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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In the intro, a request for help on behalf of Escape Pod. Listen to Metacast #3 for more details or just head over and donate if you like what you hear.

Security alerts this week are more details on hacking implantable medical devices and inappropriate ads showing up on kids' sites.

In this week's news, an insider's story about working at Atari during its heyday, a Kentucky legislator wants to suppress anonymous free speech online, Professor Ed Felten considers the gap between expected and accepted privacy and some possible, though not perfect, solutions, and Verizon and others working on improving P2P technology rather than simply banning it.

Following up this week, more examples of fan funded artists and John Scalzi's critique of Kelly's essay on one thousand true fans.

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The hacker word of the week this week is crunch.

The feature is a new Inner Chapter on the practice of pulling your own weight.

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In the intro, a quick review of productivity software OmniFocus and a general exhortation to hack whatever issues are plaguing you.

Security alerts this week are malware authors pre-testing their works to better evade detection and a new tool that cracks Windows passwords in seconds.

In this week's news, Rudy Rucker vs. the Singularity, Johnny Long the no tech hacker, Kevin Kelly on 1000 true fans, and doubting technology will foil the problem of warrantless wiretaps.

Following up this week, Norwegian broadcaster NRK discusses the results of their BitTorrent experiment and the case against Wikileaks has been dropped.

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In the intro, a moment of silence to commemorate the passing of role playing game luminary, E. Gary Gygax and a few remembrances of how his co-invention, D&D, affected my geek life.

The feature this week is the audio I recorder of the IP discussion panel I moderated a few weeks back at Farpoint 2008. Panelists were Steve Kramer of Secret Frequency, Steve Wilson the director of Farpoint's podcasting track (hence the boss reference) and of Prometheus Radio Theatre, and Brand Gamblin the writer, voice and puppeteer for Calls for Cthulhu.

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In the intro, a thank you to Brain for the audio tips and a quick review of Mission: Red Planet.

This week's security alerts are a password disclosing vulnerability in OSX and spammers crack Gmail's captcha.

In this week's news, Judge reverses Wikileaks decision, Apple may be secretly tipping the scales in favor of its own applications, AppleTV requires HDMI DRM support, and a new programming language promises best features of ones that came before.

Following up this week, re-visiting Amie Stree and Judge rejects making available theory.

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The feature this week is the second half of a lecture given by Professor Eben Moglen on the danger of software patents. This second part is around forty minutes, so no new hacker word of the week this week.

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In the intro, a quick run down of my attendance of the USACM Executive Committee policy retreat today.

Listener feedback is from Jon I. who corrected my misattribution of DTrace and namae who suggested I should produce audio exclusively in Ogg Vorbis format.

This week's security alerts are cDc releases Goolag scanner and a troubling paper on the state of wireless implementations.

In this week's news, the limits of quantum computing, Adobe bringing DRM to Flash, the socio-economics of Legos, and a cold reboot attack on hard drive encryption.

No follow ups this week, though I did spend more time of several of the news items.

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The feature this week is the first half of a lecture given by Professor Eben Moglen on the danger of software patents. This first part is fifty minutes, so no new hacker word of the week this week.

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In the intro a quick review of the card game, Infernal Contraption.

Also, a reminder that there will be no news cast this weekend as I will be at Farpoint. Listen to the last show for more details on my appearance there.

The hacker word of the week this week is crock.

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

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In the intro, a reminder that I'll be at Farpoint from the 15th to the 17th to kick of my 2008 con season.

Listener feedback is from Jed this week, suggesting AOP can be thought of as a macro language.

This week's security alerts are a security industry criticizes current best practices and a Firefox update was released though though it may not have been as complete as possible.

In this week's news, considering the issues involved with internet voting, the life of a software engineer, a new study shows the gap between parents expectations of what kids do online and what they actually do, and the RIAA chief considers filtering on end user PC's though he was apparently only speculating.

Following up this week, Minister Prentice is set to re-introduce the Canadian DMCA and the EFF fights potential distortion of precent and case law by the RIAA's aggressive tactics.

