2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 225: Kinetic Response
The US government tells people to use encrypted messaging, mandated MFA in healthcare raises a scary geopolitical question, QNAP bungles a firmware update, and securing access to self hosted applications with mTLS.
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Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD
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FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts
US senators propose mandated MFA, encryption in healthcare
QNAP firmware update leaves NAS owners locked out of their boxes
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