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NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines GeFS GEFS on OpenBSD: A very early preview Ori Bernstein - GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future NetBSD 9.5 has been released ekkoBSD 2.1 released News Roundup Think about your goals and threat models for MFA authentication OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 released Replacing security/pam-ssh-agent-auth with security/pam_ssh_agent Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send…
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