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Signal Messenger is Secure

They conclude that it is impossible to say if Signal meets its goals, as there are none stated, but say their analysis proves it satisfies security standards adding “we have found no major flaws in its design, which is very encouraging”.

New MacBook Doesn’t Run Linux

The three primary issues here are:
1) The input devices are on SPI, not USB. Apple’s ACPI tables don’t provide the GPIO mappings for these things via the standard mechanisms, so the chipset driver won’t bind. You then still need another driver for the SPI controller, and there’s an out of tree one at https://github.com/cb22/macbook12-spi-driver/ . Longer term, the kernel needs to be able to parse Apple’s ACPI tables and that driver needs merging.

2) Apple’s NVME hardware uses the wrong PCI device class, possibly because it’s not entirely NVME compatible (trying to read 64 bits of mmio register space in one go will fail, for instance). Linux has a specific entry for the older Apple NVME devices, and that may need to be broadened.

3) Having source ID checking enabled when doing IRQ remapping results in the system hanging on boot. It’s unclear what the underlying problem is.
– mjg59 @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12924051

LinuxFest Northwest founder honored with Cascadia Community Builder Award

In 1968, The Great Northern Railroad hired Bill, then a student at Western Washington University, because of his computer experience, which at that time consisted of using punched cards and perforated paper tapes. Bill became interested in Linux and the open source community in the late 1990s. With a few other computer nerds, he helped start the Bellingham Linux User Group in 1998 and its first LinuxFest in 2000. As BLUG and LFNW’s Treasurer, Bill has been involved with organizing and community outreach ever since.

“Linuxfest Northwest reaches a huge number of people,” said Emily Dunham, who serves on the award committee. “Bill is a great example of what the award is about.” The award committee hopes that Bill Wright’s tireless work will continue to inspire other free software activists in the Cascadia region.

Budgie withdrawn from Open Build Service

Please note that as of Budgie 11, support will be withdrawn for the OBS repositories for the Budgie Desktop for openSUSE and Fedora.

This will ensure that the Solus project is no longer maintaining external repositories for Budgie Desktop. As a desktop environment, it is vital that it is well tested, and well integrated, into other distributions.

Unfortunately, in the 3 years that the OBS repo has been maintained by the Solus team (Ikey, personally), nobody has stepped forward to maintain the repos, and we’ve seen no news of remaining downstreams trying to integrate Budgie into their parent repos (Budgie Desktop wiki in openSUSE says to use the OBS repo)

The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative Renews Funding for Reproducible Builds Project

The grant extends the contribution to include Debian developers Chris Lamb, Mattia Rizzolo, Ximin Luo and Vagrant Cascadian, as well as extending funding for Holger Levsen. Furthermore, this contribution adds support for Ed Maste, working with FreeBSD.

While anyone can inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws, most Linux distributions provide binary (or compiled) packages to end users. The motivation behind “reproducible” builds is to allow verification that no flaws have been introduced during the compilation process by endeavouring that identical binary packages are generated from a given source. This prevents the installation of backdoor-introducing malware on developers’ machines as an attacker would need to simultaneously infect all developers attempting to reproduce the build.

“Ensuring that no flaws are introduced during the build process greatly improves software security and control,” said Lamb. “Our work has already made significant progress in Debian GNU/Linux, and we are making our tools available for Fedora, Guix, Ubuntu, OpenWrt and other distributions.

Linux Desktop 0-day from a NES emulator?

A vulnerability and a separate logic error exist in the gstreamer 0.10.x player for NSF music files. Combined, they allow for very reliable exploitation and the bypass of 64-bit ASLR, DEP, etc. The reliability is provided by the presence of a turing complete “scripting” inside a music player. NSF files are music files from the Nintendo Entertainment System

This exploit abuses a vulnerability in the gstreamer-0.10 plug-in for playing NSF music files. These music files are not like most other music files that your desktop can play. Typical music files are based on compressed samples and are decoded with a bunch of math. NSF music files, on the other hands, are played by actually emulating the NES CPU and sound hardware in real time. Is that cool or what? The gstreamer plug-in creates a virtual 6502 CPU hardware environment and then plays the music by running a bit of 6502 code for a little while and then looking at the resulting values in the virtualized sound hardware registers and then rendering some sound samples based on that.

• NES Classic joins the “can it run Linux” club

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

PSA: KDE Neon users are requested to perform a full reinstall

The package archive used by KDE neon was incorrectly configured allowing anyone to upload packages to it. There is no reason to think that anyone actually did so but as a precaution we have emptied the archives and removed ISOs built before this date. The archive is being rebuilt and ISOs regenerated.

