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2.5 Admins

2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/edi

Episodes

Total: 222

Google’s attempt to replace passwords with keys, why Jim thinks IBM is dragging Red Hat in the

What the challenge of building a web browser from scratch tells us about the state of the modern web

How not to practice responsible disclosure, Mulvad proves that its claims stand up, whether to be wo

The new and up and coming tech that we’re excited about including RISC-V, hard drive innovation, Arm

Google Drive’s arbitrary file limit, SMR disks probably die sooner, Western Digital’s My Cloud

Yet another reason not to plug random USB drives into your laptop, how Reddit learned about the impo

2.5 Admins 136: Red Scare

2023/3/30

Why the RESTRICT Act is about much more than banning Tik Tok, what recent Tesla hacks tell us about

2.5 Admins 135: Moonshots

2023/3/23

Why the death of Reader 10 years ago might come back to haunt Google, Samsung’s AI moon photos

Our take on the collapse of Siicon Valley Bank, an odd case of 2 Teslas with the same key, filesyste

Saving millions of dollars by exiting the cloud, GoDaddy is compromised by a sophisticated attacker,

2.5 Admins 132: 1.5FA

2023/3/2

Twitter are going to charge for bad 2 factor authentication, new alarming details about the recent L

Google is getting paid to advertise malware sites, Comcast’s false map data, more on private T

Microsoft and Google seem to think that chatbots are the future of search, the problem of filtering

A “smart” lighting system goes wrong, mitigating a DNS attack, an unsatisfying update ab

Yet another reason to disable voicemail, why so many recent Macs end up as scrap, and setting up a m

Why you should still use a VPN with public WiFi, who the new Xeons are aimed at, follow-up on trying

A recent outage that grounded thousands of planes, correcting ZFS misreporting, the problem of fake

Two recent examples of backups not being properly tested, why the term “edge” is meaning

LastPass vaults are leaked, ChatGPT is coming to Bing, live migrations, and SSD vs spinning disk pow

2.5 Admins 123: 4

2022/12/29

It’s the last episode of the year so we look back at a couple of 2022 trends: the explosion of