Tech Talk Radio Podcast

Buying a laptop for college, VM Password advice, securing your online medical account, Facebook privacy, Profiles in IT (Anthony M Fadell, father of the Apple iPod), BART cuts wireless service to stop protest, World Wide Web turn 20 (Tim Berner-Lee launched the first website August 6, 1991 at CERN), IBM PC turns 20 (PC announced in Waldorf Astoria on August 12, 1981, cost $1,565, 4.77 MHz Intel 8088, 16 kB RAM), Perseid Meteor Shower (peak nights this weekend, images available via webcam for first time), DARPA lostes Mach 20 aircraft (reached speeds 20 times the speed of sound, telemetry failure after 13 minutes), and Black Hat Conference (held in Las Vegas, many security vulnerabilities discusses included certifcate authority system, UPNP on wireless routers, new phishing techniques). This show originally aired on Saturday, August 13, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).