Dave & Gunnar Show

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about automating ransomware, automating prosecution, automating defense attorneys, and a bridge “Sent from my iPhone”: 5 Helpful Tips on How to Write Emails from Your Phone (https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-emails-from-mobile/) Air Conditioning test in Allendale (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/austin-air-conditioned-village) FBI: FIN7 hackers target US companies with BadUSB devices to install ransomware (https://therecord.media/fbi-fin7-hackers-target-us-companies-with-badusb-devices-to-install-ransomware/) See also: D&G 138 (https://dgshow.org/138) (from 2017!) Almost related: Remote staff are using ‘mouse movers’ to keep their computer awake and fool the boss (https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/09/remote-staff-use-mouse-movers-to-keep-laptops-awake-and-fool-bosses-15741764/) Chinese scientists develop AI ‘prosecutor’ that can press its own charges (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3160997

Dave read Dune (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44767458-dune) [The Dune Encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDuneEncyclopedia) Luminations (https://www.wildflower.org/event/luminations/2021-12-09) Antiwork Receipt Printers (https://www.engadget.com/someone-is-hacking-receipt-printers-with-pro-worker-messages-115040881.html) Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/11/arrest-in-ransom-your-employer-email-scheme/) Real-time deepfakes could bring chaos to your next Zoom call (https://www.dailydot.com/debug/deepfacelive-deepfake-live-streaming/) Check the examples: GitHub - iperov/DeepFaceLive (https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive) Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/2/22758974/microsoft-teams-metaverse-mesh-3d-avatars-meetings-features) Biometric auth bypassed using fingerprint photo, printer, and glue (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/biometric-auth-bypassed-using-

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about getting more out of employees, noses, math, and jobs! Dune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00nnKL87EwE) RHEL 9 Beta (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-rhel-90-beta) Pine Gap (https://www.netflix.com/title/80195198) Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/wanted-disgruntled-employees-to-deploy-ransomware/) Digital Nose Stimulation Enables Smelling in Stereo (https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-nose-stimulation-enables-smelling-in-stereo) A&W Turns its 'Worst Marketing Fail' Into a New Burger (https://www.qsrmagazine.com/news/aw-turns-its-worst-marketing-fail-new-burger) How Twitter Applied the “Jobs to Be Done” Approach to Strategy (https://hbr.org/2021/10/how-twitter-applied-the-jobs-to-be-done-approach-to-strategy) Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure (https://hbr.org/2005/12/marketing-malpractice-the-cause-and-the-cure) Cutting Room Floor * Hot

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about the weaponization of your voice, the weaponization of deepfakes, and the weaponization of the future of air travel iPad Mini (https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/) remains excellent Leaf blower paradox of choice A New Navy Weapon Actually Stops You From Talking (https://interestingengineering.com/a-new-navy-weapon-actually-stops-you-from-talking) Deepfakes Are Now Making Business Pitches (https://www.wired.com/story/deepfakes-making-business-pitches/) People are hiring out their faces to become deepfake-style marketing clones (https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/27/1033879/people-hiring-faces-work-deepfake-ai-marketing-clones/) How I Sent Over 10,000 Personal Thank You Videos To My Customers in 2 Months (https://www.marshallhaas.com/post/how-i-sent-over-10-000-personal-thank-you-videos-to-my-customers-in-2-months) Watch video here (https://www.windsor.io/#video) Don't duct tape unruly passengers, United Air

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about meetings with VR, VR with prison, prison with meetings, and brains with eyes David Macaulay (https://davidmacaulay.com/) books and Turing Tumble (https://www.turingtumble.com/) Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains'. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes (https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-used-stem-cells-to-make-mini-brains-they-grew-rudimentary-eyes) Blob of human brain grows functioning eyes in lab dish sparking 'horror' (https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/blob-human-brain-grows-functioning-24785482) Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/19/facebooks_oculus_horizon/) Gather (https://gather.town/) Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland) Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom (https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqm4k/prison-virtual-reality-vr-glob

