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The JaK Attack! Podcast

Summary: Jon Watson and Kelly Penguin Girl are probably best known as the hosts of the GNU/Linux User Show. After 30 shows on The Podcast Network, we've decided to go indie with our own brand of technology, politics, rants, and reviews. This show is free flowing, funny, and just a little too loud.

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 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.31 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:27

Welcome to show number 2017.31! Show Notes Jon rearranged his own office. For the first time ever. Without Kelly. Kelly takes epically long baths. EPIC!! Our 70's bar in the living room is no more Kelly's website is here! 08:00 - Kelly's Corner Facts about Remembrance Day 10 quick facts about Remembrance day from the Veterans Affairs Canada site 2,300,000 Canadians have served, over 100,000  have died in service King's-Edgehill is in Windsor and the oldest independent school in the commonwealth (outside the UK) 20:00 - Jon talks about Facebook shadow profiles Facebook collects profile data on people who don't even have Facebook accounts This data comes from other people uploading their contacts, their pictures, and other correlating data We see this in the people that Facebook recommends to you as people you may know. Facebook, a site that doesn't even allow porn, wants you to upload your revenge porn to stop other people from uploading that porn. Wut? Minute 27 is when the show turns... Kelly stubbornly refuses to learn what a hash is Now Kelly knows what revenge porn is. 42:00 - Cooperstown news There's a lot of bake sales - mostly at churches - around town this week Jon is sure Boy Scouts have Jamborees OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.31 - OGG

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.30 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:27

Welcome to show number 2017.30! Show Notes Jon does his best Ed McMahon impression If we win a giant cheque, why can't we keep the giant cheque? Phoenix Hollow B&B is no more. Ikea has come to Nova Scotia! Phoenix Hollow domain used to be a motorcycle and tattoo shop site. 08:10 - Jon talks about DD-WRT routers. DD-WRT is open source firmware for many routers Jon flashed a TP-Link AC1900 Archer C9 router into a DD-WRT Kelly KEEPS saying the names she is not supposed to speak! The two features Jon likes the best about the DD-WRT firmware is the ability to control transmitting power, and the multiple VLAN possibilities Kelly loves the phrase "Untrusted Users" WRT....not WKRP! 23:30 - Kelly's Corner Hallowe'en is almost here! Kelly tells us 13 things you did not know about Hallowe'en (and maybe did not want to know) Jon doesn't understand how dressing up scary would scare dead things What kind of a cop would give a kid a $1,000 ticket for Trick or Treating? 32:49 - Shout Outs & Bork Outs Kelly gives a collective shout out to Dill Family Farm, the Town of Windsor, and the Pumpkin Regatta! 33:30 - Cooperstown News Cooptoberfest was last week! This is Cooperstown tourism site looks very nice! OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.29 - OGG

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.29 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:45

Welcome to show number 2017.28! Show Notes Kelly gets waylaid into starting the show! Kelly finally agrees that perhaps the most important person at the wedding may not be the Maid of Honour 03:57 - Kelly's Corner The iPhone 8 is here, but nobody knows why. The Roman iPhone X is coming! Probably almost nobody knows what a Bravo Zulu is. The trade off between battery life and big screens never ends Qi (pronounced Chee) wireless charging will have to hold us over until the AirPower thingy comes out in 2018 the iPhone 8 and X will not be able to use GB LTE. Whaaaa? The incremental improvement of iPhones is pretty slooooow 27:00 - Jon talks about the problems with iTerm2 Kelly thinks the app is named "I turned 2". like. just. what? Turn off the "Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid" setting in iTerm2. Or upgrade to 3.1.1 By default, iTerm2 is sending a whole bunch of data off your computer in plain text to DNS resolvers Kelly tries to kill Jon with the microphone Jon hates and loves the TouchBar iTerm2 integration 40:00 - Cooperstown News Josie Hovis is running a campaign to collect winter jackets for needy folks! OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.29 - OGG

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.28 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:59

