Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: Toilet Face Recognition
Episode 193
CES 2021, Down with ADT, and Muskinators don’t die they multiply

Hosts

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/

Longer Topics CES 2021

• Coldsnap ice cream maker
• Hydropower shower speaker
• Clearbot
  • Mr. Trash Wheel
• WOTA WOSH
  • Ghanian Hand Wash Video
• Toto Wellness Toilet

Lightning Round

• NASA is calling it quits on the mole
• Ol’ Musky’s back at it again
• ADT stands for Always Destroying Trust
• Twitter is crowdsourcing their responsibility
• Called out on anti-consumer anti-privacy practices, Apple quietly relents
• Apparently, Reuters needs to google the phrase “Secret Code”

Music Credits

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

Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: Inside the Threat Actor Studio
Episode 192
Solarwinds SUNBURN, WebAssembly Progress, and the GooBit

Hosts

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/

Longer Topics

Solarwinds

• https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/security-firm-fireeye-says-nation-state-hackers-stole-potent-attack-tools/
• Microsoft reported in their own post
• Solarwinds issued a security advisory
• Supply Chain Compromise page
• Timeline of events

Lightning Round

• Sometimes, social media doesn’t suck
• GooBit?  Fitogle? I will work on it..anywho
• FoxConn Continues Global Expansion, Looking to Open Plant in Vietnam
• Pat Goes Home
• Universal binary-creating Server Side runtime Wasmer for WebAssembly reaches 1.0 status
• Over 100k Hardware Vendor Zyxel products in the wild affected by completely unnecessary security failure

Music Credits

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

Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: Something WILL Happen?
Episode 191
2021 Predictions Episode!

Hosts

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/

Longer Topics Ned’s Predictions

• Zoom is acquired by Oracle
• Nutanix will go private
• RISC V chip architectures will rise in popularity
• Migration out of Silicon Valley will accelerate
• First fully-autonomous taxi service will go into operation

Chris’ Predictions

• Ready Patient One - Continued growth of telemedicine (and telemedicine tools) well after the pandemic is past
• Major (and meaningful) advances in electric vehicles and power generation
• SOMETHING big will happen to one of the major tech companies

Brenda’s Predictions

• One of the major movie theater chains will declare bankruptcy
• A new country will join the race back to the Moon
• Bitcoin will continue to climb in the first half of 2021, but will plummet in the second half as things become more secure and begin to return to normal
• The year of the union in tech giants

Kim’s Predictions

• More families will ask for virtual and hybrid options for school
• The Learning Management System (LMS) market will grow and become more competitive
• Education will involve more gaming

Music Credits

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

Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: The Other Chris
Episode 190
2020 Predictions Roundup

Hosts

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/
Hank Yee, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hankyee/

Longer Topics

Ned’s Predictions

• Financial and IPOs (wrong!)
• Browser war (wrong!)
• Apple Glasses (wrong!)
• Google Pixel watch (wrong!)
• Microsoft Android phone (right!)
• AWS Outposts runaway hit (wrong!)
• Cryptocurrency slides into irrelevance (right!)

Brenda’s Predictions

• At least one streaming service would go belly up (right!)
• 5G will remain a parlor trick (right!)
  • Marketing got wwaaaayyy ahead of reality

Kim’s Predictions

• Privacy becomes a hotter topic (maybe?)
• Deepfakes will be a big deal in the elections (wrong!)

Hank’s Prediction

• Facebook will begin to tank, and Zuck will be shown the door in 2021 (right!)

Chris’ Predictions

• Coal would descend into complete irrelevance (wrong!)
• IPv6 will make great strides forward (wrong!)

Music Credits

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

Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: Google Vampiric Timeshare
Episode 189
Facebook Lawsuits, Solarwinds shenanigans, and Up a CentOS Stream

Hosts

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/

Longer Topics

Everybody is suing Facebook… again - but bigger this time

• In 2 press conferences on the same day, the Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General Letitia James announced 2 antitrust lawsuits against Facebook
• The FTC’s lawsuit focuses on the companies that Facebook has already acquired, WhatsApp and Instagram
• “Facebook had a practice of opening its site to third-party app developers, then abruptly cutting off developers that it saw as a threat.”

