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2.5 Admins

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Dec 28, 2023 • 29min

2.5 Admins 175: Guess Who’s Listening

Twitch shuts down in Korea due to costly network fees, smart devices eavesdropping raises privacy concerns, water temperature impacts on aquatic ecosystems, exploring mandatory access controls in Linux container hosts, challenges with App Armor profiles
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Dec 21, 2023 • 32min

2.5 Admins 174: Guess Who’s Watching

The podcast discusses the recent SSH vulnerability and its potential consequences for sensitive networks. They also highlight a privacy issue with cloud-connected security cameras and the lack of end-to-end encryption. Additionally, they address listener questions about ZFS encryption and discuss a bug related to encrypted streams in ZFS.
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Dec 14, 2023 • 29min

2.5 Admins 173: Ghost Files

Google Drive client users lost months of files; UEFI vulnerability leaves millions of computers at risk; the risks of buying cheap resold volume Windows licenses.
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Dec 7, 2023 • 32min

2.5 Admins 172: HOLEy ZFS

Jim and Allan discuss the recent ZFS data corruption bug, the complexities of interacting with ZFS on a lower level, the importance of keeping Free BSD up to date, managing servers with ZFS replication, the advantages of using golden images and ZFS replication, the significance of automated monitoring with Nagios, and the need for functional naming conventions for servers in an IT environment.
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Nov 30, 2023 • 30min

2.5 Admins 171: RSA PSA

The podcast discusses how a small island nation's top-level domain gained a terrible reputation, a less scary ssh vulnerability, the concept of finished software, and the choice between powerline or WiFi for security cameras.
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Nov 23, 2023 • 29min

2.5 Admins 170: Uninterruptible WiFi

In this podcast, the hosts discuss upgrading their home Wi-Fi setup with TP-Link Omada controller and EAP 225 access points. They also give hardware recommendations for setting up a NAS/media server, including specific NUC form factor and prebuilt options like Synology and Netgear. The chapter on power consumption and connectivity options for small form factor PCs in NAS setups provides valuable information on affordable models and the importance of proper SATA connectivity.
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Nov 16, 2023 • 31min

2.5 Admins 169: SDCoF

Cloudflare outage highlights sloppy data center practices; running a mail server at home discussed; Android storage disaster patched but data loss still possible; discussion on package managers on Windows and Toshiba hard drives.
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Nov 9, 2023 • 30min

2.5 Admins 168: Do The Right Thing

In this episode, the guests discuss the security breaches experienced by Okta, the ease of crashing iPhones, and Jim's report from the Ubuntu Summit. They also provide advice on what to do when you find a company's sensitive data on the Internet. Overall, an interesting conversation on security measures and vulnerabilities.
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Nov 2, 2023 • 32min

2.5 Admins 167: Delayed Flush

Topics discussed include water consumption of AI and data centers, China's push for IPv6, implications of poor Bluetooth security on an e-bike, and concerns about Wi-Fi network collection and MAC address subpoenas.
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Oct 26, 2023 • 31min

2.5 Admins 166: 20 Second Cheque

Discussion on Google's measures to prevent malware sites in their ads, issues with using multiple profiles on Android devices, a speculative execution vulnerability in Apple Silicon, and the pros and cons of TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti Unifi for managing small and medium business networks.

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