book, "Free".

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The hacker word of the week this week is elephantine .

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on when a leader must act as law giver. This builds on my previous chapter on leadership.

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TCLP 2009-07-05 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:06:32 -0400

This is news cast 182.

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In the intro, a reflection on liberty, in honor of the Holiday this weekend in the US.

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This week's security alerts are a a new form of click fraud and a new attack on the AES encryption algorithm .

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Following up this week the current state of Blu-ray's DRM and a Linux kernel patch to circumvent patent claims against the FAT filesystem.

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TCLP 2009-07-01 Ideas vs. Execution (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:42:37 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a discussion of my recently started podiobook and unbook projects. I just wrote this up for the blog, too.

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The hacker word of the week this week is elegant.

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TCLP 2009-06-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:39:01 -0400

This is news cast 181.

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In the intro, a discussion of starting a podiobook of the first set of Inner Chapters. More details to come as the project progresses.

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This week's security alerts are a new project from Mozilla to help cope with XSS attacks and a security expert urges rewards for disposing of weak, MD5 based SSL certificates.

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Following up this week could the massive award in the Thomas retrial invite reform around statutory damages? And more on the Chinese mandated filter-ware.

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TCLP 2009-06-24 4th Anniversary (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:46:04 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The story submission, in order of receipt and playback, are from Kevin Crosby, Nido Media, Chris Miller, imag1nary number and Jonathan David.

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TCLP 2009-06-17 Hacking 101: Responsibilities and Relationships (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:11:49 -0400

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In the intro sharing my decision to extend the submission deadline for stories for my 4th anniversary show.

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The hacker word of the week this week is elder days.

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The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 piece of approaching design by understanding responsibilities and relationships.

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TCLP 2009-06-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:24:57 -0400

This is news cast 180.

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This week's security alerts are new researcher further weakening SHA1 and a JavaScript attack against intranets and VPNs.

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Following up this week French three strikes law is gutted and Obama administration commits to ACTA.

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TCLP 2009-06-10 Balticon 43: Copyright (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:29:46 -0400

This is a feature cast.

In the intro a correction and a reminder about my upcoming 4th anniversary show.

There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-06-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:54:54 -0400

This is news cast 179.

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This week's security alerts are a mass drive by injection attack and the .org zone moving forward with DNSSEC.

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Following up this week the Bilksi appeal moves forward and a preview of the Jammie Thomas re-trial.

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TCLP 2009-06-03 Balticon 43: Technology, Podcasting's Rocket Fuel (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:18:42 -0400

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In the intro a reminder that the 4th anniversary episode of the show is coming up, June 24th. Please send me any recollections, thoughts, or well wishes you'd like me to share on that show.

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There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature.

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The feature this week is the recording of the Technology: Podcasting's Rocket Fuel panel at Balticon 43. I was joined by Steve Eley, Jim Van Verth and Chooch Schubert.

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TCLP 2009-05-31 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 31 May 2009 18:41:43 -0400

This is news cast 178.

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Following up this week another new wrinkle in the already fascinating Pirate Bay case and judge threatens sanctions in the NSA wiretap case.

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TCLP 2009-05-27 Balticon 43: Peer Media vs. Broadcast Media (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 27 May 2009 20:23:55 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a heart felt thank you to my good friend, Chris Miller, for his support and advice without which my recent experience at Balticon would not have been anywhere near as phenomenal.

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There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature.

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TCLP 2009-05-20 Inner Chapter: Criticism (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 20 May 2009 21:15:36 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is egg.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the practice of criticism.

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TCLP 2009-05-17 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 17 May 2009 18:57:41 -0400

This is news cast 177.

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I also want to thank Verbal, who found my show from my appearance on The Linux Link Tech Show, and Emil for their donations this week.

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This week's security alerts are D-Link adds CAPTCHAs to its home routers and Apple hires OLPC's former security chief.

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Following up this week The Pirate Bay's plan for paying its fine and Monty on the fate of MySQL post-Oracle, a bit of video from Linuxfest Northwest.

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TCLP 2009-05-13 Monologue: Amateur-Pro Divide (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 13 May 2009 20:02:26 -0400

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In the intro another mention of my very enjoyable interview on Fanboyhell.

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The hacker word of the week this week is ed.

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TCLP 2009-05-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 10 May 2009 20:36:43 -0400

This is news cast 176.

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This week's security alerts are researchers hijack and dissect a botnet and a Windows 7 rootkit already.

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TCLP 2009-04-29 Inner Chapter: Research (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 06 May 2009 20:13:25 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a reminder that my interview with Thomas Cagley of the SPamCast is up if you haven't checked it out already. Also a quick and spoiler free review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

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Listener Feedback this week is from Alex who compliments and asks after the audio from my interview with Jonathan Zittrain. He also has a meta-correction, yes, I got DEE-bold wrong yet again.

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The hacker word of the week this week is eat flaming death.

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on the practice of research.

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TCLP 2009-04-29 Hacking 101: Learning New Languages (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:26:10 -0400

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Listener Feedback this week is from Alex who corrects my pronunciation of Brendan Eich's name with multiple citations. Thanks as always for the constructive and well put feedback.

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The hacker word of the week this week is easter egg.

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The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 segment on learning new programming languages.

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TCLP 2009-04-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:57:48 -0400

This is news cast 175.

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Following up this week a conflict of interest has arisen in The Pirate Bay sentencing and a call for re-trial.

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TCLP 2009-04-22 Interview: Jonathan Zittrain (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:06:26 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is DWIM.

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TCLP 2009-04-19 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:55:37 -0400

This is news cast 174.

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This week's security alert is just a discussion of arguably the first all Mac botnet on which Brian Krebs sheds a bit more light.

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Following up this week an update on EFF's wiretap cases and The Pirate Bay found guilty.

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TCLP 2009-04-15 Book Review: Hackers, by Steven Levy (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:40:30 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro I chat up Penguicon and share a promo. Also, on a sadder note, the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, Dave Arneson passed away recently. Tor.com has a very nice remembrance.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dumpster diving.

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The feature this week is a book review of an excellent book I finished recently, Hackers by Steven Levy. As I mention in the review, the first two chapters are freely available.

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TCLP 2009-04-08 Monologue: Choosing a Development Platform (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:22:53 -0400

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In the intro a quick review of the geek family friendly movie, Monsters vs. Aliens.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dump.

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TCLP 2009-04-01 Inner Chapter: Team Dynamics (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:40:09 -0400

This is a feature cast and I remember Joe Murphy.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Duff's device.

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on team dynamics. I mention a study on the benefit of info sharing and teams and a forthcoming book from O'Reilly.

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TCLP 2009-03-29 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:31:06 -0400

This is news cast 173.

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Following up this week controversional section 92a copyright amendment completely scrapped in New Zealand and the troubling EU telecoms package is back along with its three strikes amendment.

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TCLP 2009-03-25 Inner Chapter: Coding Style (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:27:05 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is drunken mouse syndrome.

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TCLP 2009-03-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:58:09 -0400

This is news cast 172.

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This week's security alerts are community driven malware defense and Mozilla releases a CSS fuzzer.

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Following up this week research being on memristance, adding spintronics.

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And Now for the Lab, Carpet

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:04:23 -0400

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Lab Move Status and Show Hiatus

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:38:01 -0400

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TCLP 2009-02-25 SCaLE7x (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:29:55 -0500

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TCLP 2009-03-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:14:52 -0500

This is news cast 171.

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This week's security alerts are a remotely exploitable flaw in Flash and Microsoft fixes a problem in dealing with autorun exploits.

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Following up this week the D programming language has been ported to OS X. I wrote about D's 1.0 release a while back.

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TCLP 2009-02-25 Flashbake (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:02:35 -0500

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The feature this week is a monologue on flashbake, the scripting project I launched last week.

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TCLP 2009-02-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:03:16 -0500

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This week's security alerts are a new SSL man-in-the-middle attack and cooperating intelligent agents for network defense.

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Following up this week Mozilla and Skype add their support to the EFF's DMCA petition.

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TCLP 2009-02-18 Copyright Panel at Farpoint (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:05:14 -0500

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TCLP 2009-02-11 Shmoocon V (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:26:39 -0500

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In the intro, a shout out to the Traveling Terabyte project and to the Linux Outlaws podcast.

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Also, there will not be a news show this weekend, again, as I will be at Farpoint.

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There hacker word of the week this week is droid

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TCLP 2009-02-04 Monologue: Peer Media (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:20:10 -0500

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There hacker word of the week this week is driver

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The feature this week is a monologue deconstructing my issues with the term, "new media", and suggesting a more evocative alternative (at least for my own use), "peer media".

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TCLP 2009-02-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:25:01 -0500

This is news cast 169.

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This week's security alerts are using TinyURL to bypass browser safety filters and ICANN tackles but doesn't commit to doing anything about fast flux hosting.

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Following up this week a new edition of the anti-DRM kid's book, "The Pig and the Box" and judge rules against WoW bot maker.

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TCLP 2009-01-28 Interview: Celeste Lyn Paul (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:59:23 -0500

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TCLP 2009-01-25 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:02:23 -0500

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Following up this week ACTA's secret negotiations may run afoul of EU law and how will Obama's DoJ appointees act on the issue of warrant-less wire tapping.