Welcome to show number 2017.28! Show Notes Doesn't anyone remember the Internet Archive? The waaaaaayback machine! We seriously just kicked a tree off a roof. That's how we roll. We'z lumberjacks, beyotches! Kelly got to hold a giant cheque today. Strike that off the ol bucket list. Yay, Rotary Toonie draw! She also bought shoes. SURPRISE!!! Jon's 100 Men Who Give a Damn group also has a giant cheque! Humanity needs a quick 101 course of how to use the Facebook backgrounds 09:20 - Jon's...um...corner? Bob Taylor can bake a bitching bumper for Jon! Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer/Edge, Apple Safari, and Mozilla Firefox comprise the bulk of browsers used in the world The first three are hell bent on harvesting your personal data for gain. They produce browsers are one of their harvesting tools Only Firefox just makes a browser for no other purpose than making a browser It's slow. It's clunky. It's Firefox! Bing is like a venereal disease Google is an advertising company. Every product they have is another harvesting tool. Perfect marketing involves knowing who you are and what you want The search engines know what you want The social networks know who you are Now they're all striving to collect enough personal data to get both together Has anyone ever heard of Google+? Srsly? Arguably, Firefox is more important now than ever before Jon is done scaring people. You're on your own!! 27:35 - Kelly's Corner We went on an Annapolis Valley vineyard, brewery, distillery tour! Annapolis Highland Vineyard Still Fired Distillery Beaver Creek Winery Paddy's Pub Wolfville Lightfoot & Wolfville Vineyard Horton Ridge Malt House 46:00 - Shout Outs & Bork Outs Kelly thinks The Big Dig construction crew did really well She also can't stop thanking the Windsor Rotary for letting her hold a big cheque! Jon is angry at Foxy Proxy. WHY YOU BREAK MY THINGS??? Judging from the reviews at the bottom of that page, everyone is mad 52:30 - Cooperstown News! Council Rock Brewery opened in 2012 and is still going strong! OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.28 - OGG

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.27 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:57

Welcome to show number 2017.27! Show Notes Where does Kimberly Lee get her news from if NOT The JaK Attack??? Jon need a power cable for his new (old) Texas Instruments 994A (TI994A) Kelly has forgotten alllll about the era of the cable box Kelly has a September show at T.A.N. Coffee in Windsor 06:50 - Kelly's Corner Virtual Blind Dating. W.T.F??? What IS the plural of ostrich, anyhow? The general consensus is that the show is 'absolutely terrible' 18:00 - Jon talks about credit card fraud The next iPhone won't have a hardware home button. C'mon... Jon walks us through his article on the hows and whys of credit card fraud (Jon's article at Comparitech with skimmer pictures) There are some common ways that credit cards are stolen The credit card "dumps" are verified and sold on "carding" sites like McDumpals (thanks KrebsOnSecurity) There's not much you can do to prevent it, but keep an eye on your transactions to discover "checker" transactions "Checker" services "check" if a card is still good. Usually by putting a small charge on each card to ensure it has not been cancelled Maybe copyright infringement will take down the whole black market credit card empire Europe has better pro-active credit card fraud prevention than North America The big challenge is that all the vendors are not onboard so it really doesn't matter how stringent the issuers' demands are Kelly totally zones out...I guess this topic is over 50:00 - Cooperstown News Freshman swims 14 miles across the Otsego lake and raises $1,500! OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.27 – OGG

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.26 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:10

