In the intro, a reminder that the show's 4th anniversary is coming up. The June 24th feature cast will be the anniversary show. Send in your recollections of the past four years or anything else you want to share to celebrate.

This week's security alerts are research demonstrating that the Twitter API is not equipped to handled the coming security threats and a dangerous vulnerability in DirectX with an in the wild exploit.

In this week's news research on a new type of memory that could last one billion years solving at least one problem discussed in a recent Spark episode, the EFF launches a new educational effort around copyright, Google re-invents online communications, and Wikipedia bans the Church of Scientology.

Following up this week another new wrinkle in the already fascinating Pirate Bay case and judge threatens sanctions in the NSA wiretap case.

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In the intro a heart felt thank you to my good friend, Chris Miller, for his support and advice without which my recent experience at Balticon would not have been anywhere near as phenomenal.

There is no listener feedback this week. There is also no hacker word of the week due to the length of the feature.

The feature this week is the recording of the Peer Media vs. Broadcast Media panel at Balticon 43. I was joined by Earl Newton, Dave Slusher and Patrick McLean all of whom I owe a debt of gratitude for this great discussion. For clarification, the book Patrick mentions is "Against Intellectual Monopoly" by Michele Boldrin and David Levine. Patrick also sent me a link to an interview with Boldrin which led me to the web site, Against Monopoly, which furthers the discussion with contributions from several other scholars.

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In the intro a final reminder I will be at Balticon this weekend, so new news show this Sunday. If you are going to be at Balticon, come and find me in the bar area Friday night, after opening ceremonies.

Listener Feedback this week comes from Billy, Randal, Jed and Evan. Billy shares his thoughts on the corrections of my pronunciations. Randal sends a citation for the correct pronunciation of MySQL. Jed send another video of Monty Widenius from LFNW. Evan posted a thoughtful comment, with a question, in response to my recent monologue on the amateur-pro divide.

The hacker word of the week this week is egg.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the practice of criticism.

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In the intro, an explanation of what happened for my live appearance on Teaching for the Future. We'll reschedule for after Balticon, which leads me to a reminder there will be no news show on the 24th.

I also want to thank Verbal, who found my show from my appearance on The Linux Link Tech Show, and Emil for their donations this week.

This week's security alerts are D-Link adds CAPTCHAs to its home routers and Apple hires OLPC's former security chief.

In this week's news Apple removes BitTorrent remote control application from its App Store, free books effects on sales, the NYT considers current trends in copyright infringement of print books featuring a couple of others who have clashed on this topic, and is Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 an also ran?

Following up this week The Pirate Bay's plan for paying its fine and Monty on the fate of MySQL post-Oracle, a bit of video from Linuxfest Northwest.

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In the intro another mention of my very enjoyable interview on Fanboyhell.

Listener Feedback this week is Nahtass with some additional thoughts on learning new languages, Randal with a correction of my pronunciation of MySQL, and Sarah with the correct, full content feed for 2D Goggles.

The hacker word of the week this week is ed.

The feature this week is a monologue consider the gap between amateur and professional creatives and what it is exactly that makes up the gap. This builds a bit on my previous monologue on peer media.

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In the intro, an update on my schedule at Balticon 43 which is May 22nd to the 25th. In addition to my official schedule, I will be reprising my role as Doc Tech for the Live Mr. Adventure, Saturday night at 10PM.

Cory posted an article of Locus mentioning flashbake, to welcome to any new readers or listeners checking the show out from that. Additionally, thanks to Adam Mercer (ram), flashbake is now available through MacPorts. I'll post a bit later on with more details and update the project's wiki to reflect the even easier installation for Mac users.

A reminder that I'll be on The Linux Link Tech Show live this Wednesday, the 13th, at 8:30PM Eastern. I've also been invited on Dave LaMorte's Teaching for the Future podcast where he's recently been discussing open source and free software in the class room. We're going to attempt a live show on his UStream.tv channel. We're targeting this Thursday, the 14th, at 8:30PM. More details as they develop and for both those appearances I'll post links to the regular podcast episodes if you cannot view the live events themselves.

This week's security alerts are researchers hijack and dissect a botnet and a Windows 7 rootkit already.

In this week's news a conflict between two Firefox extensions and the policy Mozilla issues in response, the US places Canada on its priority IP watch list, Mozilla is planning on separating UI and content handling into separate processes in future Firefox versions, and the maker of the long promised Duke Nukem Forever closes its doors.

Following up this week the European Parliament rejects the three strikes rule as part of the pending telecoms reform package and Oracle's views on the future of some Sun projects after the acquisition.