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TCLP 2009-01-21 Hacking 101: Build Tools (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:27:12 -0500

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TCLP 2009-01-14 Inner Chapter: Effecting Change (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:53:42 -0500

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I have two promos I wanted to share, for the Law after Law School podcast and SCALE X7.

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The hacker word of the week this week is down.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on effecting change.

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TCLP 2009-01-11 News Fixed (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:02:38 -0500

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Following up this week the EFF will be able to continue pursuing a key warrant-less wiretapping case and Reznor's Ghosts I-IV tops Amazon's digital music chart for 2008.

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TCLP 2009-01-07 Year in Review, Part 3 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:52:52 -0500

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TCLP 2009-01-04 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:37:45 -0500

This is news cast 166.

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This week's security alert is just a lengthy discussion of an attack on the public key infrastructure based on the well researched possibility of collisions with the MD5 algorithm.

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Following up this week Flickr's The Commons project put into question with a Yahoo layoff and an unconfirmed report that the RIAA may be firing MediaSentry.

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TCLP 2008-12-31 Year in Review, Part 2 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:51:43 -0500

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In the intro, I share my review of Ed Piskor's "Wizzywig Volume 1: Phreak".

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TCLP 2008-12-24 Year in Review, Part 1 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:22:37 -0500

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TCLP 2008-12-21 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:36:24 -0500

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This week's security alerts are disappointing security test results for browsers' password handling and Microsoft announces and delivers a critical patch to the IE flaw I discussed last week.

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Following up this week the Open Rights Group has some good analysis of the IWF/Wikipedia fiasco and McAllister digs out some more details about Google's native client.

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TCLP 2008-12-17 Rant: Race to the Bottom (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:56:52 -0500

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Listener feedback this week is from Jed who had some thoughts on the recent discussion of MVC, unity and PHP.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dot file.

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The feature this week is a rant inspired by this article about Dell's race to the bottom.

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TCLP 2008-12-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:26:36 -0500

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If you are in the DC area, come to the Creative Commons 6th Birthday Party being coordinated by the DC CopyNight crew and generously hosted by Public Knowledge.

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Following up this week RedBox continues to fight for survival and the UK and the EU again consider term extensions for music copyrights.

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TCLP 2008-12-10 Book Review: The Hacker Ethic (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:55:10 -0500

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Listener feedback this week is from Vaskin continuing the discussion of git.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dongle.

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TCLP 2008-12-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:01:40 -0500

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This week's security alerts are confusion around Apple's recommendation of AV software then their retraction and a Firefox trojan that identifies itself as the popular Greasemonkey extenions.

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Following up this week the judicial oversight amendment to the EU telecoms package has been stripped and Spore is the most pirated game of the year despite EA's insistence of draconian DRM.

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TCLP 2008-11-26 Inner Chapter: Mastery (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:51:12 -0500

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Listener feedback this week is from Walker Hale continuing the discussion of git.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dogpile.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on mastery.

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TCLP 2008-11-30 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:29:15 -0500

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In the intro, a correction on the authorship and history of git from Randal Schwartz.

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This week's security alerts are WordPress fixes a critical XSS flaw and a rootkit found in some network security software.

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In this week's news the final SCO judgement, Sealand's data haven goes dark, a triple engine web browser, and tackling the erosion of MVC based designs by the adoption of AJAX.

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Following up this week the EU rebuffs the French three strikes rule and a Quicktime update relaxes HDCP for standard defintion video.

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TCLP 2008-11-26 Hacking 101: Source Control (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:20:48 -0500

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Listener feedback this week is from Paul Fischer on my coverage of DRM concerns with video in the iTunes store.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dogcow.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on source control.

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TCLP 2008-11-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:46:29 -0500

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This week's security alerts are a hard to exploit but critical crypto flaw in SSH and a new bit of malware for the Mac.

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Following up this week Adobe says it will still back standards despite loss in JavaScript 2.0 fight and Apple is in talks with the other three labels over DRM-free music.

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TCLP 2008-11-19 Hacking 101: Structured Data (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:12:43 -0500

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The hacker word of the week this week is documentation.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on structured data and designing your own file formats.

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No Podcast Tonight

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:22:37 -0500

TCLP 2008-11-13 Inner Chapter: Overcoming Obstacles (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:41:03 -0500

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The hacker word of the week this week is do protocol.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on overcoming obstacles. Kaity's site and online support group for generalized dystonia is here.

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TCLP 2008-11-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:25:52 -0500

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This week's security alerts are a severe bug in the G1 and more research on cracking WPA at least partially.

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Following up this week FCC approves white spaces for unlicensed use and the WIPO broadcast treaty is back though no imminent threat.

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TCLP 2008-11-05 Monologue: Hacking with a Social Conscience (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:15:03 -0500

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The hacker word of the week this week is distribution.

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TCLP 2008-11-02 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:24:16 -0500

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This week's security alerts are more info on remote key logging and software research to duplicate physical keys from photos.

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Following up this week just a guide to the news that the Google Books case has reached settlement plus one particular criticism that stands out.

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TCLP 2008-10-29 Rant: Information Overload (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:21:36 -0400

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In the intro, a quick review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem.

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Listener feedback this week is from Alex and Paul Fischer. The RADIUS server that Paul mentioned is StellarRADIUS.

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The hacker word of the week this week is display hack.

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The feature this week is a rant on the phenomenon of information overload.

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TCLP 2008-10-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:58:23 -0400

This is news cast 157.

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This week's security alerts are the first security flaw in the new G1 and vendor offers a security suite for Android.

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Following up this week EFF, Public Citizen respond to McCain's YouTube letter and Amazon deletes negative reviews for another EA video game riddled with DRM.

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TCLP 2008-10-22 Inner Chapter: Emotional Investment (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:22:18 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is deliminator.

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on the topic of emotional investment and how it can affect, for good and ill, our experience of hacking.

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TCLP 2008-10-19 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:45:56 -0400

This is news cast 157.

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This week's security alerts are Elcomsoft declares WPA dead due to their new GPU/distributed attack software though Schneier is skeptical and dealing with the privacy risks of Flash's "cookies".

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Following up this week Bush signs Pro-IP bill into law and the EFF presses the fight against the FISA Amendments Act in federal court, as promised.

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TCLP 2008-10-15 Hacking 101: Static Analysis (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:17:20 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is dinosaur.

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TCLP 2008-10-08 Inner Chapter: Job Search (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:41:19 -0400

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The feature this week is a longer Inner Chapter sharing my thought, experiences and advice for conducting a job search inspired by my own recent transition and Chris Miller's request.

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No Podcast Tonight

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:14:24 -0400

I let half the day get away from me and am feeling a bit under the weather, so no new show, tonight. I should, however, be able to produce the Wednesday feature cast as planned.

TCLP 2008-10-01 Interview: Evan Prodromou (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:27:41 -0400

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TCLP 2008-09-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:51:53 -0400

This is news cast 156.

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This week's security alerts are a full security suite on a phone and a new or under appreciated browser exploit with some practical defense but also a bit of skepticism.

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Following up this week, the PRO-IP act passes the Senate without the troubling civil enforcement provision but plenty more to worry about and Senate updates allowable internet service policies.

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TCLP 2008-09-24 Interview: Brad Sucks (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:47:42 -0400

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TCLP 2008-09-21 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:50:13 -0400

This is news cast 155.

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This week's security alerts are anti key logging software and using password recovery options more securely.

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Following up this week, the latest IP bill is being fast track make sure you take action now and Neuros launches their latest set top box adding HD encoding along with a bevy of other improvements.

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TCLP 2008-09-10 New Book: Content (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:17:43 -0400

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In the intro, a quick review of Cory Doctorow's new book, hist first non-fiction title, (c)ontent: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dink.

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The feature this week is a reading of two of my favorite selections from Cory's new book.

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TCLP 2008-09-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:27:57 -0400

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In the intro, remarking the end on the Voice of Free Planet X.

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This week's security alerts are malware has started generating fake infringement notices and incidental risks to privacy and security exposed with the iPhone.

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TCLP 2008-09-10 Interview: Beatnik Turtle, Fixed (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:49:37 -0400

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TCLP 2008-09-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:38:02 -0400

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This week's security alerts are captcha solving services raise difficult security questions and an up tick in the number of zombie PCs.

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Following up this week, a new report shows internet capacity is outpacing demand despite the recurrent claims of a bandwidth meltdown and the Canadian DMCA may be about to fail.

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Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:31:18 -0400

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TCLP 2008-08-24 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:49:34 -0400

This is news cast 152.

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In the intro, the last reminder I'll be at Dragon*Con from the 29th to the 1st so there'll be no show on the 27th or the 31st.

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This week's security alerts are a clipboard hijacknig attack and a new crypto attack from Adi Shamir.

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TCLP 2008-08-20 Hacking 101: Errors and Exceptions (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:06:43 -0400

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TCLP 2008-08-17 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:45:57 -0400

This is news cast 151.

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This week's security alerts are an automated tool for hijacking session cookies and password reset tools are almost as bad as poor password security itself.

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Following up this week, music streaming service Pandora may be closing up shop and RIAA pays defendants legal fees with interest.

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TCLP 2008-08-13 Inner Chapter: Inspiration (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:30:23 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a heads up that I will again be traveling to Dragon*Con in two short weeks where I will be volunteering, among other things, on the podcasting track.

