FLOSS Weekly Episode 877: RCE As a Service
FLOSS Weekly Episode 877: RCE As A Service No comments by: Jonathan Bennett July 29, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy This week Jonathan chats with Francois Proulx about SmokedMeat! That’s the third in a trio of Open Source security tools from Boost Security, and this one is the red team tool to demonstrate vulnerabilities. Why are Continuous Integration vulnerabilities such a persistent problem, and what’s on the horizon that may help?
- ▪FLOSS Weekly Episode 877: RCE As A Service No comments by: Jonathan Bennett July 29, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy This week Jonathan chats with Francois Proulx about SmokedMeat!
- ▪That’s the third in a trio of Open Source security tools from Boost Security, and this one is the red team tool to demonstrate vulnerabilities.
- ▪Why are Continuous Integration vulnerabilities such a persistent problem, and what’s on the horizon that may help?
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| Original publisher | Hackaday |
| Canonical URL | https://hackaday.com/2026/07/29/floss-weekly-episode-877-rce-as-a-service/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:00:57 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-29T18:06:31.633Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-29T18:06:31.633Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | IWMwsuI6Fg4p · 1 stories |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 877: RCE As A Service No comments by: Jonathan Bennett July 29, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy This week Jonathan chats with Francois Proulx about SmokedMeat! That’s the third in a trio of Open Source security tools from Boost Security, and this one is the red team tool to demonstrate vulnerabilities. Why are Continuous Integration vulnerabilities such a persistent problem, and what’s on the horizon that may help? Watch to find out! https://github.com/boostsecurityio/poutine https://github.com/boostsecurityio/bagel https://github.com/boostsecurityio/smokedmeat Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show right on our YouTube Channel? Have someone you’d like us to interview? Let us know, or have the guest contact us! Take a look at the schedule here.
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