The Hacks

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Thomas Hatch and Jimmy Chunga are The Hacks! Join them every week as they talk about nerd stuff. If you’re into cybersecurity, DevSecOps, SecOps, DevOps, all the Ops, infrastructure automation, network automation, configuration management, and open source then subscribe now. This will be your new favorite podcast! Because we know you’re thinking it...NO, they don’t live in their moms’ basements...this month.

Episode Date
Do You Need To Be A "Hardware Guy", To Be A Good "Software Guy"?
Apr 30, 2024
The Government Wants Big Tech to Ditch E2EE. Do You?
Apr 23, 2024
Stability AI's Mistakes, and How YOU Can Avoid Them
Apr 16, 2024
Did Open Tofu steal new Terraform code?!
Apr 09, 2024
XZ Backdoor CVE Targets Linux!!
Apr 02, 2024
Another One Bites The Dust!
Mar 26, 2024
What Is DBOS? Will It Change Infrastructure Forever?
Mar 19, 2024
AMD & Intel Have An Open Source Answer to CUDA!
Mar 12, 2024
Video Game Emulators Are In BIG Trouble!
Mar 05, 2024
Are Some Tech Companies Too Big Too Fail?
Feb 27, 2024
Tom & Chunga Are Suckers! So Are YOU!
Feb 20, 2024
The World Needs More GOOD Hackers!
Feb 13, 2024
Volt Typhoon and Why You Should Be Very Afraid!
Feb 06, 2024
How Things Can Still Slip Through the Cracks!
Jan 30, 2024
The Ridiculous Uptick In Corporate Cyberattacks
Jan 23, 2024
The Shifting Landscape of Open Source
Jan 16, 2024
2024 The Foundation of the Future of Tech!
Jan 09, 2024
The Thrilling World of Compiler Optimization!
Dec 19, 2023
Prediction's for 2024!
Dec 12, 2023
Toms Biggest Surprises of 2023!
Dec 05, 2023
The Hacks 2023 Holiday Gift Guide!
Nov 28, 2023
Things Tom Is Thankful For 2023!
Nov 21, 2023
How Much Do Open Source Companies Influence Each Other?
Nov 14, 2023
Benchmarks and Data, Here's The Problem!
Nov 07, 2023
Can you Really Make Money With A.I.?
Oct 24, 2023
Can Intel and AMD Compete With Nvidia Anymore?
Oct 17, 2023
Intelligence Gathering and Tech--Far From Fullproof.
Oct 10, 2023
Distributed Computing, No Universal Remedy
Oct 03, 2023
Social Engineering and Casino Hacks!
Sep 26, 2023
The Key To Innovation Longevity
Sep 19, 2023
Toms Love of Quantum Computing!
Sep 12, 2023
Our Dangerous Appetite For Computer Chips
Sep 05, 2023
Long Term Maintainership and Consortium Forking
Aug 29, 2023
The Open Source Licensing Mess. How Did We Get Here?!?
Aug 24, 2023
Red Hat, HashiCorp Fallout and The Future of Open Source.
Aug 22, 2023
What is LK-99 and Why Are People Freaking Out!?
Aug 08, 2023
Are New Computers Boring?
Aug 01, 2023
Tech + Hollywood = BIG Problems (Part 2)
Jul 25, 2023
Tech + Hollywood = BIG problems (Part 1)
Jul 18, 2023
Shadow IT Makes the World Turn
Jul 05, 2023
Red Hat To Restrict Source Code Access!
Jun 27, 2023
The Most Powerful Chip Makers Are??? (Tom Takes a Victory Lap)
Jun 21, 2023
VR Headsets, Why Tech Won't Just Let Them Go.
Jun 13, 2023
Napster, Planting the Seeds of Chaos!
Jun 06, 2023
The New Mojo Programming Language. It Looks Cool!
May 30, 2023
Super Nerd Spotlight: Hedy Lamarr
May 23, 2023
The Evolution of Video Games
May 16, 2023
Putting the "A.I. Genie" Back In The Bottle
May 09, 2023
Toms New Laptop Is Ridiculous!!
Apr 25, 2023
Classified Information & 21-Year Old IT Admins
Apr 19, 2023
Open Source: The Community Is Not The Customer
Apr 11, 2023
What Tom Hatch Would Have Done Different
Apr 04, 2023
How Do Good Programmers Get Past "Writers Block?
Mar 28, 2023
U.S. Government Hacked by Foreign Nation State! Warnings Issued!
Mar 21, 2023
The SVB Meltdown and Tech Start Ups
Mar 14, 2023
PyPi Found Stuffed With AWS Keys and Malware
Mar 07, 2023
The Smallest Mis-Steps Lead To Catastrophe
Mar 01, 2023
Was a Major Wireless Provider Attacked Last Week?
Feb 21, 2023
Chat GPT, Is It Good Or Nah...
Feb 14, 2023
FBI Stops a Five Power Plant Terrorist Attack!
Feb 07, 2023
Tom Is Wrong! He's So Excited About It!