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The hacker word of the week this week is defflicted.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on inspiration.

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TCLP 2008-08-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:47:59 -0400

This is news cast 149.

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In the intro, final thoughts on the Reiser case.

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Following up this week, Judge in Thomas case may consider a mistrial/re-trial and Blizzard seeking to stop open source release of Glider code.

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TCLP 2008-08-06 Rant: Steam Punk (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:05:24 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is demon.

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The feature this week is a rant on my sole complaint with the genre of steam punk.

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TCLP 2008-08-03 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:57:22 -0400

This is news cast 149.

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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.

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This week's security alerts are an exploit that uses the near ubiquitous automatic software update channels and a new attack that embeds executable Java in innocuous image files.

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Following up this week, the FCC rules against Comcast though some are questioning its legal ability to enforce that ruling and Tim O'Reilly's thoughts on open cloud computing.

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TCLP 2008-07-30 Grass Roots Hacktivism (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:27:04 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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Listener feedback this week is from Matt, Kaity and Bashar.

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The hacker word of the week this week is demo.

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The feature this week is a monologue on the topic of grass roots hacktivism.

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TCLP 2008-07-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:10:25 -0400

This is news cast 147.

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In the intro, a quick review of Settlers of Catan.

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Following up this week, the researchers who demonstrated the cold boot crypto attack release their code and a lament for the state of OpenID adoption.

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TCLP 2008-07-23 The Last HOPE (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:25:43 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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Listener feedback this week is from psionandy, who sent a couple of links, and Matt.

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The hacker word of the week this week is demigod.

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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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TCLP 2008-07-20 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:29:33 -0400

This is news cast 147.

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In the intro, a couple of requests for help with the show and Open Media Review.

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The security alerts this week are research to be demonstrated on exploitable flaws in Intel chips and the rise and fall of CAPTCHAs.

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Following up this week, the EU considers copyright term extension again and passes it with an odd provision, and more analysis on ACTA.

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TCLP 2008-07-16 EFF on FISA Amendments Act (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:51:02 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is defenestration.

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For this week's feature I contacted the EFF to talk to someone about the recent passage of the FISA Amendments Acts. I am joined by Rebecca Jeschke, EFF's media coordinator.

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TCLP 2008-06-29 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:22:03 -0400

This is news cast 146.

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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.

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In the intro, a quick review of Wall*e based on my taking my two sons to see it this weekend. I highly and thoroughly recommend this film. I think it has an overlooked hacker theme to it, to boot.

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TCLP 2008-06-25 3rd Anniversary Show (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:54:31 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is deep space.

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TCLP 2008-06-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:49:34 -0400

This is news cast 145.

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In the intro, just a quick mention of the end of Search Engine on CBC Radio One, that I wrote about on the blog, previously.

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The only security alert this week is a couple of security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3 already though a fix is on the way and eavesdropping on encrypted VoIP.

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Following up this week, an interview with Minister Prentice and first responses to Judge Davis' call for comments on the Jammie Thomas case.

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TCLP 2008-06-18 Inner Chapter: Hacker Work Ethic (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:50:51 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is deep magic.

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The feature is an Inner Chapter on the hacker work ethic, drawing heavily from my own experience on what motivates me to hack.

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TCLP 2008-06-15 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:50:10 -0400

This is news cast 144.

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In the intro, a consideration of my geek dad in light of Father's Day, a reminder of the upcoming 3rd anniversary of the show, and a thank you for all feedback past.

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The only security alert this week is a discussion of an update to existing ransomware with a stronger encryption key and one security vendor's desire to crack it despite skepticism from the experts.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2008-06-11 Monologue: Unintended Uses (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:21:55 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is DEC.

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The feature is a monologue trying to answer a question Kreg Steppe, a listener and fellow podcaster, posed about unintended use of free software.

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TCLP 2008-06-08 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:15:59 -0400

This is news cast 143.

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Security alerts this week are researching new counter measures against worms and Mozilla contemplating a successor to the same origin policy.

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Following up this week, Media Defender doesn't defend itself very well and Apple fixes OS X's implementation of DTrace.

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TCLP 2008-06-05 Interview: Chris Miller about Google I/O (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:33:28 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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Sorry about the delay, as commented previously on the web site, we were without power last night.

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The book Chris mentions in the interview is Build Scalable Web Sites, I think, so the speaker he mentioned would be Cal Henderson.

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The hacker word of the week this week is death code.

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The feature is an interview with Chris Miller discussing his recent experiences at Google I/O.

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TCLP 2008-06-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:42:48 -0400

This is news cast 142.

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In the intro a review of my latest gadget purchase, a new iPod Touch.

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Following up this week, just that NBC and Microsoft claim to have gotten to the bottom of the recent broadcast flag snafu.

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TCLP 2008-05-28 Monologue: Volunteerism (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 28 May 2008 21:16:27 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, just a quick mention of Balticon and memorial day. My write ups of Balticon are on my LiveJournal for day 1, day 2, day 3, the wrap up, and a bit of memetic silliness.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dead lock.

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The feature is a monologue considering the topic of volunteerism, inspired by my work at Balticon and the holiday, especially a friend who as decided to re-enlist.

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TCLP 2008-05-21 Interview: Cory Doctorow (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 May 2008 20:50:10 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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A reminder that there will be no news cast this weekend as I'll be at Balticon 42.

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There is no new hacker word of the week.

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The feature is an interview with Cory Doctorow in which we talk about his new book, Little Brother

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TCLP 2008-05-18 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 18 May 2008 20:35:34 -0400

This is news cast 141.

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Security alerts this week are the Debian GNU/Linux project fixes a critical crypto bug and PayPal is proven vulnerable despite using an enhancement to plain SSL security.

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Following up this week, a couple of cases go against the RIAA in particular Judge Davis in the Thomas case thinks he made an error.

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TCLP 2008-05-14 Monologue: Online Identity (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:24:53 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dead code.

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The feature is a monologue considering the questions presented by online identity.

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TCLP 2008-05-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:27:10 -0400

This is news cast 140.

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Security alerts this week are a security flaw turns Gmail into an open relay and Google launches a security group to help with open source software.

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Following up this week, the PRO-IP bill passes the house and the RIAA claims DRM is not dead though most of us remain skeptical.

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TCLP 2008-05-07 Hacking 101: Complexity (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 May 2008 22:05:32 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is de-rezz.

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Listener feedback is an email from Christopher.

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The feature is a new Hacking 101 exploring the concept of complexity.

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TCLP 2008-05-04 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 04 May 2008 20:00:13 -0400

This is news cast 139.

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In the intro a quick recap of our Free Comic Day and review of the movie, Iron Man.

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Security alerts this week are EULAs for malware and the security risks of social network applications.

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Following up this week, a favorable ruling in the Howell file sharing case with Patry's commentary and Radiohead is not going to repeat their download experiment.

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TCLP 2008-04-30 The Effect of Coding on Thought (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:17:10 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dd.

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Listener feedback is a voice mail from C.A. Sizemore commenting on the Social Spaces 2 feature.

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The feature is a monologue considering the effects of coding on thought.

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Little Brother

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:27:56 -0400

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TCLP 2008-04-23 Secure Computing Environments with Vernor Vinge (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:25:05 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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Don't forget, no news show this Sunday as I will be at RavenCon.

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Despite getting to meet the maintainer of The Jargon File, no new hacker word this week due to the length of the feature.

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I received a voice mail but I will hold that until next time because the feature audio is around fifty minutes long.

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The feature is some panel audio I recorded at Penguicon this past weekend. I was joined on the panel by noted science fiction author, Vernor Vinge, and the topic was secure computing environments.

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TCLP 2008-04-16 Social Spaces 2 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:46:01 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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Don't forget, no news show this Sunday as I will be at Penguicon 6.0.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dangling pointer.

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Listener feedback is a voice mail from Jed with a few observations on scripting languages.

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The feature is a monologue revisiting social spaces which I last talked about on the August 22nd show.

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TCLP 2008-04-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:57:11 -0400

This is news cast 138.

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Security alerts this week are whether the Kraken worm is now the biggest or the research supporting that is valid and a security research develops and demonstrates malware counter hacks.

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Following up this week, the first participate in Flickr's The Commons project after the LoC and carriers start trying to argue the development of P4P lessens the need for neutrality regulation.

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TCLP 2008-04-09 Inner Chapter: Stretching Yourself (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:18:48 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is daemon.

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The feature is an Inner Chapter on stretching yourself.

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TCLP 2008-04-06 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:03:34 -0400

This is news cast 137.

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In the intro a quick discussion of the paper that Jon mentioned in last week's feedback.

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Security alerts this week are yet another RFID encryption scheme has been cracked and a key logger like tool for capturing biometric credentials.

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TCLP 2008-04-03 Hacking 101: Scripting Languages (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:28:13 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is cycle.

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The feature is a Hacking 101 segment on scripting languages.

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TCLP 2008-03-26 Interview: Ed Felten (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:29:51 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is cyberspace.

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TCLP 2008-03-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:39:30 -0400

This is news cast 136.

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Security alerts this week are an evolving iFrame injection attack and evading Facebook's privacy controls.

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TCLP 2008-03-19 Hacking 101: Parallel Computing, Programming (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:48:13 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a brief remark on the passing of Arthur C. Clarke.

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The hacker word of the week this week is cyberpunk.

