Buffer Overflow: Skeletor v. Dr. Doom
Episode 203
Google v. Oracle, Office 365 Outages, and VMware Cloud Part Trois

Ned Bellavance
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Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
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Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
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Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
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Google v. Oracle ends. No one wins.

• Supreme Court Decision: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf
• The EFF is crowing about the victory

• Facebook takes pole position in the ‘race to lose the most user data’
• Office 356 has it’s latest outage in a month
• Website I don’t understand in talks to acquire website I don’t understand
• VMware launches VMware Cloud
• The age old lesson to double check your sources comes to haunt AI
• Now we’ll never know how babby is formed

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
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Buffer Overflow: Blurry Autumnal Donuts
Episode 202
Free Software Foundation Fracas, Ever Given Gets Got, and Rot in the Apple Store

Ned Bellavance
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@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
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Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
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• Free Software Foundation brings Richard Stallman Back
• Messin’ with Honey Badger
• The first picture of a black hole just got a little sharper
• Washington DC gets windy
• FreeBSD Dodges a bullet named Matt Macy
• The Ever Given is finally freed; traffic through the Suez Canal resumes
• Apple is having a hard time keeping scam crypto apps off of the App Store

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
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Buffer Overflow: Techno-King Bling of the Realm
Episode 201
Streaming in 2021, Microsoft Discordance, and Techno-King Coin of the Realm

Ned Bellavance
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@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
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Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/
Hank Yee, Delivery Manager
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Streaming w/ Hank 2021 Q1 Edition

• https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/article/2021/tops-of-2020-nielsen-streaming-unwrapped/

• Coachella Valley will soon host something useful to society
• TikTok is no worse than Facebook
• Why invest in Tesla when you could invest in Elon Musk directly?
• Broadband Data Task Force to the Rescue!
• Lets play a game of lazy admins not protecting daaaa-ta
• Seeing something people love, Microsoft vows to destr- er.. Buy it

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
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Buffer Overflow: There Will Be Hydroponic Strawberries
Episode 200
Talking Episode Two Hundo, CPU Fundo, and iSCSI Blundo

Ned Bellavance
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@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
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Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/
Hank Yee, Delivery Manager
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200 Episodes! - no links, just love. And goats.

• But Mom, She’s Just a Cheerleader
• AMD’s new Milan process is Epyc
• The 2 largest ridesharing services will get the tiniest bit safer
• Graham's Going to Boot Camp
• Hey kids.. Let’s not forget that Linux can have major security flaws too
• Massive Microsoft Exchange bug still unpatched on large numbers of servers

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
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Buffer Overflow: Chris Wants a Taco
Episode 199
What are NFTs?, Giving light a hug, and user voices silenced

Ned Bellavance
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Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
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Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
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So, what are NFTs anyway?

• Kings of Leon selling their new album as an NFT if you buy a special bundle
• What does NFT mean, what is the technology used, how does it work?
• Where did NFTs come from?
• That makes them more valuable, with one on auction just last week for $2 million
• These projects include digital fashion and art collection
• What are people doing with NFTs besides art collecting?

• Microsoft Hands Solarwinds Its Beer
• I know you’ve seen me on the iCloud. True?
• Hey, want a ticket to a superspreader event? Real cheap.
• Hug Light, Receive Quantum
• UserVoice Silenced
• Google says ‘Only WE can track you now’

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
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Buffer Overflow: Show Moat Goats
Episode 198
Hacks, hackers and hactivism, Microsoft’s latest brand new not new thing, and cookies that aren’t for sharing

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
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Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Google’s Project Zero has some things to say about how patches are created and applied

• Project Zero also identified issues in Google’s Chrome product, the “Infinity Bug,” Which was a problem with Chrome 73-78 running on Android.
• Our friends at OWASP compile their somewhat-annual Top 10 Vulnerabilities list and present it free for public discussion
• Project Zero highlighted changed that Apple made with their new iOS 14 and iMessage
• iMessage is now completely isolated from the OS, behind a feature called BlastDoor

• Solarwinds123 as easy as ABC
• Rocket Lab is taking off with Neutron
• Demon Hackers Fingered in Gab Grab
• Microsoft Releasing New Calendar View
• We can shut down the Olympics, the robots are taking over
• Mozilla hides the cookies in their own private cookie jar...s

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
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Buffer Overflow: The Cadbury Protocol
Episode 197
Meal-kit Madness, FCC does something good?, and Uber now has employees!

Ned Bellavance
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@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
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Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

To meal-kit, or not to meal-kit?

• Blue Apron
• Home Chef
• Hello Fresh
• Green Chef
• https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/job-quality-meal-kit-fulfillment-center/

• Less Competition is More
• All work and bad UI makes a $500M whoopsies
• Oh hey, maybe the FCC could do something good for a change
• The UK is making Uber treat their employees like… employees
• Porsche and Siemens partnership to develop “climate-neutral e-fuels” heating up
• We don't know what it does or how it got there, but it's definitely bad

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
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Buffer Overflow: Spicy Espionage with Chips
Episode 196
Supermicro Sabotage, Fungal Confections, and the Heart of Texas Darkness

Ned Bellavance
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@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Trying to tell y’all it’s sabotage!

• A post by Bryan Krebs acknowledges that he was unable to corroborate any of Bloomberg’s claims

• There’s a fungus among us
• Perseverance primed to propel towards planetary plane
• There's no basement, or network access, in the Alamo!
• New restrictions are coming to free LastPass users
• Why wait for lab-grown steak when you can have a printed steak NOWWWWW
• Autonomous Race Cars to take on Indy 500 track in October

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: Captain Jeff’s Clubhouse
Episode 195
Blue Origins, Clubhouse Bans, and Tesla Bitcoin

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

• CEO Jeff Bezos announcing that he will be stepping down
• Workers in their Bessemer, Alabama warehouse planning a vote to unionise this week
• So, let’s take a look in the crystal ball and speculate on some of Blue Origin’s current and planned projects that may benefit from Bezos’ newly free time.

• No Killing What Can’t Be Killed
• China Bans Clubhouse - No Dissidents Allowed
• Reddit gets a new round of funding
• Data Storage that’s out of this World!
• Tesla buys 1.5 Billion dollars worth of bitcoin
• The Document Foundation celebrates latest release of LibreOffice by calling its users a bunch of freeloaders

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
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Buffer Overflow: Verizon Quibs It
Episode 194
Verizon OFF, Microsoft OSS (MOSS), and Covid Converse

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

More like Veriz-OFF, amirite?!

• Downdetector saw a huge spike in outage reports that all initially blamed AWS
• The bulk of the outage was caused by a ‘software issue.’
• Hilariously, the downtime incident prevented Amazon from updating the AWS status page
• Verizon’s SLA promises 100% uptime
• The individual bundles are colored, which helps sort out what is what, but repairing fiber is still a manual process.
• Some are vandalism, with enterprising thieves attempting to steal copper to sell

• The Great IPv4 Caper
• Conspiracy theorists need to Let it go, let it go
• The Ultimate Covid Footwear
• Update on Microsoft's Climate Pledge
• Microsoft Open Sources the ESE Database
• Stadia, for whom the bell tolls

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
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