Episode 129: Hacking Baltimore

Chris Wright is our guest this hour. Chris is a Vice president and Chief Technology Officer of Red Hat. Chris has spent more than 15 years as a Linux Developer and has worked in the telecommunications industry on high availability and distributed systems, and in the Linux industry on security, virtualization, and networking. The city of Baltimore has been held hostage by a tool created by the NSA. -- Side Notes -- The importance of updating old infrastructure away from closed source solutions to Open Source solutions is critical https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/us/nsa-hacking-tool-baltimore.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes Why Open Source Firmware is important for Security https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/why-open-source-firmware-is-important-for-security/ Project Spotlight Keeping the Past Alive EmuTOS is a Free operating system for computers based on Motorola 68000 or ColdFire microprocessors. It features functionality similar to TOS, which powered the Atari ST and its successors between 1985 and 1994. EmuTOS can run on real hardware, either as ROM replacement or from floppy. Of course, it also runs happily on any Atari emulator such as ARAnyM, Hatari, or Steem SSE. Website: http://emutos.sourceforge.net/en/ Source: https://github.com/emutos/emutos -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/129) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)