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The feature is a new Hacking 101 segment on parallel computing and programming.

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TCLP 2010-09-15 Interview: Randy Chertkow of Beatnik Turtle (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:30:38 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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TCLP 2010-09-08 Creative Commons, Legal Issue Panel from Dragon*Con 2010 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:22:55 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick end of month update on the podcast's finances and you can find all my posts from Dragon*Con past and present using the dragoncon tag.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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TCLP 2010-08-25 Inner Chapter: Superstitions (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:46:44 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, the last reminder of my impending travel to Dragon*Con. Also a quick review of Neil Netanel's "Copyright's Paradox".

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Listener feedback is a thoughtful and thought provoking email from Grant who wrote in response to my discussion of ebooks in the developing world.

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The hacker word of the week this week is finger-pointing syndrome.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of superstitions.

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TCLP 2010-08-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:47:27 -0400

This is news cast 222, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are a Firefox bug bypasses URL protection for embedded frames and an old Linux Kernel flaw allows exploits to acquire root privileges.

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Following up this week EFF appealing the Jewel v. NSA warrantless wiretapping case and negotiators concede ACTA isn't about counterfeiting after all.

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TCLP 2010-08-18 Inner Chapter: Scalability (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:55:45 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder about the upcoming CopyNight here in DC and of my impending travel to Dragon*Con.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of scalability. In it, I mention my previous discussion of speed and performance.

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TCLP 2010-08-15 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:51:48 -0400

This is news cast 222, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are first Android SMS trojan and a vulnerability in OpenSSL 1.0.

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TCLP 2010-08-08 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:22:14 -0400

This is news cast 221, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are RFIDs can be provably read at over 60 meters and an algorithmic attack on reCAPTCHA.

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Following up this week EFF offers assistance to targets of the US Copyright Group and the FCC ends closed door discussions on its net neutrality plan.

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TCLP 2010-08-04 Habits of an Infovore (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:44:29 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, sharing Steve's badge photo, last month's revenue update, and a reminder there will be no feature cast next week as I'll be out of town.

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The hacker word of the week this week is finger trouble .

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The feature this week is a monologue my habits as an infovore. How I consume information is very much informed by current thinking on multitasking.

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TCLP 2010-08-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:19:35 -0400

This is news cast 220, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are Apple fixes the autofill bug in Safari that I didn't get to discuss last week and AT&T said it wouldn't interfere with a Black Hat demo and was true to its word.

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Following up this week Al Franken frames net neutrality as key free speech issue and Canadian C-32 is clearly following the US DMCA.

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TCLP 2010-07-21 The True Burden of Forking (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:44:33 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick review of the tabletop game, "The Stars are Right".

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Listener feedback this week is from Andrew and Carey, both of home responded to the last feature on complex privacy .

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The hacker word of the week this week is Finagle's Law.

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The feature this week is a monologue considering the true burden of forking. It was inspired by my recent reading of Clay Shirky's excellent, "Here Comes Everybody".

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TCLP 2010-07-18 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:44:23 -0400

This is news cast 219, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Following up this week European ACTA negotiators update the EP in secret and ACTA is coming down to a fight between the US and the EU.

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TCLP 2010-07-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:32:00 -0400

This is news cast 218, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are researchers form collective in response to Microsoft's dismissal of a security concern and REMnux, a linux distro designed for reverse engineering malware.

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Following up this week, two UK ISPs are taking the Digital Economy Act to High Court.

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TCLP 2010-07-07 Will We Ever Have Effective Complex Privacy Controls? (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:02:10 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is filter.

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TCLP 2010-07-04 A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:54:40 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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TCLP 2010-06-30 Cory Doctorow at CopyNight DC (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:17:58 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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I will save this week's feedback, of which there is rather a lot, until next week.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

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The feature this week is a recording of the talk Cory Doctorow gave at this month's CopyNight, here in DC.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. There are no detailed show notes for this episode.

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TCLP 2010-06-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:00:22 -0400

This is news cast 217, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an apology for missing the last news cast.

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This week's security alerts are attacking the attackers and anti-malware is a poor substitute for common sense.

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Following up this week, the debate around C-32 turns adversarial and judge rules in Viacom case that YouTube is protected by DMCA safe harbors.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online.

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TCLP 2010-06-23 Switching Back to an Open Stack (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:14:25 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fence.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online.

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TCLP 2010-06-16: Inner Chapter: Why Programming is Hard (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:08:20 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a mention of the merit badges arriving and the first pictures.

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Also a quick review of "The Affinity Bridge" by George Mann.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is feetch feetch.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online.

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TCLP 2010-06-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:05:48 -0400

This is news cast 216, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an update on the badge experiment.

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This week's security alerts are diffusing botnet control makes them more robust and bad passwords and the economics around perpetuating them.

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Following up this week, another social network bill of rights and judge may dismiss most defendants from US Copyright Group suits.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online.

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TCLP 2010-06-09 Free Yourself: Open Source Software for Everyday Use (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:44:47 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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I will save listener feedback for the next show.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-06-06 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:41:45 -0400

This is news cast 215, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, just a pointer to my thoughts on Balticon 44 and a recap on advertising, the badge experiment, and Flattr so far.

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This week's security alerts are OS choice does not equal security and an Android rootkit.

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Following up this week, if you are tired of Facebook then check out a Firefox extension that aims to help preserve your privacy while using it and India tries to gather opposition to ACTA.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-06-02 Art, Music and Literature in the Age of Digital Reproducibility (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:08:22 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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I will save listener feedback for the next show or the one after that.

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There is no listener feedback this week due to the length of the feature.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-05-26 Inner Chapter: Legacy Code (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 26 May 2010 21:33:10 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder there will be no news show this Sunday as I'll be at Balticon. Also, a quick review of "Dreaming in Code", by Scott Rosenberg.

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Listener feedback this week is from Randal on the Dr. Who as a hacker and DeepGeek in response to my discussion of Danah Boyd's essay on Facebook as a utility.

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The hacker word of the week this week is featurectomy.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of legacy code.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-05-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 23 May 2010 20:23:45 -0400

This is news cast 214, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are Chrome's private mode leaks info and FTC looks into privacy concerns with digital copiers.

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Following up this week The Pirate Party steps in to host The Pirate Bay and EFF issues a strong criticism of Google's latest privacy mistake.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-05-19 Interview: Cory Doctorow, "For the Win" (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 19 May 2010 21:32:53 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Due to the length of the interview, I didn't get to any listener feedback this week. There also is no new hacker word of the week for the same reason.

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"Amerika"
"English as She Is Spoken"
Anda's Game
Beyond Circumvention, by Ethan Zuxker
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet, by Douglas Adams
It was Michael Weinberg, from Public Knowledge, on This Week in Law who proposed thinking about three strikes with the telephone
"Content" is the essay collection containing World of Democracycraft
Facebook is a Utility, All Utilities are Regulated, by Danah Boyd
Diaspora*, Kickstarter, and Quit Facebook Day
Jane McGonigal created Superstruct and the other game I couldn't remember properly is Evoke
Alice commissioned the award winning game, Smokescreen
Power Punctuation! in three parts: part 1, part 2, part 3
The Geertz mentioned is anthropologist, Clifford Geertz
io9 scooped me and has more details on "Rapture of the Nerds"

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-05-12 Review: Postsingular and Hylozoic (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 12 May 2010 20:57:16 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fear and loathing.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-05-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 09 May 2010 22:08:06 -0400

This is news cast 213, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Following up this week the FCC's third way to pursue network neutrality and the FCC allows selectable output control with some qualifications.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-05-05 Dr. Who as a Hacker (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 05 May 2010 21:16:02 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to Graham and [si]dragon for their donations. Also, a quick review of "Permanence", by Karl Schroeder.

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Listener feedback this week is from Robert who posted a comment in response to my NoSQL rant.

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The hacker word of the week this week is block transfer computations.

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The feature this week is a monologue consider Dr. Who as a hacker. In it, I mention a section from the Wikipedia page on Dr. Who.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-05-02 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 02 May 2010 19:53:59 -0400

This is news cast 212, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick update on the advertising experiment.

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This week's security alerts are Symantec plans to PGP and a massive quantity of GoDaddy hosted WordPress sites are under attack.

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Following up this week USTR claims official ACTA draft proves prior rumors were false and MSIE9 to support HTML5 video but only with H.264.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-04-28 Rant: NoSQL (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:39:30 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fat-finger .

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The feature this week is a rant where I try to get to exactly what it is that bugs me about NoSQL. In it, I refer to my hacking 101 piece on databases.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-04-21 EFF on the Recent Al Haramain Ruling (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:54:03 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder that CopyNight here in DC is next Tuesday. Also, an update on the badge experiment. And thanks to Kevin M. and George for their donations this past week.

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Listener feedback this week is from Robert. He recommends the radio show and podcast, Media Matters.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fat electrons.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-04-14 Free Press on Comcast-NBC Acquisition (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:35:17 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to Robert for his donation. Also an announcement, that there will be no news show this weekend due to time constraints resulting from family and personal commitments.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fascist .

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-04-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:32:57 -0400

This is news cast 211, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to new donor this week, David.

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This week's security alerts are a new site collecting privacy and security info on apps and services and a vulnerability in WebKit's handling of the blink tag.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-04-07 Java, the Gray Lady (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:07:47 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, an update on the advertising experiment.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is farm .

