Michael W. Dean and Neema Vedadi talk about how Neema takes more vacations than Obama, it’s far more important that we be teaching about computer security than bitching about the tyranny du jour. They tell you how if Skype is running, it has the ability to log your keystrokes and the gubmint can get at it, why cryptocat and TOR are bad ideas, why Peer Block, and Boleh VPN and FileShredder are good, Namecoin (good), Google to downgrade pirate sites in search results (bad), anonymous surfing, and the problems of representing yourself in felony cases.
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PHOTO of Michael’s $30 Film School book next to some books on great directors in the Knoxville public library.
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Great cast. I’m really interested, and don’t know enough about personal cyber-security issues. Thanks!
I like the plan for less BAG (Bitch About Government) and more bang on the feens. Limit the ‘political’ talk to Loud, Mocking Disregard (call it LMD and they’ll think its a new drug
). BAG is square. You guys have so much more to offer.
Request: Tell us some more good ones from ‘Unintended Consequences’ MWD.
And that library picture– is that from another feen right here in my neighborhood? Tax payers have subsidized my reading and music habits many times in that very library.
I can’t remember who sent me that photo. Not a Feen that I know of, but a fan of that book.
MWD
Thanks for trying to remember, I was hoping it might be someone I know.
You could always ask John Ross to hide a donate button under a pirate flag
somewhere on his web site. Then you can read the book pdf and pay for it on
the sly.
Some of the websites hosting the PDF, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t wanna hear
from those people. Not worth it even if they have piles of cash.
” I’m pretty sure he doesn’t wanna hear
from those people. Not worth it even if they have piles of cash.”….what…like the Armenian nationalist racial pride sites? lol.
MWD
I knew you would like that John Ross book. (and I have some more recommendations when you finish that one..so buy a cheap Android tablet for easier reading.)
While ‘Unintended Consequences’ is the only fiction book John Ross has written, it isn’t his only book. In fact, he wrote _the_ authoritative work on the relationship to firearm ownership and reduction of crime rates (Self-Defense Laws and Violent Crime Rates).
The John Ross special edition of the S&W wheel gun is indeed based on a design by the very same John Ross.
Great podcast! I won’t be a dork and correct all the technical errors (but with 17 years of IT consulting experience and started writing code 26 years ago, listening to tech talk is like watching RAMBO with actual special forces servicemen)
Randall,
Glad you liked the episode!
MWD
Done!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mqMVTFkkUM&feature=youtu.be