Chaos Lever Podcast

Anniversary Kitten BBQ: Biometrics for all the wrong reasons Episode: 51 Published: 3/28/2023 Biometric Authentication going mainstream for all the wrong reasons Panera Bread announced that they are rolling out biometric identification system as a part of their loyalty program Windows Hello was hacked back in 2021 with security researchers being able to fake a USB camera, feed Hello an image, and...

Soft Shell Nachos: Cybersecurity Starts in the Home Episode: 50 Published: 3/21/2023 Cybersecurity Starts in the Home Ransomware had what Tech Target calls a breakout year in 2022 Set of best practices for home network security from the NSA Lightning Round FinTech is hard enough for humans to understand - lets bring in AI! Encryption at rest? Bah, try encryption in-use. Government is trying to ban...

Red-Teaming Barbados: Our National Cybersecurity Strategy Episode: 49 Published: 3/14/2023 The National Cybersecurity Strategy The actual strategy document More on DIDs from episode 26 We have known for years that it���s humans that make up the biggest risk to any of these systems Lightning Round We are not going to cover SVB United Kingdom���s Online Safety Bill Set To Completely Destroy Security...

The Bad Boy of Martha���s Vineyard: Addressing the Cloud Repatriation Fervor Episode: 48 Published: 3/7/2023 Cloud Repatriation, or the art of two things being true at once The Cost of Cloud, A Trillion Dollar Paradox AWS growth rate from statista GCP has slowing growth over increasing revenue since at least 2017 Starting with Equinix, their revenue is a comparatively tiny $7.26B for 2022 Digital...

Mega Chad GPT: Taking Umbrage at Ubuntu Snap Strongarm Episode: 47 Published: 2/28/2023 Ubuntu is Strong Arming other Distros Into Using Proprietary Canonical���s Snap Program for Package Installation Ubuntu pushing out flatpak Snap, while ostensibly open source, is completely controlled by Canonical Canonical is pushing their own product even harder by strongarming other Ubuntu-based distribution...

Larry���s Fun Dip: Exploring SBOMs For Fun And Profit Episode: 46 Published: 2/21/2023 What���s An SBOM Anyway? An example calculator application only has four dependencies listed in its package.json file We���re looking at about 200 required modules to build K8s Log4shell, in particular, forced developers to evaluate hundreds or thousands of applications The organization that has worked to define...

Gourmet Grey Goo Episode: 45 Published: 2/14/2023 AI: or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the inevitable death of civilization at the hands of our robot overlords Talking to AI Might Be the Most Important Skill of This Century Mens Journal started using AI to create articles. They contained ���serious errors and plagiarism,��� forcing an embarrassing retraction We literally still don���t u...

The Hellscape Abides Episode: 44 Published: 2/7/2023 RISC-V is a Safe Bet A good example provided by Stamford of RISC vs. CISC There are 81 integer operation instructions alone in the x86 spec Intel���s failed attempt to ditch the x86 instruction set with the RISC-based Itanium RISC-V is an open-source ISA You can view the entirety of the instruction set on GitHub right now The history of RISC-V’s...

Shiska Bobby Tables Episode: 43 Published: 1/31/2023 The State of Privacy 2023 2023 State Of Privacy Report Considering the absolute plethora of security breaches that involved PII loss over the past year or so We have known for years that yearly training is not enough to cause long-term changes in security and privacy behavior One that was particularly outrageous was Home Depot Canada H&R Blo...

A Young Warthog Episode: 42 Published: 1/24/2023 IT vs. OT - Battle of the Century! Edge is not a thing(���) in the same vein as Supercloud Let���s go over the high level goals outlined by NIST Lightning Round Now They Want AI Lawyers? What���s The Worst That Could Happen? Vulnerable Historians that aren���t Chris Annnd The AI-Generated Art Lawsuits Have Arrived Twitter App I Never Used Rendered U...

Behemicorny Dreaming Episode: 41 Published: 1/17/2023 Looks like I picked a bad, er, wait- no��� GOOD week to quit flying Part 1: More like SouthWORST amirite?!?!?? Mass cancellations for Southwest flights Part 2: NOTAM? More like No Ma���am- Wait, Are We Not Doing Married With Children Callbacks Anymore? We Never Were? Oh. Uh��� Let���s Just Move On. The failure of the FAA���s Notice to Air Missi...

Slow Motion Scraping Episode: 40 Published: 1/10/2023 Low Risk and Big Reward - or the problem of highly centralized systems that contain critical data for thousands of customers Rackspace Rackspace���s managed Exchange service went mysteriously dark back in December 2nd Rackspace has since released the results of a forensic examination into the incident CrowdStrike determined that the mitigations...