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The feature this week is a monologue on Java, the Gray Lady. In it, I mention COM, specifically criticisms against it. I also mention a timely piece by Neil McAllister and the Zen of Python.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-31 Why CopyNight is Important (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:22:03 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a call for help with topics for programming focused segments for the next few weeks and an announcement that there will be no news show this Sunday.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is faradize .

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The feature this week is a monologue on why CopyNight is important. In it I mention cultural critic, Mark Dery, and Christine Harold's book, "OurSpace".

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:39:22 -0400

This is news cast 210, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, thanks to new donors this week, Rhonda and Jonathan. Also a very quick update on the badge experiment.

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This week's security alerts are attackers using attack-in-depth and security alerts for Gmail.

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Following up this week constitutional concerns over ACTA and the Digital Economy Bill is set to go to vote without further public debate.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-24 Rant: I Am Not a Pirate (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:30:26 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fandango on core.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-17 Inner Chapter: Tools (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:44:29 -0400

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fall through .

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on tools. In it, I mention The Pragmatic Programmers.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:47:29 -0400

This is news cast 209, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a call for help with my new experiment, this time with a way to reward and encourage donors. Also, happy Pi Day.

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This week's security alerts are researchers build an 8K smart phone botnet and share their motivations for doing so and some findings and a serious Apache exploit is discovered.

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Following up this week web cames disabled in PA school laptops and Open Source for America rebuts IIPA's petition to the USTR including a post, a paper and a personal meeting.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-10 Hacking 101: Databases (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:14:18 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is fairings.

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The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 on databases.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:44:06 -0500

This is news cast 208, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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Following up this week the USTR responds to Senator Wyden's letter about ACTA with some good analysis and the problems with a revised censorship amendment to the DEB that now targets weblockers.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-03-03 Chris Miller on PyCon 2010 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:45:59 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

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If you want to hear more conversation between Chris and myself on less technical but still crunchy subjects, check out episode 24 of The Secret Lair.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-02-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:39:08 -0500

This is news cast 207, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, explaining my advertise experiment, a change to the podcast's license going forward, and OggCamp 10.

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This week's security alerts are OpenDNS adopts and explains DNSCurve and anatomy of a SQL injection attack.

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Following up this week the internet chapter of ACTA has leaked.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-02-24 Interview: Nina Paley (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:45:00 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-02-21 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:12:33 -0500

This is news cast 206, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a reminder that CopyNight is Monday and that Nina Paley is speaking at American on Wednesday, the 24th.

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This week's security alerts are the first denial of service attack and botnets attacking each other.

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Following up this week leak of details on last ACTA negotation round and the Jacobsen case is finally settled.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:17:11 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week, due to the length of the feature.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-02-09 Unscheduled Hiatus (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:42:57 -0500

This is just a quick meta-cast for the benefit of those who do not read the web site.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-02-03 Inner Chapter: Politics (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:43:18 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick review of Ed Piskor's latest installment in his WIZZYWIG series, Volume 3: Fugitive.

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The hacker word of the week this week is eyeball search.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on politics.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-01-31 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:31:30 -0500

This is news cast 205, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, information about a couple of great upcoming events: Free Culture X and the Southern California Linux Expo.

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This week's security alert are fighting spam with captured botnets and examining an exploit kit.

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Following up this week Jammie Thomas is offered a settlement but she refuses as the RIAA appeals the judge's reduction of their damage award against her and a guide to speaking out against ACTA.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-27 The Hacker Hero (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:52:06 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is eye candy.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-24 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:05:57 -0500

This is news cast 204, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alert are an odd interaction between AT&T's mobile network and Facebook with some clarification and a seventeen year old Windows flaw.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-20 Interview: Danny O'Brien on ACTA (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:38:04 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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No listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-17 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:39:52 -0500

This is news cast 203, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro a quick overview on my convention schedule for this year.

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This week's security alert is just an in depth discussion of a concerning interview that revealed some internal privacy issues at Facebook.

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Following up this week a further refinement of the FLOSS license icons and the UK offers a compromise on the pirate catcher powers in the Digital Economy Bill.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-13 Inner Chapter: Accomplishment (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:08:12 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick recap of my experiences at World's Fair Use Day. I may share a longer blog post or podcast segment once I finally get a chance to sift through my notes.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Exploder.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on accomplishment.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:39:39 -0500

This is news cast 202, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro a shout out to SLUG and a huge thank you to Holger for his ongoing donation.

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This week's security alerts are Adobe finally working on a software updater and 768-bit RSA modulus factored.

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Following up this week Tenenbaum P2P case defending seeking to overturn damages as unconstitutional and FCC seeks extension for broadband plan.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2010-01-06 Hacking 101: Speed and Performance (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:58:09 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, some thoughts on the loss of a friend.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-12-20 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:41:41 -0500

This is news cast 201, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Apologies if you received a flood of old episodes as if they are new. This may be the result of some needed feed maintenance.

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This week's only security alerts is development of a counter tool to a forensics suite, COFEE, that Micrsoft offers but was leaked and the announcement to that counter tool, DECAF, was just a stunt.

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Following up this week just the news that the three strikes plan has returned in New Zealand despite its fundamental flaws.

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TCLP 2009-12-16 Hacking 101: Distributed Version Control (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:23:26 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is exercise, left as an.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-12-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:19:24 -0500

This is news cast 200, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are attackers improve on techniques to use Twitter to conceal their efforts and malware found in a Gnome screen saver.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-12-09 Monologue: Social Gravity Well (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:00:28 -0500

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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In the intro, a quick review of the film, "Astro Boy", based on the original manga by Osamu Tezuka. I also highly recommend Dan's review of the film on Geekadelphia.

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Listener feedback this week is from Philip who wrote in to comment on my nowhere to go rant.

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The hacker word of the week this week is exec.

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The feature this week is a monologue on the social gravity well.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-12-06 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:07:52 -0500

This is news cast 199, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

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This week's security alerts are malware may start affecting non-jailbroken iPhones and testing whether Google's new DNS resolver is secure. I wrote about Google's new offering earlier in the week.

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Following up this week one British politician pushed back on the Digital Economy Bill and evaluating the censorship risk of the current version of the Google Books settlement.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-29 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:47:11 -0500

This is news cast 198.

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In the intro, a quick Philcon recap. See my earlier post for more.

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This week's security alerts are details on an exploitable flaw in older versions of MSIE including news of an actual exploit and the latest iPhone worm snags bank credentials.

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Following up this week evaluating privacy in the revised Books settlement and two senators question ACTA secrecy.

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TCLP 2009-11-25 Interview: Cory Doctorow (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:03:20 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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I am delaying listener feedback until the next feature cast due to the holiday week and the length of the feature.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-18 Rant: Nowhere to Go (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:42:11 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Evil Empire.

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The feature this week is a rant, though more of an emotional than a surly one, entitled nowhere to go.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-15 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:23:02 -0500

This is news cast 197.

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This week's security alerts are Firefox bugs account for 44% of all browser bugs and considering whether antivirus is dead.

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Following up this week revisions to the Google Books settlement which exclude any privacy protections and oral arguments were heard by the Supreme Court in the Bilski case.

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TCLP 2009-11-11 Hacking 101: Front End, Back End (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:32:26 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a quick review of the expansion, On the Brink, to the game Pandemic. I reviewed Pandemic on the March 25th podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is evil.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 segment on the terms front end and back end development. I mention the model-viewer-controller design pattern and refer to my interview with Celeste Lyn Paul.

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TCLP 2009-11-08 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:21:34 -0500

This is news cast 196.

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This week's security alerts are the latest issues arising from Windows autorun and using cloud computing to brute force crypto.

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Following up this week the latest info and analysis on ACTA.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-11-04 Monologue: Social Identity (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:37:50 -0500

This is a feature cast.

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Lastly, the intro includes a brief clarification and comment about the experimental opening music from the last show.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is Eric Conspiracy.

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The feature this week is a monologue on social identity.

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TCLP 2009-11-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:27:05 -0500

This is news cast 195.

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In the intro, an experiment, playing some CC-licensed and interesting music instead of the usual theme music.

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This week's security alerts are executing attack code via the ldd utility and a former anti-virus research seemingly turning against the industry.

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Following up this week Mandelson is still pushing for three strikes in the UK and unlikely opponents, law enforcers.

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TCLP 2009-10-28 Inner Chapter: Perfection and Compromise (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:58:25 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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The hacker word of the week this week is epsilon squared.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of perfection and compromise.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-25 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:25:09 -0400

This is news cast 194.

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In the intro, a quick reminder about tomorrow night's CopyNight here in DC.

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This week's security alerts are the "evil maid" attack on encrypted disks and first impressions of security in Google Wave.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-21 Interview: Randal Schwartz (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:09:26 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, letting you know that part one of a two part interview with me is up at the Life after Law School podcast.

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There is no listener feedback this week.

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Due to the length of the feature, there is no hacker word of the week this week.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-18 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:59:30 -0400

This is news cast 193.

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This week's security alerts are figuring out whether Facebook apps are safe and Microsoft's un-invited Firefox add-on has a vulnerability though Mozilla has acted to disable it for everyone.

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Following up this week 42 people gain access under NDA to the ACTA drafts.

