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Grumpy Old Geeks

164: NerdWatch 2016!

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2016

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

WWDC; Napster’s back; Microsoft’s LinkedIn & Twitter’s Soundcloud folly; telecoms want love, too; internet makes you dumb; Swedes go cashless; Olli & Watson; Russian DMC hack; gadgets in naughty places; we come around to VR & AR, Smashmouth & Guy Fieri. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/164 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

0:06.8

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:16.5

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks for June 17th 2016 episode 164. I am Jason DeFilippo.

0:23.7

And I'm Brian Schultmeister. How you doing Brian?

0:26.4

I've got a bit of a soccer hangover. USA USA.

0:31.2

Okay. What happened? Hey, man, you know, they beat Ecuador. That's, I know to most Americans are like,

0:36.8

of course, we beat Ecuador. No, no, no, no, no. It was a big upset. So awesome.

0:42.4

I think by saying most Americans, I think you're giving most Americans a little bit more credit

0:47.2

about caring about the footies. Well, they don't care at all. So, you know, that's fine.

0:51.6

How about a little follow up? A little follow up last week from my blue apron experience.

0:58.8

Okay. I'm trying to, you know, get rid of hideous accounts. Calerodrick, friend of the show,

1:04.4

and a host of the morning show, which hasn't done an episode in like a month or so. So I guess

1:09.1

maybe ex host of the morning show. As soon as a tweet and said, I've used just delete.me to find out

1:15.0

where to go to delete accounts and cancel subscriptions. I'd never heard of this site. I checked it out.

1:19.6

It's awesome. It's massive. There's everything known to man here. But what I really need is,

1:24.9

I need a service where I put in my email address and it goes and finds out all the different places

1:28.8

that have somehow got me in their registries when I'm not. That would be an interesting one, yes.

1:33.7

That would be very useful because, you know, it's all these mailings lists. And when you've had an

1:38.0

email address for 25 plus years, it's amazing what you end up getting signed up for somehow.

1:43.2

Yeah, I'm going to cover this one in security because I had a little little issue this week where I

1:48.3

had to go back and change about 270 passwords. Wow. Unmultiple accounts. And they're all zombie accounts.

1:56.4

Right. Yeah. I one of my one of my accounts got basically pulled in one of these breaches.

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