Episode 118: WiFi Toasters in Space

Show Notes
Buffer Overflow: WiFi Toasters in Space
Episode 118
Somebody’s watching me, Fines aren’t fine, and Slack hates your eyeballs

Hosts

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner

Brenda Heisler, Resource Coordinator
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/

Longer Topics
Surveillance, Surveillance Everywhere

• China is installing monitoring malware on tourist phones
• DMV photos are being used for facial recognition requests
• An article came out a few weeks ago detailing the progression of private satellite surveillance

Lightning Round

• TL;DR… FaceApp is a privacy nightmare.. But it’s no worse than Facebook
• Autsch! mein Knie!
• Intuit uses misleading TurboTax website and text to trick people into paying for product they should get for free
• Productivity sieve Slack shut down popular user workaround that made the desktop experience tolerable
• 50 years ago this Saturday, the whole world watched as Ryan Gosling became the First Man on the Moon
  • The original source code for Apollo 11 is available on github
  • Pluralsight also has a free 30-minute primer on the codebase that powered the Apollo Guidance Computer.
• Microsoft shows off hologram speaking Japanese

Music Credits
Intro: Jason Shaw – Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B