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In the intro a reminder that my interview with Thomas Cagley of the SPamCast is up if you haven't checked it out already. Also a quick and spoiler free review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Listener Feedback this week is from Alex who compliments and asks after the audio from my interview with Jonathan Zittrain. He also has a meta-correction, yes, I got DEE-bold wrong yet again.

The hacker word of the week this week is eat flaming death.

The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on the practice of research.

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In the intro a welcome to LifeHacker readers coming from Gina Trapani's article. Also there may not be a news program this weekend, if not there will still be a new feature cast next Wednesday. And lastly, I will be at Balticon 43 Memorial Day weekend, May 22-25. I will be speaking a variety of topics, including copyright, technical audio geekery at a variety of experience levels, and more. See my Google calendar for details. I will also be volunteering with recording author readings for the Balticon Podcast as I have for the past two years.

Listener Feedback this week is from Alex who corrects my pronunciation of Brendan Eich's name with multiple citations. Thanks as always for the constructive and well put feedback.

The hacker word of the week this week is easter egg.

The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 segment on learning new programming languages.

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In the intro, more updates on my upcoming guest appearances. The latest episode of the SPaMCast went out on the 20th and I am next in the pipe, so my appearance there should be out on May 4th. I recorded a review of the film, "Six String Samurai", for Fanboy Hell, just yesterday and that should also be out the week of the 4th. Dan and M.A. release every two weeks and just but out a new episode, today. Dan takes a very similar approach to his show's production to mine and M.A. and he delve into wonderful depths in their discussions. I cannot recommend their show highly enough. Last but certainly not least, I was invited onto the live streaming of The Linux Link Tech Show. I will be on the stream the evening of the 13th and the podcast version should be available soon after.

This week's security alert is just how the OAuth protocol was founded to have a critical flaw and the astonishing story of the coordination and efforts that went into fixing the highest profile services using it.

In this week's news Anonymous targets copyright enforcers, Wikipedia pursues trademark and domain name disputes with a pair of artists despite reasonable fair use, cable operators try to convince Congress that deep packet inspection is harmless, and questioning whether CAPTCHAs are measuring the right human qualities.

Following up this week a conflict of interest has arisen in The Pirate Bay sentencing and a call for re-trial.

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In the intro I point out that I have been using Herdict Web for a while now. I encourage you to check it out, as well. This is one of the projects Prof. Zittrain has started to tackle the challenges discussed in his book.

Listener Feedback this week is from Nido who sent a link to the Hacking at Random 2009 event coming up in The Netherlands in August. There's plenty of time to plan if this is within reasonable travel distance and looks like a great hacker gathering. They also have an audio promo, which I share, that has all the details.

The hacker word of the week this week is DWIM.

The feature this week is an interview with Harvard Law professor, Jonathan Zittrain, where we discuss his latest book, "The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It", as well as his work more generally. I mentioned a TED talk given by Clay Shirky during the interview but in searching for the link I was clearly thinking of Shirky's Web 2.0 Expo talk. Both talks are worth checking out.

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In the intro, a heads up on some future guest appearances. Thomas Cagley Jr. of the very enjoyable Software Process and Measurement Podcast (SPaMCast) interviewed me this past week and that should go out two weeks for Monday, the 20th. If you like Software Engineering Radio, I think you'll like the SPaMCast. I will also be the guest blogger this coming Saturdy at Oh Get a Grip! the group blog written by six writers working in the genre of erotica. My piece will be safe for work but I will warn you that you might not find the site in general safe for work if you are concerned about such things. My article was inspired by a panel I was on with Helen Madden, one of the bloggers at OGG, discussing some of the more profound threads of love, sex and artificial intelligence. Look for my post to go up on April 25th.

This week's security alert is just a discussion of arguably the first all Mac botnet on which Brian Krebs sheds a bit more light.

In this week's news TorrentFreak's analysis of the recently leaked ACTA draft, a rant on the fragmentation in the space of social messaging, experiments in 'hyperlocal' news sites on the web, and JavaScript's creator Brendan Ellch discusses the final draft of ECMAScript 3.1.

Following up this week an update on EFF's wiretap cases and The Pirate Bay found guilty.

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In the intro I chat up Penguicon and share a promo. Also, on a sadder note, the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, Dave Arneson passed away recently. Tor.com has a very nice remembrance.

Listener Feedback this week is from Naht Ass who writes with some clarifications on the Shepard Fairey, Manny Garcia, AP case over the Obama Hope image. He shared a link to an episode of NPR's Fresh Air on which most of the principals were interviewed.

