Chrome to support Do Not Track privacy feature
- Not sure we believe them
- Target knows when you’re pregnant
- Bill likes shoes

Ancient Computers in Use Today
- Subway systems are olddd
- Bill has old friends
- Parents throw away cherished items

Google Search History
- Remove search history before privacy policies merge
- Don’t search for things you don’t want seen?

Employees Don’t Follow Policies
- SHOCKING
- Security Awareness Training

Ubuntu for Android
- Ubuntu desktop…in a phone!
- VPN solutions?
- This is awesome.

Hack of the Week
RSA predictably random keys

App of the Week
Playstation Vita
Free Android Security Apps

Book of the Week
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
- Notification Center
- Messages
- Download only?

Chrome to Surpass IE Market Share
- About time, Chrome is great
- IE 9 frustrations

Twitter Enables HTTPS by Default
- Long overdue
- Facebook will probably follow shortly

Google News
- Google DNS reaches 70 billion requests per day
- Cleared to buy Motorola’s Mobility
- Nevada approves Google self-driving cars

Hack of the Week
Malware on Cryptome.org

App of the Week
Playstation Vita

Facebook Holds “Deleted Photos
- Why put it up if you want to delete it?
- Is anyone surprised?

Amazon Prime Streaming Viacom
- Brings more content
- Closer to Netflix-level streams
- Matt likes prison shows
- RANDOM CRIME DRAMAS

Trustwave Issues DECRYPT ALL THE THINGS Super Cert
- “Not common practice”
- Then how did it happen!?

Mandatory Disclosure for IT Security Companies
- A novel idea
- Bill believes in absolute full disclosure
- Adobe guy is full of it

Do You Password Protect Your Gadgets
- DO IT
- Matt loses things, but we’ve all heard this story before
- Encrypt the gadgets!
- Mobile devices are location aware, so you can recover them
- Education is required

Hack of the Week
Google Wallet

App of the Week
Chrome Beta for Android

Facebook Readies IPO Filing
- A LOT of people use Facebook
- A LOT of money

Lion 10.7.3
- Matt Hasn’t upgraded
- Bill and Patrick have had zero problems

Basic FreeNAS Setup
- We use it, it’s nice
- Matt is looking for his own personal setup
- Western Digital TV perhaps?
- Matt might be buying a PS3 or Xbox 360

FBI plans social network map alert mash-up application
- Why?
- There are plenty of existing services, why build something new?

New RIM CEO
- Won’t help
- No vision

Hurricane Labs Boastcast
Modern Search Engines for the Contemporary User
Gaining Access to a Check Point Appliance – Physical Access Trumps All

Hack of the Week
Anonymous hackers leak Scotland Yard-FBI conference call

App of the Week
Lookout Mobile Security Threat Tracker

Zappos
- Database breach
- Customers advised to change passwords
- Class action lawsuit
- Bill mentions Batman

World IPv6 Launch
- “Speaking of problems…”
- Bill doesn’t think it will work

13 Security Steps
- Build knowledge
- Share knowledge
- Maintain
- Improve

White House Labels SOPA Censorship
- Political ranting

Apple Education Event
- The future is now
- Text books on iPad

Hack of the Week
Zappos.com security breach

App of the Week
Chromebook

Sprint Galaxy Nexus
– Cool, I guess?
– Verizon raging

iPhone Turns 5
– Still, none of us care
– McMaster makes mean comments about Steve Jobs
– Seth Green Star Wars
– McMaster is culturally clueless

Microsoft GPS Patents
– Sounds good, but crime can happen anywhere
– Someone has already made a Google Maps crime map

Google vs Twitter Social Search
– Google showing Google+ results and not Twitter
– But Twitter didn’t renew their contract so it’s not Google’s fault?
– Everyone is in an uproar and I don’t know why
– Bill misses the old days of Google, “only search”
– McMaster is a Google fanboy
– Also, McMaster and Patrick start a bold battle in the show notes behind the scenes

Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
– Samsung home appliances
– LG Google TV remote
– Badass Solid State Drives
– Pre-built Makerbot Replicators
– Maneto NFC MicroSD cards
– Razer Blade gaming laptop
– More 3D TVs

Game Corner

– Kinect for Windows
– Patrick goes on about Assassin’s Creed while McMaster has the most condescending, smug look on his face

Hack of the Week

– Norton Antivirus source code stolen

Apps of the Week

ESET Smart Security
– Antivirus
– Windows, Mac, Linux support

ViewSonic dual-sim phone

Happy Holidays
– Patrick got Jurassic Park
– Matt got a TV and Kindle Fire

Full Disk Encryption
– All your devices
– We use it already
– You should be doing this already

Cleaning App Permissions
– http://mypermissions.org/
– Protect yourself from rogue webapps

Anatomy of an ATM Skimmer Scam
– Cool, but not something you see everyday
– Watch out for suspicious ATMs

HTC Unlockable Bootloaders
– Good on HTC’s part to allow this
– Hooray for customization