Solution:
Upgrade to the latest packages once rebuilt.

You can bypass linux disk encryption authentication by pressing the enter key for 70 seconds

An error in the implementation of the Cryptsetup utility used for encrypting hard drives allows an attacker to bypass the authentication procedures on some Linux systems just by pressing the Enter key for around 70 seconds. This results in the attacked system opening a shell with root privileges.

Encrypted data is safe, but attackers can get root privileges on targeted systems.

• Major Linux security hole gapes open | ZDNet

Can Linux containers save IoT from a security meltdown?

Security is a selling point for these products, and for good reason. The Mirai botnet that recently attacked the Dyn service and blacked out much of the U.S. Internet for a day brought Linux-based IoT into the forefront — and not in a good way. Just as IoT devices can be turned to the dark side via DDoS, the devices and their owners can also be the victimized directly by malicious attacks.

In this final, future-looking segment of our IoT series, we look at two Linux-based, Docker-oriented container technologies that are being proposed as solutions to IoT security. Containers might also help solve the ongoing issues of development complexity and barriers to interoperability that we explored in our story on IoT frameworks.

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

The End of the General Purpose Operating System

• Going Serverless: AWS and Compelling Science Fiction

• Re-Imagining the Container Stack to Optimize Space and Speed

• The cloud’s most open option for containers

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Doing Business with Linux

• Free Geek Toronto

• Other Free Geek locations – Wikipedia

• Microsoft partner claims Windows 10 a better choice for Munich

Semi-automatic document scanning with Paperwork

• Paperwork Github
• Paperless: Scan and index paper documents

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+ [fix-windows-privacy: new tool to automate getting your privacy back on Windows 10](https://modzero.github.io/fix-windows-privacy/)

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It’s called the longest war in US history, so why does the US fight in Afghanistan? Is it the poppyseeds? Maybe it’s the oil? Or perhaps there’s a much bigger, longer-term reason the US has for staying there. We look into the big elephant sitting in the room.

Plus the latest in the hunt for home grown terrorist, the stoner who hacked the CIA director’s AOL email & the drone policy you need to know about.

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• Top Cuban general, key forces in Syria to aid Assad, Russia, sources say | Fox News
• The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria | Dissident Voice
• Memo to Afghanistan: Don’t forget Russia – Al Jazeera English
• Is Russia Making Moves On Afghanistan? : NPR
• Tony Blair memo reveals he backed George W Bush 12 months before Iraq war | Daily Mail Online
• Shocking Emails Expose George Bush and Tony Blair Plotting Iraq War a YEAR Before the Invasion | The Free Thought Project
• Pensito Review Flashback: Rove Erases 22 Million White House Emails on Private Server at Height of U.S. Attorney Scandal – Media Yawns
• Turkey shoots down unidentified drone near Syrian border | World news | The Guardian
• Nearly 90% Of Those Killed By US Drones Were Not Intended Targets During Five-Month Span: Report
• Joe Biden announces he will not run for president in 2016 | US news | The Guardian
• Canada to withdraw fighter jets from Syria and Iraq strikes – BBC News
• ‘Too many aircraft in Syrian airspace’: MoD posts video with Russian jet approaching drone — RT News

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Verizon’s super cookie just got nastier, Facebook has plans for free Internet from space & Google launches AMP, Accelerated Mobile Pages Project for a faster, open mobile web.

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• FAA Proposes $1.9 Million Fine For Unauthorized Drone Use
• Verizon’s Zombie Cookie Gets New Life
• Official Google Blog: Introducing the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, for a faster, open mobile web
• Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, Backed By Google, Promises Faster Pages
• Carriers are Making More From Mobile Ads than Publishers Are — Medium
• Facebook to beam free internet to Africa with satellites
• Elon Musk’s satellite Internet project takes another step forward

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Cisco announces plans to buy OpenDNS, the European Government agrees on Net Neutrality rules, Microsoft selling Bing imaging to Uber & display ads to AOL, PayPal kills it’s terrible robocalling policy & more!

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• European Government Agrees On Net Neutrality Rules, With Exemptions
• Cisco to buy cybersecurity firm OpenDNS in $635m deal | ZDNet
• Two keys to rule them all: Cisco warns of default SSH keys on appliances | Ars Technica
• Microsoft selling Bing imaging to Uber, moving display ads to AOL | Ars Technica
• Samsung Electronics plans more Tizen smartphones this year: source | Reuters
• PayPal Just Killed Its Terrible Robocalling Policy
• In Wake Of Hack, OPM Shutters System For Federal Background Checks – ABC News

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Verizon has bought AOL in a big media push by the telco giant. Google’s self driving cars drive 1.7M miles & get in 11 wrecks… But there is a twist!