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TCLP 2009-10-14 Rant: My Love-Hate Relationship with CS (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:22:14 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, I mention two upcoming events you might like to check out. The first is OggCamp and the second is the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference.

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Listener feedback this week is from Kaity and from Erwin.

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The hacker word of the week this week is epsilon .

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The feature this week is a rant trying to explain my odd, love-hate relationship with computer science.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-11 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:07:51 -0400

This is news cast 192.

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This week's security alerts are researchers hijack a botnet to study drive-by attacks and Comcast to start sending warnings to customers whose PCs are snared in botnets.

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Following up this week copyright suit over distributing Green Dam and Senate panel to examine sale of Diebold's voting machine division.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-10-07 Inner Chapter: Personal Advocacy (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:20:07 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro, a request that you consider contributing to the Creative Commons 5th annual fundraising campaign.

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Listener feedback this week is from Eric who writes with a question about a disclaimer on public domain photos.

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The hacker word of the week this week is epoch.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:17:11 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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I'm going to push off on listener feedback until next week. Also, no hacker word of the week for the same reason, the length of the feature.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-09-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:19:12 -0400

This is news cast 191.

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This week's security alerts are AES explained by stick figures and bounties on infected Macs.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-09-23 Importance of Open Formats (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:56:42 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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Listener feedback this week is a voice mail from Jed in response to my discussion of the Vanish project discussed in the September 13th news cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is EOU.

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The feature this week is the recording I took of my talk on the importance of open formats at the local Software Freedom Day celebration.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-09-16 Hacking 101: Golden Hammer Syndrome (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:52:09 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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Listener feedback this week (catching up) comes from Paul Fischer who writes in response to the August 23rd show, specifically to the stories about Menuet and cracking the SecurID token.

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The hacker word of the week this week is ENQ.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on the subject of Golden Hammer Syndrome, something all beginning hackers need to beware of.

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More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/.

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TCLP 2009-09-13 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:56:26 -0400

This is news cast 190.

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I documented my experiences at the con extensively on the blog and may still try to sum up my experiences for this year, beyond just that journal of events.

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This week's security alerts are Windows 7 restores a vintage remote BSoD and researchers discover the first Linux web server based botnet.

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Following up this week just i4i's side of the story about its patent claims against Microsoft.

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TCLP 2009-09-09 Interview: Beatnik Turtle (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:18:01 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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No hacker word of the week because of the length of the feature. Also, though I have some listener feedback, I am saving it until next Wednesday for the same reason.

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TCLP 2009-08-30 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:51:08 -0400

This is news cast 189.

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In the intro, the final reminder I will be at Dragon*Con over Labor Day weekend. No show on the 2nd or the 6th.

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Following up this week Nina Paley shares some positive economic data on sharing her work openly and Mozilla launches Test Swarm.

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TCLP 2009-08-26 Embracing Fair Use (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:33:51 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a quick review of the file, "Sita Sings the Blues", by Nina Paley.

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The hacker word of the week this week is enhancement.

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The feature this week is a monologue on embracing fair use. Here's the promised links defining fair use and fair use for trademarks. I mention Open Media Review and The Arbiter Chronicles.

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TCLP 2009-08-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:23:42 -0400

This is news cast 188.

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In the intro, I will be speaking at the Maryland gathering for Software Freedom Day on September 19th. More details after Dragon*Con.

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This week's security alerts are new research to predict online attacks and cracking real time ID generators.

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Following up this week i4i confirms OpenOffice doesn't violate its patent and Nina Paley shares the source files to her wonderful open content work "Sita Sings the Blues".

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TCLP 2009-08-19 Rant: Owning Innovation (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:27:42 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a quick review of the movie, District 9.

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The hacker word of the week this week is engine.

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TCLP 2009-08-16 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:47:29 -0400

This is news cast 187.

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In the intro, a quick reminder I will be at Dragon*Con September 4 through 7. My schedule is already on my Google calendar and will be updated as I learn more.

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This week's security alerts are self enforcing protocols and RSA threatens trademark infringment over a security disclosure.

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Following up this week researchers demonstrate that attacks on voting systems are practical without any special knowledge and the latest on the Supreme Court appeal of Bilski.

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TCLP 2009-08-12 Inner Chapter: Thought Leadership (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:19:03 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on thought leadership.

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TCLP 2009-08-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:24:56 -0400

This is news cast 186.

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

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This week's security alerts are a persistent attack through the firmware in new Mac keyboards and many XML libraries share common critical flaws.

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Following up this week a new network neutrality bill has been introduced and the EFF's analysis of potential outcomes for the Kindle class action suit.

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TCLP 2009-08-05 Rant: Software Frameworks (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:09:23 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro just sharing the news that my podiobook has been released. You can visit the new page for The Inner Chapters for details on how you can help promote it.

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The hacker word of the week this week is email.

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The feature this week is a rant on software frameworks.

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TCLP 2009-07-29 Inner Chapter: Tradition (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:21:11 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is EMACS.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on tradition.

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TCLP 2009-07-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:22:50 -0400

This is news cast 185.

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

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This week's security alerts are Mozilla claims a new Firefox 3.5 flaw is not exploitable and a zero day PDF, Flash flaw is being exploited.

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Following up this week Bezos personally apologizes for the remote Kindle deletions and GGF is back pedalling on its acquisition of The Pirate Bay.

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TCLP 2009-07-22 Hacking 101: How to Contribute to Open Source (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:07:05 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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The hacker word of the week this week is ELIZA effect

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 providing some advice and ideas for how to contribute to your first open source project.

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TCLP 2009-07-19 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:08:02 -0400

This is news cast 184.

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook project.

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This week's security alert is a critical flaw in Firefox 3.5 for which there is already an exploit. Thankfully, there is also already a fix.

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Following up this week the state of Neuros' set top box (I'm also a big fan of their Unlocked mark which folks are free to use) and details on GGF's plan for The Pirate Bay site.

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TCLP 2009-07-15 Inner Chapter: Focus (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:47:51 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a quick review of the family friendly game, Qwirkle.

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Listener Feedback this week comes from Marc who commented on the new Inner Chapter theme music and Dave who commented on the Inner Chapter of the role of leader as law giver.

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The hacker word of the week this week is elite

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on focus. This builds on my previous chapters on will and yak shaving.

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TCLP 2009-07-12 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:19:34 -0400

This is news cast 183.

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In the intro, an update on the state of the podiobook and unbook projects.

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This week's security alert is new research allows better than random guessing of SSNs.

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Following up this week SoundExchange and the webcasters reach and agreement but it definitely isn't all it is cracked up to be.

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TCLP 2009-07-08 Inner Chapter: Leader as Law Giver (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:42:12 -0400

This is a feature cast.

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In the intro a quick review of the family friendly game, Cheeky Monkey.

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Listener Feedback this week comes from Philip Durbin who writes about using frameworks to help manage code complexity and Gladwell's review of Anderson's new book, "Free".

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The hacker word of the week this week is elephantine .

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on when a leader must act as law giver. This builds on my previous chapter on leadership.

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TCLP 2009-07-05 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:06:52 -0400

This is news cast 182.

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In the intro, a reflection on liberty, in honor of the Holiday this weekend in the US.

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This week's security alerts are a a new form of click fraud and a new attack on the AES encryption algorithm .

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Following up this week the current state of Blu-ray's DRM and a Linux kernel patch to circumvent patent claims against the FAT filesystem.

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TCLP 2009-07-01 Ideas vs. Execution (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:43:03 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is elegant.

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TCLP 2009-06-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:39:45 -0400

This is news cast 181.

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In the intro, a discussion of starting a podiobook of the first set of Inner Chapters. More details to come as the project progresses.

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This week's security alerts are a new project from Mozilla to help cope with XSS attacks and a security expert urges rewards for disposing of weak, MD5 based SSL certificates.

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Following up this week could the massive award in the Thomas retrial invite reform around statutory damages? And more on the Chinese mandated filter-ware.

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TCLP 2009-06-24 4th Anniversary (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:46:27 -0400

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The story submission, in order of receipt and playback, are from Kevin Crosby, Nido Media, Chris Miller, imag1nary number and Jonathan David.

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TCLP 2009-06-17 Hacking 101: Responsibilities and Relationships (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:12:22 -0400

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In the intro sharing my decision to extend the submission deadline for stories for my 4th anniversary show.

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The hacker word of the week this week is elder days.

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The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 piece of approaching design by understanding responsibilities and relationships.

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TCLP 2009-06-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:25:19 -0400

This is news cast 180.

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This week's security alerts are new researcher further weakening SHA1 and a JavaScript attack against intranets and VPNs.

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Following up this week French three strikes law is gutted and Obama administration commits to ACTA.

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Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:30:11 -0400

This is a feature cast.

In the intro a correction and a reminder about my upcoming 4th anniversary show.

There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature.

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TCLP 2009-06-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:58:36 -0400

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This week's security alerts are a mass drive by injection attack and the .org zone moving forward with DNSSEC.

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Following up this week the Bilksi appeal moves forward and a preview of the Jammie Thomas re-trial.

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TCLP 2009-06-03 Balticon 43: Technology, Podcasting's Rocket Fuel (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:26:51 -0400

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In the intro a reminder that the 4th anniversary episode of the show is coming up, June 24th. Please send me any recollections, thoughts, or well wishes you'd like me to share on that show.

