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Does Your Business Have a "Regressive Gene"?
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…
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STRIKE! Is A.I. Ruining Video Games?
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…
SO MANY CYBER-ATTACKS!!
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…
Data Center Drama
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…
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The SRE Crisis
In this episode of The Hacks, Tom and Chunga are talking about Tom’s latest innovation called IDEM and how this powerful new software is designed to solve what many are calling an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)crisis and several other…
**BONUS EPISODE** The Economics of a Cyberattack
For the first time ever, The Hacks are releasing a bonus episode! Over the course of the past few episodes, Tom and Chunga have been talking about the history of technology in human conflict. They’ve also been discussing the role cyberattacks are…
Blueprint of a Large Scale Cyberattack
As you all know, we are living in historic times. In the last episode of The Hacks, Tom and Chunga started talking about the current conflict in Ukraine and how cyberattacks are predicted to play a major role. In this episode, They’re talking about…
Nation-State Cyberattack's & Hacker Groups
(Chunga’s Note: This episode of The Hacks was recorded last week, on 2/23/22. From the time of this recording, as you are no doubt aware, there have been some significant changes with regard to world events. As a result, some commentary may seem…
Writing Software That Actually Gets Used
Chunga is jealous of Tom today. Last week, Tom was invited to give two lectures at Utah State University. Both of these lectures were centered around writing software that will actually get used. Seems like a pretty simple concept, right? Don’t be so…
Digital Parenting At Home & Work--We Suck At It!
Tom Hatch has two, young daughters. While he does his best to control, and carefully monitor what they’re doing on the internet, he knows that there’s only so much he can do to keep his family, home, and infrastructure protected. Sadly, there are a…