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Jon the Nice Guy joins Wes to discuss all things IPFS. We'll explore what it does, how it works, and why it might be the best hope for a decentralized internet.
Plus, Magecart strikes again, Alpine has package problems, and why you shouldn't trust Western Digital's MyCloud.
Special Guest: Jon Spriggs.
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GovPayNow.com Leaks 14M+ Records — Government Payment Service Inc. has leaked more than 14 million customer records dating back at least six years, including names, addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of the payer’s credit card.Magecart claims another victim in Newegg merchant data theft — Researchers from RiskIQ, together with Volexity, revealed that California-based retailer Newegg is the latest well-known merchant to succumb to the threat actors.RiskIQ: Another Victim of the Magecart Assault EmergesPassword bypass flaw in Western Digital My Cloud drives puts data at risk — A security researcher has published details of a vulnerability in Western Digital’s My Cloud devices, which could allow an attacker to bypass the admin password on the drive, gaining complete control over the user’s data.WD MyCloud Metasploit ExampleCloudflare goes InterPlanetary — Today we’re excited to introduce Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway, an easy way to access content from the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) that doesn’t require installing and running any special software on your computer.End-to-End Integrity with IPFS — This post describes how to use Cloudflare's IPFS gateway to set up a website which is end-to-end secure, while maintaining the performance and reliability benefits of being served from Cloudflare’s edge network.How permanent is data stored on IPFS?Lesson: Add Content to IPFS and Retrieve It · Decentralized Web PrimerLeo Tindall: Putting This Blog on IPFSA Beginner’s Guide to IPFS — IPFS consists of several innovations in communication protocols and distributed systems that have been combined to produce a file system like no other.Useful resources for using IPFS and building things on top of itOrbitDB: Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized WebRebuild Alpine Linux Docker Containers After Package Manager Patch — An attacker could intercept a package request as a Alpine Linux Docker image is being built and add malicious code that target machines would then unpack and run within the Docker container
It's a storage showdown as Jim and Wes bust some performance myths about RAID and ZFS.
Plus our favorite features from Fedora 32, and why Wes loves DNF.
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What's new in Fedora 32 Workstation
Fedora 32 ChangeSet
Linux distro review: Fedora Workstation 32
TechSNAP 428: RAID Reality Check
ZFS...
Published 05/29/20
Jim and Wes take the latest release of the Caddy web server for a spin, investigate Intel's Comet Lake desktop CPUs, and explore the fight over 5G between the US Military and the FCC.
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Caddy offers TLS, HTTPS, and more in one dependency-free Go Web server
Caddy 2
Caddy v2 Improvements...
Published 05/15/20
We dive deep into the world of RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.
Plus Cloudflare steps up its campaign to secure BGP, and why you might want to trade in cron for systemd timers.
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AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with...
Published 05/01/20