Privacy isn't over until the Fat Canary dies

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Privacy isn't over until the Fat Canary dies
Number 2726
Broadcast Date APRIL 1, 2016
Episode Length 40:48
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Darren Kitchen, Len Peralta

A statement that Reddit had never received a national security letter disappeared from their latest transparency report. Is the canary dead? Darren Kitchen and Tom Merritt discuss while Len Peralta illustrates.

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Tesla unveiled the Model 3 electric car last night. The $35,000 car can go 215 miles on a charge, 0-60 in 6 seconds, use Tesla’s autopilot features, has 15-inch landscape touchscreen and supports Tesla’s supercharging network, which is supposed to double by end of 2017. It seats 5 adults with storage in the front and back. Deliveries are expected to begin by the end of 2017. Musk tweeted Friday that more than 180,000 people had put a $1,000 deposit down to preorder the car.
As an April Fool’s joke, Google added an orange button that read “send with” and an icon representing a mic drop to Gmail. This button was placed right next to the normal send button, replacing the send+archive button. The orange button sent the message but added a GIF of a Minion dropping a mic. After several people complained, Google removed the feature , apologizing and writing in a blog post, "It looks like we pranked ourselves this year.”
Submitted by alanchar
Reddit issued its latest transparency report. This year’s report does not say it has never received a National Security Letter or any other classified request for user information. This passage is known as a “warrant canary” meaning if it disappears the implication is that a request has been received. It is illegal to disclose the specific receipt of such requests. Regarding the report, Reddit founder Steve Huffman wrote, "I've been advised not to say anything one way or the other.”
Submitted by habichuelacondulce
Wired reports that since 2014, artist Trevor Paglen and Jacob Applebaum have exhibited a sculpture in museums called the Autonomy Cube. The 38 centimeter cube houses a WiFi router with Bunnie Huang’s redundant Novena motherboards that serves as a Tor relay. Four of the devices are currently touring museums. Three more begin in May. Paglen hopes to get some museums to make the installations permanent. A public gallery in Oldenburg, Germany even served as an exit node with a speed of 100Mbps.
Two sources tell Reuters that Egypt blocked Facebook Free Basics Internet service on December 30, after Facebook declined to let the Egyptian government surveil users. At the time the Egyptian government claimed that mobile carrier Etisalat had only been granted a two month permit to offer the service.
40 years ago today in 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne decided to change their garage project into a partnership and Ron Wayne typed up the papers. Wayne would leave the partnership after 11 days and Apple Computer would be incorporated the following January.
Submitted by tgstellar
In a 3 to 2 vote the FCC passed a measure to allow low-income Americans to apply the $9.25/month Lifeline subsidy to broadband or bundled voice-and-data (mobile) internet service. According to the Washington Post the plan requires ISPs to offer download speeds of at least 10Mbps. The FCC anticipates the new option will be available Dec 1st.
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, led by Professor Dina Katabi, published a paper on a system called Chronos that can locate devices from a single WiFI access point. It calculates the time data takes to travel from a user to the access point with an average error of 0.47 nanoseconds. Chronos channel hops to take several measurements and stitch them together. An algorithm eliminates delays created by walls and furniture.
Submitted by Hylar92
One of the fastest growing startups in the world is Garena and with its latest round of funding its the most valuable startup in Southeast Asia at US$3.75 billion. Its fastest growing products are Shopee a mobile marketplace, and AirPay an ePayment service. It also has a digital content business led by Garena+ its online game and social platform that is highly profitable according to TechInAsia. Garena publishes League of Legends in Southeast Asia.

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Pick of the Day

My pick is Viivo which enables one to create an encrypted enclave that only you have the key to. This enclave can be stored on Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, etc and can have a local unencrypted copy for convenience. The beauty is when you put a file in the folder on your machine, it gets encrypted without anymore interaction than saving. You can even open files in your enclave, or locker as they call it, on your iPhone, Mac, and Android! Best of all; it's free!!!!!!

Sincerely,
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This one is from Tim Sweeney though not directed at DTNS, he did follow up on his criticisms of the Universal Windows Platform on Twitter yesterday, and we think it's important to note; He wrote "Here is @andrewclinick's technical presentation on UWP installation: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B809 …. One-click install, signing by any CA root."
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