Show Notes
Buffer Overflow: The Right Way and The Ned Way
Episode 78
Microsoft Ignite Infodump, China Hacks with Grain of Rice Chip, and Oracle Cloud Loses Their Leader
Hosts
Ned Bellavance, Director of Cloud Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Coordinator
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Longer Topics
Microsoft Ignite Infodump
- National Taco Day
- Purple Unicorn at my session
- Vision Keynote
- Azure Ignite Announcements
- Bye-Bye Skype for Business
China Hacks with Grain of Rice Chip
- China accused of hardware level hacking that may have infiltrated the highest-levels of American commerce
- As far back as 2009 Chinese manufacturers were selling LCD Picture frames that were infected with malware at the factory.
- Apple in particular has a history with booting dicey hardware manufacturers such as, oh, idunno, SuperMicro
- These issues were minor enough that Apple also began designing its own servers to avoid such modifications and snooping.
- Maybe not coincidentally, Google, Facebook and Twitter design their own servers.
- The denials from Amazon and Apple about the nature and severity of this issue are both rigorous and emphatic
Lightning Round
- Facial Recognition as a logon? Cool Technology bro.. just don’t cut those sideburns
- Alas poor Oracle Cloud
- Musking about, Elon is down and out
- The Auditory Assault of October 3rd, 2018
- The Whopper lives in a bun mansion, just like YOU
- Kubernetes 1.12
Music Credits
Intro: Jason Shaw – Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B
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