2.5 Admins 66: Lack of Entropy

Tesla owners locked out of their cars, a Linux side-channel attack that enables DNS cache poisoning, why Jim doesn’t use Proxmox, and accessing KVM hosts from Windows.

 

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Jim was on Late Night Linux twice, as well as Late Night Linux Extra.

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Tesla drivers left unable to start their cars after outage

Server errors hit Tesla remote-control app

Linux has a serious security problem that once again enables DNS cache poisoning

 

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2.5 Admins 65: Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten

How some Swedish parents tried to take control of their kids’ education app, why you shouldn’t try to add magsafe to your phone, introducing the new shiny at work, Samba security, and more.

 

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FreeBSD Papers We Love: Jails and Cloneable Network Stacks

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These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops

 

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We were asked about monitoring, how junior admins can introduce new workflows in the face of resistance, and Samba security.

 

 

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2.5 Admins 64: Augmented Dystopia

Why the metaverse sounds terrible, Alder Lake benchmarks, revoking SSH keys, remote management of Windows machines, and more.

 

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Looking towards the future: FreeBSD on RISC-V

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Welcome to Meta

Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: It’s a barn burner

OpenZFS Developer Summit

 

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We were asked about managing and revoking SSH keys, and remote management of Windows machines.

 

 

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2.5 Admins 63: Unlocking the Future

The Oculus Go is opened up, a potential addition to HTTPS, Intel’s new Alder Lake CPUs, testing ZFS backups, virtualising a firewall, and more.

 

Plugs

OpenZFS Developer Summit – Nov 8-9th Online

Advanced ZFS Snapshots – Holds and Clones

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John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

HTTPS Attestable: Remote, secure, verified enclaves proposed

Intel Announces 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake” CPUs

 

 

 

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We were asked about testing ZFS backups, and virtualising a firewall.

 

 

 

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2.5 Admins 62: Top Notch

The stupid notch on the new Macs, why Windows 11 had performance issues with AMD CPUs, why hibernation isn’t really a thing, and more.

 

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OpenZFS Developer Summit – Nov 8-9th Online

Understanding top(1) on FreeBSD

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AMD and Microsoft release fixes for Ryzen slowdowns in Windows 11

Apple’s MacBook Pro is a GPU-shaped warning to Nvidia and AMD

 

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We were asked about hibernation, and whether there’s a distro with a Linux kernel and a BSD userland.

 

 

 

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2.5 Admins 61: Alice and Bob

How not to steal and sell sensitive information, why ISPs shouldn’t try to sue Netflix, and the best way to set up wireless access points.

 

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Webinar: Enterprise Certificate Management on FreeBSD – October 28th @ 12:00 ET

FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup

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FBI Arrests Navy Nuclear Engineer, Wife Accused of Selling Submarine Secrets

S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from ‘Squid Game’

 

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2.5 Admins 60: Butter Fingers

How Facebook’s services managed to go down for 6 hours, Windows Subsystem for Linux is now easier than ever to set up, and expanding a large capacity storage server.

 

Plugs

Webinar: Enterprise Certificate Management on FreeBSD – October 28th @ 12:00 ET

All Things Open

Manipulating a ZFS Pool from the Rescue System

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News

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know

Update about the October 4th outage

Animated graphic of Facebook BGP routes disappearing

The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux

A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available

 

 

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We were asked about expanding the storage in large capacity server.

 

 

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2.5 Admins 59: Megaphone in the Middle

Why RISC-V looks promising for the future, how the web switched to HTTPS by default, an interesting DoS method, and how mitigating ssh attacks has changed over the years.

 

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RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block

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Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification

Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate HTTPS Everywhere plugin

 

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We were asked about SSH tarpits.

 

 

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2.5 Admins 58: Autocompromised

A pretty serious flaw with Autodiscover that leaks email credentials, why Btrfs sucks for more than one disk, and the best hardware for a low-powered NAS.

 

Plugs

EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available

When to use a SLOG, and when not to

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Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover bug leaks hundreds of thousands of domain credentials

Microsoft knew of Exchange Autodiscover flaw five years ago

Examining btrfs, Linux’s perpetually half-finished filesystem

 

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2.5 Admins 57: Spherical Chickens

What exactly constitutes WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, your feedback about time-based YouTube blocking, Optane in servers, and what sysadmins actually do.

 

Plugs

Using the FreeBSD RACK TCP stack

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WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all

 

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We were asked about Optane in servers, and what sysadmins actually do.

 

 

 

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