The hacker word of the week this week is dumpster diving.

The feature this week is a book review of an excellent book I finished recently, Hackers by Steven Levy. As I mention in the review, the first two chapters are freely available.

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In the intro a quick review of the geek family friendly movie, Monsters vs. Aliens.

The hacker word of the week this week is dump.

The feature this week is a monologue on choosing development platforms. I wrote this in response to a question from Brand Gamblin the genius behind Calls for Cthulhu. Brand is one of the first people I know personally who got a G1 and also recently looked into learning Flex.

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Listener feedback this week is from Jon who highly recommends the podcast software, BeyondPod, for any G1 users. Both Jon and I would like to know if there is any software for the G1 for reading OPML or PDF files.

The hacker word of the week this week is Duff's device.

The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on team dynamics. I mention a study on the benefit of info sharing and teams and a forthcoming book from O'Reilly.

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I will be traveling from the 4th of April to the 13th and will not have my audio gear with me. This is a family trip, not a conference or convention. I should be able to keep on writing for the show but no promises on the blog. There will be no news shows on the 5th or the 12th but I should be able to produce a second feature this week to post on the 8th. I'll include reminders in the next couple of shows of the missed news shows.

This week's security alerts are FireFox fixes two critical flaws including one exploited at Pwn2Own at CanSecWest and the first 3D CAPTCHAs are implemented which reminds me of my discussion of next generation CAPTCHAs from back in January.

In this week's news Shepard Fairey talks about the infringement claims against his Hope poster, a new tool for crowd sourcing JavaScript testing, a breakthrough using Graphene for computing elements, and Google announces a project to speed up Python.

Following up this week controversional section 92a copyright amendment completely scrapped in New Zealand and the troubling EU telecoms package is back along with its three strikes amendment.

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The hacker word of the week this week is drunken mouse syndrome.

The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on coding style. I mentioned this article of Python do's and don't's and Sun's coding conventions for Java. And here is the Wikipedia article on Hungarian notation if you are unfamiliar.

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This week's security alerts are community driven malware defense and Mozilla releases a CSS fuzzer.

In this week's news a new tool for parallel programming in embedded environments, IBM may be in talks to purchase Sun, Chris Soghoian betters Google's opt out plugin and releases his own, and RMS on the JavaScript "Trap".

Following up this week research being on memristance, adding spintronics.

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The other news of the week is that I received the new computer I ordered, a Mac Pro. I believe I may have gotten the last Harpertown eight core system Apple assembled. Unfortunately, the price point for Apple's least expensive eight core is now higher. That system ships with more memory and storage than the one I ordered. Compared to my G5, though, this new system is a rocket and I am happier with my budgeting choice. 8GB of after market RAM also helps smooth out the difference between the 5400 and 5500 based system.

I spent yesterday afternoon configuring a dual boot for Linux. It went smoothly and I am happy to have a native Linux system, again, for working from home and testing my personal projects. Since the new system is a desktop, Linux recognized all of the hardware with no trouble at all. I may experiment with Audacity, just to see how it compares, now that I can do so easily.

This week I received a bit of feedback. I have one questions for Vaskin and I to dig into in the planned show on license choices for hackers. Paul Fischer also sent a bit of audio feedback asking after location capabilities for flashbake. He suggests that I ought to be able to code something up similar to the iPod Touch which doesn't have a GPS chip but can still approximate location. It turns out he is right and there are plenty of tools for doing location based on public IP address. I expect to have something hacked together in the next week or two.

I have been hesitant about location services as part of my own lifestream, just because of the privacy risk. But for a private, local-only git repository, I think it would make sense for users who travel a lot, as a more fine grained bit of context than the city used for the time zone module. I have to say that on the whole, flashbake has me thinking a bit more about the various social services and pieces of other information I publish as more of a cohesive whole, as the term life stream suggests.

The next update on the lab will be on the log Wednesday night. I may post another update Thursday for with photos of the furniture on place. If I still have a good number of books and other material to move in, I may wait for a final update when everything is in place.

Once again, thanks for your patience.

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Today we cleared one of the major hurdles in this process. I completely emptied the old room. We moved my younger son's bedroom into the old room and cleared the room into which my lab will be moved in the process. The room into which I am moving my lab was our original nursery for the boys and has been hard used as such, then a shared bedroom, and then just a bedroom for the younger of the two. It needs paint, carpeting, and several small repairs.