Celestial Fire on the Royal Edifice Episode: 39 Published: 1/3/2023 Stories Prediction Palooza! Ned���s clearly right and superior predictions: More major outages than 2022 CXL available in the public cloud Elon will no longer be CEO of Twitter and Tesla Mastodon adoptions will level off and stagnate Public cloud growth with slow by 30% Supercloud will die and unceremonious death Twitter thread be...

Six Tanks A Singing Episode: 38 Published: 12/13/2022 Stories Is Amazon Still re:Inventing? As we mentioned last week, re:Invent 2022 happened. And it was fine? I had excellent conversations with: XoSphere Aiven Structura Retool Despite talking at Keynotes for many, many hours Sometimes developers and infrastructure people appreciate a helping hand Look up the Kin if you���d like a good laugh Ligh...

Tin Foil Birds Aren���t Real Episode: 37 Published: 12/06/2022 Stories SlackOps- or, the modern way of handling Customer Relations SlackOps ideas for developer workflows According to Slack themselves, the way that Qumulo uses slack Lightning Round Android OEM Keys Leaked, Still Not Getting an iPhone Excellent detail from Mishaal Rahman I thought it was Skynet we were afraid of, not the OCP Rackspa...

Bram Stoker���s Copper Emporium Episode: 36 Published: 11/29/2022 Stories SBF and The No Good Very Bad Day A bank run is also what happened to FTX, caused by SBF���s rival CZ Here���s probably my favorite pull quote from his bankruptcy filing in the court of Delaware Checking out the series by Cold Fusion on YouTube Coffeezilla is pretty decent too, but a little irritating Patrick Boyle is goddamn...

Pathetic Meat Bags Episode: 35 Published: 11/22/2022 Stories The Cyber Resilience act is coming for your IoT Bullshit EU Cyber Resiliency Act This past month, there was another OpenSSL vulnerability Azure Sphere Lightning Round That Time Bears Ruled Space Bears living in space are animals which have been sent into space on board space missions So apparently wireless charging is��� not great The en...

Squeezable Deans Episode: 34 Published: 11/15/2022 Stories Layoff, layoffs everywhere and record profits for CEOs Starting with the rounds of layoffs, here���s a smattering Meta lays off 11k people amounting to 13% of its workforce Why is this happening now? What should you do if you’re laid off? What should you do if you’re not? Lightning Round We had it all wrong! The beginning of SkyNet is gonn...

Figuratively Baggels Episode: 33 Published: 11/08/2022 Stories CXL! What is it good for?!?.. well, quite a bit actually. OCP Global Summit 2022 Tech Field Day for CXL Lightning Round Surf the capitalism wave on a new browser brah. The ���free speech��� world Elon actually wants: the freedom to spout woe-is-me bullsh*t from up on high, with no accountability whatsoever Cloudflare claims huge future...

Social Media Megafauna Episode: 32 Published: 11/01/2022 Stories Once More ‘Round The Sun Mastodon Docs Find a server that works for you Twitter has about 278M daily active users LinkedIn has about 900M members Facebook has 1.9B daily active users TikTok has 1.8B monthly active users The fediverse has about 6M users According to Tech Crunch, Mastodon app downloads appear to be at an all time high...

Andre The Peanut Episode: 31 Published: 10/25/2022 Stories Remote Work Reality Microsoft report on Hybrid Work hits on a huge disconnect between management and workers A 31,000-person study conducted at the beginning of 2022 shows a plurality of workers who are against full-time in office working arrangements Comparing March through August 2019 vs 2020, the report showed a clear productivity impro...

Inveterate Journalistic Pitbulls Episode: 30 Published: 10/18/2022 Stories HashiConf Global Watch on demand Bryan Krausen gave a great talk about what he’s learned about Vault from over five years of consulting Azure Terrafy 0.8.0 is out Join the Azure Terraform community Matt Butcher from Fermyon talked about how they chose to use Nomad for WebAssmebly Lightning Round Advertising company Google w...

There Are No Blue Balls Episode: 29 Published: 10/11/2022 Stories Quantum Mechanics gets it���s day in the Sweden sun The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger A history and breakdown of the work that was done regarding quantum mechanics over the past 100 years Bells theorem Does color exist if no one is watching? The Free Will Theorem Researcher...

Behold the Superbook Episode: 28 Published: 10/04/2022 Stories Supercloud - It���s a thing now, so I guess we have to address it A website from Cornell that is an actual software project to allow for application migration between clouds MIT webpage about a project they called supercloud that was meant to enhance collaboration between MIT Lincoln labs, students, and faculty The rise of the superclo...

Random Adjacent Memories Episode: 27 Published: 09/27/2022 Stories Security vs Convenience: When Convenience goes too far One attack that has been making the rounds recently is what���s being called MFA Fatigue Microsoft Authenticator push notifications called Number Matching in preview Many South American countries have an interesting solution to the problem of speeding Lightning Round Linux 6.0...