Episode #255: Edwin Kwan: Top Password Used By IT Admins is ‘admin’; Hillary Coover: Is X's Anti-Disinformation Tool Backfiring; Shannon Lietz: Is Hashicorp’s Move a Win, Lose, or Draw; Olimpiu Pop: Is Open Source Reaching EOL? Maybe, according to Hashicorp; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History

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Marcel Brown: October 21st, 1879. Thomas Edison perfects the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb using a filament of carbonized cotton thread. Edison's successful design came only after he had tested over 6, 000 different vegetable fibers.

Edwin Kwan: Security researchers have discovered that IT administrators are using weak passwords to protect access to portals, providing easy access to attackers to enterprise networks. An analysis of over 1.8 million administrator accounts found that over 40, 000 were using the password "admin".

Hillary Coover: X's Community Notes, originally designed to crowdsource fact-checking and combat disinformation, is facing scrutiny because of the vulnerabilities and ineffectiveness uncovered in a WIRED investigation. This investigation revealed that the tool may be manipulated by external groups and lacks transparency

Olimpiu Pop: There is a lot of noise around open source. Legislation, growing cyber threats, weaponizing open source, and others. Should we put a lid on it? That's something the HashiCorp CEO thinks. In August, the company changed the license to a closed sourced one, and last week, during the HashiConf, he underlined that the direction he took is a direction to success.

Shannon Lietz: The challenge that really came out of this is HashiCorp has had a pretty rocket fueled life, if you will. They've looked out and realized that they've put Terraform out there for a very long time. Any company who creates something has the right to fork and end their investment. All they're saying is we're no longer going to invest in the constant creation of this open source software.