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What the @#$% happened to Microsoft?
Episode 146
Josh and Kurt talk about Microsoft. They're probably not the bad guys anymore, which is pretty wild. They're adding a Linux kernel to Window. Can we …
7 years, 1 month ago
What do security and fire have in common?
Episode 145
Josh and Kurt talk about fire. We discuss the history of fire prevention and how it mirrors many of things we see in security. There are lessons ther…
7 years, 2 months ago
The security of money, which one is best?
Episode 144
Josh and Kurt talk about the security of money. Not how to keep it secure, but the security issues around using cash, credit, and bitcoin. We also ta…
7 years, 2 months ago
Security lessons from the phone book
Episode 143
Josh and Kurt talk about the phone book (yeah, the big paper book people used to use). Kurt got one in the mail. While it's certainly a relic from an…
7 years, 2 months ago
Hypothetical security: what if you find a USB flash drive?
Episode 142
Josh and Kurt talk about what one could do if you find a USB drive. The context is based on the story where the Secret Service was rumored to have pl…
7 years, 2 months ago
Timezones are hard, security is harder
Episode 141
Josh and Kurt talk about the difficulty of security. We look at the difficulty of the EU not observing daylight savings time, which is probably magni…
7 years, 2 months ago
Good enough security is a pretty high bar
Episode 140
Josh and Kurt talk about identity. It's a nice example we can generally understand in the context of how much security is enough security? When we de…
7 years, 3 months ago
Secure voting, firefox send, and toxic comments on the internet
Episode 139
Josh and Kurt talk about Brexit, voting, Firefox send, and toxic comments. Is there anything we can do to slow the current trend of conversation on t…
7 years, 3 months ago
Information wants to be free
Episode 138
Josh and Kurt talk about a prank gone wrong, the reality of when your data ends up public. Once it's public you can't ever put it back. We also discu…
7 years, 3 months ago
Holy cow Beto was in the cDc, this is awesome!
Josh and Kurt talk about Beto being in the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc). This is a pretty big deal in a very good way. We hit on some history, why it's…
7 years, 3 months ago