It took a while for snipe to convince me to come on as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) here at Grokability. One of the biggest hurdles was the fact that she and I are married. I was convinced that, not only would that be a challenge, but that might spell the end of my career – I didn’t want to be the guy who could “only get hired by his own wife.”It took her a few years to be able to...
(image via sentry.io) When our intrepid leader, @snipe, chose to open-source Snipe-IT, she was wondering which license to choose. First off, why did she want to open-source it; why not just keep it proprietary? Well, @snipe put it best when she said: We chose open source because we owe our entire careers to open-source. It only feels fair that we give back to this community that has given us so...
The internet is alight this week with news of a widespread vulnerability in the Linux “policy kit” framework, specifically a root compromise via the pkexec program, designated CVE-2021-4034. Most of our systems do not fall under this advisory, and the ones that do have been fully patched. Of note, our Snipe-IT hosting systems were completely unaffected by this advisory.As always, we...
photo licensed under CC We here at Grokability frequently ask ourselves, “Are we a software company or are we are support company?” After all, our flagship product, Snipe-IT, is open-source asset management software that anyone can download and install for free, so what are folks paying us for? (Don’t get us wrong, we’re very thankful that you do!) Of course, lots of Snipe...
Having received multiple inquiries from customers about how (or whether) we are impacted by the recently announced log4j “log4shell” vulnerability, we felt it prudent to update all of our customers (and open source users) en-masse. The short answer, and good news for all of us, is that we are not impacted at all, as we don’t use log4j, or any Java, in any of our systems. This includes both...