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Josh and Kurt talk about leap seconds. Every time there’s a leap second, things break. Facebook wants to get rid of them because they break computers, but Google found a clever way to keep leap seconds without breaking anything. Corner cases are hard, security is often just one huge corner case. There are lessons we can learn here. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_334_Leap_seconds_break_everything.mp3 Show Notes How and why the leap second affected Cloudflare DNS Facebook wants to get rid of leap seconds Leap Smear Falsehoods programmers believe about time

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 of questions. This isn’t easy, nor will it be solved quickly, but solving it is not optional. ...

Josh and Kurt talk about the uproar around Cloudflare’s “Is BGP safe yet” site. It’s always interesting watching how much people will push back on new things, even if the new things is probably a step in the right direction. The clever thing Cloudflare is doing in this instance is they are making the BGP problem something anyone can understand. Also send us your funny dog stories. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_195_Is_BGP_actually_insecure.mp3 Show Notes Is BGP safe yet? Reddit BGP conversation Hacker News BGP conversation Stealing cryptocurrency with BGP Show Tags #BGP Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag ...