The Command Line Podcast

This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, thanks to Charles and David for their recent, generous donations. This week’s feature cast will be a day late do to a crazy schedule this coming week. And AdBard is shutting down at the end of this month. This week’s security alerts are storing passwords in uncrackable form and Android NFC bug may be the first of many exploits of this new capability. In this week’s news, British Library encloses the public domain including a few more details from the announced digitization project, kind of screwed, building an AI guide to online content, and a neural prosthesis that could improve our memories. Following up this week BT’s and TalkTalk’s appeal of their failed judicial review of the Digital Economy Act is denied and the musician behind a clever sonification of Pi is embroiled in a copyright suit. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, my thanks to Fred for his generous donation this past week. Listener feedback this week was an email from Jed asking about responsible disclosure for technicians, prompted by my interview with Tiffany Rad. The hacker word of the week this week is flat-file. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of presence. The discussion complements my early Inner Chapter on effecting change. More news, 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. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, just a recommendation that you watch Jim Gilliam’s talk from PdF as a sample of what the event was like. This week’s security alerts are cheap GPUs rendering strong passwords useless and a brief Sony password analysis. In this week’s news,a web focused desktop replacement promoted by Mozilla, the good and bad of iTunes Match and iCloud along with some further details and additional risks, figuring out if there is a new geek anti-intellectualism, and an interview with an old school hacker and hacktivist. Following up this week a new bill that would limit GPS tracking without a warrant and location data sharing and the Supreme Court rules in favor if i4i in its patent case against Microsoft. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, a warning about the rougher nature of the event audio in the feature, a heads up that there won’t be new podcasts on Sunday 6/5 or Wednesday 6/8, a welcom to any new listeners from Balticon, and a correction from Randal. There is no new hacker word of the week this week. The feature this week is the recording I capture of my copyright panel at Balticon 45 this past weekend. More news, 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. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, a call out on behalf of my friend Chris Miller to help make a port of vim to Android possible. This week’s security alerts are Android apps send unencrypted authentication token and new malware simulates hard drive failure. In this week’s news, obstacles to anonymization and recommendations, perspectives on the just released UK copyright review report, a graphical update to the terminal, and rebooting library privacy in the age of the network. Following up this week Bletchley Park is saved and key component for GNU Free Call, GNU SIP Witch, reaches 1.0. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, a heads up that there will be no shows on the 25th and the 29th because of Balticon. There is no new hacker word of the week this week. The feature this week is an interview with Tiffany Rad. We talk about her background in education, the law and hacking as well as the hacker space she co-founded, Reverse Space. ReverseSpace is just one hacker space in the DC area, like HacDC. You cand find hacker spaces near you on the site, Hacker Spaces. Tiffany has spoke and participated too at hacker cons like BlackHat and DEF CON. To learn more you can join the Google Group for ReverseSpace. More news, 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. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are OpenID warns of remote bug and urges upgrades and security problems presented by WebGL and official thoughts from the standard’s maintainers. In this week’s news, high bandwidth buddies, Microsoft will buy Skype and some analysis of what that might mean, project to model the human brain seeks funding for next phase, and a glove that emulates musical instruments. Following up this week the successor to COICA is out including the full draft text. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Listener feedback this week was from R.Ash who posted a comment in response to my rant on the innovation tax. The Hacker Word of the Week is flat. The feature this week is a monologue exploring the notion of 2nd adopters. Thanks to my friend, and co-host of Living Proof, John Taylor Williams for suggesting the topic. More news, 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. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are multiplatform Java botnet spotted in the wild and NoScript Anywhere in development for Android. In this week’s news, comic for kids about free software, techno-optimism and its critics, Marlinspike’s Android firewall blocks location data and suspicious network connections from apps, and Mozilla refuses to take down MafiaaFire Rediector add on that overcomes DHS domain seizures reminding us why Firefox is still important. Following up this week Brazilians ask their president to not to throw out years of progress towards fair and moderate copyright and Sony tries to implicate Anonymoys in the recent PSN breach but the online activists deny it. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. The feature this week is a conversation I had with Chris Miller about our respective recent job and career changes. Chris has appeared on this podcast once or twice before. He also is part of The Secret Lair and From Python Import Podcast. You cand find more about him at his main site. Our conversation followed some of the same threads that I discussed previously in my nowhere to go rant and my recent Inner Chapter on personal growth. More news, 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. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. The hacker word of the week this week is flash crowd. The feature this week is a rant on the barriers and friction that make up the innovation tax. The idea was really brought to the fore in my mind by a Harvard Business Review piece by James Allworth. A good example of the thought process of risk averse dominant incumbents was encapsulated in the recent interview with Francis Ford Coppola to which Cory on BoingBoing linked. More news, 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. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, a recommendation of listening to the latest Living Proof if your curious why I was so tired I skipped last week’s news cast. Also a very quick update on upcoming appearances including CopyNight DC for April, Public Knowledge’s 3D/DC, Balticon, and the Personal Democracy Forum 2011. This week’s security alerts are iOS devices secretly tracking user location and Chrome features tries to reduce the impact of DDoS attacks. In this week’s news, problems with YouTube’s copyright school and a more constructive response, Google turns to crowd sourcing to improve maps, uniform APIs for the open data web, and NSF blocks the Global Voices Advocacy site. Following up this week judge reveals secret Righthaven contract and ISPs challenge to Digital Economy Act rejected. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Listener feedback this week was from Don who wrote in response to Hack Your Brew, Nicholas who wrote to share another mobile app for activists, and Jody in response to the Inner Chapter on health and exercise. The hacker word of the week this week is flarp. The feature this week is an in-depth review of Adrian Johns’ book, “Piracy“. More news, 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. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro a reminder I will be at Public Knowledge’s 3D/DC event at the end of this month. This week’s security alerts are scientists develop new methods to improve passwords and proposals for the future of SSL certificates. In this week’s news, content farmers are targeting ebooks which is a reflection of other fraud in the space and changing economics, a project to secure the mobile phones of activists which nicely compliments other efforts, the case against GUIs revisited, and storing bits is not the same as preserving them. Following up this week COICA sponsor set to re-introduce the bill despite 1st Amendment concerns and anti-net neutrality resolution moves through the House though it is unlikely to pass the Senate. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, my thoughts on a project Jon “The Nice Guy” Spriggs brought to my attention. The hacker word of the week this week is flap. The feature this week is a discussion I had with my collaborator on the Living Proof Brew Cast, John Taylor Williams, about hacking your brew. John mentions a wonderful book that speaks to this hackish take on brewing, “Radical Brewing” by Randy Mosher. More news, 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. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.