Episode 334 - Leap seconds break everything
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