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about appreciating our listeners, gassing bank robbers, wardriving smart meters Marriott misses (https://www.marriottvacationclub.com/mvcpulse/washington-dc.html) Dave New Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/microsoft-ergonomic-keyboard/93841ngdwr1h) Hogwarts Castle Lego (https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/hogwarts-castle-71043) is a journey D&G Viewer Mail Uzoma Nwosu (https://twitter.com/uzomanwosu) rejoices Norm Joseph (https://twitter.com/normanjoseph) endorses (https://twitter.com/normanjoseph/status/1426932057414975488) Norms Dr. David A. Wheeler (https://dgshow.org/guests/dwheeler) says: “Podcast didn’t mention by name “Law(s) of War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_war)”, yet I think that’s what you meant” Pyrotechnic-Aspyhxiation-Burglar Alarm, or P.A.B. Alarm: This Anti-Burglar Device From 1923 Was Inspired by Horrific Gas Warfare of World War I (https://gizmodo.com/this-

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about backdoor innovation, gig economy innovation, and deep work retro innovation Microsoft Natural Keyboards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_ergonomic_keyboards) are not water-resistant Mini Metro (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mini-metro/id837860959) Critics Say Apple Built a 'Backdoor' Into Your iPhone With Its New Child Abuse Detection Tools (https://gizmodo.com/critics-say-apple-built-a-backdoor-into-your-iphone-wit-1847438624) Related: The CEO of WhatsApp Attacked Apple Over Privacy. He Seems to Have Forgotten He Works for Facebook (https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/the-ceo-of-whatsapp-attacked-apple-over-privacy-he-seems-to-have-forgotten-he-works-for-facebook.html) “The nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation also critical (https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/06/snowden-eff-slam-plan-to-scan-messages-images/) Apple’s plans, stating that “even a carefully documented, carefully thought out, close-range

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about the norms of dream coercion, the norms of encrypted messaging, and the norms of ransomware game theory Bo Burnham’s “Inside” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU) Foo Fighters at the ICON Music Center (https://iconmusiccenter.com/) Are advertisers coming for your dreams? (https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/are-advertisers-coming-your-dreams) Silent Lucidity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhat-xUQ6dw) by Queensryche Unrelated: Sleep Sensing on Nest Hub (2nd gen) (https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/10357288) Also unrelated: Amazon.com Wants to Monitor You in Your Sleep, for Your Benefit (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-09/amazon-com-wants-to-monitor-you-in-your-sleep-for-your-benefit) We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals (https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7b4gg/anom-phone-arcaneos-fbi-backdoor) Why everyone should use disappearing messages on WhatsApp and

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about teaching AI art and sarcasm, teaching humans dark patterns, and teaching all dogs new tricks Apple AirCans (https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-airpods/airpods-max/silver) Mi Band 6 (https://www.mi.com/global/product/mi-smart-band-6/overview) New mystery AWS product 'Infinidash' goes viral — despite being entirely fictional (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/05/infinidash/) Introducing AWS Infinidash - WITH DEMO! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pt3KUb7kog) Open Thread: The Unreal Engine Trick (https://www.todayintabs.com/p/unreal-engine-trick?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo4MzQxNjk5LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNzIxMTU5OSwiXyI6IktpWXdQIiwiaWF0IjoxNjIyOTI0Mjk3LCJleHAiOjE2MjI5Mjc4OTcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yNDEzOTgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.vAhsPy5gQ8E6cu4GN-9N6FXnOMCd82yXGMFU7tEetmQ) Today in Tabs (https://www.todayintabs.com/) by Rusty Foster A DARPA Sarcasm Detector Is Good (https://gizmodo.com/a-darpa-sarcasm-detector-is-good-184699

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about optimizing your ad experience, hypocrisy in politics, making pressure sensors with a pencil and a piece of foam, and breathing exercises! Jurassic Park (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park) Ohio Vax-a-Million (https://ohiovaxamillion.com/faqs.html) What is the New Jersey “Shot and a Beer” program? What breweries are participating? (https://covid19.nj.gov/faqs/nj-information/slowing-the-spread/what-is-the-new-jersey-%E2%80%9Cshot-and-a-beer%E2%80%9D-program-what-breweries-are-participating) This amazing AI tool lets you create human faces from scratch (https://www.fastcompany.com/90628866/this-amazing-ai-tool-lets-you-create-human-faces-from-scratch) Thanks To Merriam-Webster, You Can Now Own The NFT Of The Definition Of "NFT" (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thanks-to-merriam-webster-you-can-now-own-the-nft-of-the-definition-of-nft-301288201.html) Signal Tries to Run the Most Hon