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In the intro a quick review of the video game, No More Heroes, for the Nintendo Wii game console.

The hacker word of the week this week is crippleware, creeping featurism and creeping featuritis.

The feature this week is the next installment of Hacking 101, a discussion of aspected oriented programming.

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In the intro, a short review of the book, Men of Tomorrow, by Gerard Jones.

This week's security alerts are a Skype flaw persisting despite patching and session sidejacking in Gmail despite use of SSL.

In this week's news, the German government is trying to circumvent Skype encryption, Kevin Kelly considers what could be better than free, Bruce Schneier discusses what is really at stake in the argument of security vs. privacy, and demo programs as art.

Following up this week, the reserve has been met on the C block of the 700Mhz spectrum activating the open access conditions and Danish collecting society, KODA, extends support for NC CC licenses to all its members.

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The good news is most of my looming deadlines will pass at the end of this week so I should be able to get back on top of the content and interview planning.

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In the intro, an announcement that a new site, Open Media Review, has launched to which I will be regular contributor.

Listener feedback was from Wouter discussing the under reported privacy concerns around the hacked Dutch RFID transit card. The video he mentioned can be found here.

This week's security alerts are a home router exploit spotted in the wild and a data leakage bug in Firefox.

In this week's news, tiny distributed virtual worlds, first album to launch with a free CC version and be able to collect radio play royalties, inefficient code may be less green, and SpaceShip 2 will have an open architecture.

Following up this week, a clear explanation of MSIE8's rendering modes and the 700Mhz spectrum auction started.

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The hacker words of the week this week are creeping elegance, creeping featurism and creeping featuritis.

The feature this week is the next installment of what started as a set of related Inner Chapters but now I am going to publish as Hacking 101. The topic this time is static vs. dynamic programming. Here are the Wikipedia articles I mentioned, on naming binding and duck typing.

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In the intro, a quick review of Cloverfield which I got to see with some friends this past Friday. There will be a more comprehensive review from all of us on the ADDCast. I'll post a link once it is live.

Listener feedback was James continuing the discussion of motivation and inspiration with a link to an excellent article with some good practical advice.

This week's security alerts are a Flash based uPnP exploit and advice on private use of public computers.

In this week's news, Mozilla hires three usability developers, multicore memory, a Library of Congress collaboration with Flickr, and yet another programming paradigm.

Following up this week, a brief video explaining DataPortability.org and Global Pandora is shut down.

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The hacker word of the week this week is creationism

The feature this week is a short half rant, half monologue on the meaning of free access to knowledge.

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In the intro, a quick review of the Ben 10 video game for the Nintendo Wii console. I have been playing it steadily for the past couple of days with my younger son.

This week's security alerts are a mass SQL injection attack and a master boot record based stealth rootkit.

In this week's news, the Wikia search engine launches an alpha to a luke warm reception, Pandora is shutting down its UK streams, Felten weighs in on the Facebook/Scoble kerfuffle along with some EU-based commentary around the legal issues, and Schneier urges us to run our wireless networks open.

Following up this week, Facebook and Google join DataPortability.org and Amazon nabs Sony BMG for its MP3 store.

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

The feature this week is a live roundtable discussion with Paul and Martha of the ADDCast and Greg, the Balticon 42 con chair and fellow professional hacker, again. This time we are unboxing one of the brand new OLPC XO laptops that Paul has managed to acquire.

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

The feature this week is a live roundtable discussion with Susan Z and Biscuit of the Kulture Kast and Susan's husband, the Z Man.

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I have three special guest, in studion. Greg, a fellow profession hacker and con chair of Balticon 42 and Paul and Martha from The ADD Cast. Apologies in advance for any inconsistencies or quirks in the audio as I am out of the lab and at the only table in the house large enough and Paul encouraged me to experiment with my mixer.

This week's security alert is just a TV show about penetration testing.

In this week's news, copyrighting antiquities, accelerating change and education, and end of life for the Netscape browser.

Following up this week, just Amazon has added Warner to their catalog in the download store.

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