October 31, 2011 – Episode 236
Episode 236 of The CyberJungle is about 29 minutes long. You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview begins at about 13min. You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.
To listen to Episode 236 via the flash player:
Interview
The author of Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden. The CyberJungle talk about his new book, Worm: The First Digital World War.
Our Take On This Week’s News
Researchers find major security holes in the Amazon cloud. Read more at h-online.com .
Ubuntu Linux for ARM heads to smartphones/tablets. Read more at ZDnet
Tales From The Dark Web
Spam scams behind the mask of a legitimate looking network news site. Here is the link, but DO NOT go there on a non-high security system, there may be malware on this domain, as it appears to be controlled by spammer: http://www.news13i.com/ [Cut and paste at your own risk]
Wrap
John McCarthy, who some have called the Godfather of PKI, 1927-2011 . Read more at the MIT Press Log