Episode 340 - Let's chat about Let's Encrypt with Josh Aas
Josh and Kurt talk with Josh Aas from the Internet Security Research Group about Let's Encrypt, Prossimo, and Divvi Up. A lot has changed since the last time we spoke with Josh. Let's Encrypt won, and...
12 Sep 202233min
Episode 339 - Is a network problem a security vulnerability
Josh and Kurt talk about really weird networking bugs. Josh tells a story about his home network problems that made no sense. There was also a qt5 bug that affected wireless networks that made virtual...
5 Sep 202238min
Episode 338 - The government didn't make vulnerabilities illegal. Yet.
Josh and Kurt talk about the recent National Defense Authorization Act that requires security vulnerabilities to be fixed. What does this mean for us, is it as bad as some people are claiming it is? I...
29 Aug 202236min
Episode 337 - Security patches are getting worse - Dustin Childs from ZDI tells us why
Josh and Kurt talk to Dustin Childs about the recent ZDI Black Hat talk where they discovered the current trend of security patches not actually fixing the security problem. We talk about what this pr...
22 Aug 202231min
Episode 336 - We don't have data, we have security biases
Josh and Kurt talk about our lack of security and some of the data bias problems that can emerge. A lot of what we think is security data is really just biased data. This is OK as long as we understan...
15 Aug 202233min
Episode 335 - Bull*&$% security ideas
Josh and Kurt talk about a tweet from @kmcquade3 asking the question "What's a concept in security that is generally accepted as true but is actually bull%$#*?" How many of the replies make sense? Mos...
8 Aug 202238min
Episode 334 - Leap seconds break everything
Josh and Kurt talk about leap seconds. Every time there's a leap second, things break. Facebook wants to get rid of them because they break computers, but Google found a clever way to keep leap second...
1 Aug 202232min
Episode 333 - Open Source is unfair
Josh and Kurt talk about Microsoft creating a policy of not allowing anyone to charge for open source in their app store. This policy was walked back quickly, but it raises some questions about how fa...
25 Juli 202234min
