3 chapters across the catalog
Open Source Coding, Sambo's Restaurant, Brand Erasure
The open-source community, including OpenSSL and GitHub, is moving to remove terms like "master," "slave," "whitelist," and "blacklist" from their code. In Santa Barbara, the last remaining Sambo's restaurant changed its name after 63 years due to the name being perceived as a racial slur, despite it being a combination of the founders' names, Sam and Bo.
Intelligence Budget Transparency Act, Black Budgets, and Heartbleed
Congressman Peter Welch is promoting the "Intelligence Budget Transparency Act" to force the disclosure of the total dollar amounts spent by the 17 US intelligence agencies. The hosts discuss the "Heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL, questioning why the open-source community failed to catch a vulnerability that existed for two years. They suggest the NSA likely exploited the bug for years while ignoring its potential for domestic harm.
OpenSSL Vulnerabilities, Rackspace, and Condoleezza Rice
The "Heartbleed" bug has forced a massive re-issuing of security certificates across the internet, with the hosts criticizing cloud providers like Rackspace for their slow response. They also discuss Condoleezza Rice joining the board of Dropbox, viewing it as a sign of government encroachment into private data storage. The segment laments the state of technology reporting, which focuses on gadgets rather than critical infrastructure vulnerabilities.