Now that it is empty, we can schedule the painting. We have a contractor that we've used for some other serious home improvement work who coincidentally called the other day offering a discount on painting for the rest of this month. Hopefully once we have the estimate and date, then everything else should go quickly. We've used a national carpet retailer who does installation before with good results so are confident we can have that done within days of the paint being dry.

I have my great grandfather's large, nara wood desk which is the last obstacle. I love this desk since it is simply huge so affords plenty of space for my mixer, mics, monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc. It has several slide out panels, too, for temporary, additional workspace. It is, however, quite huge. I cannot move it myself up two flights of tight stairs and I am thinking it is probably worth the price to pay for a few hours of some professional movers time to move it. I also have my father-in-law's tall, teak book shelves which will line one wall of the new lab. If we are getting pro movers, they can take care of those, too.

Painting, carpeting, and moving will probably take a couple of weeks. I am optimistic I can have it all done by the end of the month, before I am scheduled to interview Jonathan Zittrain.

In the meantime, I'll experiment with trying to get one or the other computer setup in a temporary space for recording in the meantime. I am less optimistic about that working so well. I get the house to myself on Sundays, which may be workable, but the only space I can use is adjacent to our living room, which simply may not work for weeknight recording.

I will post some audio tonight with this same explanation and to announce that the show will be on semi-hiatus for the next couple of weeks. I will post regular updates, both on the blog and will try to get corresponding audio out for those who do not subscribe to the blog. If I can, I'll try to get a few episodes out during this transition but realistically, it just may not happen until my new computer is hooked up to the new FIOS router in the new lab. Regardless of my audio production, I have a couple of ideas for the next features so may just be able to get a bit ahead of writing for the show if I don't get any episodes out.

The hacker word of the week this week is drop-outs.

The feature this week is Chris Miller's report from SCaLE7x. Here's Ars Technica's coverage of Bradley Kuhn's key note which we discuss. The key note was similar to a talk he shared on his podcast, the Software Freedom Law Show. The Franklin Street Statement is the position paper that informed the development of the Affero GPL.

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This week's security alerts are a remotely exploitable flaw in Flash and Microsoft fixes a problem in dealing with autorun exploits.

In this week's news Amazone caves to the demands of the authors' guild (their exact statement on the matter) and the troubling antecedents and precedents, Microsoft releases some promising research on secure browsing though Neil McAllister reminds us where we've seen this before, Microsoft sues TomTom possibly over Linux patent infringment though I remain to be entirely convinced, and proxying data to JavaScript through Flash.

Following up this week the D programming language has been ported to OS X. I wrote about D's 1.0 release a while back.

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The hacker word of the week this week is drool-proof paper.

The feature this week is a monologue on flashbake, the scripting project I launched last week.

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This week's security alerts are a new SSL man-in-the-middle attack and cooperating intelligent agents for network defense.

In this week's news The Pirate Bay copyright case started this week in Sweden though the prosecution already dropped half the charges, Facebook updates then thinks better of its Terms of Service, pondering why we haven't seen a CC model for privacy yet, and Hulu requests content removal from Boxee.

Following up this week Mozilla and Skype add their support to the EFF's DMCA petition.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature.

The feature this week is a recording of the copyright panel I moderated at Farpoint this past weekend. Please bear with the audio quality as I used the unpowered mic that came with my record. I was joined in the discussion by Helen Madden (who mentions Epicon and ERWA), Paul Fischer and Martha Holloway of the Balticon Podcast and the ADDCast, Jared Axelrod of too many creative projects to name but notably the creator of my podcast's cover art, J.R. Blackwell, an amazing photographer and writer as well, and aspiring writer Paulette Jaxton who also recently started the Form Letter Rejection Theater podcast.

The book I mention is "The Pirate's Dilemma" and it was in the context of Gail Z. Martins forthcoming interview with me. I also mentioned the 75/22/3 rule, explored by PhD economics candidate David Blackburn. Doctorow's Law, that I cited but never explained was coined by Andrew Savikas in his coverage of the Tools of Change conference: "If someone takes something that belongs to you, and puts a lock on it that you don't have a key for, that lock isn't in your best interests". I also mentioned Bookworm which was covered at ToC. Paulette mentioned that she uses Fictionwise which may support ePub but I couldn't find any clear and easier reference for such support.

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In the intro, a shout out to the Traveling Terabyte project and to the Linux Outlaws podcast.

Also, there will not be a news show this weekend, again, as I will be at Farpoint.

