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Carpe Drone-um
Number 2697
Broadcast Date FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Episode Length 41:15
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Justin Robert Young

High School students in Chicago will have to take a computer science class in order to graduate, starting with the fall freshman class. Is this the right way to promote tech literacy? Do we have enough teacher’s for this? Tom Merritt and Justin Young discuss.

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Headlines

Apple filed a motion to vacate the court order requiring it to assist the FBI in cracking the passcode of an iPhone 5C. Cyrus Farivar at Ars Technica reports Apple said in a conference call that the FBI wanted a government OS and that Apple would have to build an “FBI forensics lab” at its headquarters. Apples filing denies that that the All Writs act provides a basis to “conscript apple to create software enabling the government to hack into phones.” It also argues the order would violate the first amendment and the fifth amendment’s due process clause to be free of arbitrary deprivation of its liberty.
Meanwhile Verizon's CEO Lowell MCadam expressed support for strong encryption with no back doors and Microsoft president and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith told Congress Thursday that his company will file an amicus brief in support of Apple in the San Bernardino case. The Wall Street Journal reports Facebook, Twitter and Google will do the same.
US FBI Director James Comey told the US House Intelligence Committee "This is the hardest question I have seen in government and it's going to require negotiation and conversation.” He said Congress should decide the issue. Tim Cook told ABC he believes the dispute is about safety since phones carry more information about you than any other device and also believes Congress should decide the issue. And Congress has taken the first step. The US House Judiciary committee will hold a hearing at 1 PM Eastern time, March 1st, with testimony from Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell, FBI Director James Comey, New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance and encryption specialist Susan Landau formerly a privacy analyst at Google now a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
And finally, The New York Times reports sources tell it Apple was working on strengthening security of its phones even before the FBI case. Apple currently allows firmware to be pushed to a device without requiring a user password as a troubleshooting mechanism. Wired’s Brian Barrett reported former lead developer at secure messaging app Signal announced he will spend the summer working with the CoreOS security team at Apple.
Sharp announced it would accept FoxConn’s bid to acquire 65.9% of the company in a deal worth about 700 billion yen. And then shortly after, Foxconn said it would delay signing the agreement after receiving a list of contingent liabilities from Sharp Wednesday, worth 350 billion yen.
UK’s Ofcom advised BT it must further open its network to competitors after a review of its management of the “Openreach” network which connects British homes to telephone exchanges. BT will be required to let competitors use tunnels and poles to lay wires. In 2005 Ofcom required BT to open access to its network to competing ISPs. Ofcom may recommend Openreach become a subsidiary with its own board or possibly separated from BT entirely.
At the CP+ camera show in Japan, Huawei has announced a partnership with Leica. The press release says the companies plan to combine— and I quote— “their shared ethos in a long-term commitment to the art of craftsmanship, meticulous engineering and the spirit of winning collaboration to create a powerhouse in the reinvention of smartphone photography.” Leica frequently partners with Panasonic.
Samsung announced it is producing 256GB embedded chips with the Universal Flash Storage 2.0 standard. That gives SATA-like read speeds of 850MB/s and write speeds of 250MB/s. As Samsung ramps up fro global demand expect some 256GB fast phones and tablets in your future.
Wired reports that Jigsaw’s Project Shield which aims to protect news sites from D-DOS attacks, has come out of invite-only beta. Any site not run by a government or political party is eligible. Domain Names are pointed to a reverse proxy designed to filter malicious traffic and cache some elements to reduce load. Interested sites can get started at g.co/shield.
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Mashable reports that Dr. Ralph Mobbs, neurosurgeon at Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, has successfully implanted the first 3D-printed replacement for neck vertebrae. Mobbs worked with medical device company, Anatomics to print models for practice surgeries as well as the eventual titanium replacement. The patient suffered from a cancer called Chordoma that put pressure on his brain stem and would have eventually caused quadriplegia. The surgery is normally difficulty because of the difficulty of rebuilding the vertebrae.
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Discussion

Submitted by KAPT_Kipper

Pick of the Day

On yesterday's show you said that Telegram had strong end-to-end encryption but there have been several criticisms of it:

https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-444.htm
https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-538-notes.pdf
https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-538.htm
https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-538-notes.pdf
http://cs.au.dk/~jakjak/master-thesis.pdf
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/23/homebrew_crypto_in_telegram_app/

I would recommend as a better alternative, and pick of the day, Signal from Open Whisper Systems https://whispersystems.org/
Signal is the evolution of their previous products TextSecure and RedPhone, and provides end-to-end encryption of text, image and video messages, in addition to encrypted voice calls. It is available for Android and iOS and the desktop Chrome extension is currently in beta. The code is open source, they use well established encryption protocols and the encryption is transparent to the user making it easy for anyone to use. Also, the endorsments on their page make it a compelling choice.


Thanks for the great show,
Submitted by Mike

Messages

Hi there Tom,

Thanks for reading my last email out on the show. I wanted to let you know the attempt to be the first to cross the English Channel with a multi-rotor drone was a success!

It was challenge for both the team piloting the craft and my camera team.

Although things mostly went to plan, the drone for some reason lost GPS a little over half way across, so the pilot Richard Gill had to manually fly it for the rest of the journey. The drone completed the crossing and touched down in Dover, UK on Tuesday 16th February.

I just wanted to pass along a short video I've put together of the attempt for you guys to share out on the shownotes if you want to. There's also a link to a Business Insider post that covers the more technical details.


Thanks for your time,
Cheers,
Sent by David Toms


Hey, Tom. I heard you mention AMP on the show the other day. Just wanted to forward an article I wrote for Smashing Magazine that I think is the most comprehensive exploration of AMP on the web to date:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/02/everything-about-google-accelerated-mobile-pages/

Still loving the show.
Best,
Sent by Christian


Imagine being surrounded by dolls that look human, sound human, but don't act human, don't react correctly, have rigid facial features and ungainly movements, don't have any actual intelligence, and will in fact ignore you unless specifically scripted not to. If the whole point of virtual reality is to immerse you in a world, that's by far not the sort of world I want to live in.
Sent by Vincent


A listener on today's episode asked what might VR be used for other than gaming. I don't remember if I've mentioned this in a previous message or not. If so, just consider me having a senior moment.

A few months ago a friend asked my wife to join her in a VR session that was geared to show people what it's like to have Alzheimer's. Our friend's husband is suffering from Alzheimer's and is in a nursing home. Both my wife and I and our friends are in our late seventies. My wife is computer illiterate and has problems with tech in general. When the set top box and TV are out of sync, I have to do the recovery for her. They said the VR experience was very enlightening. They were asked to do tasks and they would experience how an Alzheimer's patient might handle the request. I now regret that I didn't take part myself. I didn't realize what what was going to take place. We have a other friends who are in the same situation and my wife tries to explain to them that it does no good to argue with a person with dementia.
Sent by Bill Burlingame in Huntsville, AL

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