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Is open source being overexploited?
Episode 357
Josh and Kurt talk about how to think about open source in the context of society. Open source is more like a natural resource than a supplier. It's …
3 years, 6 months ago
LastPass ducked up, now what?
Episode 356
Josh and Kurt talk about the LastPass saga. There's a lot of great explanations about what happened, but there hasn't been a lot of info on how to st…
3 years, 6 months ago
Security Boxing Day
Episode 355
Josh and Kurt talk about some security gifts for boxing day. We start out with the idea of the security poverty line and discuss a few ideas for how …
3 years, 6 months ago
Jerry Bell tells us why Mastodon is awesome and MFA is hard
Episode 354
Josh and Kurt talk about how hard multi factor authentication is. This all starts from a Mastodon thread, and Jerry Bell, the administrator of infose…
3 years, 6 months ago
Jill Moné-Corallo on GitHub's bug bounty program
Episode 353
Josh and Kurt talk to Jill Moné-Corallo about GitHub's bug bounty and product security team. It's a treat to discuss bug bounties with someone who is…
3 years, 7 months ago
Stylometry removes anonymity
Episode 352
Josh and Kurt talk about a new tool that can do Stylometry analysis of Hacker News authors. The availability of such tools makes anonymity much harde…
3 years, 7 months ago
Episode 351 - Is security or usability a law of the universe?
Episode 351
Josh and Kurt talk about end to end encrypted messages. This has been a popular topic lately due to the Mastodon popularity. Mastodon has a uniquely …
3 years, 7 months ago
Spam, Email, Content Moderation, and Infrastructure Oh My
Episode 350
Josh and Kurt talk about email security and the perils of trying to run your own mail infrastructure. We then get into discussing the value and dange…
3 years, 7 months ago
The cyber is coming from inside the house - the UK is scanning itself
Episode 349
Josh and Kurt talk about the UK plan to scan their country's IP space. The purpose and outcome of this isn't completely clear at this point, but we a…
3 years, 8 months ago
OpenSSL is the new lead paint
Episode 348
Josh and Kurt talk about the recent OpenSSL nothingburger. OpenSSL got everyone whipped into a frenzy over a critical vulnerability, then changed the…
3 years, 8 months ago