There hacker word of the week this week is droid

The feature this week are highlights from the talks I attended at Shmoocon V this past weekend. Here is the coverage of Hamiel and Moyer's Fail 2.0 talk. You can follow CSRF blocker at hexsec labs. And here's the site for The Agreement.

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There hacker word of the week this week is driver

The feature this week is a monologue deconstructing my issues with the term, "new media", and suggesting a more evocative alternative (at least for my own use), "peer media".

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In the intro, a reminder that I will be at Shmoocon this weekend. Contact me if you are interested in a listener meetup. I've also got the list of panels I will be on at Farpoint the following weekend. Some really good discussions await.

This week's security alerts are using TinyURL to bypass browser safety filters and ICANN tackles but doesn't commit to doing anything about fast flux hosting.

In this week's news possible problems with an Android appthough the issue may have less to do with Google's model than an irate community, video tutorials for programming the PDP 11/10, Google launches a program to measure the open-ness of the net, and processing using the waste heat from CPUs.

Following up this week a new edition of the anti-DRM kid's book, "The Pig and the Box" and judge rules against WoW bot maker.

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I forget to mention that the folks who run the superb EFF track at Dragon*Con have a new web site. You can find archival audio and video from last year and this will be the first place to find programming information for this year. They will post links to older archival material as it becomes available.

There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the interview.

The feature this week is an interview with usability expert and interaction architect, Celeste Lyn Paul. Here is the link to her discussion and research in response to the Canonical notification proposal. We also discussed the KDE project, specifically the KDE usability project, and the open usability project.

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In the intro, a reminder that I will be at Shmoocon in a little under two weeks. I won't be speaking, just going as an attendee but for this con, I enjoy just soaking up all the great presentations and activities. The week after I will be on panels at Farpoint talking about the usual topics, plus I may manage to get some new panels on the schedule. Also, in a bit of good news, though this affects my schedule farther out, I will be going to Dragon*Con this year after all.

This week's security alerts are an expert is claiming a single re-write pass may be enough to securely delete data though he has drawn critics from credible experts and the new and highly infectious Conficker worm may affect the forthcoming Windows 7 .

In this week's news a new Gnome project that brings JavaScript to that desktop with what looks like impressive results, COPA is finally dead, next generation CAPTCHAs, and Twitter is experimenting with OAuth to better secure third party access to their data.

Following up this week ACTA's secret negotiations may run afoul of EU law and how will Obama's DoJ appointees act on the issue of warrant-less wire tapping.

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The DC area CopyNight is next week, Tuesday the 27th, at the Teaism in Penn Quarter, starting around 6:20PM. Join us to discuss the first week of Obama's administration with regards to concerns of intellectual property.

The hacker word of the week this week is Dr. Fred Mbogo.

The feature this week is a Hacking 101 segment on build tools.

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I have two promos I wanted to share, for the Law after Law School podcast and SCALE X7.

The hacker word of the week this week is down.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on effecting change.

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Apologies for a cut and paste mistake in the original feed entry, you should get the correct episode with this entry.

In the intro, a quick discussion of Professor Lessig's appearance on the Colbert Report. I have included the first audio remix of that interview as the outro bed music, the rights to that belong to Sam King though I am assuming replaying such a mash up is OK despite the lack of info at his MySpace page. Also a bit of confusion over the availability of Remix from the Colbert Nation site. I am sure it is just a consequence of the delay of the CC-licensed e-book.

This week's security alert is just 1 in 7 SSL certificates are based on the weaker MD5 hash though I've talked about how you can use SSL Black List to help spot these and DNSSEC now has a flaw (via slashdot).

In this week's news a lot of press over an EU council to broaden use of remote searching (via slashdot) though all may not be as dire as it appears, the best indie film you may never see because of barriers to distribute over music sync rights though you can donate and help, Wikipedia over DNS, and the OLPC project under takes some severe belt tightening.

Following up this week the EFF will be able to continue pursuing a key warrant-less wiretapping case and Reznor's Ghosts I-IV tops Amazon's digital music chart for 2008.

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The feature this week is part three of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is the future of computing and we got into a fun, far ranging discussion of cloud computing and some of the technical and non-technical issues it raises.

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In the intro, just a quick round up of events for this month and the coming year including Farpoint, Balticon 43 and Shmoocon. I'll also be attending Wiki White House at Google's DC office this week and a luncheon discussion of the Jacobsen case put together by the DC bar. The former appears to be full up and the latter does involve a fee.

If you want to help me get to Penguicon and/or Dragon*Con this year, please make a donation.

