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Minnov8 Gang 266 – Nah, You’re Not Being Watched

May 31, 2014 By Steve Borsch

spy-cat_mainThe boys tease Borsch (again) about wearing his tinfoil hat during this week’s show. Are they right to call him paranoid when he does his security tip of the week?

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Now is Now by Dan-O. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota’s Top Stories

  • Graeme’s Gluecon recap (his post on Gluecon)
    • Graeme’s posts on Programmable Web
  • Target
    • Target names new digital advisory council, will hire 50 software engineers
    • Target Enters Digital Book Market With New Partnership
    • Target Rolls Out Online Same-Day Delivery In Mpls
  • St. Paul schools dumps Dell platform; students to get iPads by 2015
    • Intel NUC
  • Podcasting (Julio’s articles)
    • Professional podcast trend 
    • Behind Tom Barnard’s growing podcasting operation
  • SmartThings Updates Mobile App And Developer Tools In Its Bid To Power The ‘Internet Of Things’
  • MacBreak Weekly snippet (1:19 long) – Leo Laporte plugs SmartThings

Other Big Stories

  • Apple
    • Apple’s WWDC
      • 13 things to expect from Apple at WWDC 2014
      • Here’s how Apple’s smart home program will work
    • Apple Bought Beats Because “Music Is Dying”
    • With Beats, Apple Has Its Next iPod
  • Edward Snowden, the NSA and Your Privacy
    • PBS Frontline’s United States of Secrets
    • NBC’s Brian Williams Interview w/Snowden
  • Microsoft Surface Pro 3 review
  • Mary Meeker’s Deck On Key Internet Trends
    • The Most Important Insights From Mary Meeker’s 2014 Internet Trends Report
    • Mary Meeker’s Annual Rapid-Fire Internet Trends Talk (Video)

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

  • Minnov8: Your Digital Fingerprint or “SuperCookie”
  • ArsTechnica: Surprise, surprise: my online metadata actually reveals where I’ve been
    • (Note: read this article and you will see why, for those in-the-know, mass vacuuming up of metadata is very disturbing and why the tech community is so up-in-arms over the NSA’s domestic surveillance programs)

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  • Cyber Security Summit 2014 Oct 21st

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