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The feature this week is the recording of the Technology: Podcasting's Rocket Fuel panel at Balticon 43. I was joined by Steve Eley, Jim Van Verth and Chooch Schubert.

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TCLP 2009-05-31 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 31 May 2009 18:42:41 -0400

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Following up this week another new wrinkle in the already fascinating Pirate Bay case and judge threatens sanctions in the NSA wiretap case.

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TCLP 2009-05-27 Balticon 43: Peer Media vs. Broadcast Media (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 27 May 2009 20:26:14 -0400

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In the intro a heart felt thank you to my good friend, Chris Miller, for his support and advice without which my recent experience at Balticon would not have been anywhere near as phenomenal.

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TCLP 2009-05-20 Inner Chapter: Criticism (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 20 May 2009 21:16:00 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is egg.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the practice of criticism.

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TCLP 2009-05-17 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 17 May 2009 18:58:03 -0400

This is news cast 177.

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I also want to thank Verbal, who found my show from my appearance on The Linux Link Tech Show, and Emil for their donations this week.

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This week's security alerts are D-Link adds CAPTCHAs to its home routers and Apple hires OLPC's former security chief.

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Following up this week The Pirate Bay's plan for paying its fine and Monty on the fate of MySQL post-Oracle, a bit of video from Linuxfest Northwest.

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TCLP 2009-05-13 Monologue: Amateur-Pro Divide (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 13 May 2009 20:03:21 -0400

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In the intro another mention of my very enjoyable interview on Fanboyhell.

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The hacker word of the week this week is ed.

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TCLP 2009-05-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 10 May 2009 20:37:06 -0400

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This week's security alerts are researchers hijack and dissect a botnet and a Windows 7 rootkit already.

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TCLP 2009-04-29 Inner Chapter: Research (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 06 May 2009 20:14:03 -0400

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In the intro a reminder that my interview with Thomas Cagley of the SPamCast is up if you haven't checked it out already. Also a quick and spoiler free review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

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Listener Feedback this week is from Alex who compliments and asks after the audio from my interview with Jonathan Zittrain. He also has a meta-correction, yes, I got DEE-bold wrong yet again.

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The hacker word of the week this week is eat flaming death.

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on the practice of research.

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TCLP 2009-04-29 Hacking 101: Learning New Languages (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:26:39 -0400

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Listener Feedback this week is from Alex who corrects my pronunciation of Brendan Eich's name with multiple citations. Thanks as always for the constructive and well put feedback.

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The hacker word of the week this week is easter egg.

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The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 segment on learning new programming languages.

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TCLP 2009-04-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:58:52 -0400

This is news cast 175.

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Following up this week a conflict of interest has arisen in The Pirate Bay sentencing and a call for re-trial.

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TCLP 2009-04-22 Interview: Jonathan Zittrain (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:09:48 -0400

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TCLP 2009-04-19 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:56:57 -0400

This is news cast 174.

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This week's security alert is just a discussion of arguably the first all Mac botnet on which Brian Krebs sheds a bit more light.

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Following up this week an update on EFF's wiretap cases and The Pirate Bay found guilty.

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TCLP 2009-04-15 Book Review: Hackers, by Steven Levy (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:40:58 -0400

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In the intro I chat up Penguicon and share a promo. Also, on a sadder note, the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, Dave Arneson passed away recently. Tor.com has a very nice remembrance.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dumpster diving.

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The feature this week is a book review of an excellent book I finished recently, Hackers by Steven Levy. As I mention in the review, the first two chapters are freely available.

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TCLP 2009-04-08 Monologue: Choosing a Development Platform (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:24:58 -0400

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In the intro a quick review of the geek family friendly movie, Monsters vs. Aliens.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dump.

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TCLP 2009-04-01 Inner Chapter: Team Dynamics (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:41:02 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is Duff's device.

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on team dynamics. I mention a study on the benefit of info sharing and teams and a forthcoming book from O'Reilly.

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TCLP 2009-03-29 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:33:35 -0400

This is news cast 173.

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Following up this week controversional section 92a copyright amendment completely scrapped in New Zealand and the troubling EU telecoms package is back along with its three strikes amendment.

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TCLP 2009-03-25 Inner Chapter: Coding Style (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:27:39 -0400

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TCLP 2009-03-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:58:35 -0400

This is news cast 172.

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This week's security alerts are community driven malware defense and Mozilla releases a CSS fuzzer.

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Following up this week research being on memristance, adding spintronics.

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And Now for the Lab, Carpet

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:04:49 -0400

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Lab Move Status and Show Hiatus

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:38:40 -0400

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Painting, carpeting, and moving will probably take a couple of weeks. I am optimistic I can have it all done by the end of the month, before I am scheduled to interview Jonathan Zittrain.

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TCLP 2009-02-25 SCaLE7x (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:31:43 -0500

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The hacker word of the week this week is drop-outs.

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TCLP 2009-03-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:16:00 -0500

This is news cast 171.

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This week's security alerts are a remotely exploitable flaw in Flash and Microsoft fixes a problem in dealing with autorun exploits.

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Following up this week the D programming language has been ported to OS X. I wrote about D's 1.0 release a while back.

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TCLP 2009-02-25 Flashbake (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:06:10 -0500

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The hacker word of the week this week is drool-proof paper.

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The feature this week is a monologue on flashbake, the scripting project I launched last week.

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TCLP 2009-02-22 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:09:29 -0500

This is news cast 170.

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This week's security alerts are a new SSL man-in-the-middle attack and cooperating intelligent agents for network defense.

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Following up this week Mozilla and Skype add their support to the EFF's DMCA petition.

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Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:16:03 -0500

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TCLP 2009-02-11 Shmoocon V (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:39:55 -0500

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In the intro, a shout out to the Traveling Terabyte project and to the Linux Outlaws podcast.

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Also, there will not be a news show this weekend, again, as I will be at Farpoint.

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There hacker word of the week this week is droid

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TCLP 2009-02-04 Monologue: Peer Media (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:25:34 -0500

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There hacker word of the week this week is driver

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The feature this week is a monologue deconstructing my issues with the term, "new media", and suggesting a more evocative alternative (at least for my own use), "peer media".

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TCLP 2009-02-01 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:30:17 -0500

This is news cast 169.

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This week's security alerts are using TinyURL to bypass browser safety filters and ICANN tackles but doesn't commit to doing anything about fast flux hosting.

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Following up this week a new edition of the anti-DRM kid's book, "The Pig and the Box" and judge rules against WoW bot maker.

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TCLP 2009-01-28 Interview: Celeste Lyn Paul (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:18:40 -0500

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TCLP 2009-01-25 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:03:25 -0500

This is news cast 168.

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Following up this week ACTA's secret negotiations may run afoul of EU law and how will Obama's DoJ appointees act on the issue of warrant-less wire tapping.

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TCLP 2009-01-21 Hacking 101: Build Tools (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:50:18 -0500

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The hacker word of the week this week is Dr. Fred Mbogo.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 segment on build tools.

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TCLP 2009-01-14 Inner Chapter: Effecting Change (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:54:25 -0500

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I have two promos I wanted to share, for the Law after Law School podcast and SCALE X7.

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The hacker word of the week this week is down.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on effecting change.

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TCLP 2009-01-11 News Fixed (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:03:08 -0500

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Apologies for a cut and paste mistake in the original feed entry, you should get the correct episode with this entry.

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Following up this week the EFF will be able to continue pursuing a key warrant-less wiretapping case and Reznor's Ghosts I-IV tops Amazon's digital music chart for 2008.

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TCLP 2009-01-07 Year in Review, Part 3 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:53:27 -0500

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TCLP 2009-01-04 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:49:05 -0500

This is news cast 166.

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If you want to help me get to Penguicon and/or Dragon*Con this year, please make a donation.

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This week's security alert is just a lengthy discussion of an attack on the public key infrastructure based on the well researched possibility of collisions with the MD5 algorithm.

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Following up this week Flickr's The Commons project put into question with a Yahoo layoff and an unconfirmed report that the RIAA may be firing MediaSentry.

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TCLP 2008-12-31 Year in Review, Part 2 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:54:45 -0500

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In the intro, I share my review of Ed Piskor's "Wizzywig Volume 1: Phreak".

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TCLP 2008-12-24 Year in Review, Part 1 (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:23:07 -0500

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TCLP 2008-12-21 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:36:36 -0500

This is news cast 165.

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This week's security alerts are disappointing security test results for browsers' password handling and Microsoft announces and delivers a critical patch to the IE flaw I discussed last week.

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Following up this week the Open Rights Group has some good analysis of the IWF/Wikipedia fiasco and McAllister digs out some more details about Google's native client.

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TCLP 2008-12-17 Rant: Race to the Bottom (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:05:05 -0500

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Listener feedback this week is from Jed who had some thoughts on the recent discussion of MVC, unity and PHP.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dot file.

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The feature this week is a rant inspired by this article about Dell's race to the bottom.

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TCLP 2008-12-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:26:59 -0500

This is news cast 164.

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If you are in the DC area, come to the Creative Commons 6th Birthday Party being coordinated by the DC CopyNight crew and generously hosted by Public Knowledge.

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Following up this week RedBox continues to fight for survival and the UK and the EU again consider term extensions for music copyrights.

