2.5 Admins 303: Denial of Secrets

People were locked out of their password managers to stop a brute force attack, Coreutils come to Windows, a FreeBSD PR effort backfires, and the best simple consumer WiFi gear.

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Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks (theregister.com/security/2026/06/01/password-m…)

Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils (phoronix.com/news/MS-Coreutils-For-Windows)

Coreutils for Windows (github.com/microsoft/coreutils)

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop (phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-On-Laptop-Driver)

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