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"What is open source" talk Josh gave
Episode 440
Josh and Kurt talk about a presentation Josh recently gave that was supposed to be about how open source works. The talk was the wrong topic for a se…
1 year, 7 months ago
Where are all the youth in open source?
Episode 439
Josh and Kurt talk about a story talking about the "graying" of open source. There doesn't seem to be many young people working on open source, but w…
1 year, 7 months ago
CISA's bad OSS advice vs the Whitehouse good advice
Episode 438
Josh and Kurt talk about two documents from the US government that discuss open source in very different ways. The CISA document lays out a way to me…
1 year, 7 months ago
CocoPods and proper funding for open source
Episode 437
Josh and Kurt talk about a pretty big bug found in CocoPods ownership. We also touch on a paper that discusses the technical debt that open source sh…
1 year, 8 months ago
OpenSSH and node-ip - it's all exponential growth
Episode 436
Josh and Kurt talk about the recent OpenSSH vulnerability and the node-ip project owner taking their project private. They're quasi related in the co…
1 year, 8 months ago
polyfill.io - open source is too big to fix
Episode 435
Josh and Kurt talk about the latest polyfill.io mess. Apparently someone took over a very popular project and started to serve malware. First XZ, now…
1 year, 8 months ago
Unreported vulnerabilities and everyone is getting hacked
Episode 434
Josh and Kurt talk about three wangles of responsibility. We start with a story about a bike theft ring, bike theft doesn't usually get any attention…
1 year, 8 months ago
Should OpenSSH block misbehaving clients?
Episode 433
Josh and Kurt talk about a new proposal from OpenSSH to add a timeout to penalize clients misbehaving. But this then brings up the typical security c…
1 year, 8 months ago
Flipper Zero with Alex Kulagin
Episode 432
Josh and Kurt talk to Alex Kulagin from Flipper about the Flipper Zero. It's one of the coolest hacker devices that exists on the market. We talk abo…
1 year, 9 months ago
Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS
Episode 431
Josh and Kurt talk about a blog post titled "Your API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS". It's an interesting idea, and probably a good one. There is …
1 year, 9 months ago