Chaos Lever Podcast

Cher: The Cheez-It of Pop Episode: 62 Published: 6/13/2023 Hyperautomation, or a topic I picked specifically because I thought the title would make Ned mad The antikythera mechanism These computers were actual human beings They were called knocker-uppers Hyperautomation defined by Gartner Lightning Round Lotus Eaters Continue To Bask In The Glory Of Domino Barracuda Announces The Worst Security Br...

The Algorithm Made Me Do It Episode: 61 Published: 6/6/2023 Cloud Field Day 17 Wrap-Up Cloud Field Day 17 in beautiful Boston, MA HYCU is focus on SaaS backup RackN orchestrates bare-metal infrastructure Couchbase offers managed DBaaS in multiple clouds Lightning Round Microsoft Announces Cortana Taking A Backseat In Windows UI Google Cloud is sending friend requests to AWS and Azure Def Con Atten...

Lying To Itself And Others Episode: 60 Published: 5/30/2023 Microsoft Build and Red Hat Summit News At IBM���s Think event earlier this year, they created the new brand of watsonx Sign Up Page for Ansible Lightspeed Based on a cursory reading of their documentation, Red Hat AI is a rebranding exercise AI was splashed all over every product in Microsoft���s portfolio You could just watch a keynote...

New Ways To Do Things Wrong: RSA Conference 2023 Episode: 59 Published: 5/23/2023 RSA 2023: I didn���t go, so you don���t have to either! There were at least 333 scheduled events coverint 25 discrete topics that took place at RSA 2023 Some of the topics and sessions from RSA 2023 are starting to be available on YouTube The Simple Yet Lethal Anatomy of a Software Supply Chain Attack Lightning Round...

Squiggly Red Lines: Adventures in WiFi 7 Episode: 58 Published: 5/16/2023 WiFi 7 Is Coming For Your Children WiFi 7 Standard 802.11 Standards in general WiFi 7 Overview TP-Link WiFi 7 Lightning Round Google Still Struggling To Recover From Zone Outage In Paris A Shocking New Attack Overpowers Servers Literally Microsoft-Activision merger Approved By EU Microsoft Signs On to Make Datacenter Fusion...

Moar AI Goshdarnit Episode: 57 Published: 5/9/2023 The Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs Can GPT4 replaces writers? ChatGPT has given better results than humans to people asking medical questions to a hospital help chat Deep Learning famously helped epidemiologists with reading lab results and detecting breast cancer That time scientists beat a computer that was literally the best in the world at Go...

Regular Mario Can���t Jump: The State of IPv6 in 2023 Episode: 56 Published: 5/2/2023 State of IPv6 in 2023 IPv5 was a failed attempt to support voice over IP at the protocol layer According to Google, 43% of traffic was using IPv6 Bahrain and India top out the countries adopting IPv6 at 100% and 67.5% respectively RIPE labs IPv6 report indicates that IPv6 readiness and usage actually dropped in t...

Leo The Angry Penguin: A Malware Cautionary Tale Episode: 55 Published: 4/25/2023 A True (enough) Story of One Company���s Adventures in Almost Going Bankrupt Because of Malware 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report Lightning Round Cloud Outage Insurance is a Real Thing You Should Probably Have Microsoft to Change Functionality of Print Screen Button to Just Open The Snipping Tool Bard AI...

An Oddly Shaped Cloud: Flexera State of the Cloud 2023 Episode: 54 Published: 4/18/2023 How is Cloud Doing These Days? Flexera releases its state of the cloud report Andy Jassy’s Stockholder Letter Lightning Round Google CEO Warns About Unknown Impacts Of AI, Pitches Some Decent Ideas CodeWhisperer is the Creepiest AWS Product Name Yet Qualcomm Designing new iSIM, Meant To Replace eSIMs, Which I D...

Know Thyself Jellyfish: OWASP API Security Top 10 Countdown Episode: 53 Published: 4/11/2023 OWASP releasing an update to the API Security Top 10 Updated API Security Top 10 List According to HackerOne, after websites themselves, APIs are the number two attack vector on the internet In November of last year, Twitter was hacked utilizing an API vulnerability that was only feasible using automation...

Electoral College of My Emotions: AI is a Stupid Parrot with a God Complex Episode: 52 Published: 4/4/2023 AI is a Parrot with a God Complex A.I. is B.S. by Adam Conover Forrest Brazeal has a think about AI Ben Thompson on AI Heavy Strategy: ChatGPT is coming for your job On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots Moratorium on LLM and AI development Lightning Round Microsoft announces a new Teams clien...

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...