Episode 458 - FBI endorses E2E encryption

Episode 458 - FBI endorses E2E encryption

Josh and Kurt talk about the FBI telling everyone to use end to end encrypted messengers. This is a pretty drastic deviation from messages in the past. The reason for this is it appears the US telephone networks are pwnt beyond repair at this point, which is concerning. The only real solution now is to treat the phone network as untrusted and encrypt all the traffic.

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Open Source Pledge with Vlad-Stefan Harbuz

Open Source Pledge with Vlad-Stefan Harbuz

Josh has a discussion with Vlad-Stefan Harbuz about the Open Source Pledge as well as his recent FOSDEM talk. The Open Source Pledge is all about trying to build a sustainable universe for open source...

27 Huhti 34min

Building a plan for disaster with David Bernstein

Building a plan for disaster with David Bernstein

Josh welcomes back David Bernstein to talk about creating a disaster recover plan. It's a very timely topic given all the current events. There are more supply chain attacks and compromises than ever ...

20 Huhti 39min

Open Source Malware with Paul McCarty

Open Source Malware with Paul McCarty

Josh talks to Paul McCarty of Open Source Malware about ... open source malware. Paul explains why there aren't many good open source malware datasets. We discuss why the existing data is lacking for ...

13 Huhti 38min

Package management challenges with Andrew Nesbitt

Package management challenges with Andrew Nesbitt

Josh welcomes back Andrew Nesbitt to discuss some recent blog posts he wrote about the challenges of new ecosystems as well as challenges of no ecosystems like C. There aren't very many people who loo...

6 Huhti 36min

Open Source Security at scale with Michael Winser

Open Source Security at scale with Michael Winser

Josh talks to Michael Winser about a talk he gave at FOSDEM as well as his work on Alpha Omega at the Linux Foundation. Michael is approaching open source security in a way that nobody has ever tried ...

30 Maalis 42min

2026 State of the Software Supply Chain with Brian Fox

2026 State of the Software Supply Chain with Brian Fox

Josh chats with Brian Fox from Sonatype about their 2026 State of the Software Supply Chain report. Most of the number continue to grow at alarming rates, but there's some new interesting findings in ...

23 Maalis 35min

MCP and Agent security with Luke Hinds

MCP and Agent security with Luke Hinds

Josh talks to Luke Hinds, CEO of Always Further, about MCP and agent security. We start out talking about Luke's new tool, nono which is a sandboxing tool that has AI agents in mind as a use case. We ...

16 Maalis 35min

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography with Alex Gaynor and Paul Kehrer

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography with Alex Gaynor and Paul Kehrer

Josh talks to Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor, from the Python Cryptographic Authority. Alex and Paul recently published a statement discuss the challenges posed by modern OpenSSL. We discuss the statemen...

9 Maalis 33min