This week's security alert is just a lengthy discussion of an attack on the public key infrastructure based on the well researched possibility of collisions with the MD5 algorithm.

In this week's news the web comic User Friendly calls attention to the end of the VHS, a new project exploring molecular computing, a book and project bring design patterns to social activism much like they were adopted for software development (you can purchase the book on Amazon), and a paper testing how well the four common browsers handle private data, the problem of Flash cookies being the most disturbing finding.

Following up this week Flickr's The Commons project put into question with a Yahoo layoff and an unconfirmed report that the RIAA may be firing MediaSentry.

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In the intro, I share my review of Ed Piskor's "Wizzywig Volume 1: Phreak".

The feature this week is part two of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is where we are at with copyright infringement and enforcement. Most recently the RIAA has announced it is stopping its individual law suits. However, they are pressing an unusual criminal case against an individual. The risk of the urge to perfect enforcement is the increasing irrelevance of copyright to the average person.

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The feature this week is part one of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is the state of copyright, taking into consideration this year's petitions for exemptions to the DMCA and the defeated Canadian DMCA. We quickly veered into a discussion of generation gaps and norms, however.

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This week's security alerts are disappointing security test results for browsers' password handling and Microsoft announces and delivers a critical patch to the IE flaw I discussed last week.

In this week's news the Wall Street Journal confuses Google's efforts to spread caching with backing down on net neutrality thankfully Lessig and Google have responded directly, a new tool to make access tor's hidden services easier, a very clever use of existing DNS queries for dead drop messaging, and Neuros announces software development bounties for their latest offering, the Link.

Following up this week the Open Rights Group has some good analysis of the IWF/Wikipedia fiasco and McAllister digs out some more details about Google's native client.

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In the intro, a quick wrap up on the Creative Commons 6th birthday part hosted by Public Knowledge and the DC CopyNight crew. The first set of pictures are already up. The other pictures don't appear to be up yet, I'll post separately with the link once I have it. I could not find the band the SoundSprout guys brought, if anyone else remembers and sends it to me, I'll also post that link.

Listener feedback this week is from Jed who had some thoughts on the recent discussion of MVC, unity and PHP.

The hacker word of the week this week is dot file.

The feature this week is a rant inspired by this article about Dell's race to the bottom.

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If you are in the DC area, come to the Creative Commons 6th Birthday Party being coordinated by the DC CopyNight crew and generously hosted by Public Knowledge.

This week's security alerts are a massive distributed attack on SSH servers and a zero day exploit in Microsoft's WordPad and Internet Explorer the latter apparently affecting all versions of the browser.

In this week's news British ISPs catch Wikipedia in their censorship net then relent, Google introduces a way to run native code in browsers, Ed Piskor releases a graphic novel covering the history of hackers and phreakers, a self destructing poem from Agrippa, an art book launched in the early nineties, has been recovered and run under emulation.

Following up this week RedBox continues to fight for survival and the UK and the EU again consider term extensions for music copyrights.

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Listener feedback this week is from Vaskin continuing the discussion of git.

The hacker word of the week this week is dongle.

The feature this week is a review of the book, "The Hacker Ethic", by Pekka Himanen. Here's the synthetic biology debate that I mention in the piece in relation to Castells tie-in of bio-science with informationalism.

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This week's security alerts are confusion around Apple's recommendation of AV software then their retraction and a Firefox trojan that identifies itself as the popular Greasemonkey extenions.

In this week's news worry over a change for one BitTorrent client to favor UDP traffic along with a clarification of their intentions about network congestion management, Facebook rolls out their latest data sharing effort though it is far from a true data portability play, the EFF and others file their petitions for DMCA exemptions, and Python 3.0 has been released amidst criticism of its breaking backwards compatibility though some are offering very well reasoned defenses.

Following up this week the judicial oversight amendment to the EU telecoms package has been stripped and Spore is the most pirated game of the year despite EA's insistence of draconian DRM.

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Listener feedback this week is from Walker Hale continuing the discussion of git.

The hacker word of the week this week is dogpile.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on mastery.

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In the intro, a correction on the authorship and history of git from Randal Schwartz.

This week's security alerts are WordPress fixes a critical XSS flaw and a rootkit found in some network security software.

In this week's news the final SCO judgement, Sealand's data haven goes dark, a triple engine web browser, and tackling the erosion of MVC based designs by the adoption of AJAX.

Following up this week the EU rebuffs the French three strikes rule and a Quicktime update relaxes HDCP for standard defintion video.

