This week myself, Patrick (aka “The Skype ping”) and Shane were joined by Gareth and a special guest, Travis Goodspeed (homepage, twitter).

Our first topic was embed systems, as Travis is a respected speaker in this field. We spoke about the Brazilian power outtages and how smart power grids in other countries would be susceptible to attack too. We mentioned hacks to get access to the chips, like timing attacks (Travis has written a tool called GoodFET to enable hobbyists to start debugging chips) and using a camera flash.

We spoke very briefly about EU banking data being shared with the US department of justice.

And finally we discussed recent developments in Quantum computing, a historical paper by Feynman, Simulating physics with computers, that laid down much of the Quantum computing groundwork, and Quantum Tunneling and what it means for chip manufacturers.

The audio and text of this interview is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC-BY-NC).