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The Hacks

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.

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45:05

Does Your Business Have a "Regressive Gene"?

The Hacks ·

2024/10/08

Tom is a big fan of geneology, are you familiar with it? If not, it's the study of ones family history, and ancestors. Chunga's grandparents were big fans of geneology and created a hightly detailed blueprint of how Chunga became Chunga--or so he thought. Recently, he recieved a report from a company called 23&Me. That report was a bit different than his families documentation! Tom has also done extensive geneology work, and like Chunga has gotten a similar report from 23&Me. However, Toms was

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45:31

Cloud Exit. The Slow, Painful, Death of the Cloud?

The Hacks ·

2024/09/24

Chunga is in a pickle. He doesn't know how to begin an episode where the beginning is the end! This episode of The Hacks, he and Tom are talking about exits. The whole episode is about leaving things. First, Chunga has announcement to make. The time has come for him to make some life changes, but there's no need to worry! The Hacks podcast is going to continue as it has for the past 5-years! Be sure to listen every, single, Tuesday! There's another exit on the agenda for this episode. It's not

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37:44

Right To Repair, Why So Controversial?

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2024/09/10

For some reason, across all industries, the term "right to repair" has become extremely controversial. The desire to take full control of your tech, car, home, and health is really causing a stir with with a huge cross section of society, including companies and the government! Tom says he completely understands why, because its a complicated issue. Of course, if you buy something and pay taxes on it, it by all rights is yours! You should be allowed to fix it or modify it to your personal

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41:31

Are North Korean Spies Working In Your Office?!

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2024/09/03

It's happened... The summer is officially over. It's time for all of us to buckle down and settle in to our normal, non-summer time routines. For some companies and organizations these routines can lead to complacency and laziness. Which is exactly what the enemy is counting on! As ridiculous as this sounds, there is a growing fear that rogue nations, specifically North Korea are targeting American, and European corporations by having government spies infiltrate organizations by--getting jobs!

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42:14

WW3 and the Impact On Global Tech Infrastructure.

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2024/08/27

If we're to believe the press, things are looking really grimm in terms of global conflict. Over the past weekend, Chunga saw dozens of different media outlets all saying that we are closer to World War 3 than we have been since the 1960's. Some are even saying it has already begun, we just don't know it yet. This coverage has Chunga asking a couple of questions, the largest of which is regarding the global digital network and infrastructure. Tom says he right to be worried! If global conflict

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42:08

Your Social Security Number Has Been Stolen! Should...

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2024/08/20

Your Social Security Number... If you live in the United States, you've been told, taught and trained, since you were about 12-years old, to guard this numeric form of personal identification with your life! Whelp, congratulations, you just failed. No really, it's true. Your Social Security number is now out in the wild. Last week, a company called National Public Data announced that they had been hacked and every Social Security number, of every U.S. citizen had been stolen. So, what does this

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39:15

Singularity In 21 Years. A Reality Or Nah...

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2024/08/13

After taking and extended summer holiday, Tom Hatch is back baby! While he was away, Chunga came across and interesting article about "Singlularity". Do you know about the theory and concepts behind Singularity? If you're not familiar, Singularity is that singular moment in time when computers become self-aware, and merge their existence with humanity. This article that Chunga found is from an American computer scientist and futureist named Ray Kurzweil. He claims that because of advancements in

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42:45

STRIKE! Is A.I. Ruining Video Games?

The Hacks ·

2024/07/30

In his other life, Chunga is a voice actor and is a member of several acting unions. Lately, that means he's always on strike for one reason or another. Well, its happening again... This time, voice actors are striking against the video game industry! At the center of this mess is A.I.--big shock. A.I. seems to be a near constant threat to performers in Hollywood, and now there's a growing chorus of video game fans that are pushing back against A.I. being used in video games. They're saying A.I

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48:46

The CrowdStrike SNAFU! What Really Happened?!

The Hacks ·

2024/07/23

Over the weekend, Tom was one of the millions of people that were affected by the massive IT outage caused by CrowdStrike! How about you? Were you affected the outage? Did you get stranded anywhere? Chunga says, this is what happens when too many people rely on one singular thing. Tom "crushingly" agrees! He refers to a problem of this type as a "Banana Problem"! In this episode of The Hacks, Tom and Chunga will define what the banana problem is, breakdown the the CrowdStrike disaster over the

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07:06

SO MANY CYBER-ATTACKS!!

The Hacks ·

2024/07/16

Tom has lost his wallet! This has never happened before! If you find it, will you please let him know? Although his fresh back from his vacation, Tom is feeling anything but relaxed and recharged. In truth, he feels like he came home to a huge dumpster fire. There's several reasons for this. Sure, the lost wallet is one of the big ones, but he's also came home to multiple different cyber-attacks, each of them much different from the other, but all of them potentially having an affect on him,

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32:08

Companies use RTO to hide layoffs?!?

