2.5 Admins 303: Denial of Secrets

About this episode

The episode discusses password manager issues, the introduction of Coreutils to Windows, a FreeBSD PR setback, and recommendations for consumer WiFi gear.

People were locked out of their password managers to stop a brute force attack, Coreutils come to Windows, a FreeBSD PR effort backfires, and the best simple consumer WiFi gear.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Why ZFS Is the Ideal Filesystem for Multi-User/Department Media Production Webinar: June 30th @ 11am EDT: FreeBSD After Hours AMA   News/discussion Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils Coreutils for Windows FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop   Free consulting We were asked about the best simple consumer WiFi gear.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Topics covered

• password management
• brute force attacks
• Coreutils for Windows
• FreeBSD
• consumer WiFi gear

Keywords

• password manager
• brute force attack
• Coreutils
• Windows
• FreeBSD
• WiFi gear

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dashlane, Microsoft, FreeBSD Foundation

Products: Coreutils, ZFS

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