Welcome to show number 2017.26! Show Notes Jon channels Ed McMahon Kelly will not let Jon speak about his trip to Temecula Kelly went to a bachelorette partay! Schoolhouse Brewery in Windsor is awesome 10:00 Kelly's Corner A newly found Jackson Pollock may go for $15 million. Is that even a real number? Check out what "found" stuff sells for! Jon wants to know about the biggest barn ever found Kelly explains its not a barn that's found - it is founds in the barn Jon expresses skepticism in the original moon landing (studio staged conspiracy supporter) Kelly says that there is money in sunken treasure - 1857 - the sunken SS Central America Jon worries about global economy with the sudden finding of 1billion of old gold!!!!! Kelly is still pissed off that Kate Winslet did not find room for Leonardo DiCaprio 22:45 - Jon talks about iTerm2 Kelly agrees to watch Mr. Robot! winwinwin The Broken Arrow fiasco Terminals, shells, and consoles, oh my! Remember OS/2 WARP!!!!? Good times...ah, good times... Jon tries to remember shell tools like Pine, TIN, and Lynx Yakuake and Guake made Jon fall in love with drop-down terminals We laugh at the Canadian Navy and their OS/2 and Windows systems. Hahahaha. Jon talks abut his work flow - this allows a drop down terminal that doesn't disrupt this Jon discovers he was a sailor, a tinkerer, and a soldier - one more thing to do likes drop down menu , drop down to another desk top, loves the tmux terminal - multiplexer allows you to split panes Jon is all about the copy and paste clipboard history. Kelly doesn't care - convenience or security also likes that you can assign colours for different cursors - and you can locate your cursor - Kely hates when you loose your cursor 40:00 - Shout Outs and Bork Outs Tangled Gardens is an amazing place to visit and they have hot cucumber liqueur! Domain de Grand Pre has very attentive staff and excellent wine knowledge. And excellent wine! Annapolis Cider Company has amazing ciders! Even a good hoppy pear cider, if you can believe it. Barreling Tide Distillery has hot vodka and an excellent blueberry liqueur. Kelly's rule is that 20% alcohol is not serious alcohol. Wayfarers' Ale House has excellent pizza and a wonderful view of the water Hal Bruce has played at the Wayfarers' so that brings its stock up, too! 51:40 - Cooperstown News Tax auction in Otsego County! Sorry - gotta get the phone... The county does well on its tax delinquent auction! Kelly schools Jon on what property tax losses look like Find us at: This website, derp. Facebook The JaK Attack Podcast Email show@thejakattack.com OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.26 – OGG

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.25 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:12

Welcome to show number 2017.25! Show Notes Big show number 25! Kelly moved a tree today. Let that sink in. Jon is back from vacation. Cape Split in Blomidon Nova Scotia is a nice day hike. 07:00 - Shout Outs and Bork Outs Troy restaurant in Wolfville - awesome Mediterranean food and awesome patio! Kelly shout outs the improvements at Cape Split Jon lurves his Red Bubble swag! 13:45 - Kelly's Corner Christian Faur - crayon artist extraordinaire at Hype Dojo Kelly goes in a little crayon trip down memory lane 21:30 - Jon talks about DNA as a hacking delivery system Jon shows his total ignorance of what DNA is and how it works GATACA, FTW! Biohacker researchers have figured out how to deliver malware via DNA Kelly thinks Bill and Ted invented this technique Researchers have added pictures and running horsey gifs into DNA, too 39:00 - Cooperstown News Village approves sandwich boards! Finally! Find us at: This website, derp. Facebook The JaK Attack Podcast Email show@thejakattack.com OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.25 – OGG Featured image by Christian Faur

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.24 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:02

Welcome to show number 2017.24! Show Notes In case you're wondering - we're not technically live. You're welcome It's hot and sticky in Nova Scotia for all the wrong reasons Why does Jon keep installing Google Chrome?? Kelly is finally gonna get her Mac Jon can't keep Intel 8088 and Motorola 68000 straight WTF is  boot box?? 13:55 - Kelly's Corner 10 myths about Canadians - Battle of California What's a Hampton? There's a Quebec nation? We really tried not to talk about guns 29:00 - Jon talks about the heady years of BBS'ing Telnet into Jon's BBS The Heart of Gold (port 23, natch) telnet://theheartofgoldbbs.ca Jon's new l337 h@x0r name is now officially Wonko The Sane Geeks like "zone mail hour". Cougars like "male zone hour" Only rich folk could run multi-line BBSes The Heart of Gold has a ton of Door game all thanks to BBSLink.net! Mystic BBS software for Linux SyncTerm for Linux - terminal client MultiMail for Linux - offline mail client 52:00 - Cooperstown News Jazz Artists return to Cherry Valley Find us at: This website, derp. Facebook The JaK Attack Podcast Email show@thejakattack.com OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.24 – OGG

