SMLR Episode 303 See Other Green
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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
Jay’s Bash Prompt https://pastebin.com/kzPjE8y4
Tech News:
Simple Private 1GB Free or 2.5gb Logged in File Sharing
ffsend upload ${FILE_NAME}
Darpa Open Source Voting
CDC Beto O’Rourke’
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-beto-orourke/
WireGuard is now in Gnome Network Manager
https://blogs.gnome.org/thaller/2019/03/15/wireguard-in-networkmanager/
Linux Kernel 5.0
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/3/236
“But I’d like to point out (yet again) that we don’t do feature-based releases,
and that “5.0” doesn’t mean anything more than that the 4.x numbers
started getting big enough that I ran out of fingers and toes”
AMD FreeSync display support
Raspberry Pi Touchscreen support in mainline kernel
Btrfs swap file support & Adiantum data encryption
Stephen Wolfram Blog Post “Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure”
Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Released, Fixes Major APT Security Issue
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/02/ubuntu-16-04-6-lts-released-fixes-major-apt-security-issue
Open source Free Self-hosted Web Analytics
https://medevel.com/best-20-open-source-free-self-hosted-web-analytics/
Web Analytics. Open Source.
http://www.openwebanalytics.com/
Firefox maker fears DarkMatter ‘misuse’ of browser for hacking
Citrix today warned its customers that foreign hackers romped through its internal company network and stole corporate secrets.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/08/citrix_hacked_data_stolen/
Q&A: Crypto-guru Bruce Schneier on teaching tech to lawmakers, plus privacy failures – and a call to techies to act
‘Politicians are reluctant to disrupt the enormous wealth creation machine technology has turned out to be’
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/15/qa_bruce_schneier/
Jay:
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GNOME 3.32 Released, This is What’s New
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/03/best-gnome-3-32-features
Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
Debian Sticking With Merged /usr Plan
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-Go-Ahead-Merged-Usr
KDE Plasma 5.16 Will Let You Reboot Into The UEFI Setup Screen
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Plasma-5.16-Reboot-To-UEFI
Phil – Ep 303
303 See Other
The server is redirecting the user agent to a different resource, as indicated by a URI in the Location header field, which is intended to provide an indirect response to the original request.
L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries. It is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft Windows passwords, by using dictionary, brute-force, hybrid attacks, and rainbow tables.
List of open source tools for AWS security: defensive, offensive, auditing, etc.
https://github.com/toniblyx/my-arsenal-of-aws-security-tools
Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) has been standardized by the IETF as RFC 8555.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8555
Having a standardized protocol for certificate issuance and management is important for two reasons. First, it improves the quality of the software ecosystem because developers can focus on developing great software for a single protocol, instead of having many pieces of less well maintained software for bespoke APIs. Second, a standardized protocol makes switching from one CA to another easier by minimizing technical dependency lock-in.
CAs & PKIs that offer ACME certificates
https://vas3k.com/blog/dumbass_home/?ref=sn
Internet of Things. How to Automate Your Rented Box Today
So, you want to bring a little more cyberpunk to your life. The light should lead your way when you’re sneakin’ to the bathroom at night; a coffee machine should start automagically with the morning alarm. Smart Нome, Internet of Things or whatever they call teapots with microcontrollers this year. I call it “Dumbass Home” because it simply fits better.
His solution uses a raspberry pi with a zigbee and z-wave USB adapters and the python project HomeAssistant
Discusses different vendor products and their pros and cons
Secretary of the Navy – Cyber Security Review
https://www.navy.mil/strategic/CyberSecurityReview.pdf
The report highlights the value of data and the need to modify the Navy’s business and data hygiene processes in order to protect data as a resource. This review also provides an assessment of the culture, people, governance, processes, and resources as they pertain to cybersecurity in the Department of the Navy. Recommendations in the review specifically address policy, processes, and resources needed to enhance cyber defense and increase resiliency.
In fact, with an expectation that the nation will require an increase of as many as 1.5 million additional trained professionals needed by 2020
Boats Can’t Divide by Zero
https://medium.com/@bishr_tabbaa/when-smart-ships-divide-by-zer0-uss-yorktown-4e53837f75b2
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