The Hacks ·

2024/07/09

Tom is taking a much needed break. Before he left on his extended holiday, he and Chunga had a chat about the decline of remote work in the tech space. This is one of those rare subjects of which Tom and Chunga passionately disagree. Recently, it has come to light that as many as 25% of tech companies have admitted to using a manditory "return to office" policy as a way of reducing staff, publicly avoiding the ugliness of announcing mass layoffs. Chunga is someone that has worked from his home

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40:59

APPLE, OPEN AI, AND ELON

The Hacks ·

2024/06/25

Chunga made an observation recently. He says we're in the tech industry "silly season"! Every single day, there's a new, completely crazy, earth-shattering story coming out of a big tech company, somewhere. Tom partially agrees with Chunga, it has been nuts, but he says when it comes to the tech space, it's always the silly season! One of the biggest stories over the past few weeks has been Apple's announcement. Open AI is going to be added to anvupcoming OS release. In response, Elon Musk

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45:33

Data Center Drama

The Hacks ·

2024/06/18

For a long time, Tom has wanted to do an episode of The Hacks that's centered around what he refers to as data center "bloopers". Chunga isn't entirely sure what he means by this. Tom has always been amazed by the cathedral like way in which data centers are built. If you think about it, most data centers are built up and modified over a long period of time. Once your organization can realistically say that the data center is complete, the people that initially planned its construction, and worked

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47:43

Agile Software Is No Bueno!

The Hacks ·

2024/06/11

Chunga saw an article a few days ago, and it really surprised him! This particular article said that agile software has had a 268% failure rate... 268%. While Chunga is shocked to his this news, Tom isn't surprised at all! How is this possible from and industry perspective? In what world is a 268% failure rate ever accepted? For the record, Tom is NOT a fan of agile software development. To be frank, he hates it, always has! Tom says that agile software is at the core of many of the software

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47:31

Done Is Better Than Perfect!

The Hacks ·

2024/06/04

Tom loves to innovate, it's who he is, and for him, its an unquenchable thrist. The pressure he puts on himself to create something new, is sometimes unhealthy. At the same time, Tom will also tell you that if he would've understood how hard it was going to be to turn Salt into what it is today, he wouldn't have done it. Innovation from an emotional and psychological perspective, can be in a word--brutal. Creation is a terrifying task! So... how does one cope, and continue to stay productive? Does

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45:27

The Cloud Shell Game

The Hacks ·

2024/05/28

Hey everybody, its Toms birthday! Happy Birthday old man!! Today on The Hacks, Chunga wants to talk about tech's dirty little secret. This secret, by the way, is how much of the tech industry actually survives! He's talking about "shelfware" and the "cloud shell game". Tom says between the two, the cloud shell game is actually worse, and more damaging to companies. He also says it's one of the biggest problems is tech. There's a bunch of really dumb reasons that this shell game is allowed happen

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44:30

Tom Hatch Exits Broadcom, But Will Stay With Salt...

The Hacks ·

2024/05/21

One thing that's constant in life is change... It's been a bittersweet few days to say the least. In this episode of The Hacks, Tom Hatch, the creator of Salt, talks with Chunga about the changes taking place in his life and announces his exit from Broadcom. Yep, the time has come for Tom to explore some new opportunities! In this episode of The Hacks, Tom wants to share his love, and gratitude for everyone thats been a part of this amazing adventure, including everyone in the Salt Project

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43:36

IBM Buys HashiCorp! Seismic Industry Shift, or... Meh.

The Hacks ·

2024/05/14

It looks like the rumors were true! Recently, IBM announced that they are buying HashiCorp (and Terraform) for a cool 6.4 billion dollars, in cash. Tom and Chunga both find themselves asking the question, "Why did IBM choose to do this?" They already own Red Hat and Ansible. Did they buy HashiCorp / Terraform because they could, or did they buy it because the should? Chunga thinks it's definitely the former. He's also of the opinion that they made this purchase without having an actual plan. Tom, on

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43:57

Do You Need To Be A "Hardware Guy", To Be A Good...

The Hacks ·

2024/04/30

Tom and Chunga both developed a passion for computers in a similar way. Neither one of them started out as a "software guy". Rather, they each got started by building and modifying their own custom built computers. They were "hardware guys", first! That just how it was back in the day. Today, things seem to be much different, with modern engineers and developers cutting their teeth in software, and staying in that field for their entire careers. Tom says that most modern developers have little to no

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44:00

The Government Wants Big Tech to Ditch E2EE. Do You?

The Hacks ·

2024/04/23

We live in strange and challenging times. When it comes to world events, one can find themselves, in a word, conflicted. Thats definitely the case for Chunga when it comes to todays topic. Recently, the U.S. Government voted to continue the practice of warrantless surveillance of its own citizens. Interpol is also joining a growing chorus of law enforcers that want big tech to ditch its use of end to end encryption. What do you think about that? Do you think tech companies should give government

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