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Episode 337 - Security patches are getting worse - Dustin Childs from ZDI tells us why
Episode 337
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 fixi…
3 years, 10 months ago
We don't have data, we have security biases
Episode 336
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 j…
3 years, 10 months ago
Bull*&$% security ideas
Episode 335
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…
3 years, 11 months ago
Leap seconds break everything
Episode 334
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…
3 years, 11 months ago
Open Source is unfair
Episode 333
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…
3 years, 11 months ago
PyPI: 2FA or not 2FA, that is the question
Episode 332
Josh and Kurt talk about PyPI mandating two factor authentication for the top 1% of projects. It feels like a simple idea, but it's not when you star…
3 years, 11 months ago
GPG, but nothing makes sense
Episode 331
Josh and Kurt talk about their very silly GPG key management from the past. This is sadly a very true story that details how both Kurt and Josh prote…
4 years ago
The sliding scale of risk: seeing the forest for the trees
Episode 330
Josh and Kurt talk about the challenge of dealing with vulnerabilities at a large scale. We tend to treat every vulnerability equally when they are n…
4 years ago
Signing (What is it good for)
Season 329
Josh and Kurt talk about what the actual purpose of signing artifacts is. This is one of those spaces where the chain of custody for signing content …
4 years ago
The Security of Jobs or Job Security
Episode 328
Josh and Kurt talk about the security of employees leaving jobs. Be it a voluntary departure or in the context of the current layoffs we see, what ar…
4 years ago