#9: Flowers for Support

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Two-factor, OSS health, homomorphism, OpenStack security, and why Dave needs to send flowers to Red Hat Support.

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• Good news: Microsoft rolls out two-factor authentication which is standards based
• Bad News: Google Authenticator is now closed source going forward per the disclaimer
  • Alternative implementations
• Ask Slashdot: How Do You Assess the Status of an Open Source Project?
  • Zawinski’s Law
    • “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”
    • Examples: Netscape and Emacs. F-35?
  • pv is the new cat, and it’s in EPEL
• We love report cards: The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s annual “Who Has Your Back” report card
• IBM’s open source homomorphic encryption system
• OSI Open Source License Clinic Thursday, May 9 in DC
• Red Hat Summit coming up! Register now!
• Someone needs to send Red Hat Support flowers
  • Red Hat Customer Portal Chat Beta
  • Ask Shadowman real time proposed solutions while you open web tickets
  • Crossing Guard: IAVM-to-CVE-to-RHSA mapping running on OpenShift
• SCAP Security Guide releases v0.1-11
• OpenShift Community Day presentation: “SELinux & PaaS: Deep Dive on Multi-tenancy, Containers & Security” by Dan Walsh of Red Hat
• OpenStack debate on Mil-OSS
• Watch Lectures In Half The Time with YouTube’s HTML5 Player

Cutting Room Floor

• Predictions for Privacy in the Age of Facebook (from 1985!)
• So say we all: What Modern Militaries Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica

We Give Thanks

• Red Hat Support for the Chat Beta, Ask Shadowman, and Crossingguard!