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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 Network Time Security (NTS) how it works and what it means for the world (probably not very much). We also talk about Singapore’s Cybersecurity Labelling Scheme (CLS). It probably won’t do a lot in the short term, but we hope it’s a beacon of hope for the future. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_220_Securing_network_time_and_IoT.mp3 Show Notes Network Time Security NTP and the University of Wisconsin Cybersecurity Labelling Scheme (CLS)