This is news cast 166.

In the intro, just a quick round up of events for this month and the coming year including Farpoint, Balticon 43 and Shmoocon. I'll also be attending Wiki White House at Google's DC office this week and a luncheon discussion of the Jacobsen case put together by the DC bar. The former appears to be full up and the latter does involve a fee.

If you want to help me get to Penguicon and/or Dragon*Con this year, please make a donation.

This week's security alert is just a lengthy discussion of an attack on the public key infrastructure based on the well researchedpossibility of collisions with the MD5 algorithm.

In this week's news the web comic User Friendly calls attention tothe end of the VHS, a new project exploring molecular computing, a book and project bring design patterns to social activism much like they were adopted for software development (you can purchase the book on Amazon), and a papertesting how well the four common browsers handle private data, the problem of Flash cookies being the most disturbing finding.

Following up this week Flickr's The Commons project put into question with a Yahoo layoff and an unconfirmed reportthat the RIAA may be firing MediaSentry.

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This is a feature cast.

In the intro, I share my review of Ed Piskor's "Wizzywig Volume 1: Phreak".

The feature this week is part two of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is where we are at with copyright infringement and enforcement. Most recently the RIAA has announced it is stopping its individual law suits. However, they are pressing an unusual criminal case against an individual. The risk of the urge to perfect enforcement is the increasing irrelevance of copyright to the average person.

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This is a feature cast.

The feature this week is part one of a round table discussion of some of the issues that were prominent this year. I was joined by Kevin Crosby, Vaskin Kissoyan, and Eric Christensen. The topic of this part is the state of copyright, taking into consideration this year's petitions for exemptions to the DMCA and the defeated Canadian DMCA. We quickly veered into a discussion of generationgaps and norms, however.

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This is news cast 165.

This week's security alerts are disappointing security test results for browsers' password handling and Microsoft announces and delivers a critical patch to the IE flaw I discussed last week.

In this week's news the Wall Street Journal confuses Google's efforts to spread caching with backing down on net neutrality thankfully Lessig and Google have responded directly, a new tool to make access tor's hidden services easier, a very clever use of existing DNS queries for dead drop messaging, and Neuros announces software development bounties for their latest offering, the Link.

Following up this week the Open Rights Group has some good analysis of the IWF/Wikipedia fiasco and McAllister digs out some more details about Google's native client.

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This is a feature cast.

In the intro, a quick wrap up on the Creative Commons 6th birthday part hosted by Public Knowledge and the DC CopyNight crew. The first set of pictures are already up. The other pictures don't appear to be up yet, I'll post separately with the link once I have it. I could not find the band the SoundSprout guys brought, if anyone else remembers and sends it to me, I'll also post that link.

Listener feedback this week is from Jed who had some thoughts on the recent discussion of MVC, unity and PHP.

The hacker word of the week this week is dot file.

The feature this week is a rant inspired by this article about Dell's race to the bottom.

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