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 to many services. Show Notes Postbank
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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 projects? What can we do about it? Show Notes SGDQ Paper Mario Paper Mario Arbitrary Code Execution explained Freenode Audacity acquiredContinue reading “Episode 279 – The audacity of Audacity: When open source goes rogue”
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 it’s very difficult to sandbox something like a build system. Show Notes Gone in 60 milliseconds
Episode 277 – Privacy and activism with Chris Weiland
Josh and Kurt talk to Chris Weiland from Restore the Fourth Minnesota. Restore The Fourth Minnesota is nonprofit dedicated to restoring the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and ending unconstitutional mass government surveillance. Chris drops a ton of knowledge about how to be an effective tech activist, what his group is doing, and mostContinue reading “Episode 277 – Privacy and activism with Chris Weiland”
Episode 276 – Security, behavior, and the environment
Josh and Kurt talk about how our environment affects our behavior, and in turn our level of security. We often ignore what’s happening around us when everything is related. Show Notes Judges more lenient after a break Dungeons and Data Poverty changes your DNA
Episode 275 – What in the @#$% is going on with ransomware?
Josh and Kurt talk about why it seems like the world of ransomware has gotten out of control in the last few weeks. Every day there’s some new and more bizarre ransomware story than we had yesterday. Show Notes Spurious Correlations Ransom recovered Adam Shostack Ransomware is not the problem Latvian Woman charged for writingContinue reading “Episode 275 – What in the @#$% is going on with ransomware?”
Episode 274 – Mr. Amazon’s Neighborhood
Josh and Kurt talk about Amazon sidewalk. There is a lot of attention, but how is this any different than the surveillance networks Apple and Google have built? Show Notes Amazon Sidewalk Ads and toothpaste Airtags and stalking
Episode 273 – Can we stop the coming artificial unintelligence deluge?
Josh and Kurt talk about AI driven comments. We live in a world of massive confusion and disruption where what is true and false, real and fake, are often widely debated. As AI grows and evolves what does it mean for this future? We don’t really have any answers, but we ask a lot ofContinue reading “Episode 273 – Can we stop the coming artificial unintelligence deluge?”
Episode 272 – The Biden Cybersecurity Executive Order
Josh and Kurt talk about the Biden Administration new cybersecurity executive order. There are some good ideas in there, but at the end of the day it’s an unfunded mandate. Unfunded mandates are difficult to implement. Show Notes Biden Executive Order Fact Sheet Obama’s cyber EO
Episode 271 – Pipeline security: There is no problem humans can’t make worse
Josh and Kurt talk about how people handle problems. We open with the story of the Colonial Pipeline hack, but then go into some of the ways people tend to make problems worse. Show Notes Male vs Female trees Pipeline hack XKCD Pipelines TSA Pipeline Security
