Podcast Season 4 Episode 4
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Title: Petty Nonsense
In this episode: Apple vs FBI – Fight! Linux Mint’s ISOs and forums have been hacked and Glibc has had a serious vulnerability patched. We’ve also got some lovely finds and a non-contentious Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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Apple is battling the FBI over whether it should help the FBI unlock an iPhone. Linux Mint has had a difficult week – check your ISOs against the MD5 signatures on the main site and change any passwords similar to your Mint forum password. There’s also a serious buffer-overflow vulnerability in glibc and Android is switching to OpenJDK.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- <Devilment> SilentPCReview.com for reading about kit that doesn’t make much noise.
- <matthew1471> himawaripy, a Python script to grab near realtime pictures of the earth from the Himawari 8 satellite.
- <mcphail> You can read IMAP email with curl.
- <chemist69> Adding ‘-h’ to commands like ‘df’ and ‘du’ produced more human readable file sizes.
- <einonm> Two great Python podcasts are Podcast.__init__ and Talk Python To Me.
- Mike:
- Ben:
- Andrew:
- Pimoroni’s Flotilla is awesome.
- Graham:
- Only accept emails from a whitelist using this handy Postfix configuration.
- I was on Linux Unplugged this week, talking about Beep Beep Yarr! and Bath Ales’ Barnsey.
- The Actor Messaging platform is like Telegram except the server code is open source.
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- Vocalise your Neurons
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If you want Mike to read out your neurons next time, email your thoughts to mike@linuxvoice.com.
- Voice of the Masses:
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:08:13
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
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Downloaded in under 12 seconds, thanks to FTTC, woohoo 😉
https://github.com/boramalper/himawaripy worked better for me.
I’ve got S4E3 twice on my podcast catcher (playerFM on Android) and no S4E4. Any ideas why?
Hello! I just checked the RSS, and there was a wayward semicolon in the mp3 feed, which may have been causing the problem. Hopefully, it’s working now. Thanks for letting us know!
Any chance of some cheerful Linux news next time? 🙂 You all sound very down about privacy issues most podcasts. There must be something happier going on! FOSS should be fun right?
You mentioned on the podcast that adding malware to proprietary software would be impossible.
You could however create your own spins of Microsoft Windows install CD/DVDs for years.
Also there was this case of rogue tor exit nodes appending malware to all downloaded executables not too long ago.
So having your source openly available is not a required prerequisite to easily adding malicious code.
P.s.: Your re-capture is borked if you don’t have js enabled. Which was kind of annoying to find out having to go through several beforehand.
Sorry to hear Ben got the flu. I also got it this year, for the second time (first time was 10 years ago). A bit of advice – take things easy for a good month, slowly building your activity up, to avoid developing any kind of post-viral syndrome.
well shit. just received the latest linuxvoice, noticed the bit about soundcloud, heard the ending tune, and put two and two together! So, Graham, was that yours? And if so will you put it on soundcloud?
It is actually one of mine, yes. I quickly created it for the Beep Beep Yarr video, as it needed some background music. I hadn’t thought about doing anything more with it.
This podcast was a little tricky to edit and I realised at the end I didn’t have my usual copy of the Brad Sucks audio (the end mix is slightly different so the words come in at the best time). I had the Beep Beep Yarr music handy and dropped that in instead. Normal music should return next time unless someone would like to send me a link to some CC BY-SA they’d like us to listen to.
Another great podcast! Can they all end with that piece of music from now on? I like it
With the iPhone case the passcode isn’t the encryption key. The passcode decrypts the decryption key and then the decryption key decrypts the data, this way the passcode and the data are dissociated. It’s the same way LUKS works
“when creating an encrypted LUKS container, a master key is generated at random. A passphrase is then used to encrypt the master key in turn. This process means that the passphrase is not directly coupled to the data”
from https://www.kali.org/tutorials/nuke-kali-linux-luks/
Awesome podcast and echoing nix0ut1aw, I also love the end music 🙂
Quick note on himawaripy, on Ubuintu 14.04, you also need python-pil (image library) installed, otherwise it fails with a not very helpful message. Simple
$sudo apt-get install python3-pil
should sort it 🙂
Thanks!
Catching up on old esisodes – this was a great one. I also really liked the ending song. Does anyone know what the song is?