Summary: Alex Hana joins us today and we’ll talk about Uber’s huge funding round and why they want to expand into the rest of the world. MP3 Using a Screen Reader? click here Multiple versions (ogg, video etc.) from Archive.org. Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. A special thanks to all our Patreon supporters–without you, none of this would […] Using a Screen Reader? click here Multiple versions (ogg, video etc.) from Archive.org. Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. A special thanks to all our Patreon supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting the show here at the low, low cost of a nickel a day on Patreon. Thank you! Big thanks to Dan Lueders for the headlines music and Martin Bell for the opening theme! Big thanks to Mustafa A. from thepolarcat.com for the logo! Thanks to our mods, Kylde, TomGehrke, sebgonz and scottierowland on the subreddit Show Notes Today’s guest: Alex Hanna, web developer and host of the Diamond Dialogue Headlines The Wall Street Journal reports attorneys for consumers told a jury Wednesday that Apple deleted music from some users iPods between 2007-2009. The case revolves around music that emulated Apple’s fairplay DRM. The lawyers claim when music from those competing services was synced to an iTunes library, an error message would ask to restore factory resettings and delete the non-Apple DRM’ed music without notifying the user. Apple security director Augustin Farrugia claimed it was a legitimate security measure and hackers like DVD Jon made Apple “very paranoid.” DVD Jon is Jon Lech Johansen of Norway who reverse engineered DVD encryption, and also developed several ways around Apple’s FairPlay DRM. ALSO the Verge reports Eddy Cue testified Apple wanted to license its DRM to other companies but “couldn’t find a way to do that and have it work reliably.” TechCrunch reports Barnes and Noble has terminated its commercial agreement with Microsoft surrounding its Nook eReader business. Barnes and Noble will also buy back Microsoft’s 17.6% stake in Nook Media. Nook segment revenues fell 41.3% year over year and device sales have fallen 63.7%. Barnes and Noble also announced the planned spin-off of Nook into a separate company will be delayed until later in 2015. BBC reports that Google is developing child-friendly versions of its search engine and Chrome browser, as well as a child-friendly YouTube. An example used by Google: A child searching for “trains” on the kid page might get information about Thomas the Tank Engine instead of train-booking sites. (Or news about train accidents.) Google is also developing tools to let parents monitor and manage their children’s online destinations. The Intercept revealed details about a US NSA program called AURORAGOLD which involves targeting major cellular networks including the GSM Association to find or even create weak spots in mobile networks. The aim would be to be able to use the networks surreptitiously to spy on targets. The article indicates AURORAGOLD may have helped the NSA to crack A5/3 cellular encryption. Previous Snowden leaks indicate the NSA already cracked A5/1. Reuters notes an anonymous North Korean Diplomat told Voice of America that North Korea is not responsible for the attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment’s internal system, saying allegations of a connection are “another fabrication targeting the country.” Gizmodo reports BuzzFeed has looked through a folder alleged to be stolen during the Sony hack. It contains “139 Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, zip files, and PDF’s containing thousands of of passwords.” Reuters reports a US national security source says North Korea is still being investigated as a suspect in the attack. Australia’s Target and Kmart superstores have both announced that they will not sell Grand Theft Auto V due to concerns about the games depiction of violence against women. The South
