Collaborate Disseminate
This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch chat with Pádraig Brady about Coreutils! It’s been around since the 90s, and is still a healthy project under active development. You’ve almost …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 797: Coreutils — Don’t rm -r Up the Tree
You may have heard about a very large data breach, exposing the Social Security numbers of three billion individuals. Now hang on. Social Security numbers are a particularly American data …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Three Billion SS Numbers, IPv6 RCE, and Ring -2
This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with John Britton and Mike McQuaid about Homebrew! That’s the missing package manager for macOS; and Workbrew, the commercial offering built on …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 796: Homebrew, I’m More of a Whopper Guy
You may have heard some scary news about RISC-V CPUs. There’s good news, and bad news, and the whole thing is a bit of a cautionary tale. GhostWrite is a …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: GhostWrite, Localhost, and More
This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls chat with Olaf Kock and Dave Nebinger about Liferay! That’s a Java project that started as an implementation of a web portal, and …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 795: Liferay, Now We’re Thinking With Portals
First up this week is the story of EvilVideo, a clever telegram exploit that disguises an APK as a video file. The earliest record we have of this exploit is …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: EvilVideo, Crowdstrike, and InSecure Boot
This week Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb chat with Jay Khatri, the co-founder of Highlight.io. That’s a web application monitoring tool that can help you troubleshoot performance problems, find bugs, …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 793: Keeping an Eye on Things with Hilight.io
In the past week, AT&T has announced an absolutely massive data breach. This is sort of a multi-layered story, but it gives me an opportunity to use my favorite piece …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Snowflake, The CVD Tension, and Kaspersky’s Exit — And Breaking BSOD
This week Jonathan Bennett and Jeff Massie chat with Sylvestre Ledru about the Rust Coreutils! Why would we want to re-implement 50 year old utilities, what’s the benefit of doing …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 792: Rust Coreutils
The RADIUS authentication scheme, short for “Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service”, has been widely deployed for user authentication in all sorts of scenarios. It’s a bit odd, in that individual …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Blast-RADIUS, Gitlab, and Plormbing