2.5 Admins 271: Dead Internet

2.5 Admins 271: Dead Internet

Author: The Late Night Linux Family October 30, 2025 Duration: 27:54

Why you should keep your Baseboard Management Controller off the network, ZFS is hard to defeat with a zip bomb, how bad the Internet bot problem probably is, and building a small home server cluster.

 

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Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

When a decompression ZIP bomb meets ZFS: 19 PB written on a 15 TB disk

 

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