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3×10 hellyeah! show: at last the nightmare is over!

300In this scary episode of the hellyeah! show, we discuss custom iOS alert tones, The Last of Us, mass storage, Mediacom and ISPs, Comcast’s unfortunate cable television sign up process, metrics for good couches, gummy vitamins, Pokémon, price matching, recent security compromises, and television do’s and don’ts.

Emory’s stuff

  • My awesome 4dwm IRIX iPhone alert tones

  • Replaying my supplies back to 7k in “The Lost of Us”

    • new maps for Factions are great

    • my delightful article on griefing opposing teams when I’m killed off

  • Misadventures in CoreStorage

    • I’ve made a huge mistake (maybe)

  • Mediacom is being awesome lately (though still kinda shady)

Alan’s stuff

don’t forget Best Buy does price matching

  • shopped around on Amazon.com with my iPhone

  • bought a hard drive from Best Buy for Amazon’s price

Adobe’s compromise

  • Government shutdown boned the FTC identity theft reporting stuff

popular Android library vulnerable

  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/08/android_ad_peril/

  • if instructed by its server, it will collect sensitive information such as text messages, phone call history, and contacts.

  • contains a number of diverse vulnerabilities.

    • These vulnerabilities when exploited allow an attacker to… turning on the camera and taking pictures without user’s knowledge,

    • stealing two-­factor authentication tokens sent via SMS

entertainment

  • We like TV

    • Breaking bad finale was great

    • American Horror Story is back

    • How I Met Your Mother still sucks

Author:

Alan would like to know what we're telling them this week.