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk with Eric Burger (https://dgshow.org/guests/eburger) about secure, insecure, and mostly secure computing, and a whole lot more! HPE Public Sector Summit (https://www.fedscoop.com/events/hpe-public-sector-summit/agenda/): 5G: The Future Connectivity at the Edge panel Shockey’s Law (http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/08/23/bet-on-obsolescence/) Software Bill of Materials (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bill_of_materials) Dr. David A. Wheeler (https://dgshow.org/guests/dwheeler) Digital signatures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature) Homomorphic encryption (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption) Information warfare (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_warfare) The Tor Project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tor_Project) CyberCorps (https://www.sfs.opm.gov/) at Georgetown (https://cyberfellows.georgetown.edu) FCC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Com

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about abusing Whatsapp, abusing Twitter, abusing LinkedIn, and abusing GPT-3 Austin has passed Prop B, reinstating the public camping ban. What happens now? (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/austin-has-passed-prop-b-reinstating-the-public-camping-ban-what-happens-now/ar-BB1gjBfT) Meanwhile in Richmond: Steelers draft pick Najee Harris throws party at homeless shelter where he once lived (https://www.woodtv.com/news/national/steelers-draft-pick-najee-harris-throws-party-at-homeless-shelter-where-he-once-lived/) FTC issues stern warning: Biased AI may break the law (https://www.protocol.com/ftc-bias-ai) How a WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cyberstalkers (https://traced.app/2021/04/13/whatsapp-status-loophole-is-aiding-cyberstalkers/) Face editing: Japanese biker tricks internet into thinking he is a young woman (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-56447357) Twitter images can be abused t

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about word and object AI chimeras, animal and machine chimeras, and Chef Boyardee! @dgshowDotOrg (https://twitter.com/dgshowDotOrg)! Cloud Player (https://www.doubletwist.com/cloudplayer) crushes YouTube Music (https://music.youtube.com/) Bitsbox (https://bitsbox.com) You only need pen and paper to fool this OpenAI computer vision code. Just write down what you want it to see (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/05/openai_writing_attack/) A world first: A robot able to "hear" through the ear of a locust (https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/tu-awf030221.php) The Smellicopter is an obstacle-avoiding drone that uses a live moth antenna to seek out smells (https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/12/07/smellicopter-avoids-obstacles-uses-live-moth-antenna-to-smell/) Chef Boyardee Found His Start In Cleveland, Ohio… Then Became A Household Name (https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/ohio/clevel

101st Airborne Division (https://www.army.mil/101stAirborne) D&G 189: Marlie Moxinspike (https://dgshow.org/189) The battle inside Signal (https://www.platformer.news/p/-the-battle-inside-signal) See also: Can WhatsApp stop spreading misinformation without compromising encryption? (https://qz.com/1978077/can-whatsapp-stop-misinformation-without-compromising-encryption/) What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting (https://theintercept.com/2021/01/18/leak-zoom-meeting/) The ‘Batman Effect’: How having an alter ego empowers you (https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200817-the-batman-effect-how-having-an-alter-ego-empowers-you) Cutting Room Floor * DIY latex glove bagpipes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y95I0rb1JoU) * Bagpipe swing with Gunhild Carling in Central Park NY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RbVuDuCYMY) * Menu items renamed as expense-able office items (https://www.ubereats.com/ca/toronto/food-delivery/good-fortune-burger-college/SlS7Rn6dQ1SVb59NxiWt5A) * Blue Check Home

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about mind-controlled computing, computer-controlled minds, and AI-controlled doppelgangers Texas Deep Freeze (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-deep-freeze-caused-texas-to-lose-power/) Apocalypse Watch Ministry for the Future (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future) by Kim Stanley Robinson Bitwarden Is Now the Best Free Alternative to LastPass (https://lifehacker.com/bitwarden-is-now-the-best-free-alternative-to-lastpass-1846289833) Dave’s to-do list to review the state of to-do lists: ✅ Remember the Milk (https://www.rememberthemilk.com/) ~~Google Tasks (https://support.google.com/tasks/answer/7675772?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en)~~ ❓Todoist (https://todoist.com/) todoist-shortcuts (https://github.com/mgsloan/todoist-shortcuts) is a browser extension or greasemonkey script which adds a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to Todoist Human or GPT-2? (htt

