Breach

Josh and Kurt talk about recent stories about data breaches, flipper zero banning, and realistic security. We have a lot of weird challenges in the world of security, but hard problems aren’t impossible problems. Sometimes we forget that. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_418_Being_right_all_the_time_is_hard.mp3 Show Notes Mon Dieu! Nearly half the French population have data nabbed in massive breach Feds move to ban auto theft tech device ‘Flipper Zero’ Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for your email program Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students

Josh and Kurt talk about the recent GitHub breach. It wasn’t terribly exciting, but there are some interesting conversations to have around securing certificates, source code, and hardware security modules. In general GitHub did most things right on this one. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_361_GitHub_got_pwnt_but_it_wasnt_very_exciting.mp3 Show Notes GitHub blog post Hacker History Podcast episode with Robert Super Mario 64 decompile Mario 64 built without optimization Link to the Past source code