Episode 494: Ask Noah Show 494

Episode 494: Ask Noah Show 494

From Ask Noah Show by Noah J. Chelliah

June 3, 2026 · 1h 5m

About this episode

This episode features an interview with Mike McGrath from Red Hat discussing RHEL, security practices, and the impact of AI on open source.

This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Red Hat to talk about the relationship RHEL and their up-streams. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro IT at home Wrangling home "data center" Noah's old strategy Shoe makers kids have no shoes Snowballing tech Backups - pull vs push Making things modular 11:10 Interesting Tech - Carey TRMNL Mecha Comet GPD Micro PC 2 Value of pocket PCs 22:30 Shelly Devices and UL rated - Mike UL Ratings Pay attention to what you buy Many Shelly devices are UL listed UL listed Shelly devices are ~20% more expensive "Harbor Freight" answer 28:30 Red Hat Vulnerabilities Discovered and locked down in a few hours Assume breach, change everything Has worm like functionality Bypassed 2FA Multiple persistence methods Heavily obfuscated stepsecurity.io 36:45 Interview Mike McGrath Mike McGrath - Vice President, Core Platforms RHEL AI vs OpenShift AI What did Red Hat get wrong and right over the last few years Is AI a threat to open source? Does going closed source actually solve anything? CVEs Mechanisms for community influence on RHEL What are RHEL security best practices? Quantum safe encryption Install as little as possible Image mode…

People in this episode

Host: Noah J. Chelliah

Guest: Mike McGrath

Topics covered

  • Red Hat
  • RHEL
  • AI
  • open source
  • security best practices
  • home technology

Keywords

  • Red Hat
  • RHEL
  • AI
  • open source
  • security
  • vulnerabilities
  • CentOS Stream
  • home technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Red Hat, stepsecurity.io, CentOS Stream, RHEL

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