AT&T gives up buying T-Mobile USA
– T-Mobile gets crazy amount of money/spectrum
– Hopefully they put it to good use

Verizon Outages
– At least 3 data outages in December
– Bill doesn’t like Verizon

Game Corner

– Assassin’s Creed
– Arkham City

Hack of the Week

– Israeli Credit Cards
– Stratfor

New study – Chrome is most secure browser?
– Until the next study comes out and says otherwise
– One thing is consistent: IE is never number 1

Internet Explorer Auto-Update, Microsoft can delete Windows 8 apps remotely
– This will NEVER go wrong…/sarcasm

Google Wallet stores too much unencrypted data in a rooted device
– Only one phone has it
– If Google doesn’t clean it up, it will stay that way

Google Zeitgeist 2011
– Most popular searches of 2011
– Steve Jobs, Rebecca Black, Battlefield 3

Galaxy Nexus
– Overall positive thoughts
– Hardware is nice, a little big though
– LED notifications are a big plus

Hack of the Week

Hack for Hunger
-– Great turnout
– Raised nearly $3,000 for the Cleveland Foodbank
– Thanks to all that came!

App of the Week

Ice Cream Sandwich
– Wins all Beacon Awards

Carrier IQ points at manufacturers for insecure logs
– Any app could view logs
– Bill says they need to take responsibility

Lost USB keys have 66% chance of malware
– Small sample set
– Skewed results?

10 Billion Android Market downloads
– 10 cent apps for a week
– Minecraft, ADW Launcher EX, Beautiful Widgets, MORE
– iPhone vs Android debate
– Everyone has different opinions, personal preference

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – Engadget Review
– Bill doesn’t know the name of a phone he wants
– Matt likes curved screens

Eric Schmidt thinks Google TV will be on the majority of sets by Summer 2012
– “No way. With low adoption rates already (Logitech already jumped ship), I find this hard to believe. But maybe the recent Honeycomb update will prove me wrong.” – Patrick
– “Yeah I dunno I think that is just a loyal guy being really optimistic.” – Bill
– Reality distortion field

Google buying one company a week
– Google buys a ton of companies
– Including Zagat

OpenDNS launches encryption tool to secure domain lookups
– Basically SSL for DNS?
– Mac only?

Some big PayPal thing going on? Supporting some charities but not others?
– Bill prefers Google Checkout
– From a business standpoint, Bill understands
– There’s a lot of work involved to take donations and PayPal has a liability
– Everyone on Twitter explodes and gets angry
– PayPal apologized and made a donation themselves

CNET ships trojan with Nmap! WTF?
– Not really, just a toolbar
– People actually download from CNET?

Gaming

Xbox 360 dashboard update
– Patrick doesn’t like it
– Removed Netflix Party
– MST3K re-enactments gone
– Don’t listen to McMaster, PS3 Netflix does NOT have Party Mode
– McMaster was wrong and Patrick was right, don’t forget it

Hack of the Week

Hack for Hunger
-– HackForHunger.com
-– Winter Hack Challenge, December 14th
-– Must bring food or donation money to enter
-– ALL proceeds go to Cleveland Foodbank

App of the Week

Worms for Android
– McMaster loves it

Thanksgiving
– Apparently only 22 shopping days left until Christmas
– Matt makes delicious stuffing

Twitter Buys Android security firm, Whisper Systems
– ‘Famous’ for TextSecure and other popular security applications
– Why though? Some are happy, some don’t see the point
– Recent protests and revolutions have utilized Twitter

NASA Curiosity Mars Rover
– Bill wants to go to the Moon
– Hopefully this mission will live up to it’s predecessors
– NASA has a horrifically small budget

Spotify’s “New Direction”
– Not sure how we feel about this
– Matt used to like Spotify, but uses Google Music now
– Not so different than other music subscription services
– Patrick doesn’t know The Beatles

NIST HIPAA Help
– Helps you comply
– Bill doesn’t like consultants

VMware, Google, Cisco invest in Puppet
– Centralized Linux management
– Any investment is good (but Bill thinks it’s a little low)
– “No matter how good you are at something, going around to 100+ systems is tedious…” – Bill

Chrome Usage nearing Firefox
– Yay Chrome!
– IE is slow, still has plenty of marketshare though

Blatant Self Promotion of the Week

Hack for Hunger
-– HackForHunger.com
-– Winter Hack Challenge, December 14th
-– Must bring food or donation money to enter
-– ALL proceeds go to Cleveland Foodbank

Hurricane Labs on the Weatherhead list
– Go us!
– “Any club with me as a member is not a club I want to be in!” – Bill

Hacks of the Week

Blu-ray encryption cracked
– Kinda cool?
– RIAA

CarrierIQ – WTF?
– Tracks everything your mobile phone does
– Basically a rootkit

Apps of the Week

7 Words
– Simple but addictive game (if you like words and puzzles)
– Multiplatform!

Pipal
– Password analysis

Beacon Awards

– End of year podcast