This is news cast 219, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

In the intro, an admission of a mistake around correctly observing the licenses of some works I used after I stopped using the non-commercial clause in the license for the podcast. The net effect should be none to you, the listener, but it seemed like a good teaching moment and a reminder that as easy as Creative Commons makes it to understand their licenses, that doesn't prevent making honest mistakes. Thanks, Randal.

This week's security alerts are Mozilla blocking an add on that was nabbing passwords (via ZDNet) including how the backdoor was discovered and a crack that could affect libraries used to implement OAuth and OpenID.

In this week's news Android App Inventor, in keeping with Google's spirit of developer inclusion vs. Apple's puzzling decisions, promises creating apps without coding though some interesting questions remain, a comic book on digital civil rights in Europe produce by EDRi among others that I think would be a good companion to Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother", NSA whistle blower exhausted all official channels to raise a complaint, and consider the question of search neutrality and whether co-opting the rhetoric of net neutrality is wise.

Following up this week European ACTA negotiators update the EP in secret and ACTA is coming down to a fight between the US and the EU.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive.

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This week on, The Linux Action Show!

It’s our round-table review of openSUSE 11.3, find out what features are grabbing our attention, like it’s improved Netbook support, integrated online backup, BtrFS, and so much more!

Plus we discuss the new GP2X device, and if it still has a place in a tablet powered world. Intel’s closed source driver snafu is preventing them from shipping their own driver, with their own software… We give you the details!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

Make your own Cornhole boards and bags. Cornhole is a fun summertime lawn game where players take turns throwing corn filled bags at a raised platform with a hole in the far end. More information on Cornhole is available at The American Cornhole Association

To download The Cornhole video click here and subscribe in iTunes.

Rich and Zach are still sweltering in their perspective heat waves, but Martin managed to nab an interview with Bob Russo, the head of the PCI Security Standards Council. We also cover a couple of stories and some honest to goodness listener mail!

Network Security Podcast, Episode 205, July 13, 2010
Time:  44:44

Show Notes:

• Listener Mail
• Interview with Bob Russo
• FBI Raids ‘Electronik Tribulation Army’ Over Witness Intimidation.
• Letter to the client.
• Tonight's Music:  Missing You by Blue Matters

This is news cast 218, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

In the intro, thanks to new donor, Scott, and a request that existing donor Ryan contact me so I can send him his merit badge. Also, there will be new feature cast this week. I need to catch up on writing features for the show and I will be attending two events in DC this week: What Does Light Taste Like and Decoding Digital Activism.

This week's security alerts are researchers form collective in response to Microsoft's dismissal of a security concern and REMnux, a linux distro designed for reverse engineering malware.

In this week's news new quantum states could lead to new approaches to quantum computing, the Apache web server conquers the world, another constructive criticism of transparency, and the NSA is looking to implement domestic surveillance of our infrastructure though they are quick to deny any active monitoring.

Following up this week, two UK ISPs are taking the Digital Economy Act to High Court.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive.

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This week on, The Linux Action Show!

We review PCLinuxOS 2010, and tell you why it might just be the best Linux distro you aren't using! We tackle the silent killer of our gadget freedom.

Plus – We cover the new MeeGo user interface for mobile devices, and why we think it has real staying power.

Then – We cover the latest Mandriva release, and give you our tip for watching YouTube without flash!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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Competitors in this year's Gowanus Studio Space Jell-O Mold Competition brought their best and really wowed the judges (including me!) on a hot night in Brooklyn last month.

The grand prize winner was Shelly Sable for her entry: Aspic Ascension-- Tastes Like Heaven. She cast several Marys in tomato aspic and the pun was complete: bloody mary indeed! Her beautiful presentation with fresh veggies had me coming back for seconds. Don't miss the video recap above, and hit the jump for tons more photos of the runners up, all by Emilie Baltz.

Episode 201 Show Notes

Last minute vulnerability disclosure debate, and a bunch of fun stories including 10 things that we'd like to hack (including your blender)

Hosts: Larry "HaxorTheMatrix" Pesce, Paul "PaulDotCom" Asadoorian, John Strand, Mick Douglas, Carlos "Dark0perator" Perez

Audio Feeds:

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

Listener feedback this week is from quite a few folks. Matt wrote in about outliners, asking what I do in particular to bend vim to this task. I use a vimrc line like "autocmd BufEnter,BufNew *.notes set sw=4 ts=4 expandtab spell tw=0 foldmethod=indent smartindent". Colin posted a comment about AAC and chapter marks. John had a much more incisive comment on my switching to an open stack segment. Ian also wrote about outliners, suggesting org-mode and in particular a couple of screencasts. And Max shared his experiences switching to Linux not once, but twice.

The hacker word of the week this week is filter.

The feature this week is a rant digging into the question of whether we'll ever develop effective controls that match our complex expectations of privacy and digging into the source of that complexity. I mention a couple of posts by danah boyd, some criticism of the demands made of Facebook by privacy advocates, my reading of Clay Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody", and small world networks.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive.

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Once again we have a wandering host; Rich has wandered off into the hinterlands of Denver (Boulder, I think) and is too busy to call in for the podcast.  Left to their own devices, Zach and Martin muddle through tonight's podcast without major mishap.  We've got a little PCI, a little disclosure and some potential cracks in the Apple Store armor. 

Network Security Podcast, Episode 204, July 6, 2010
Time:  30:28

Show Notes:

• PCI Standards to be updated every 3 years
• US Largely ruling out North Korea in 2009 cyberattacks
• Apple's app store filled with app farms
• Employees crack Facebook security
• Full Disclosure and no disclosure
• Tonight's Music:  Missing You by Blue Matters

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

Rather than try to shoe horn a full news cast in, amongst the weekend's festivities, I figured I would share a reading of a piece inspired by the Holiday here in the US but more appropriate to an audience on the net: A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace, original penned by John Perry Barlow in 1996. The music I used underneath it is track 34 from Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts, used under a CC BY-NC-SA license.

More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. There are no detailed show notes for this episode. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.