Open Source Security

Josh  and  Kurt  talk with Dave Jevans CEO of CipherTrace and chairman of the anti-phishing working group about the challenges of keeping track of cryptocurrency in the modern age. Show Notes Dave's Twitter CipherTrace Anti Phishing Working Group

Josh and Kurt talk about the question "what is open source?" Why do we think it's broken today, and what sort of ideas about what should come next. Show Notes OSI Bruce Perens Post Open Source Josh's community blog post Corey Doctorow Uber Twitter thread

Josh and Kurt talk about the Google Project Zero report titled "A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-The-Wild in 2020". It's a cool report but we don't agree on the conclusion. The answer isn't to security harder, it's to stop using C. Show Notes Google Project Zero Year of 0-days Kurt's CUPS tweet

Josh and Kurt talk about the recent sudo and libgcrypt security vulnerabilities. What's the deal with these buffer overflows and TOCTU bugs? Show Notes Sudo buffer overflow Sudo SELinux bug libgcrypt buffer overflow

Josh and Kurt talk about 8 bit computing. What sort of security lessons can we learn from the 8 bit world? More than you think. Show Notes Legend of Zelda Random Number Generation Green rocket flame SR71 leaked fuel How do Namibian Himbas see colour? Suptuple meter music

Josh and Kurt talk about what we can stop doing. We take a position of asking "does it spark joy" for tools and infrastructure. Everyone is doing something they should stop. Show Notes Does it spark joy?

Josh and Kurt talk about the new right to repair rules in the EU. There's a strange line between loving the idea of right to repair, but also being horrified as security people at the idea of a device being on the Internet for 30 years. Show Notes EU right to repair repair.eu

Josh and Kurt talk about this idea that seems to exist in security of "attackers only need to be right once" which is silly. The reality is attackers have to get everything right, defenders really only need to get it right once. But "defenders only need to be right once" isn't going to sell any products. Show Notes Richard Feynman and manhole covers Richard Feynman on Why He Can't Tell You How Mag...

Josh and Kurt talk about a report on open source security from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. The title pretty much sums it up. Show Notes Security Considerations for Open Source Build an 8 bit computer from scratch

Josh and Kurt talk about communication. It's really hard to talk about a lot of what we do. How do we know if a device is secure? How do we know our knowledge is correct? Show Notes 90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine Is the moon a star or planet? A mole of moles New homeowner 'freaked out' when stranger took control of her security system Coffee maker ransomware NIST Phish Scale The...

Josh and Kurt talk about why we do the things we do. Sometimes we have to question everything. Links SLAM missile

Josh and Kurt talk about the idea of information wanting to be free. It's Christmas, we should give it what it wants! Links Hacker Manifesto

Josh and Kurt talk about how to file 1000 security flaws. One is easy, scale is hard.

Josh and Kurt talk about how to report one security flaw

Josh and Kurt talk about bug bounties

Josh and Kurt talk about if SMS 2 factor auth is better than no 2FA Links Cyber deepfaked their host

Josh and Kurt talk about modern TLS certificate trust

Josh and Kurt talk about why it's a horrible idea to roll your own crypto or auth

Josh and Kurt talk about vulnerability response. What is it, what does it mean, how does it work

Josh and Kurt talk about the switch from 16 to 32 to 64 bit and even the changes from Intel to ARM

Josh and Kurt talk about supplier compliance Links Annex A.15.1 of ISO 27001:2013 Episode 162 – SBOM with Allan Friedman

Josh and Kurt talk about backdoors in open source software

Josh and Kurt talk about the unluckiest man in the world and survivor bias Links Unluckiest man in the world

Josh and Kurt talk about video game hacking. The speedrunners are doing the best security research today Links Super Mario World RCE

Josh and Kurt talk about the safety of a 737 Links FAA says 737 is safe