Chaos Lever Podcast

By Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner

Chaos Lever examines emerging trends and new technology for the enterprise and beyond. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner examine the tech landscape through a skeptical lens based on over 40 combin... more

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March 14, 2023Red-Teaming Barbados: Our National Cybersecurity Strategy [49]
Red-Teaming Barbados: Our National Cybersecurity Strategy
Episode: 49
Published: 3/14/2023
The National Cybersecurity Strategy
The actual strategy document
More on DIDs from episode 26
We have known for years that it��s humans that make up the biggest risk to any of these systems
Lightning Round
We are not going to cover SVB
United Kingdom��s Online Safety Bill Set To Completely Destroy Security And Privacy Online
Advertising Company Google Killer Reader 10 Years Ago
Facebook Developing A Mastadon-like Social Network To Take On Twitter
GitHub will require 2FA on all accounts by year-end
After 6 Year Absence, Go Is A Top 10 Language Again
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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50min
March 07, 2023The Bad Boy of Martha��s Vineyard: Addressing the Cloud Repatriation Fervor [48]
The Bad Boy of Martha��s Vineyard: Addressing the Cloud Repatriation Fervor
Episode: 48
Published: 3/7/2023
Cloud Repatriation, or the art of two things being true at once
The Cost of Cloud, A Trillion Dollar Paradox
AWS growth rate from statista
GCP has slowing growth over increasing revenue since at least 2017
Starting with Equinix, their revenue is a comparatively tiny $7.26B for 2022
Digital Realty revenue in 2022 was $4.69B and their growth is actually shrinking over the last two years
HPE has seen annual growth of about 3% for the last two years
Charles Fitzgerald over on Platfornomics came to the same conclusion about cloud repatriation
Lightning Round
AWS Changes to Billing and Cost Management Permissions Taking Effect Both Yesterday, And Also in July
Need K8s Native Storage? Akamai is Ondat.
Elon Musk Chose Not To Pay His AWS Bill, Hilarity Ensues
Software Providers May Be Held Liable for Bad Cybersecurity
Attack Vector for Major LastPass Breach Identified As An Unpatched Plex Server
Mobile Web Congress? More like Metaverse Web Congress.
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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51min
February 28, 2023Mega Chad GPT: Taking Umbrage at Ubuntu Snap Strongarm [47]
Mega Chad GPT: Taking Umbrage at Ubuntu Snap Strongarm
Episode: 47
Published: 2/28/2023
Ubuntu is Strong Arming other Distros Into Using Proprietary Canonical��s Snap Program for Package Installation
Ubuntu pushing out flatpak
Snap, while ostensibly open source, is completely controlled by Canonical
Canonical is pushing their own product even harder by strongarming other Ubuntu-based distributions into not providing flatpak by default
Ubuntu has actually lost mindshare over the past decade
Lightning Round
You Suck. Pay Me.
Copyright Office Backtracks On Allowing AI-Generated Art To Be Protected
Zarya of the Dawn
Lying Liars Xfinity Continue To Lie
Justice Department Alleges Advertising Company Google Destroyed Records Relating To Anti-Trust Lawsuit
Broadcom Acquisition Date for VMware Extended
GCC Project To Frontend Rust Compilation Back On Track After A Hiatus
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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49min
February 21, 2023Larry��s Fun Dip: Exploring SBOMs For Fun And Profit [46]
Larry��s Fun Dip: Exploring SBOMs For Fun And Profit
Episode: 46
Published: 2/21/2023
What��s An SBOM Anyway?
An example calculator application only has four dependencies listed in its package.json file
We��re looking at about 200 required modules to build K8s
Log4shell, in particular, forced developers to evaluate hundreds or thousands of applications
The organization that has worked to define what is included in an SBOM is the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
The NTIA defines an SBOM at an abstract level
There are upsides and downsides to both source-code and binary analysis and you can check out an excellent post by Andrew Hoog
Lightning Round
Turns Out, Microsoft��s AI Was Just As Bad As Google��s
Web3 Continues to Go Great
Just a reminder that it��s not just Twitter. Elon Musk is still failing at running Tesla, too
But Also Elon Musk Is Terrible With Twitter Too
The February updates to Windows Server 2022 �� Break Windows Server 2022
Amazon Employees Tasked with Mandatory Fun
Clearly Jassy is concerned about the slowing growth of Amazon in 2022, where they eked out a slim 9.4% increase over the previous year
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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53min
February 14, 2023Gourmet Grey Goo [45]
Gourmet Grey Goo
Episode: 45
Published: 2/14/2023
AI: or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the inevitable death of civilization at the hands of our robot overlords
Talking to AI Might Be the Most Important Skill of This Century
Mens Journal started using AI to create articles. They contained ��serious errors and plagiarism,�� forcing an embarrassing retraction
We literally still don��t understand human self-awareness, either philosophically or neurologically
Watson also never made a profit
Lightning Round
Ned Proves Prescient Again, RISC-V Port to Xen
If you��re a C developer, they��re looking for help.
Microsoft Announces ChatGPTified Bing With Many Breathless Hyperboles
Advertising Company Google Announces Bard, Stock Dips Immediately
Microsoft To Replace Their Homegrown PDF Reader In Edge With Adobe
Cloudflare Announces Mastodon Server Offering Just In Time For No One To Care
AMD Expects To Continue ��Undershipping�� To Keep Prices High On CPUs and GPUs
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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48min