Jan 31, 2023
You've Been Laid Off! Now What?
Jan 24, 2023
The Top 5 Cyber Security Threats In 2023
Jan 18, 2023
VPN's--The Good, Bad, & Ugly
Jan 10, 2023
Due Diligence. The Most Important Term In 2023.
Dec 20, 2022
Lessons We Learned In 2022
Dec 14, 2022
What Is Tom Excited About In 2023?!
Dec 06, 2022
The FTX Disaster--How Does It Affect Tech?
Nov 29, 2022
The Top Things Tom Is Thankful For, 2022!
Nov 22, 2022
Identity Verification Software--Its Really Hard To Do!
Nov 15, 2022
Is Your Cloud "Star Trek" or "Star Wars"?
Nov 08, 2022
Social Media Software & Business. Is it Doomed to Fail?
Nov 01, 2022
Is Open Source Economy Proof?
Oct 25, 2022
Chungas Irrational Fear of Hard Drives!
Oct 11, 2022
Super Nerd Spotlight! "The Origin Guys"
Sep 27, 2022
Why Do Software Companies "Pivot" at the Drop of a Hat?
Sep 20, 2022
PyPi Is Having Malware and Phishing Problems
Sep 14, 2022
VMware Explore! We Saw Some Great Stuff!
Sep 06, 2022
Python Packaging and Distribution. IT SUCKS!!!!
Aug 30, 2022
In-Person Meetings & Overcoming the "Imposter Syndrome"!
Aug 23, 2022
What Do You Want In a Data Center?
Aug 16, 2022
**BONUS EPISODE** Tom and Chunga Screwed Up!
Aug 12, 2022
How Secure Is Your Tech Job?
Aug 09, 2022
Fitness and Tech / Tech and Fitness!
Aug 02, 2022
What Does a Chief Open Source Officer Actually Do?
Jul 26, 2022
Open Source is Dominant--and Dangerous!
Jul 19, 2022
**Bonus** Free Flow Friday -- "The Offer"!
Jul 08, 2022
Untrue Tech Based Conspiracy Theories
Jul 05, 2022
Ancient Egypt and Modern Tech, More Alike Than You Think!
Jun 28, 2022
Crypto Has Crashed--Yet Again.
Jun 21, 2022
Why Big Corporations Buy Other Big Corporations
Jun 14, 2022
Demonic Computing!
Jun 07, 2022
Real "Virtual" Relationships In Tech
Jun 01, 2022
The Escalating Video Card War!
May 24, 2022
Tech Professionals! Do You Have "The Storm"?
May 17, 2022
Tom & Chunga Build a Server. It Doesn't Go Well!!
May 10, 2022
Everything Wrong With Crypto--Part-2
Apr 26, 2022
Everything That's Wrong With Crypto - Part 1
Apr 19, 2022
What Is a Botnet?
Apr 12, 2022
Super Nerd Spotlight: Who is Dan Bernstein
Apr 05, 2022
The Trinity of Open Source
Mar 29, 2022
Is AMD Better Than Intel?
Mar 23, 2022
The SRE Crisis
Mar 15, 2022
**BONUS EPISODE** The Economics of a Cyberattack
Mar 11, 2022
Blueprint of a Large Scale Cyberattack
Mar 09, 2022
Nation-State Cyberattack's & Hacker Groups
Mar 01, 2022
Writing Software That Actually Gets Used
Feb 22, 2022
Digital Parenting At Home & Work--We Suck At It!
Feb 16, 2022
Bitcoin, Ethereum, & Dogecoin OH MY!!
Feb 08, 2022
Bitcoin, Ethereum & Dogecoin OH MY!!! (Part-1)
Feb 02, 2022
Why Is Automation So Hard?!?
Jan 27, 2022
The Acceptance of Ignorance
Jan 18, 2022
Tom's Biggest Tech Surprises of 2021
Jan 11, 2022
The Most Common Misconceptions About Linux
Jan 05, 2022
Tech that Won't Happen In 2022!
Dec 14, 2021
The Dictators Handbook to Open Source
Dec 08, 2021
How to Be the Office "Tough Guy" the Right Way.
Dec 01, 2021
Tech That Tom Is Thankful For!
Nov 23, 2021
Video Games as a Product and an Industry
Nov 17, 2021
Toms Top-5 Innovation Surprises At SaltConf21!
Nov 09, 2021
SaltConf21! Here's What You Can Expect!
Oct 26, 2021
Silos and Personal Accountability
Oct 20, 2021
What Scares Tom Hatch!
Oct 12, 2021
OS Kernels and memfd_secret!
Sep 29, 2021
An Intro To IDEM! It's Going To Be Big!
Sep 21, 2021
Behold the Genius Criminal Mind of Tom Hatch!
Sep 15, 2021
The Freemium Up-sale Fallacy
Sep 10, 2021
Tom Talks About Tiamat!
Aug 31, 2021
SaltConf21 Why It's So Important to Salt and to you!!
