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736 John Petersen Talks About SOPA, Piracy, and Intellectual Property

Carl and Richard talk to John Petersen about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). SOPA, which is now defunct, was an attempt to legislate means to stop piracy and counterfeit goods. John digs into the problems with the legislation and the misinformation surrounding it. The conversation also explores alternatives to SOPA, the Megaupload shut down and how much harm piracy is actually doing in the world.

John Petersen has been a developer for about 20 years - from dBase and FoxBase + to FoxPro 2.0 to VB 3 to Visual FoxPro, then .NET! He has written several books and spoken at developer events such as TechEd and Developer Days.

In 2004, he graduated from the Rutgers University School of Law with a Juris Doctor Degree. Although he never completely stopped, several years ago he returned to software development on a full time basis. Today, John is writing for CoDe Magazine again and is active on the MSDN Forums.

He actively participate in the Philly SQL Server, .NET, ALT NET and XAML user groups.

Links from the Show

Carl's dnrTV on Cryptography Link

Lawrence Lessig Web Site Link

ACT Web Site Link

Jon Coulton's Blog Post on Megaupload

57 minutes Date

Thursday, January 26, 2012

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735 Troy Hunt Secures ASP.NET

Carl and Richard talk to Troy Hunt about ASP.NET Security. Troy is an advocate of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and wrote a set of blog post applying the top ten exploits to ASP.NET. Troy walks through all ten exploits and how they apply to ASP.NET. He's also rolled the posts together into a PDF file - have a listen and a read!

Troy Hunt is a Software Architect and Microsoft MVP for Developer Security. Troy has spent the last 16 years building web applications and currently oversees software architecture for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals’ Emerging Markets. He blogs regularly about security principles in software development at troyhunt.com and is the author of the OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers series and recently the free eBook of the same name. Troy is also the creator of ASafaWeb, the Automated Security Analyser for ASP.NET Websites at asafaweb.com.

Links from the Show

Troy's Blog Link

Open Web Application Security Project Link

OWASP Top 10 for .NET Developers PDF Link

RunAs Episode on TLS Certificate Breaches Link

Automated Security Analyzer for ASP.NET Websites

62 minutes Date

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

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