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Josh and Kurt talk about the Canadian Government banning WeChat and Kaspersky. There’s a lot of weird little details in this conversation. It fundamentally comes down to a conversation about risk. It’s easy to spout nonsense about risk, but having an honest discussion about it is REALLY complicated. But the government plays by a very different set of rules. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_403_Does_the_government_banning_apps_work.mp3 Show Notes Canada bans WeChat, Kaspersky applications on government devices Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases Phishing emails increase over 1,200 percent since ChatGPT launch FedRAMP Rev 5 FAIR Institute

Josh and Kurt talk about some of the necessary evils of security. There are challenges we face like passwords and resource management. Sometimes the problem is old ideas, sometimes it’s we don’t have metrics. Can you measure not getting hacked? https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_208_Passwords_are_pollution.mp3 Show Notes Clearing checks FAIR Institute Factorio