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Listener feedback this week is from Paul Fischer on my coverage of DRM concerns with video in the iTunes store.

The hacker word of the week this week is dogcow.

The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on source control.

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This week's security alerts are a hard to exploit but critical crypto flaw in SSH and a new bit of malware for the Mac.

In this week's news the state of free software friendly social networking, Apple has added DRM supporting hardware to its new unibody Mac portables, a great how to on using the project hosting site, github, and screen casts on more advanced git usage, and a contentious but thoughtful paper that considers the open nature of the internet as more likely to preserve neutrality than legislation.

Following up this week Adobe says it will still back standards despite loss in JavaScript 2.0 fight and Apple is in talks with the other three labels over DRM-free music.

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Listener feedback this week is from Chris Miller who has some additional advice for overcoming obstacles.

The hacker word of the week this week is documentation.

The feature this week is a Hacking 101 on structured data and designing your own file formats.

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Listener feedback this week is from Robert, Michael and Bruce on info overload, access to info in the hacking with a social conscience piece and weighing in against re-recordinbg the early Inner Chapters respectively.

The hacker word of the week this week is do protocol.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on overcoming obstacles. Kaity's site and online support group for generalized dystonia is here.

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This week's security alerts are a severe bug in the G1 and more research on cracking WPA at least partially.

In this week's news new version of the GNU Free Document License would allow Wikipedia to re-license under a CC license which may yield more freedom than GFDL, Diebold being sued for a GPL violation, Android based G1 is jail broken then re-jailed by Google, and new research disputing the Long Tail model with a response from its author.

Following up this week FCC approves white spaces for unlicensed use and the WIPO broadcast treaty is back though no imminent threat.

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In the intro, a correction on my pronunciation of Diebold. Alex offers a CNN story, a a PBS story, and this one on the research out of Princeton to substantiate the case for the correct pronunciation. Also note that the first two YouTube links are to specific time codes--kewl.

Listener feedback this week is from Alex and Wouter, both in response to the last Inner Chapter on Info Overload. Here's the Waxy story about using Amazon Mechanical Turk for transcription and the Firefox extension Alex recommends. Here's the screen cast and the features apparently include Google Reader integration, syncing between systems and offline reader.

The hacker word of the week this week is distribution.

The feature this week is a monologue on hacking with a social conscience.

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In the intro, a reminder to vote, news that I will be attending the debate between Zittrain and Thierer at the New America Foundation, and asking your opinions on releasing archival material through podiobooks.com and PodDisc.com.

This week's security alerts are more info on remote key logging and software research to duplicate physical keys from photos.

In this week's news the EFF launches a new election monitoring project, Microsoft announces their cloud OS, Windows Azure, and Neil McAllister offers some initial analysis, Schneier and colleagues announce their submission for NIST's secure hash algorithm competition, and the Bilski decision on busines method patents is in from the Federal Circuit.

Following up this week just a guide to the news that the Google Books case has reached settlement plus one particular criticism that stands out.

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In the intro, a quick review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem.

Listener feedback this week is from Alex and Paul Fischer. The RADIUS server that Paul mentioned is StellarRADIUS.

The hacker word of the week this week is display hack.

The feature this week is a rant on the phenomenon of information overload.

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This week's security alerts are the first security flaw in the new G1 and vendor offers a security suite for Android.

In this week's news the 40th anniversary of the FCC's Carterfone ruling, content aware image resizing with an open source implementation already, Android first impressions along with news Google has released all the sources and that there may be some availability issues, and virtual crimes with real punishments, a digital theft and a virtual murder.

Following up this week EFF, Public Citizen respond to McCain's YouTube letter and Amazon deletes negative reviews for another EA video game riddled with DRM.

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In the intro, the reveal of the new audio promo. I mentioned that I'd reveal the winners and then forgot to do so. I'll announce them here, Lutz and Paul are the two winners and I will make arrangements directly with them to send them their prizes. Thanks to everyone who participated. You can check out the final product at http://thecommandline.net/promos/.

The hacker word of the week this week is deliminator.

The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on the topic of emotional investment and how it can affect, for good and ill, our experience of hacking.

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This week's security alerts are Elcomsoft declares WPA dead due to their new GPU/distributed attack software though Schneier is skeptical and dealing with the privacy risks of Flash's "cookies".

In this week's news latest response to RMS' critic of cloud computing which is pretty consistent with one of the quickest reponses originally, more details and questions about Obfuscated TCP, Yahoo's usability study around OpenID suggests why adoption may be slow, and McCain seeks special treatment for his fair use under the DMCA.

