Josh Bressers

Open Source Security

Open Source Security is a media project to help showcase and educate on open source security. Our goal is to give the community a platform educate both developers and users on how open source security works. There's a lot of good work happening that doesn't get attention because there's no marketing department behind it, they don't have a developer relations team posting on LinkedIn every two hours. Let's focus on those people and teams then learn what they do and how they do it. The goal is to hear from the people doing the work, they know what's up, they have a lot to teach us. We just have...

Author

Josh Bressers

Category

Technology

Podcast website

opensourcesecurity.io

Latest episode

Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 36 - A Good Enough Podcast 05.03.2017

Josh and Kurt discuss an IoT bear, Alexa and Siri, Google's E2Email and S/MIME.

Episode 35 - Crazy Cosmic Accident 28.02.2017

Josh and Kurt discuss SHA-1 and cloudbleed. Bug bounties come up, and we compare security to the Higgs boson. We also discuss IPv6 at the end.

Episode 34 - Bathing In Ebola Virus 22.02.2017

Josh and Kurt discuss RSA, the cryptographer's panel and of course, AI.

Episode 33 - Everybody Who Went To The Circus Is In The Circus (RSA 2017) 15.02.2017

Josh and Kurt are at the same place at the same time! We discuss our RSA sessions and how things went. Talk of CVE IDs, open source libraries, Wordpress, and early morning sessions.

Episode 32 - Gambling As A Service 08.02.2017

Josh and Kurt discuss random numbers, a lot. Also slot machines, gambling, and dice.

Episode 31 - XML Is Never The Solution 01.02.2017

Josh and Kurt discuss door locks, Ikea, chair testing sounds, electrical safety, autonomous cars, and XML vs JSON.

Episode 30 - I'm Not An Expert But I've Been Yelled At By Experts 25.01.2017

Josh and Kurt discuss security automation. Machine learning, AI, and a bunch of moral and philosophical boundaries that new future will bring. You've been warned.

Episode 29 - The Security Of Rogue One 22.01.2017

Josh and Kurt discuss the security of the movie Rogue One! Spoiler: Security in the Star Wars universe is worse than security in our universe.

Episode 28 - RSA Conference 2017 19.01.2017

Josh and Kurt discuss their involvement in the upcoming 2017 RSA conference: Open Source, CVEs, and Open Source CVE. Of course IoT and encryption manage to come up as topics.

Episode 27 - Prove To Me You Are Human 16.01.2017

Josh and Kurt discuss NTP, authentication issues, network security, airplane security, AI, and Minecraft.

Episode 26 - Tell Your Sister, Stallman Was Right 12.01.2017

Josh and Kurt end up discussing video game speed running, which is really just hacking. We also end up discussing the pitfalls of the modern world, you don't own your software or services. Stallman was right!

Episode 25 - The Future Is Now 09.01.2017

Josh and Kurt end up discussing CES, IoT, WiFi everywhere, and the future.

Episode 24 - The 2016 Prediction Edition 03.01.2017

Josh and Kurt discuss 2016 predictions in 2017, what they got right, what they got wrong, and a bunch of other random things.

Episode 23 - We Can't Patch People 28.12.2016

Josh and Kurt talk about scareware, malware, and how hard this stuff is to stop, and how the answer isn't fixing people.

Episode 22 - IoT Wild West 24.12.2016

Josh and Kurt talk about planned obsolescence and IoT devices. Should manufacturers brick devices? We also have a crazy discussion about the ethics of hacking back.

Episode 21 - CVE 10K Extravaganza 21.12.2016

Josh and Kurt talk about CVE 10K. CVE IDs have finally crossed the line, we need 5 digits to display them. This has never happened before now.

Episode 20 - The Death Of PGP 19.12.2016

Josh and Kurt talk about the death of PGP, and how it's not actually dead at all. It's still really hard to use though.

Episode 19 - A Field Full Of Razor Blades And Monsters 13.12.2016

Josh and Kurt talk about the bricking devices (on purpose).

Episode 18 - The Security Of Santa 09.12.2016

Josh and Kurt talk about the security concerns and logistics of Santa, elves, and the North Pole.

Episode 17 - Cyphercon Interview With Korgo 06.12.2016

Josh and Kurt talk to Michael Goetzman about Cyphercon

Episode 16 - Cat And Mouse 02.12.2016

Josh and Kurt talk about cybercrime and regulation.

Episode 15 - Cyber Black Monday 29.11.2016

Josh and Kurt talk about Cyber Monday security tips.

Episode 14 - David A Wheeler: CII Badges 22.11.2016

Josh and Kurt have a guest! David A. Wheeler talks about open source security and the CII Badges project.

Episode 13 - CVE: The Metric System Of Security 18.11.2016

Josh and Kurt talk about CVE, DWF, and the future of flaw reporting.

Episode 12 - Security Trebuchet 10.11.2016

Josh and special guest host Dave Sirrine talk about feedback, OpenSSL, OAuth2, Let's Encrypt, disclosure, and locks.

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