February 07, 2023The Hellscape Abides [44]
The Hellscape Abides
Episode: 44
Published: 2/7/2023
RISC-V is a Safe Bet
A good example provided by Stamford of RISC vs. CISC
There are 81 integer operation instructions alone in the x86 spec
Intel��s failed attempt to ditch the x86 instruction set with the RISC-based Itanium
RISC-V is an open-source ISA
You can view the entirety of the instruction set on GitHub right now
The history of RISC-V’s inception is pretty interesting
Debate on proprietary versus open instruction sets
One such RISC-V company, covered by The Next Platform, is Ventana Micro Systems
Lightning Round
Apple Looks To Release Even More Expensive Phone Options
More Cloud Outages You Say? Microsoft Proves Me Right.
Elon Musk Freed From One Lawsuit, Still Has The Other 80 To Deal With
Advertising Company Google Now Offers Free Malware!
You Think You Know About Ice, But You Have No Idea
Developer Survey Confirms Devs Love Rust and Hate Going Anywhere
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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56min
January 31, 2023Shiska Bobby Tables [43]
Shiska Bobby Tables
Episode: 43
Published: 1/31/2023
The State of Privacy 2023
2023 State Of Privacy Report
Considering the absolute plethora of security breaches that involved PII loss over the past year or so
We have known for years that yearly training is not enough to cause long-term changes in security and privacy behavior
One that was particularly outrageous was Home Depot Canada
H&R Block did it too
The Radiolab episode about Null
Lightning Round
Web3 Company Raises $10M Because Reasons?
Advertising Company Google Sued For Their Monopolistic Practices Selling Advertising
It��s the end of Intel as we know it, and I feel fine
Zero Trust Still Struggling To Gain Effective Widespread Adoption Despite Awesome Name
The US is about to go Nuclear! Again.
There are 93 active nuclear power plants in the US that produce about 19% of all electricity
Can We Please Pump The Breaks On Articles About How AI Will Be Taking Everything Over By This Time Next Week
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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55min
January 24, 2023A Young Warthog [42]
A Young Warthog
Episode: 42
Published: 1/24/2023
IT vs. OT - Battle of the Century!
Edge is not a thing(��) in the same vein as Supercloud
Let��s go over the high level goals outlined by NIST
Lightning Round
Now They Want AI Lawyers? What��s The Worst That Could Happen?
Vulnerable Historians that aren��t Chris
Annnd The AI-Generated Art Lawsuits Have Arrived
Twitter App I Never Used Rendered Useless
Craig Hockenberry, the creator of Twitterific, published a blog post called ��The Shit Show��
Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working.
Guitar Center Migrates Most Infrastructure Into Oracle Cloud
More Layoffs from Microsoft and Google
Google hasn��t reported their year end results for 2022 yet, but for the first 9 months they are sitting at $46.3B in net income
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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56min
January 17, 2023Behemicorny Dreaming [41]
Behemicorny Dreaming
Episode: 41
Published: 1/17/2023
Looks like I picked a bad, er, wait- no�� GOOD week to quit flying
Part 1: More like SouthWORST amirite?!?!??
Mass cancellations for Southwest flights
Part 2: NOTAM? More like No Ma��am- Wait, Are We Not Doing Married With Children Callbacks Anymore? We Never Were? Oh. Uh�� Let��s Just Move On.
The failure of the FAA��s Notice to Air Missions (or NOTAM) system
Wikipedia has an example of a NOTAM transmission
Oracleesque in the sense that a software bug inadvertently caused the system to corrupt its own data
Lightning Round
Fine we��ll talk about CES. TL;DR most everything at CES was terrible
The Oven Won��t Talk To The Fridge
Magic Leap Makes the Entirely Expected Jump to Enterprise
Intel Releases Next-Generation CPU Sapphire Rapids, Some Other Stuff Too
Intel also released a new i9 codenamed Raptor Lake
The Inevitable March to Rust Continues with Chrome
iTunes Replacement for Windows? Hope it flogs the alpaca��s posterior.
There hasn��t been an iDevice that required wired syncing since the Nano and Shuffle were discontinued in 2017
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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51min
January 10, 2023Slow Motion Scraping [40]
Slow Motion Scraping
Episode: 40
Published: 1/10/2023
Low Risk and Big Reward - or the problem of highly centralized systems that contain critical data for thousands of customers
Rackspace
Rackspace��s managed Exchange service went mysteriously dark back in December 2nd
Rackspace has since released the results of a forensic examination into the incident
CrowdStrike determined that the mitigations were insufficient, and that there was a previously undisclosed method for intrusion that did not require VCE-2022-41040
LastPass
On an episode of Backup Central��s Restore It All podcast I talked extensively about LastPass
Everything else, for every LastPass user was exfiltrated. In LastPass��s own words
I talk about this in more detail elsewhere but the tl;dr is: change all your passwords
CircleCI
The information available on CircleCI��s website is frustratingly vague to the point of parody.
Feels like a gross understatement to your alleged 1 Million developers and 30k organizations
Twitter
The attack looks like it was slow motion scraping
Lightning Round
Apparently Gen-Z thinks that the coolest technology is as old as they are
Android without ARM? Sounds like a RISC-Y proposition
Speaking of processors- Apple made a mistake designing one
Noncompete is bullshit, and soon also illegal
Artist who did real work accused of using AI because “it looks artificially generated”
A Fond Farewell to 3G
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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54min

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