Episode 412: Ask Noah Show 412

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This week Steve gives a deep dive into Widevine Encryption. We love encryption when it protects our data, but what do we do when encryption prevents us from doing the things we want to do over the internet?

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00:50

• Which is easier kids or dogs?

01:57 Succession Planning - Steve

• Secure vs accessible
• Steve's plan
• Infrastructure as code
• Critical path continuity
• Nix maintains old packages
• Techie friends
• Sleuths setup/plan
• data separation
• Noah's plan

20:29 News Wire

• Solus 4.6 - getsol.us

• Sysvinit 3.11 - phoronix.com

• Calibre 7.20 - calibre-ebook.com

• Ardour 8.10 - ardour.org

• Wine 9.20 - gitlab.winehq.org

• ReiserFS Removed in Linux 6.13 - phoronix.com

• RHEL AI 1.2 - zdnet.com phoronix.com

• New Malware Raids ATMs - arstechnica.com

• Roundcube Webmail Exploit - bleepingcomputer.com

• Critical Firefox Bug - nvd.nist.gov

21:23 Widevine

• Widevine is DRM created by google
• Most major streaming services use widevine
• CDM hardware
• Levels of Encryption
  • L3 software based, least secure
  • L2 largely not used
  • L1 hardware supported, most secure
• Wedding photographer
  • Photographer requires no other photos to be taken
  • Photographer goes out of business
  • Dr Phill did a show on it, got the the photos back
  • NVR recordings are going away
  • NVR prevented getting the recording off
  • Devices identify what they are
• Industry went to STI HD not HDMI
• Industry moving to NDI
• OREI HDMI Splitter
• US law allows you to backup content you own

43:45 Caller Sleuth

• How do you separate and backup data at Red Hat
• OADP
• Depends on the technology

46:46 On Call Article

• Register Article
• Company didn't pay the bills
• Wanted things done in a hurry
• Required past due and current call upfront
• Router set to factory default
• After getting back to the office, found out colleague reset router
• Ethical dilemma
• Why spend more effort on a non-paying client?

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