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Season 2 Episode 18
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:32:52
Publish Date: 2014-10-08 04:00:00
Description: In this episode: Shellshock was always one of our favourite New Order tracks, but now it's one of our least favourite Linux vulnerabilities. Adobe is dropping Reader support for Linux, but kind-of bringing Photoshop to Chrome OS. We have some great discoveries, a real live Voice of the Masses, and we're joined by the awesome Ben Nuttall of the Raspberry Pi Foundation [recorded infront of an audience, OggCamp 2014].
News: A huge vulnerability has been discovered in the Bash shell, makings lots of Linux and OS X servers wobble. Adobe is dropping Reader support for Linux, but Photoshop is coming to Chrome OS, sorta, kinda.
Finds of the Fortnight:
Andrew: There's a concentration of people on the Autistic spectrum working at GCHQ.
Graham: KDE's text editor, Kate, has a macro snippets system that can be programmed with a Javascript-like language. And a show-stopping bug in Kate's snippets has been fixed by the author of the above blog post, Sven Brauch.
Ben (Everard): WebSDR - software defined radio that lets listeners tune in to a frequency on a received broadcast frequency range from a specific location (many thanks to David Tarrant for this Find). From our own torrent server seeding various distributions, CentOS 7 is the most seeded by other peers (meaning the peers leave their torrent is running after the download) while Kali and Knoppix are the top two in terms of peers quitting after the download has completed.
Ben (Nuttal): The folks at PyCon last week were able to port the Python interface for Minecraft: Pi Edition to Python 3. Send tweets from Python 3 with Twython.
Mike: A bug in DMA Design's Race'n'Chase game led them to create Grand Theft Auto.
Voice of the Masses: Have Heartbleed and Shellshock changed your attitude to open source security?
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