phpBB Weekly

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Episode Duration: 37:47
On This Episode: Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples) and Micheal Cottingham (Techie-Micheal)

On this shorter episode, we clean up from the deliciousness of last week and get back to “normal.” Douglas and Micheal take a look back at a number of the April Fool’s pranks from the previous week (see links below) from phpBB communities and other websites.

UMIL 1.0 RC-2 was recently released by the MOD Team, and we briefly recap UMIL and what it does, but don’t get into many details about the new RC without David’s expertise on the subject.

Finally, Micheal discusses a recurring issue of people claiming that phpBB3 has vulnerabilities and exploits that do not exist (like this recent example). We discuss a bit about the ramifications of these and the best way that phpBB, other security firms, and web hosts can respond to these. See also this phpBB.com blog post and this discussion topic.

April Fools Links Mentioned on the Show:
Community April Fools Jokes
Deck 15–DO NOT ENTER!
New Tech “Products” for April 1st
Google’s Gmail Autopilot
Woopra’s Webcam Enablement Feature
UC San Diego’s Acceptances April Fools

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