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) talks with Hassan Khan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/todaq/) and Dann Toliver (http://www.danntoliver.com/) about containerizing assets with containers! Quantius (https://www.quantius.ca/) Bento Miso (now Gamma Space (https://www.gammaspace.ca/)) Toronto JavaScript (http://torontojs.com/) Haskell Toronto (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/toronto-haskell) Clojure Toronto (http://www.meetup.com/Clojure-Toronto/) CS Cabal (http://cscabal.com/) WebRTC (https://webrtc.org/) TODA (https://engineering.todaq.net/TODA_Tech_Primer_v1.1.pdf) Proof of Provenance (https://engineering.todaq.net/todapop.pdf) ADOT (https://todaq.substack.com/p/toda-through-the-looking-glass-adot) TODAQ (https://todaq.net/) TODA-As-A-Service (https://todaq.substack.com/p/todaqs-taas-api-platform-picks-up) Enterprise ADOT Server (https://todaq.substack.com/p/a-brief-walkthrough-of-the-adot-web) OpenShift (https://www.openshift.com/) We Give Thanks * Hassan Khan

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about COVID, masks, and cannibalism Apple M1 (https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/) on the way Lockdown has affected your memory – here’s why (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201113-covid-19-affecting-memory) Wearing someone else's face: Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan (https://www.reuters.com/article/japan-masks-idUSKBN28Q194) Get paid to have your face printed onto a creepy, super realistic mask (https://www.cnet.com/news/get-paid-to-have-your-face-3d-printed-onto-a-creepy-realistic-mask/) Maskalike (https://maskalike.com/): Your face on an N95 mask for $30 Freak Masks (https://laughingsquid.com/freak-masks-bizarre-custom-ski-masks-that-let-you-wear-your-own-face-or-the-face-of-someone-else/): Scare everyone for only $19 Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52626828-billion-dollar-burger) Steaks Grown From H

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) hear voices, talk to computers, count holes, and qualify sandwiches Lockdown has affected your memory – here’s why (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201113-covid-19-affecting-memory) The five taxonomies of hand foods (https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1338876619205746688) These Are the Creepiest Gadgets of 2020, According to Mozilla (https://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-36-creepiest-gadgets-according-to-mozill-1845664481) Full list here (https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/) and scroll down to increase creepiness level New device puts music in your head — no headphones required (https://apnews.com/article/new-tech-device-sound-beaming-noveto-38327ae5fe116080a5eaf2374eb0f5c8) A New Way to Plug a Human Brain Into a Computer: via Veins (https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-way-to-plug-a-human-brain-into-a-computer-via-veins) How many holes does a given object have? (https://

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) talks with Joshua Powers (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-powers-815b662/) about using AI to make AI more ethical! D&G 207 (https://dgshow.org/207) with John Janek! An AI Looks At Human Writings On Ethical Artificial Intelligence (https://devtechnology.com/2021/01/an-ai-looks-at-human-writings-on-ethical-artificial-intelligence/) Asilomar AI Principles (https://futureoflife.org/ai-principles/) The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center AI Ethics Principles (https://www.ai.mil/docs/Ethical_Principles_for_Artificial_Intelligence.pdf) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on AI Ethics (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-ai/) We Give Thanks * Joshua Powers (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-powers-815b662/) for being our special guest star! * John Janek (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnjanek/) for introducing us to Joshua! Special Guest: Joshua Powers.

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk with Dr. David A. Wheeler (https://twitter.com/drdavidawheeler) about what’s new at the Linux Foundation, a brand-new free course on developing secure software, some survey results, and recent news concerning SolarWinds. Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) (https://openssf.org/) of the Linux Foundation replaces the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) and has several working groups Secure Software Development Fundamentals Courses (https://openssf.org/edx-courses/) The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Badge Program (https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en) is now part of the OpenSSF Best Practices Working Group Project statistics (https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/project_stats), now >3,500 participating projects & >500 passing badges If you develop OSS, make sure your projects are pursuing a badge (https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/)