Following up this week Bush signs Pro-IP bill into law and the EFF presses the fight against the FISA Amendments Act in federal court, as promised.

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In the intro, a quick review of Charles Stross' Halting State and some final thoughts on the collaborative audio promo contest.

The hacker word of the week this week is dinosaur.

The feature this week is a new Hacking 101 segment on the practice of static analysis of source code.

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The feature this week is a longer Inner Chapter sharing my thought, experiences and advice for conducting a job search inspired by my own recent transition and Chris Miller's request.

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The feature this week is an interview with super prolific hacker and entrepreneur, Evan Prodromou. Even may be most known for Wikitravel but has been garnering a lot of attention for Laconi.ca and identi.ca.

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This week's security alerts are a full security suite on a phone and a new or under appreciated browser exploit with some practical defense but also a bit of skepticism.

In this week’s news, Iron produced as a more privacy protecting variation of Google's Chromium code, Muxtape is the latest pirate's dilemma, open source life streaming, and Adobe's reasons, such as they are, for keeping Flash closed.

Following up this week, the PRO-IP act passes the Senate without the troubling civil enforcement provision but plenty more to worry about and Senate updates allowable internet service policies.

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The feature this week is an interview with indie musician and open source techie, Brad Sucks. He has a brand new album out, "Out of It", which is a worthy successor to his first album, "i don't know what i'm doing". You can preview his music on his site and all of his music is podsafe. Oh, and he publishes the source, too.

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In the intro, I will be at CopyNight DC this Tuesday, it will be at Teaism on 8th Street near the Chinatown Metro Station. Also, tomorrow is One Web Day. And lastly, I have started some planned improvements by renaming the blog to The Command Line Citizen, more to come.

This week's security alerts are anti key logging software and using password recovery options more securely.

In this week’s news, Tim Berners-Lee announces a new World Wide Web Foundation, open source database replication, Mozilla clarifies some confusion around a new popup license ultimately revising it to address community criticism, and the RIAA wants to fine defense attorney Ray Beckerman.

Following up this week, the latest IP bill is being fast track make sure you take action now and Neuros launches their latest set top box adding HD encoding along with a bevy of other improvements.

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In the intro, a quick review of Cory Doctorow's new book, hist first non-fiction title, (c)ontent: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future.

The hacker word of the week this week is dink.

The feature this week is a reading of two of my favorite selections from Cory's new book.

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In the intro, remarking the end on the Voice of Free Planet X.

This week's security alerts are malware has started generating fake infringement notices and incidental risks to privacy and security exposed with the iPhone.

In this week’s news, Real set to launch a DVD copying product despite the presence of existing better though not entirely legal tools and the history of DVD copying product thus far, user reaction to EA's choice of DRM for the hot game Spore inspires them to bomb its Amazon reviews so much so that there were some shenanigans around those reviews, a legislative test balloon for giving open source more support in government IT, Samba's Jeremy Allison talks about mentors and other tools to help the self taught programmer.

Following up this week, it is that time to start talking about e-voting as the GAO criticize the certification process for testing labs and Neil McAllister takes a look at the Chromium source code in the wake of the big launch.

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Listener feedback is overdue this week in the form an a lengthy but appreciated email from Walker.

The feature this week is an interview with indie band and all around superb guys, Beatnik Turtle. Mentioned in the show is the awesome companion site, The Indie Band Survival Guide, to go along with Jason's and Randy's newly published book. We also mentioned Brad Sucks who as it happens just released his second album.

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This week's security alerts are captcha solving services raise difficult security questions and an up tick in the number of zombie PCs.

In this week’s news, Google enters the browser war with a comic explaining their technology and goals meanwhile Mozilla seems unconcerned, Googles over reaching EULA is definite cause for concern though they reacted quickly to address the criticisms, Washington state court deals a blow against unbalanced EULAs, and Neal Stephenson explains what is wrong with cell phones.

Following up this week, a new report shows internet capacity is outpacing demand despite the recurrent claims of a bandwidth meltdown and the Canadian DMCA may be about to fail.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Grab the detailed show notes with time offsets and additional links either as PDF or OPML.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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The hacker word of the week this week is dead code.

The feature is a monologue considering the questions presented by online identity.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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The hacker word of the week this week is daemon.

The feature is an Inner Chapter on stretching yourself.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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In the intro, a brief remark on the passing of Arthur C. Clarke.

The hacker word of the week this week is cyberpunk.

The feature is a new Hacking 101 segment on parallel computing and programming.

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