#6: My PaaS ate my homework.

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about two-factor authentication, DongleGate, an epic uptime, multi-level security, MOOCs, and the dangers of Bluetooth™.

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Good news: We are successfully confusing Adam Clater.

• REDHAWK software defined radio on Github
  • OpenBTS
• CentOS Post Mortem & Analysis by Red Hat’s Scott McCarty
• EMC Losing Ground as Smartphones Displace RSA Tokens quoting award winning Red Hat CIO Lee Congdon
  • Google Authenticator is pretty darn awesome and open source (server and client)
• PyCon DongleGate
  • Garann Mean’s post on meritocracy
    • “Wow! What a bizarre statistical anomaly it is that basically everyone with the special magic gift of computer programming happened to be born into a teeny tiny little demographic sliver of the population.”
• Epic uptime achievement unlocked. Can you beat 16 years?
• OSI Open Source License Clinic, May 9th
• White House Hackathon, June and Applications close April 19th
• Cleveland Mini Maker Faire, April 13 (if you’re into open source guinea pig video games)
• STIG and SCAP workshop workbook on the SCAP Security Guide web site
• Red Hat defends Rackspace against Troll
  • Open Source Assurance
  • Groklaw
  • USPTO Peer to Patent
• Dave’s “Next-Generation MOOCs with Open-Source PaaS”
  • Related:
    • MOOCs have less than 10% completion rate
    • Stanford joins edX – edX to be completely open source by June
• FBCB2 Blue Force Tracker
  • Must see 2 minute video by Major General Nick Justice

Lessons Learned

• Don’t pair your phone with your spouse’s car if you give presentations using said phone when not in said car

We Give Thanks

• Isaac Christopherson for the show title