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Josh and Kurt ask the question what is a vulnerability, but in the framing of video games. Security loves to categorize all bugs as security vulnerabilities or not security vulnerabilities. But the reality nothing is so simple. Everything is a question of risk, not vulnerability. The discussion about video games can help us to better have this discussion. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_388_Video_game_vulnerabilities.mp3 Show Notes Colossus bug Minecraft Heist

Josh and Kurt talk about the difference between what we think of as traditional open source, and enterprise software projects that have an open source license. They are both technically open source, but how the projects work is very very different. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_387_Enterprise_open_source_is_different.mp3 Show Notes CentOS Stream PR The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away

Josh and Kurt talk about a new Google proposal that would add DRM for the web. All the ad driven companies seem to be acting very strangely, there’s probably a reason for this. The way ads used to pay for content is changing, but a lot of these giant companies don’t know how to adapt. It’s going to be very interesting times in the near future. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_386_We_are_watching_web_2_0_burn.mp3 Show Notes Web Environment Integrity Hacker News Thread Island Browser hunter2

Josh and Kurt talk about insider threats, but not quite in the way one would expect. The potential for insider threats is possibly higher than usual right now, but what about open source? Are open source developers insider threats for your organization? Have you ever thought about this before? https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_385_Is_open_source_an_insider_threat.mp3 Show Notes CISA insider threats hacks4pancakes toot Don’t Trust a Programmer Who Knows C++ CISA Insider Threat Mitigation

Josh and Kurt talk about some of the efforts to measure and understand open source. There are projects like the OpenSSF Scorecard. We want to measure open source for some idea of quality. Is AI generated code better than a random open source project found on GitHub? Can we track the countries contributors are from? These are all interesting problems that everyone will have to deal with soon. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_384_Whats_next_for_open_source.mp3 Show Notes OpenSSF Scorecard

Josh and Kurt talk about the notion that open source is somehow dying. What’s actually happening is corporate open source is changing, which some are trying to deform into something wrong with open source. Open source is doing great, probably better than ever. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_383_Is_open_source_dying.mp3 Show Notes Open Source isn’t sustainable anymore VORON Design Video of the first lathe Plane Crazy Evernote layoffs

Josh and Kurt talk about Red Hat closing up the RHEL source code. Kurt and Josh both worked at Red Hat in the past. This isn’t a show that bashes Red Hat, and it’s not a show praising them. We take an honest look at the past, present, and future of Linux. There’s a lot to talk about in this one. TL;DR, Red Hat was the chosen on, and we all feel betrayed. ...

Josh and Kurt talk about the incredible Reddit debacle. At the center of it all is an API. What does it mean to be using an API and how does this relate itself back to our own risk. Many of us rely on APIs for countless things, and if a company decides to cut off that API somehow, it could create a mess. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_381_WTF_Reddit_APIs_and_risk.mp3 Show Notes Grimace’s Birthday Reddit’s new API pricing will kill off Apollo on June 30 Cory Doctorow enshitification Wal Mart pickle story Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight

Josh and Kurt talk about a new program from the Sovereign Tech Fund to fund open source work. It’s a great looking program with an acceptable amount of money behind the program. We also talk about a story claiming millions of perfectly good hard drives are destroyed per year. They’re probably not OK at all. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_380_A_new_Sovereign_Tech_Fund_program_and_the_BBC_on_destroying_hard_drives.mp3 Show Notes Sovereign Tech Fund Challenges Why millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed LTT Buys Storage Array

Josh and Kurt talk about some new open source projects that aim to start taking back some of our privacy and rights. It’s a huge hill to climb, but it seems like there is some hope. Open source doesn’t care about growth, or numbers, or anything really, so it can’t ever lose. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_379_Will_open_source_save_the_world_again.mp3 Show Notes Codeberg Veilid Hawkins Cheezies Apollo’s Reddit API costs