SMLR Episode 296 Monoculture is a cancer
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Intro:
Tony Bemus, Tom Lawrence, Phil Porada and Jay LaCroix
Sound bites by Mike Tanner
Phils GitHub
The LawrenceSystems YouTube Channel Where videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTecknowledge
Jay’s Site
https://www.learnlinux.tv/
Tech News:
GNOME Devs Experiment with a Refreshed GTK & Icon Theme
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/12/adwaita-refresh-sneak-peek
Essential System Tools: Timeshift – Reliable system restore tool for Linux
https://www.linuxlinks.com/essential-system-tools-timeshift-reliable-system-restore-tool-linux/
With Its Switch to Chromium, Will Microsoft Edge Come to Linux?
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/12/microsoft-edge-for-linux-possible
The Often Overlooked Type of Key Management
https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/a6i14h/nonnetworking_advice_key_managementstorage/
FreeBSD ZFS vs. Linux EXT4/Btrfs RAID With Twenty SSDs
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd-12-zfs&num=1
Equifax breach was ‘entirely preventable’ had it used basic security measures, says House report
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/10/equifax-breach-preventable-house-oversight-report/
Unpatched Apache Struts server
Plain text spreadsheet of random passwords left on a system
IDS not working because of an expired certificate
“Equifax did not see the data exfiltration because the device used to monitor [the vulnerable server’s] network traffic had been inactive for 19 months due to an expired security certificate,”
Tesla Model 3 Running Ubuntu
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/13/hacker-installs-linux-on-his-tesla-model-3/
NVIDIA PhysX, the most popular physics simulation engine on the planet, is going open source.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/12/03/physx-high-fidelity-open-source/
Tools for testing SSL Web Sites
https://github.com/trimstray/htrace.sh
VLC Software Developer and French Hacker Named Knights of the Order of Merit
Google Closing Earlier
https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/
https://donate.torproject.org/
https://www.torproject.org/about/findoc/2017-TorProject-Form990.pdf
The 2017 break down of funding looks like this:
$798,029 worth of funding from the US government-backed Radio Free Asia
$635,504 from the similarly US government-backed SRI International
$594,408 from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
$548,151 from the US National Science Foundation (NSF)
- 123456 (Unchanged)
- password (Unchanged)
- sunshine (New)
https://gizmodo.com/the-25-most-popular-passwords-of-2018-will-make-you-fee-1831052705
https://opensource.com/article/18/12/linux-toy-tetris
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/12/06/goodbye-edge/
Microsoft is officially giving up on an independent shared platform for the internet. By adopting Chromium, Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/a6cclm/a_poem_about_working_from_home/
Document sprawl and Excel for passwords
https://github.com/bitwarden/cli
The Bitwarden CLI is a powerful, full-featured command-line interface (CLI) tool to access and manage a Bitwarden vault. The CLI is written with TypeScript and Node.js and can be run on Windows, macOS, and Linux distributions.
“After a thorough examination and a range of functional tests, the investigative firm found absolutely no evidence of malicious hardware on SuperMicro motherboards,”
https://github.com/dyng/ctrlsf.vim
An ack/ag/pt/rg powered code search and view tool, takes advantage of Vim 8’s power to support asynchronous searching, and lets you edit file in-place with Edit Mode.
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