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422: Multipath Musings

February 7th, 2020  |  23 mins 37 secs

3gpp, 5g, a cloud guru, apple, aslr, automation, blink, browser wars, buffer overflow, cacheout, chrome, chromium, cloud, crypto, cryptography, devops, edge, edgium, failover, firefox, intel, ios, jason donenfeld, jupiter broadcasting, let's encrypt, linux, linux 5.6, linux academy, lte, microsoft, mobile, monitoring, mptcp, multipath tcp, nagios, networking, open standards, poly1305, sgx, speculative execution, ssl, stack canary, stack smashing, sysadmin podcast, teams, techsnap, tls, tsx, ubuntu 20.04, virtualization, vpn, wireguard, world wide web, zombieload

We take a look at a few exciting features coming to Linux kernel 5.6, including the first steps to multipath TCP.

Episode 380: Terminal Fault

August 16th, 2018  |  32 mins 31 secs

cabot, conpty, cpu, foreshadow, hyperthreading, inprivate, intel, l1 cache, l1 terminal fault, l1tf, meltdown, nagios, page tables, pty, sgx, sms, spectre, speculative execution, sysadmin podcast, techsnap, two factor auth, virtualization, windows, windows console

Microsoft’s making radical changes to Windows 10, and a new type of speculative execution attack on Intel’s processors is targeting cloud providers.

Episode 351: Performance Meltdown

January 11th, 2018  |  41 mins 43 secs

backdoor, coordinated disclosure, freebsd, kaiser, kpti, macos high sierra, meltdown, pcid, perfmon, performance, pti, side-channel attack, spectre, speculative execution, sysadmin podcast, sysinternals, techsnap, ubuntu, wd my cloud

The types of workloads that will see the largest performance impacts from Meltdown, tools to test yourself, and the outlook for 2018.

Plus a concise breakdown of Meltdown, Spectre, and side-channel attacks like only TechSNAP can.