Plus Ubuntu, GE & Microsoft team of for Network connect fridges & more!

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In Big Media Push, Verizon Buys AOL For $4.4B [Memo From AOL CEO Tim Armstrong] | TechCrunch

AOL will become a subsidiary of Verizon as part of the deal, overseeing a bigger push into content and mobile video by Verizon.

“Verizon’s acquisition further drives its LTE wireless video and OTT (over-the-top video) strategy,” the carrier said in a statement.

In addition to original content across different platforms like video and written word, and desktop and mobile, there are other assets that could be interesting fits for Verizon.

For starters, AOL has been building up a programmatic advertising business to build up how AOL monetizes alongside newer formats like video and mobile. Currently that business — which is the fastest growing operation at AOL in terms of revenues — is split between ads on AOL-owned sites and third-party sites. Verizon picking this up could potentially further build out both, with the company partnering with the likes of ESPN to develop content and also giving the AOL-owned properties potentially much bigger audiences.

Google’s self-driving car head says after 1.7M miles, just 11 minor accidents have resulted, none Google’s fault

Over the 6 years since we started the project, we’ve been involved in 11 minor accidents (light damage, no injuries) during those 1.7 million miles of autonomous and manual driving with our safety drivers behind the wheel, and not once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident.

Google Confirms Cops Can Wiretap Your Hangouts

Hangouts is encrypted “in transit” and that “there are legal authorities that allow the government to wiretap communications.”

Microsoft Investing In Submarine Cables In Support Of Cloud

Microsoft is investing in several submarine cables to connect data centers globally and in support of growing data network needs.

​Ubuntu jumps into Internet of Things with Acer, GE, and Microsoft | ZDNet

Old enemies are becoming new allies as technology shifts from the PC/desktop model to first mobile computing and now the Internet of Things (IoT). Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, is partnering with Acer, DataArt, and Microsoft.

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The NSA Spying Scandal is Costing U.S. Tech Giants Billions, and until this week they’ve remained nearly silent, and politely complicent.

Now eight of the largest tech companies joined forces to push back against the Government spying policies.

Meanwhile new leaks continue to be published, the latest detail the infiltration of online gaming communities to conduct massive surveillance of gamers.

Don’t worry everything’s just fine, the mainstream media is reporting the economy is on the fast track to recovery now, and unemployment is down. We’ll discuss the reality of the situation, plus your feedback, and much more.

On this week’s episode of, Unfilter.

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Edward Snowden’s Rough Week

• Famous FBI Officer Eric O’Neil Claims Snowden Has Always Been a Russian Spy

Eric Michael O’Neill (born March 3, 1973) is a former American FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative. He worked and was entitled as an Investigative Specialist with the Special Surveillance Group (SSG) and played a major role in the arrest, conviction, and life imprisonment of FBI agent Robert Hanssen for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

• ABC brass nixed Barbara Walters’ pick of Edward Snowden as year’s most fascinating person

The ABC News doyenne pushed hard to have NSA leaker*Edward Snowden *at the top of her list of 10 most fascinating people of the year — but in the end was overruled by network brass, a source told Confidenti@l.

In addition to Snowden, the others chosen for the much-anticipated special includeJennifer Lawrence, Miley Cyrus, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West (starring jointly as KimYe), baby Prince George, the cast of “Duck Dynasty,” swimmer Diana Nyad, “Good Morning America” hostRobin Roberts andPope Francis.

• Edward Snowden to give evidence to EU parliament, says MEP

The European parliament is lining up Edward Snowden to give evidence by video link this month, in spite of resistance by British Conservatives, a Green MEP has announced.

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World of Spycraft

• World of Spycraft: NSA and CIA Spied in Online Games

Online games might seem innocuous, a top-secret 2008 NSA document warned, but they had the potential to be a “target-rich communication network” allowing intelligence suspects “a way to hide in plain sight.” Virtual games “are an opportunity!,” another 2008 NSA document declared.

But for all their enthusiasm — so many CIA, FBI and Pentagon spies were hunting around in Second Life, the document noted, that a “deconfliction” group was needed to avoid collisions — the intelligence agencies may have inflated the threat.

