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A month and a half or so ago, I wrote about some security podcasts I listen to on a regular basis. I was specifically looking for some good technical podcasts that I might be missing out on. Network security pro Martin McKeay (who hosts a security podcast himself) directed me to Security Catalyst and Sploitcast.

I’ve managed to find some others “on my own”, mainly thanks to the fact that I somehow stumbled across the Yahoo! Music Engine Podcast Plugin (thanks to Jeremy Zawodny). I’ve been using the Yahoo! Music Engine (YME) and subscribing to their service since just after Christmas. I had bought Lindsey a Dell DJ MP3 player for Christmas, so we subscribed to the Yahoo! Unlimited service so that she could keep it full of the latest music. Since Yahoo! lets you share the music between three PCs and two mobile devices, I also installed it on my laptop which usually travels back and forth to work with me. I started putting a few songs on my PDA as well, and the YME worked flawlessly transferring the files back and forth.

So, anyways, as I was saying… The YME is incredibly easy to use and sync’ing a mobile device with it is as easy as plugging your device in. I’ve been listening to podcasts for a while, but it’s been a manual job of downloading them using Juice then dragging them over to the PDA in Windows Explorer.

Now that I’ve got the Podcasts plugin installed, I’ve dumped Juice and subscribed to a bunch more podcasts inside of the YME application. It’s set to check for updates on a daily basis (it stays resident and active in the system tray) and will automatically download them. YME is configured to automatically sync with my device whenever it’s plugged in, so all I will have to do to get the latest podcasts is drop the PDA in its cradle and wait for it to sync. Kickass!

So, here’s a list of what I’m subscribed to now (in no particular order):

• -Technorama
• -Gillmor Gang
• -SABAGsecurity
• -Geek Muse
• -PodcastStudio.net Show
• -Geek News Central
• -Security Now! ¹
• -NerdTV
• -A Day in the Life of an Information Security Investigator
• -PaulDotCom Security Weekly
• -InfoWorld Daily Podcast
• -The Security Catalyst
• -We Hate Tech
• -KFI Tech Guy
• -Friends in Tech
• -Silicon Valley, Technology, Media InfoTalk
• -Z100 Phone Taps
• -Network Security Blog
• -Diggnation
• -In The Trenches
• -CyberSpeak
• -this WEEK in TECH

That’s all of ‘em, I think. Let me know if I’m missing out on anything worth listening to. I like the shorter ones as it’s only about a 10-minute commute to work (if I stop for gas or smokes). I usually let the longer ones build up until either I have to travel to Indianapolis or somewhere fairly far away or until I just finally decide to delete ‘em. Since I’ll probably be spending a day or two in the hospital, maybe I can catch up on some of ‘em then. The only thing there to do is watch TV, which I don’t do anyways, so at least I can listen to some podcasts.

Hmm, I do know two I.T. guys that work there at Bloomington Hospital, though — one of the Microsoft guys and one of the Information Security guys — and I did notice Cisco wireless AP’s hanging outta the ceiling on my way to X-ray. Wonder if I could get access to the wireless network while I’m there? =)

¹though Gibson is a f**kin’ idiot – “I WROTE MY OWN WEBSERVER IN x86 ASM!!!” –siglite, making fun of Gibson