Episode 384: Interplanetary Peers

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Jon the Nice Guy joins Wes to discuss all things IPFS. We'll explore what it does, how it works, and why it might be the best hope for a decentralized internet.

Plus, Magecart strikes again, Alpine has package problems, and why you shouldn't trust Western Digital's MyCloud.

Special Guest: Jon Spriggs.

Links:

• GovPayNow.com Leaks 14M+ Records — Government Payment Service Inc. has leaked more than 14 million customer records dating back at least six years, including names, addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of the payer’s credit card.
• Magecart claims another victim in Newegg merchant data theft — Researchers from RiskIQ, together with Volexity, revealed that California-based retailer Newegg is the latest well-known merchant to succumb to the threat actors.
• RiskIQ: Another Victim of the Magecart Assault Emerges
• Password bypass flaw in Western Digital My Cloud drives puts data at risk — A security researcher has published details of a vulnerability in Western Digital’s My Cloud devices, which could allow an attacker to bypass the admin password on the drive, gaining complete control over the user’s data.
• WD MyCloud Metasploit Example
• Cloudflare goes InterPlanetary — Today we’re excited to introduce Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway, an easy way to access content from the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) that doesn’t require installing and running any special software on your computer.
• End-to-End Integrity with IPFS — This post describes how to use Cloudflare's IPFS gateway to set up a website which is end-to-end secure, while maintaining the performance and reliability benefits of being served from Cloudflare’s edge network.
• How permanent is data stored on IPFS?
• Lesson: Add Content to IPFS and Retrieve It · Decentralized Web Primer
• Leo Tindall: Putting This Blog on IPFS
• A Beginner’s Guide to IPFS — IPFS consists of several innovations in communication protocols and distributed systems that have been combined to produce a file system like no other.
• Useful resources for using IPFS and building things on top of it
• OrbitDB: Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web
• Rebuild Alpine Linux Docker Containers After Package Manager Patch — An attacker could intercept a package request as a Alpine Linux Docker image is being built and add malicious code that target machines would then unpack and run within the Docker container