Ubuntu

Josh and Kurt talk about Chrome unexpectedly going EOL on Ubuntu 18. Keeping old things alive is really hard to do, and in open source it’s becoming more common to just run the latest version rather than trying to keep old versions alive for long periods of time. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_444_Open_Source_and_End_of_Life.mp3 Show Notes Chrome dumped support for Ubuntu 18.04 – but it’ll be back Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is ’the only thing that matters’ Pidgin backdoor

Josh and Kurt talk about Chromium sending traffic to root DNS servers. Telemetry watching what we do. Cryptocurrency scams and a few other random topics. Also pandas. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_212_Grab_Bag_The_Security_We_Deserve_Edition.mp3 Show Notes Blanket rack Chromium DNS traffic Ubuntu MOTD Microsoft telemetry YAM coin implodes Panda Cubs

Josh and Kurt talk about automatic updates. Specifically we discuss a recent decision by Ubuntu to enable forced automatic updates. There are lessons here for the security community. We have a history of jumping to solutions rather than defining and understanding problems. Sometimes our solutions aren’t the best. Also murder bees. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_196_Pounding_square_solutions_into_round_holes_forced_updates_from_Ubuntu.mp3 Show Notes The Oatmeal giant bee comic Honeybees cook giant hornet Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it Forum discussion Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag ...