Episode 285 - Open source owes you nothing!
Josh and Kurt talk about open source bugs. What happens if a project decides to close most of their bugs? Nothing really. Bug trackers aren't a help desk. Show Notes Emacs closes 45% of bugs UVI Tesl...
23 Aug 202132min
Episode 284 - What happens when we DRM power tools?
Josh and Kurt talk about a Home Depot plan to put DRM on power tools. Anyone can add a computer to anything for a few dollars now. How secure is any of this. What does it mean when the things we buy s...
16 Aug 202135min
Episode 283 - When vulnerability disclosure becomes dangerous
Josh and Kurt talk about a very difficult disclosure problem. What happens when you have to report a vulnerability to an ethically questionable company? It's less simple than it sounds, many of the ch...
9 Aug 202134min
Episode 282 - The security of Rust: who left all this awesome in here?
Josh and Kurt talk about a story from Microsoft declaring Rust the future of safe programming, replacing C and C++. We discuss how tooling affects progress and why this isn't always obvious when you'r...
2 Aug 202130min
Episode 281 - If you spy on journalists, you're the bad guys
Josh and Kurt talk about the news that the NSO Group is widely distributing spyware onto a large number of devices. This news should be a wake up call for anyone creating devices and systems that coul...
26 Juli 202132min
Episode 280 - The perils of Single Sign On
Josh and Kurt talk about what happens when you lose access to your Single Sign On provider. These providers have become critical to many of us, if we lose access to our SSO account we will lose access...
19 Juli 202130min
Episode 279 - The audacity of Audacity: When open source goes rogue
Josh and Kurt talk about the events happening to the Audacity audio editor. What happens if a popular open source application is acquired by an unknown entity? Can this happen to other open source pro...
12 Juli 202131min
Episode 278 - Could SELinux have stopped SolarWinds?
Josh and Kurt talk about a listener provided question. Could SELinux have stopped the SolarWinds attack? Given what we know, the answer is technically yes, but practically no. SELinux is awesome, but ...
5 Juli 202130min