Aug 25, 2021
Tom's 3-Types of Managers
Aug 18, 2021
We Have a BIG Problem! The Tech Industry Can't Find Enough Talent!
Aug 10, 2021
What Is Resource Gravity?
Jul 27, 2021
The Philosophy of Salt
Jul 20, 2021
2D vs. 3D Thinking
Jul 13, 2021
The Tragedy of Being Normal
Jul 07, 2021
Developers and Unsustainable STRESS!
Jun 29, 2021
Order From Chaos
Jun 22, 2021
The Most Pointless Cyber Attack Ever?!?
Jun 15, 2021
Building Corporate Open Source Muscle
Jun 08, 2021
The Most Creative Cyber Attack Ever?
May 27, 2021
The Evolution of DevOps
May 18, 2021
Corruption In Open Source Communities
May 11, 2021
Why Is SAAS So Misunderstood? (Part-2)
May 04, 2021
Why Is SAAS So Misunderstood (Part-1)
Apr 28, 2021
The Balance of Product and Engineering
Apr 13, 2021
You Had a Bad Launch--Now What?
Apr 06, 2021
Do You Really Think Your Data Is Safe? Do You Really?
Mar 16, 2021
Open Source Is Terrible At This...
Mar 10, 2021
Can Tech Professionals Ever Return To The Office?
Mar 02, 2021
Are Open Source Databases Dead?
Feb 23, 2021
Programming Languages That Are Total Garbage!
Feb 10, 2021
Programming Languages Everyone Should Learn
Feb 02, 2021
Tactics vs. Strategy
Jan 26, 2021
The Zen of Collaboration
Jan 21, 2021
Open Source Is a Double Edge Sword
Jan 12, 2021
Building a Culture of Cyber Awareness
Jan 05, 2021
Zero Touch Automation for DevOps
Dec 15, 2020
Tom & Chunga Play Spy Games
Dec 08, 2020
Tech Companies Don't Understand Open Source
Dec 01, 2020
AI... Why can't we get this right?!
Nov 17, 2020
Ethical Hackers. Why the Hate?
Nov 11, 2020
It's Time for SaltConf20!
Oct 27, 2020
Intel vs. AMD, Tom's Version of Sports!
Oct 20, 2020
The Dark Web!
Oct 13, 2020
Cybercrime: 10-Stats That'll Keep You Up At Night!
Oct 06, 2020
BREAKING NEWS! VMware announces the intended acquisition of SaltStack!
Sep 30, 2020
Bottom Up, Top Down Change In Tech!
Sep 22, 2020
Tom Hatch is the King of SaltConf!
Sep 15, 2020
Hacking the U.S. Power Grid
Sep 09, 2020
SecOps vs. North Korean Hackers
Sep 01, 2020
Creating Irresistible IOT!
Aug 25, 2020
Cyber Hygiene From the Inside Out
Aug 18, 2020
Is the Cloud Ruining Open Source?
Aug 11, 2020
The Most Common Type of Breach In 2020...So Far.
Aug 04, 2020
Creating an Open Source Business Model
Jul 28, 2020
The Banana Problem. How ubiquitous tech can be a liability
Jul 21, 2020
Virtual Conferences vs. Live Events. Which Is Better?
Jul 14, 2020
Does CX Matter to Enterprise Cloud Technology?
Jun 30, 2020
Facial Recognition Fears...Be Afraid!
Jun 24, 2020
A Preview of SaltStack Enterprise 6.3!
Jun 16, 2020
The Death Star... Who's To Blame
Jun 11, 2020
Why Do Programming Paradigms Matter?
Jun 02, 2020
Top 10 Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities
May 26, 2020
The State of "XOps"
May 19, 2020
Becoming a Rockstar Software Developer
May 12, 2020
What Aspects of Software Development Matter the Most?
May 05, 2020
Cybercriminals Are Targeting Healthcare and How To Stop Them
Apr 28, 2020
IT and InfoSec Job Security: How safe is the industry?
Apr 21, 2020
The COBOL Skills Shortage
Apr 14, 2020
3-Lies SecOps Teams Tell Themselves
Apr 07, 2020
How Can IT Automation Help During The Covid-19 Crisis?
Mar 31, 2020
Cybersecurity in the Corona Virus Pandemic
Mar 24, 2020
Why is IOT Such A Mess?
Mar 17, 2020
SaltStack Enterprise and Salt Open
Mar 10, 2020
Security and IT Operations - Can't We All Just Get Along?
Mar 02, 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Is It Really a Revolution?
Feb 25, 2020
What Is SecOps and Why Should You Care?
Feb 17, 2020
Toms Top Tips For Cybersecurity in 2020
Feb 14, 2020
Plugin Oriented Programing! POP, Umbra, Idem, and Heist OH MY!
Feb 14, 2020
What Makes An Open-Source Community So Special?
Feb 13, 2020
The Evolution of an Open-Source Project. Did Tom Create a Monster?
Feb 13, 2020
Tom Hatch and Building a Massive Open Source Project - Episode 1
Feb 11, 2020