Lightning Round

• Say it ain't so!
• Solarwinds in a whirlwind of trouble
• Last Flash Update Evar
• How do you Google when Google is down?
• Red Hat announces the end of CentOS Linux; reneges on long term support
• Samsung follows Apple’s lead, stops including power adapter with new phones

Music Credits

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

Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: Constant Sternation
Episode 188
Chinese Fusion, Space News, and Excel Dominance

Hosts

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/

Mega Lightning Round

• China announces latest successful test of their hot-fusion 'tokamak' reactor
• Using DNA to generate 'true' random numbers
• Man tries worlds first lab-grown chicken burger. You'll never guess what he says it tastes like
• Excel is the most popular programming language in the world, and I just died a little inside

• SPACE NEWS!
  • Japanese probe Hayabusha 2
  • https://www.space.com/china-chang-e-5-moon-orbit-docking-success
  • https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2020/12/07/new-spacex-cargo-dragon-docks-to-station/
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-rural-digital-opportunity-fund-rdof-winners-internet-subsidies-2020-12
• Tape is dead! Long live tape!

Music Credits

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

Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: Sisyphus of Leaves
Episode 187
Tech Trends for 2021, AWS Outages, and Salesforce Slacking On

Hosts

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/

Longer Topics

Tech Trends to Watch for 2021

Lightning Round

• Ajit Pai GTFO
• Sometimes high threadcount is a bad thing
• AWS re:Invent, a 3-week free and online Amazon Web Services conference starts today
• Ransomware hits Baltimore public school system, cancels classes for 115,000 students
• Salesforce expected to announce purchase of Slack on Dec 1st
• Apple fined by Italy for being water resistant only for certain values of ‘water’

Music Credits

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

Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: Resurrecting Hugo
Episode 186
Voting Machine Fraud, Quarter century GIMPs, and Deleted Fleets

Hosts

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/
Hank Yee, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hankyee/

Longer Topics

Much Ado About Nothing

• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/voting-security-experts-refute-trump-claims-of-voting-machine-hacking/
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/20/dominion-voting-trump-faq/
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/06/nations-leading-voting-machine-vendor-vows-to-ditch-paperless-voting/

Lightning Round

• Tesla Model 3, the world's most expensive shotgun shot?
• GIMP turns 25
• Rules Shmules
• Twitter fleet on repeat no need for deets
• People ask too much of computers; are surprised when computers fail
• Looking forward to a new M1 Laptop from Apple? I hope you REALLY like OSX

Music Credits

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

Buffer Overflow: Plethora of Podcasts
Episode 185
Pod Racing, Internet In Beta, and Apple M1 launches

Hosts

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/

Longer Topics

The podcast races continue

• Spotify buying Megaphone
• Apple and Sony looking to buy Wondery

Lightning Round

• Beta test of Internet IN SPACE shows promise
• Tik-what? Oh that, haha sry nvmnd
• Google decides you want to pay for photo storage
• Microsoft admits that 2004 update broke saved passwords, still no official fix
• 28 Million Texas drivers have PII leaked in data breach
• Apple M1 Chip has its official release, seems to be pretty impressive

Music Credits

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

Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: Bonfire of the Geriatrics
Episode 184
The CPU wars, super loud keyboards, and more privacy than you can shake a stick at

Hosts

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Longer Topics

California – Prop 24. Privacy? California GDPR? We solved it?!? Of course that would be too easy…

• This prop was sponsored by a San Fran real estate developer named Alastair MacTaggart
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation doesn’t take a stance on Proposition 24
• The San Diego Privacy organization has a quick cheat sheet with link to many of the issues discussed
• There are even federal efforts regarding the handling of personal data

Lightning Round

• You dog I heard you like source code
• AMD’s mojo is Ryzen
• At least 2020 hasn’t lost its sense of irony
• Intel seriously considers outsourcing production of CPUs
• Model F Labs set to release modern copies of famous “Model F” keyboard
• Apple annoys the crap out of power users by removing iSH from App Store

Music Credits

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