Episode 381 - WTF Reddit, APIs and risk
Josh and Kurt talk about the incredible Reddit debacle. At the center of it all is an API. What does it mean to be using an API and how does this relate itself back to our own risk. Many of us rely on...
26 Jun 202336min
Episode 380 - A new Sovereign Tech Fund program and the BBC on destroying hard drives
Josh and Kurt talk about a new program from the Sovereign Tech Fund to fund open source work. It's a great looking program with an acceptable amount of money behind the program. We also talk about a s...
19 Jun 202332min
Episode 379 - Will open source save the world, again?
Josh and Kurt talk about some new open source projects that aim to start taking back some of our privacy and rights. It's a huge hill to climb, but it seems like there is some hope. Open source doesn'...
12 Jun 202334min
Episode 378 - Naming things is harder than security
Josh and Kurt talk about namespaces. They were a topic in the last podcast, and resulted in a much much larger discussion for us. We decided to hash out some of our thinking in an episode. This is a m...
5 Jun 202331min
Episode 377 - The world is changing too fast for humans to understand
Josh and Kurt talk about PyPI suspending new accounts and packages for a day, and a 60 minutes story about deepfakes. The problems are mostly the same, but for very different reasons. The world is cha...
29 Mai 202337min
Episode 376 - Open Source Summit, who built your open source, and AI
Josh and Kurt talk about the Open Source Summit in Vancouver. Josh was there and we pick on two observations. Firstly that security keeps trying to use fear as a feature, except it doesn't work. Secon...
22 Mai 202336min
Episode 375 - The market forces of left-pad, Episode 77 remaster part 2
Josh and Kurt finish up the leftpad discussion. We spent a lot of time talking about how the market will respond to these sort of events, and the market did indeed speak; very little has changed. Ther...
15 Mai 202329min
Episode 374 - The event we called left-pad, Episode 77 remaster part 1
Josh and Kurt revisit Episode 77, which was named "npm and the supply chain" but was a discussion about the incident we all know now as "leftpad". We didn't understand what was happening at the time, ...
8 Mai 202329min
