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Episode 541: Jordan Harband and Donald Fischer on Securing the Supply Chain

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Episode 541: Jordan Harband and Donald Fischer on Securing the Supply Chain

Open source developers Jordan Harband and Donald Fischer join host Robert Blumen for a conversation about securing the software supply chain, especially open source. They start by reviewing supply chain security concepts, particularly as related to open source, and then explore: package managers and open source; attacks on open source projects; challenges in validating software […]

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Episode 538: Roberto Di Cosmo on Archiving Public Software at Massive Scale

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Episode 538: Roberto Di Cosmo on Archiving Public Software at Massive Scale

Roberto Di Cosmo, professor of Computer Science at University Paris Diderot and founder of the Software Heritage Initiative, discusses the reasons for and challenges of the long-term archiving of publicly available software. SE Radio’s Gavin Henry spoke with Di Cosmo about a wide range of topics, including the selection of storage solutions, efficiently storing objects, […]

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Episode 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL

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Episode 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL

Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of cURL and libcurl, discusses what it’s been like looking after them for the past 25 years. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Stenberg about the history of cURL, libcurl, whether C was the right choice, portability, key events in those 25 years, implementing protocols, why HTTP is not so […]

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Episode 494: Robert Seacord on Avoiding Defects in C Programming

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Episode 494: Robert Seacord on Avoiding Defects in C Programming

Robert Seacord, author of Effective C, The CERT C Coding Standard, and Secure Coding in C and C++, discusses the top 5 security issues and the tools and techniques you can employ to write secure code in C. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Seacord about the C standards, strings, arrays of chars, null pointers, buffer […]

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Episode 492: Sam Scott on Building a Consistent and Global Authorization Service

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Episode 492: Sam Scott on Building a Consistent and Global Authorization Service

Sam Scott, CTO of Oso discusses authorization challenges with host Priyanka. They discussed basics such as definitions of authorization, RBAC, ReBAC and differentiating with authentication. Sam also described the Google Zanzibar engine. The host quizzed Sam on whether to build an off the shelf authorization service or build a custom one. Sam deep dived in […]

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