Episode 2: Does your toaster have a DNS bug?

Show Notes

Apple & The FBI

• Inside the FBI’s encryption battle with Apple
• Apple’s customer letter
• Apple’s First Amendment Case against the FBI

glibc Security Bug & DNS

• CVE-2015-7547: glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow
• [PATCH] CVE-2015-7547 — glibc getaddrinfo() stack-based buffer overflow
• getaddrinfo details from Wikipedia
• Extremely severe bug leaves dizzying number of software and devices vulnerable
• The Web Is Broken: how DNS breaks almost every design principle of the internet

Let’s Encrypt

• Let’s Encrypt project homepage and stats
• Early Impacts of Let’s Encrypt
• Let’s Encrypt Smart Renew
• How To Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 14.04

Github DDOS and Great Firewall

• DDoS attacks that crippled GitHub linked to Great Firewall of China
• Fear China
• Denial of Service Attacks
• China Appears to Attack GitHub by Diverting Web Traffic

Recurse Center

• RC Start: Free one-on-one mentorship for new programmers

We didn’t mention it in the show, but if you’d like to learn more about networking including TLS/SSL, check out High Performance Browser Networking.

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