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TCLP 2008-12-10 Book Review: The Hacker Ethic (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:55:37 -0500

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Listener feedback this week is from Vaskin continuing the discussion of git.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dongle.

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TCLP 2008-12-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:08:58 -0500

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This week's security alerts are confusion around Apple's recommendation of AV software then their retraction and a Firefox trojan that identifies itself as the popular Greasemonkey extenions.

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Following up this week the judicial oversight amendment to the EU telecoms package has been stripped and Spore is the most pirated game of the year despite EA's insistence of draconian DRM.

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TCLP 2008-11-26 Inner Chapter: Mastery (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:51:54 -0500

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The hacker word of the week this week is dogpile.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on mastery.

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TCLP 2008-11-30 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:33:07 -0500

This is news cast 162.

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In the intro, a correction on the authorship and history of git from Randal Schwartz.

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This week's security alerts are WordPress fixes a critical XSS flaw and a rootkit found in some network security software.

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In this week's news the final SCO judgement, Sealand's data haven goes dark, a triple engine web browser, and tackling the erosion of MVC based designs by the adoption of AJAX.

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Following up this week the EU rebuffs the French three strikes rule and a Quicktime update relaxes HDCP for standard defintion video.

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TCLP 2008-11-26 Hacking 101: Source Control (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:23:17 -0500

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Listener feedback this week is from Paul Fischer on my coverage of DRM concerns with video in the iTunes store.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dogcow.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on source control.

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TCLP 2008-11-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:56:40 -0500

This is news cast 161.

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This week's security alerts are a hard to exploit but critical crypto flaw in SSH and a new bit of malware for the Mac.

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Following up this week Adobe says it will still back standards despite loss in JavaScript 2.0 fight and Apple is in talks with the other three labels over DRM-free music.

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TCLP 2008-11-19 Hacking 101: Structured Data (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:14:45 -0500

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Listener feedback this week is from Chris Miller who has some additional advice for overcoming obstacles.

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The hacker word of the week this week is documentation.

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The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on structured data and designing your own file formats.

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No Podcast Tonight

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:22:59 -0500

TCLP 2008-11-13 Inner Chapter: Overcoming Obstacles (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:41:27 -0500

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The hacker word of the week this week is do protocol.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on overcoming obstacles. Kaity's site and online support group for generalized dystonia is here.

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TCLP 2008-11-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:27:55 -0500

This is news cast 160.

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This week's security alerts are a severe bug in the G1 and more research on cracking WPA at least partially.

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Following up this week FCC approves white spaces for unlicensed use and the WIPO broadcast treaty is back though no imminent threat.

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TCLP 2008-11-05 Monologue: Hacking with a Social Conscience (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:15:36 -0500

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The hacker word of the week this week is distribution.

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The feature this week is a monologue on hacking with a social conscience.

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TCLP 2008-11-02 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:30:47 -0500

This is news cast 159.

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This week's security alerts are more info on remote key logging and software research to duplicate physical keys from photos.

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Following up this week just a guide to the news that the Google Books case has reached settlement plus one particular criticism that stands out.

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TCLP 2008-10-29 Rant: Information Overload (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:22:04 -0400

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In the intro, a quick review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem.

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Listener feedback this week is from Alex and Paul Fischer. The RADIUS server that Paul mentioned is StellarRADIUS.

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The hacker word of the week this week is display hack.

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The feature this week is a rant on the phenomenon of information overload.

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TCLP 2008-10-26 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:58:48 -0400

This is news cast 157.

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This week's security alerts are the first security flaw in the new G1 and vendor offers a security suite for Android.

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Following up this week EFF, Public Citizen respond to McCain's YouTube letter and Amazon deletes negative reviews for another EA video game riddled with DRM.

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TCLP 2008-10-22 Inner Chapter: Emotional Investment (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:22:52 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is deliminator.

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The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on the topic of emotional investment and how it can affect, for good and ill, our experience of hacking.

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TCLP 2008-10-19 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:46:21 -0400

This is news cast 157.

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This week's security alerts are Elcomsoft declares WPA dead due to their new GPU/distributed attack software though Schneier is skeptical and dealing with the privacy risks of Flash's "cookies".

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Following up this week Bush signs Pro-IP bill into law and the EFF presses the fight against the FISA Amendments Act in federal court, as promised.

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TCLP 2008-10-15 Hacking 101: Static Analysis (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:17:51 -0400

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In the intro, a quick review of Charles Stross' Halting State and some final thoughts on the collaborative audio promo contest.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dinosaur.

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The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 segment on the practice of static analysis of source code.

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TCLP 2008-10-08 Inner Chapter: Job Search (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:41:42 -0400

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The feature this week is a longer Inner Chapter sharing my thought, experiences and advice for conducting a job search inspired by my own recent transition and Chris Miller's request.

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No Podcast Tonight

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:14:56 -0400

I let half the day get away from me and am feeling a bit under the weather, so no new show, tonight. I should, however, be able to produce the Wednesday feature cast as planned.

TCLP 2008-10-01 Interview: Evan Prodromou (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:28:16 -0400

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TCLP 2008-09-28 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:52:22 -0400

This is news cast 156.

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This week's security alerts are a full security suite on a phone and a new or under appreciated browser exploit with some practical defense but also a bit of skepticism.

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Following up this week, the PRO-IP act passes the Senate without the troubling civil enforcement provision but plenty more to worry about and Senate updates allowable internet service policies.

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TCLP 2008-09-24 Interview: Brad Sucks, Fixed (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:57:36 -0400

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TCLP 2008-09-21 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:58:05 -0400

This is news cast 155.

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This week's security alerts are anti key logging software and using password recovery options more securely.

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Following up this week, the latest IP bill is being fast track make sure you take action now and Neuros launches their latest set top box adding HD encoding along with a bevy of other improvements.

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TCLP 2008-09-10 New Book: Content (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:27:53 -0400

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In the intro, a quick review of Cory Doctorow's new book, hist first non-fiction title, (c)ontent: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dink.

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The feature this week is a reading of two of my favorite selections from Cory's new book.

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TCLP 2008-09-14 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:51:37 -0400

This is news cast 154.

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In the intro, remarking the end on the Voice of Free Planet X.

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This week's security alerts are malware has started generating fake infringement notices and incidental risks to privacy and security exposed with the iPhone.

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TCLP 2008-09-10 Interview: Beatnik Turtle, Fixed (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:50:37 -0400

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Listener feedback is overdue this week in the form an a lengthy but appreciated email from Walker.

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TCLP 2008-09-07 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:38:31 -0400

This is news cast 153.

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This week's security alerts are captcha solving services raise difficult security questions and an up tick in the number of zombie PCs.

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Following up this week, a new report shows internet capacity is outpacing demand despite the recurrent claims of a bandwidth meltdown and the Canadian DMCA may be about to fail.

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Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:54:37 -0400

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TCLP 2008-08-24 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:57:00 -0400

This is news cast 152.

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In the intro, the last reminder I'll be at Dragon*Con from the 29th to the 1st so there'll be no show on the 27th or the 31st.

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This week's security alerts are a clipboard hijacknig attack and a new crypto attack from Adi Shamir.

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TCLP 2008-08-20 Hacking 101: Errors and Exceptions (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:15:52 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is dike.

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TCLP 2008-08-17 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:54:58 -0400

This is news cast 151.

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This week's security alerts are an automated tool for hijacking session cookies and password reset tools are almost as bad as poor password security itself.

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Following up this week, music streaming service Pandora may be closing up shop and RIAA pays defendants legal fees with interest.

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TCLP 2008-08-13 Inner Chapter: Inspiration (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:31:45 -0400

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In the intro, a heads up that I will again be traveling to Dragon*Con in two short weeks where I will be volunteering, among other things, on the podcasting track.

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The hacker word of the week this week is defflicted.

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The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on inspiration.

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TCLP 2008-08-10 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:05:37 -0400

This is news cast 149.

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In the intro, final thoughts on the Reiser case.

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Following up this week, Judge in Thomas case may consider a mistrial/re-trial and Blizzard seeking to stop open source release of Glider code.

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TCLP 2008-08-06 Rant: Steam Punk (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:06:10 -0400

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The hacker word of the week this week is demon.

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The feature this week is a rant on my sole complaint with the genre of steam punk.

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TCLP 2008-08-03 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:07:18 -0400

This is news cast 149.

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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.

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This week's security alerts are an exploit that uses the near ubiquitous automatic software update channels and a new attack that embeds executable Java in innocuous image files.

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Following up this week, the FCC rules against Comcast though some are questioning its legal ability to enforce that ruling and Tim O'Reilly's thoughts on open cloud computing.

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TCLP 2008-07-30 Grass Roots Hacktivism (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:43:26 -0400

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Listener feedback this week is from Matt, Kaity and Bashar.

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The hacker word of the week this week is demo.

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The feature this week is a monologue on the topic of grass roots hacktivism.

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TCLP 2008-07-27 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:15:54 -0400

This is news cast 147.

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In the intro, a quick review of Settlers of Catan.

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Following up this week, the researchers who demonstrated the cold boot crypto attack release their code and a lament for the state of OpenID adoption.

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TCLP 2008-07-23 The Last HOPE (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:28:18 -0400

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Listener feedback this week is from psionandy, who sent a couple of links, and Matt.

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The hacker word of the week this week is demigod.

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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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