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Show: Reality Exploit Roundtable
Episode: 17
Date: Feb 08, 2013
Topics: Net Routing Battles Intensify, How Facebook Briefly Hijacked the Net, EU to Regulate Journalists, New Lightning Laser Weapon
Moderator: Hiro
Panelists: Voodoo, Wise-Guy, Smuggler, Plato, Hiro
Tags: darknets, social networks, weapons
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Intro music by Sun Araw - "Deep Cover"

Panelists

Topic 1 - smuggler

Routing Security Battles Intensify

BGPSEC "If authoritarian governments were smarter and really did want to assert direct control over Internet operations, they would forget about the ITRs and push for passage and implementation of BGPSEC, and then make plans to assert legal control over the ROA certificates. Oddly, the only government that seems to be present in the SIDR (IETF Secure Inter-domain Routing) Working Group.) is the USG. Hmm....

BGPSEC overview

Topic 2 - plato

How Facebook Briefly Hijacked the Internet

'For a short period of time, there was a bug that redirected people logging in with Facebook from third party sites', read the social network's statement about the outage, widely circulated to news outlets. 'The issue was quickly resolved and Login with Facebook is now working as usual.'

Topic 3 - voodoo

EU wants power to sack journalists

A European Union report has urged tight press regulation and demanded that Brussels officials are given control of national media supervisors with new powers to enforce fines or the sacking of journalists. 'The national media councils should follow a set of European-wide standards and be monitored by the Commission to ensure that they comply with European values,' the report said.

Topic 4 - wise-guy

Lightning laser weapon developed by US Army

Star Wars/Star Trek laser energy beams?