This is a feature cast. 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. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 152. 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. This week's security alerts are a clipboard hijacknig attack and a new crypto attack from Adi Shamir. 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. Following up this week, Elektra v. Barker was settled and a victory for the MIT students against the MBTAthough 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. 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. 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. The hacker word of the week this week is dike. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 151. 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. 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. 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. Following up this week, music streaming service Pandora may be closing up shop and RIAA pays defendants legal fees with interest. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. 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. The hacker word of the week this week is defflicted. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on inspiration. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 149. In the intro, final thoughts on the Reiser case. 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. 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. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is demon. The feature this week is a rant on my sole complaint with the genre of steam punk. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 149. 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. 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. 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. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from Matt, Kaity and Bashar. The hacker word of the week this week is demo. The feature this week is a monologue on the topic of grass roots hacktivism. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 147. In the intro, a quick review of Settlers of Catan. 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. 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.. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. Listener feedback this week is from psionandy, who sent a couple of links, and Matt. The hacker word of the week this week is demigod. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 147. In the intro, a couple of requests for help with the show and Open Media Review. The security alerts this week are research to be demonstrated on exploitable flaws in Intel chips and the rise and fall of CAPTCHAs. 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. Following up this week, the EU considers copyright term extension again and passes it with an odd provision, and more analysis on ACTA. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. 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. The hacker word of the week this week is defenestration. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 146. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is deep space. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 145. 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. 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. 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. Following up this week, an interview with Minister Prentice and first responses to Judge Davis' call for comments on the Jammie Thomas case. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is deep magic. The feature is an Inner Chapter on the hacker work ethic, drawing heavily from my own experience on what motivates me to hack. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 144. 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. 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. 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. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. Grab the detailed show notes with time offsets and additional links either as PDF or OPML. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is DEC. The feature is a monologue trying to answer a question Kreg Steppe, a listener and fellow podcaster, posed about unintended use of free software. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 143. Security alerts this week are researching new counter measures against worms and Mozilla contemplating a successor to the same origin policy. 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. Following up this week, Media Defender doesn't defend itself very well and Apple fixes OS X's implementation of DTrace. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. Sorry about the delay, as commented previously on the web site, we were without power last night. The book Chris mentions in the interview is Build Scalable Web Sites, I think, so the speaker he mentioned would be Cal Henderson. The hacker word of the week this week is death code. The feature is an interview with Chris Miller discussing his recent experiences at Google I/O. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 142. In the intro a review of my latest gadget purchase, a new iPod Touch. 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. 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.. Following up this week, just that NBC and Microsoft claim to have gotten to the bottom of the recent broadcast flag snafu. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. 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. The hacker word of the week this week is dead lock. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. A reminder that there will be no news cast this weekend as I'll be at Balticon 42. There is no new hacker word of the week. The feature is an interview with Cory Doctorow in which we talk about his new book, Little Brother More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 141. 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. 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. 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. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is dead code. The feature is a monologue considering the questions presented by online identity. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 140. 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. 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. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is de-rezz. Listener feedback is an email from Christopher. The feature is a new Hacking 101 exploring the concept of complexity. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 139. In the intro a quick recap of our Free Comic Day and review of the movie, Iron Man. Security alerts this week are EULAs for malware and the security risks of social network applications. 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. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. 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. The hacker word of the week this week is dd. Listener feedback is a voice mail from C.A. Sizemore commenting on the Social Spaces 2 feature. The feature is a monologue considering the effects of coding on thought. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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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. 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.

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This is a feature cast. Don't forget, no news show this Sunday as I will be at RavenCon. Despite getting to meet the maintainer of The Jargon File, no new hacker word this week due to the length of the feature. I received a voice mail but I will hold that until next time because the feature audio is around fifty minutes long. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. Don't forget, no news show this Sunday as I will be at Penguicon 6.0. The hacker word of the week this week is dangling pointer. Listener feedback is a voice mail from Jed with a few observations on scripting languages. The feature is a monologue revisiting social spaces which I last talked about on the August 22nd show. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 138. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is daemon. The feature is an Inner Chapter on stretching yourself. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 137. In the intro a quick discussion of the paper that Jon mentioned in last week's feedback. 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. Security alerts this week are yet another RFID encryption scheme has been cracked and a key logger like tool for capturing biometric credentials. 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. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is cycle. 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. The feature is a Hacking 101 segment on scripting languages. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is a feature cast. The hacker word of the week this week is cyberspace. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is news cast 136. 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. Security alerts this week are an evolving iFrame injection attack and evading Facebook's privacy controls. 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. 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. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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