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.23 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:34

Welcome to show number 2017.23! Show Notes It's the day after 'Murica Day! Kelly likes the switching back and forth from acrylic to oil paints 06:50 - Jon's rants Facebook and Google court rulings Why do these big companies bother to stand up to the courts? How low will law enforcement's investigative skills fall? Kelly is pretty sure Judge Judy is New York State's highest court Are Google and Facebook bystanders in these actions? Or do they have a real obligation to become involved above the arbitrary court rulings? How much value is actually realized by de-indexing something on Google? 23:00 - Kelly's Corner G20 protests in Germany Welcome to Hell protest And there's this. Zombie protests! 33:50 - Coopers VILLAGE news! No sidewalk sandwich boards. And on that note, where the heck is our sandwich board?? 36:00 - Shout Outs and Bork Outs Superstore Garden Centre is rocking it! OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.23 – OGG

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.22 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:24

Welcome to show number 2017.22! Show Notes Kelly Sucker Punches™Jon Jon's blood is partying with a family somewhere. Truth. Social media can be a echo chamber 12:00 - Kelly's Corner Bart van Polanen Petel: boxer -> painter Huffpo article He also does it with light! 22:00 - Jon's Debacle How to hide your website hosting server's IP address from the bad, bad people I had no idea I was Kelly's IT guy. Some ways to find real hosting IPs ViewDNS IP history checker (there are others) DNS Dumpster (don't forget SPF records!) Mail headers if your web server also sends mail Guessing subdomains: cpanel, ftp, ssh, mysql, etc. Assume your hosting IP will be found. Because it will. Some ways to prevent direct IP attacks Firewall off your open services. Shared hosts won't do this, but if you have your own VPS or dedicated server, look at Ultimate Firewall (UWF) htaccess 'deny' directives if you can't use a firewall Be careful what headers you use in htaccess directives. Some can be spoofed. Kelly would rather call Ghostbusters for spoofing issues rather than a real network guy. 37:00 - Cooperstown News Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School graduation. Congrats! Why do the parents look all murdery? Is that Church Lady? We burn listener feedback. OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.22 – OGG

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.21 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:56

Welcome to show number 2017.21! Show Notes It's the summer solstice! Kelly is GROOOOOT! Jon wants the time he wasted on The OA back Kelly will actually consider watching a second season of The OA Kelly can't let Battle Star Galactica die Building a chalkboard is harder than you think but it's easier than kicking Kelly out of the office 07:00 - Jon talks about exploit/vulnerability ratings Exploits are rated on two major things: How BAD is it and how EASY it it? "Easiness" has more agreement surrounding it than "Badness" Jon foolishly brings up Y2K right after the BSG episode The 2038 bug is coming fast! Is it Dee Doss? Or Dee Dee Oh Ess? 23:00 - Kelly's Corner The history of Father's Day! Kelly discovers The Art of Manliness website, but it's hard to say 33:00 - Cooperstown News Clark Sports Center expansion! There may or may not be other Cooperstowns 36:30 - Shout Outs and Bork Outs Garlic Festival and Avondale Sky Winery Rustic Crust pizza truck! OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.21 – OGG

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.20 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:29

Welcome to show number 2017.20! Show Notes It seems there are birds in our intro. Seasons are nice! Change is good. Let go, hot-dwellers, let it go! Windsor is a gateway valley. 05:23 - Kelly's Corner Recycling used rockets for space habitats! Space peeps will be living in recycled fuel tanks. Sounds good? Jon does not want to live in an Upgoer 5. 20:00 - Jon talks about his Yubikey! Yubikey is strong two-factor authentication (2FA) Jon uses his Yubikey to a) log in to his laptop and b) for SSH Kelly wants to zap drunk people /etc should not be pronounced etsy. Grr... Is the Yubikey 'static password' of any use? Seems too easy to spit it out in a chatroom accidentally The Yubikey docs are a little hard to follow sometimes SSH and Yubikey doc Local auth on a Mac with Yubikey 42:00 - Cooperstown news! The Hawkeyes lose to Potsdam! OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.20 – OGG

