S08E39 – Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag - Ubuntu Podcast




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Summary: It's Episode Thirty Nine of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! <a href="https://twitter.com/popey" title="popey on Twitter">Alan Pope</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/marxjohnson" title="Mark on Twitter">Mark Johnson</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Enjayembee" title="Nick on Twitter">Nick B</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/m_wimpress" title="Martin on Twitter">Martin Wimpress</a> and are connected and speaking to your brain. In this week's show we are joined by guest presenter <a href="https://twitter.com/Enjayembee" title="Nick on Twitter">Nick B</a> from <a href="http://systemau.net.au/">#systemau</a> podcast. We look at what's been going on in the news: * <a href="http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/security-bug-in-dell-pcs-shipped-since-815/">Security researcher Joe Nord has discovered Dell has inadvertently shipped laptops to customers contaning a self-signed root certificate installed and its private key.</a> * <a href="http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/uk-isp-boss-points-out-massive-technical-flaws-in-investigatory-powers-bill/">The UK Internet Service Provider’s Association (ISPA) met with the Home Office outlining concerns with the Draft Invesigatory Powers Bill</a> * <a href="http://mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/2.5">Mozilla has released "Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview", including an Android App that allows you to try out FirefoxOS without flashing your device.</a> * <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/3010520/open-source-tools/mozilla-identifying-home-for-thunderbird-as-it-focuses-on-firefox.html">Mozilla is seeking a new home for Thunderbird as it focuses on Firefox.</a> * <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/did-you-get-a-raspberry-pi-zero/">The Rasperry Pi Foundation announced the Pi Zero, a smaller, cheaper Rasperry Pi.</a> * <a href="http://theroot.ninja/disclosures/TRUSTNONE_1.0-11282015.pdf">Sean Beaupre discovered and documented a vulnerability that affects all Snapdragon 805 devices, such as the Motorola Droid Turbo/MAXX, Motorola Nexus 6, and Samsung Galaxy Note 4.</a> We also take a look at what's been going on in the Ubuntu community: * <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2015-December/039028.html">Didier Roche proposes more languages to be baked into the live CD by default</a> * <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/community-announce/2015-November/000034.html">New community council elected</a> There are even events: * <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/10th-egham-raspberry-jam-gamification-tickets-19450730659">10th Egham Raspberry Jam - Gamification</a> - Sunday 17 January 2016, 14:00 to 17:00 (GMT) - Gartner, Surrey * <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x">SCaLE 14x</a> - January 21-24, 2016 - Pasadena Convention Center, California (including <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Ubuntu-California/events/227070159/">UbuCon Summit</a> - 21st to 22nd) * <a href="https://fosdem.org/2016/">FOSDEM 2016</a> - 30 Jan 2016 to 31 Jan 2016 - Brussels, Belgium * <a href="https://linux.conf.au/">LinuxConf AU 2016</a> - Geelong, Victoria, Australia in 2016, between 1st-5th February 2016 at Deakin University’s Waterfront Campus. * <a href="http://devconf.cz/">DevConf.cz 2016</a> - February 5th - 7th 2016 - Brno, Czech Republic That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: * <a href="mailto:show@ubuntupodcast.org">show@ubuntupodcast.org</a> * Join us on IRC in <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-podcast" title="#ubuntu-podcast on IRC">#ubuntu-podcast</a> on <a href="http://freenode.net/" title="Freenode network">Freenode</a> * Follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/ubuntupodcast" title="Ubuntu Podcast on Twitter">Twitter</a> * Follow us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/UbuntuUKPodcast" title="Ubuntu Podcast on Facebook">Facebook</a> * Follow us on <a href="https://plus.google.com/+ubuntupodcast" title="Ubuntu Podcast on Google+">Google+</a> * Discuss us on <a href="http://www.reddit."></a>