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As CES draws to a close, I’ve seen more than one security person complain that nobody at the show was talking about security. There were an incredible number of consumer devices unveiled, no doubt there is no security in any of them. I think we get caught up in the security world sometimes so we forget that the VAST majority of people don’t care if something has zero security. People want interesting features that amuse them or make their lives easier. Security is rarely either of these, generally it makes their lives worse so it’s an anti-feature to many. ...

Josh and Kurt talk about the EU bug bounty program. There have been a fair number of people complaining it’s solving the wrong problem, but it’s the only way the EU has to spend money on open source today. If that doesn’t change this program will fail. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_129_The_EU_bug_bounty_program.mp3 Show Notes Josh’s blog post Julia Reda EU bug bounty site Tidelift What motivates us Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag ...

Josh and Kurt talk about Australia’s recently passed encryption bill. What is the law that was passed, what does it mean, and what are the possible outcomes? The show notes contain a flow chart of possible outcomes. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode-128_Australias_encryption_backdoor_bill.mp3 Show Notes Josh’s flow chart Australia Access and Assistance Encryption Bill 2018 Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

The EU recently announced they are going to sponsor a security bug bounty program for 14 open source projects in 2019. There has been quite a bit of buzz about this program in all the usual places. The opinions are all over the place. Some people wonder why those 14, some wonder why not more. Some think it’s great. Some think it’s a horrible idea. I don’t want to focus too much on the details as they are unimportant in the big picture. Which applications are part of the program don’t really matter. What matters is why are we here today and where should this go in the future. ...

Josh and Kurt talk about which articles of the GDPR apply to Santa, and if he’s following the rules the way he should be (spoiler, he’s probably not). Should Santa be on his own naughty list? We also create a new holiday character - George the DPO Elf! https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/2018_Christmas_Special_Is_Santa_GDPR_compliant.mp3 Show Notes David Sedaris Santaland Canadian Tire Ice Truck Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

Josh and Kurt talk about Mozilla pulling a paywall bypassing extension. We then turn our attention to talking about walled gardens. Are they good, are they bad? Something in the middle? There is a lot of prior art to draw on here, everything from Windows, Android, iOS, even Linux distributions. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_127_Walled_gardens_appstores_and_more.mp3 Show Notes Mozilla blocks a paywall bypass extension Turning a root ball Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag ...

Josh and Kurt continue the discussion from episode 125. We look at the possible future of software supply chains. It’s far less dire than previously expected. It’s likely there will be some change in the near future. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_126_The_not_so_dire_future_of_supply_chain_security.mp3 Show Notes Episode 125 Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

Josh and Kurt talk about how open source deals with malicious events. It’s probably impossible to stop these from happening, but the open source universe deals with it in its own unique way. We start to discuss what you can do, since everyone is using open source everywhere now. There will be a second part to this episode where we discuss what the future holds for these sort of problems. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_125_Open_Source_supply_chains_npm_and_you.mp3 Show Notes NPM event-stream backdoor Josh’s blog post Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag ...

A story broke recently about a backdoor added to a Node Package Manager (NPM) package called event-stream. This package is downloaded about two million times a week by developers. That’s a pretty impressive amount, many projects would be happy with two million downloads a year. The Register did a pretty good writeup, I don’t want to recap the details here, I have a different purpose and that’s really to look at how does this happen and can we stop it? ...

Josh and Kurt talk about Cloudflare’s new Workers service. We spend a lot of time discussing how economics drives technology, not security. It’s quite likely this new service is less secure than existing alternatives, but it will be cheaper and faster which will matter more than security. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_124_Cloudflares_service_workers_and_the_economics_of_security.mp3 Show Notes Cloudflare Workers AV vs Whitelisting tweets Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag