In the usual flood of technology stories was one that stunned all four of us: Psychic Uri Geller has been called on to help find Malaysia Airlines plane by “significant figure”. With Geller’s claim to fame being spoonbending—along with his assertions that his psychic paranormal powers may have been given to him by extraterrestrials—it is hard to fathom him being connected to the Malaysian airliner search in any way.
We dispense with the Uri the Spoonbender crap quickly and then cut-to-the-chase with technology stories.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: The Complainer’s Boogie Woogie by William Clarke. Brought to us by Music Alley.
The Podcast
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Discussed During the Show
Minnesota’s Top Stories
- Target: Alarms & 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It
- Internet Broadcasting: Nexstar Broadcasting to Acquire Leading Digital Publishing Platform and Digital Agency in a Strategic Transaction
- Senator Al Franken: Campaign against the Comcast/TWC merger
Other Top Stories
- Inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee
- Apple iOS 7.1 Launches Major iBeacon Improvement (iBeacon Now Works When the App Is Closed)
- Google drops price of all monthly Google Drive plans to $2/100GB, $10/1TB, $100/10TB
- Amazon
- Neil Young
- A Tablet Running Both Microsoft and Android? The Dream Must Wait
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week
Are you naked in a coffee shop? Today’s tip is on ways to ensure you are secure when connecting to any public Wifi hotspot.
- Why You Should Securely Connect to Public Wifi
- USA Today: Free Wi-Fi? Beware of security risks
- How To Geek: Why Using a Public Wi-Fi Network Can Be Dangerous, Even When Accessing Encrypted Websites
- Remember Firesheep? Now there is Cookie Cadger, which is Firesheep on steroids
- What You Can Do to Protect Yourself
- Tips for Using Public Wi-Fi Networks
- Be Smart Online
- Use a Virtual Private Network Connection (VPN)
- Ten VPN Services You Should Know About
- OpenVPN, the geeks solution (PC, Mac, Android, iOS)
- Buy an OpenVPN server license ($75/yr for 10 clients) and run it at home or office
- Not a geek but like OpenVPN? Use Private Tunnel, OpenVPN’s commercial service (PC, Mac, Android, iOS)
- At least use HTTPS Everywhere for sites which support it.
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