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.19 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:30

Welcome to show number 2017.19! Show Notes Nova Scotia election. w00t! Majority government back-to-back for the first time in 29 years Kelly is turning into a gurl-gurl Jon admits to never remembering which pill does what in the Matrix 06:40 - Jon's talks Tor Tor ain't so anonymous Deep Web versus Dark Web Tor browser is the easiest way to use the Tor network. Who KNEW you could not trust Tor operators??? Jon's article on how you can be de-anonymized while using Tor (includes the bit about poisoned exit nodes) 19:50 - Kelly's Corner Kelly's Bovine Adventure! Kelly wants a Norman. It turns out that cows run. We had no idea. Hannah Simpson in New Zealand trains cows! (jumping cow video. Swear.) Have a Cow...a pet cow! Jack Palance says "Believe It! Or Not!" 31:00 - Cooperstown News! In The JaK Attack! episode 10 we mentioned that the Simpsons would be "inducted" into the Cooperstown Hall of Fame. On May 28th, it happened! Jon forgot to mention that the Alt 2600 Hacker Quarterly calendar shows that the biggest hack of 1984 (wha??) was TRW (Experian). Yes, a massive, per-internet hack. Also, Halt and Catch Fire premiered in 2014! OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.19 – OGG

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.18 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:18

Welcome to show number 2017.18! Show Notes We're late this week. Shaddup. Jon apparently has never listened to the show intro before. We may have been drinking too many Mad Jack Sucker Punches. WARNING: this show is a Nova Scotia Kitchen Party Kelly may be leaving Jon for her new chair. Jon hates wicker. Wicker is ass. 08:00 - Kelly's Corner BIO-HACKING! Kelly may think that Biohacking groups fall under the Girl Guides of Canada. PBS biohacking...wha? Russian biohacker is a human compass. Not because he has any interest in magnets. Or north. Or navigation. Or compasses. It's just cool, man. But it's only cool for a day or so. Depending on how often he turns north. 23:00 - Jon walks us through the Wanna Cry ransomware attack Kelly discovers "sneakernet"! Spoiler: The Shadow Brokers stole The Equation Group (cough NSA cough) tools and someone turned one of them, ETERNALBLUE, into the Wanna Cry malware. Newfie weapons contain an arse, and all. (get it? arsenal?) Don't. Click. Links. Seriously, just stop it, people. Jon forgot to read a paragraph of the The Shadow Broker's recent release. But, you should...their writing is so..odd Spoiler: Someone (cough NSA cough) told Microsoft this really bad exploit had been stolen. So, only neglected Windows systems were victim of this. Between the small ransoms and weirdo kill switch, this attack is straight up weird. Bitcoin wallets: 1, 2, 3. 42:00 - Cooperstown News The 60th anniversary of the Junior Ballroom Cotillion. OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.18 – OGG

 The JaK Attack! Episode 17.17 - The JaK Attack! podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:37

Welcome to show number 2017.17! Show Notes Kelly Penguin Girl and Jon "One Punch" Watson Kelly is not-so-secretly in love with the new President of France Newfie TV at CJON-DT still broadcasts the Twilight Zone! Read the blogs, by'! 11:00 - Jon's bit Jon explains cryptographics hashes, aaaannnnd.... ...then the Birthday Problem becomes the cryptographic hash  Birthday Attack! Plato's Trading Places. HP Laptops have had a key logger on them since about 2015. This is as bad as Siri or Google or Alexa 30:00 - Kelly's Corner Top reasons to drink wine! Good Housekeeping Health.com Food And Wine 40:00 - Shout out and Bork outs Kelly shout outs K-Rock 89.3 in the Annapolis Valley Kelly's website is here 43:30 - Cooperstown News the 4-H club is doing the Alice in Wonderland play! OGG ME! The JaK Attack! 2017.17 – OGG

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