The documents do not cite any counterterrorism successes from the effort, and former American intelligence officials, current and former gaming company employees and outside experts said in interviews that they knew of little evidence that terrorist groups viewed the games as havens to communicate and plot operations.

• Sean Smith Uses EVE Chat to Comminication With State Department Was Playing the Night of the Bengazi Attack

During Smith’s 6 years on Eve, he used the game to communicate covert messages with the US State Department. Being the perfect cover, online games like Eve provide a pathway of communication between the US government and overseas operatives on nearly secured channels because of the cryptic messages being passed back and forth.

The friend recalls that Smith was on Eve the night of the attack and conveyed that sirens could be heard in the distance, and suddenly would go offline, then pop back up. In the last communication, Smith said “GUNFIRE”, logged off – and never returned. – See more at: https://www.occupycorporatism.com/state-department-covers-up-ambassador-stevens-death-at-rented-villa-in-benghazi/#sthash.DWzBGG2S.dpuf

• Murdered EVE Online Player Was a CIA Agent, According to the Infinite Wisdom of Glenn Beck

Beck accuse Sean Smith and his colleagues of either working with the CIA or of being CIA agents, and that some of Smith’s final messages to the outside world – which were sent to members of the EVE Online community – were actually coded, and intended for the CIA.

NSA is CRAZY

• NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

The agency’s internal presentation slides, provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, show that when companies follow consumers on the Internet to better serve them advertising, the technique opens the door for similar tracking by the government. The slides also suggest that the agency is using these tracking techniques to help identify targets for offensive hacking operations.

According to the documents, the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, are using the small tracking files or “cookies” that advertising networks place on computers to identify people browsing the Internet. The intelligence agencies have found particular use for a part of a Google-specific tracking mechanism known as the “PREF” cookie. These cookies typically don’t contain personal information, such as someone’s name or e-mail address, but they do contain numeric codes that enable Web sites to uniquely identify a person’s browser.

• NSA leaks blamed for Cisco’s falling sales overseas (updated)

“In our Q1 earnings call of November 13th, we stated that product orders in China declined 18% in Q1 FY14, whereas in Q4 FY13, we referenced that our business in China had declined 6%,” a Cisco spokesperson told Ars. “By comparison, China bookings were up 8% in Q3 FY13. So, yes, there is a short-term trend of declining business in China, which we have acknowledged.”

• Bill Clinton condemns NSA’s reported collection of economic data

“We shouldn’t have gathered economic intelligence under the guise of security – not with an ally,” Clinton told O Globo, a newspaper in Rio de Janeiro.

• Tech Giants Issue Call for Limits on Government Surveillance of Users – NYTimes.com

On Monday the companies, led by Google and Microsoft, presented a plan to regulate online spying and urged the United States to lead a worldwide effort to restrict it. They accompanied it with an open letter, in the form of full-page ads in national newspapers, including The New York Times, and a website detailing their concerns.

Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, AOL and LinkedIn joined Google and Microsoft in saying that they believed in governments’ right to protect their citizens. But, they said, the spying revelations that began last summer with leaks of National Security Agency materials by Edward J. Snowden showed that “the balance in many countries has tipped too far in favor of the state and away from the rights of the individual.”

War on Unemployment Benefits Heats Up

• Why There’s No Unemployment Insurance in Budget Deal

One reason the unemployment insurance extension wasn’t included in the budget deal: cost. The budget deal includes about $22 billion in deficit reduction over two years. (It cuts $85 billion but allows spending caps to rise by $63 billion.)

Extending unemployment will cost about $25 billion for one year. It would undo the bill’s savings. That doesn’t mean Congress won’t do it. But they couldn’t credibly pair it with their modest budget bill.

• Fact check: Rand Paul, Obama and black unemployment

Sen. Rand Paul says “black unemployment in America is double white unemployment” and “hasn’t budged” under President Obama. Actually, the black unemployment rate is lower now than when Obama took office, and the gap between the races is below the historical average.

• Skewed: Income Inequality in America

CEO vs. Worker inequality

• The Average CEO makes 354 times what the average worker makes[3]
  [year: ratio between worker/CEO earnings]

1982: 42:1
1992: 201:1
2002: 281:1
2012: 354:1

• Here’s why conservatives should worry more about long-term unemployment

• Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life – The New York Times

• New York City population of 1–19 in 1930: ~2,782,000

• New York City population of 1–19 in 2013: ~2,171,000

• Percent of homeless children in relation to New York Population of 1–19 in 1930: ~.79%

• Percent of homeless children in relation to New York Population of 1–19 in 2013: ~1%

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