We take a look back at some of the big stories of 2015, at least, as we see it.

Plus the round up & more!

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Episode 227: Oracle’s EULAgy #oraclefanfic

• Oracle Chief Security Officer, Mary Ann Davidson, makes a blog post railing against reverse engineering and security research
• Claims Oracle is pretty good at finding bugs in their own code, and doesn’t need anyone else’s help, and that is violates their EULA
• The blog post was quickly taken down, but this is the Internet, it doesn’t work like that

Episode 196: Sony’s Hard Lessons

• Bruce Schneier walks us through what we can learn from the hack of Sony’s corporate network

Episode 217: An Encryptioner’s Conscience

• A recurring theme: firmware is terrible
• Replace your router with something that runs a real OS
• Luckily, more and more routers finally have enough hardware to run a minimal Linux or BSD install
• Smaller APU and Atom machines can run full OS or appliance software like pfSense

Episode 211: The French Disconnection

• Episodes recorded live in the studio always have a different feel to them, especially when it happens to be the 4th anniversary of the show
• The top story in this episode was about how to detect when your network has been breached
• Some great detail, and discussion of the Target and Sony hacks as examples of what to do, and what not to do

Episode 212: Dormant Docker Disasters

• The man who broke the music business
• Detailing the infinalside story of how some of the most popular music albums made it onto the internet before they were even in stores
• Again, in person episodes are always special

Episode 237: A Rip in NTP

• Recap of my visit to the OpenZFS

Round Up:

• Maltrail, a new MIT licensed open source malicious traffic detection system
• Making malware that is harder to detect, breaks some disassemblers
• “Firestorm”, a new vulnerability in “next generation” firewalls
• CryptoWall 4 – The Evolution Continues
• McAfee Enterprise Security Manager failed to manage own security. Authentication bypass vulnerability found
• Tutorial: How to reverse unknown protocols using Netzob
• Don’t be a victim of Tax Refund Fraud in 2016, Krebs has tips to protect yourself
• Tutorial: Fake WiFi Access Point, create a rough AP or an “Evil Twin”

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Mozilla wants to spin off Thunderbird & launch an iOS ad blocker that only works with Safari. Is there a master plan at work, or has the Mozilla foundation lost their way? Our virtual LUG debates.

Then our best solutions for syncing your Podcasts from your mobile to your Linux desktop & SpiderOak ditches Google.

Plus we review the new CrossOver 15 & discuss how this Linux desktop app works like no other. What nice features it offers over PlayOnLinux & standard WINE, why it’s not quite like other commercial software for Linux & more!

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Pre-Show:

• “Yeah, we ditched Google.”

For the past five years, we had been using Google Analytics for monitoring our web traffic. Innocent enough decision, right? Then we asked ourselves, “are we contributing to the mass surveillance of the web by using a feature-rich, yet free service that tracks web visitors?” Sadly. we didn’t like the answer to that question. “Yes, by using Google Analytics, we are furthering the erosion of privacy on the web.”

Follow Up / Catch Up

• Looking for Solution to Sync Podcasts Between Android and Linux Desktop

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

What’s Happening with Thunderbird and Mozilla?

Ideas for the integration of Thunderbird with LibreOffice

Concrete ideas of further integration of LibreOffice and Thunderbird

Changes in LibreOffice:

• Access to multiple Thunderbird address books (tdf#57873).

Changes/extensions for Thunderbird:

• Provide a theme for Thunderbird to make look and feel more similar to LibreOffice.
• Thunderbird currently does not provide a preview of documents (except for .txt and .html). A preview of ODF (and all other supported file types) could be possible via the integration of LibreOffice Kit into Thunderbird. This could be a joint Thunderbird & LibreOffice project for GSOC 2016.
• Possibility to use LibreOffice Writer as email editor in Thunderbird.
• Enable Contact Notes to supports complex formatting and pictures. Notes for a Contact in an Address Book could use LibreOffice Writer/Kit. Notes could be saved in OpenDocument format

Libreoffice Does Not Want Thunderbird

One of the reasons behind the success of the LibreOffice project is the

sharp focus on a single application, which is not going to change

anytime soon. We are already working on the Android and the Cloud

versions of LibreOffice, and this is more than enough – in term of

global effort – for a community based project. So, please avoid any

speculation based on rumors, as they might be intentionally created by

our competitors.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Firefox OS Comes to an End.. Where is Mozilla going?

Goodbye most popular desktop email client, Thunderbird. Hello IOS ad blocker. Uh, okay. https://t.co/L4Vbp3Dxqd https://t.co/7nxGBdofEx

— Alan Pope (@popey) December 8, 2015

Mozilla Will Stop Developing And Selling Firefox OS Smartphones | TechCrunch

Farewell Firefox OS smartphones. Mozilla today announced an end to its smartphone experiment, and said that it would stop developing and selling Firefox OS smartphones. It will continue to experiment on how it might work on other connected devices and Internet of Things networks.

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

CrossOver 15 Review

• CrossOver 15 Released

• Linux Improvements:

• CrossOver now uses PulseAudio for sound if it is available on
  the system.

• CrossOver has a completely redone User Interface on
  Linux.

  • Application Support:
• Quicken 2016 now runs in CrossOver.
  • General Improvements:

• Wine 1.8 brings thousands of updates to CrossOver’s core
  compatibility with Windows applications.

• Dual screen Linux setups will run Microsoft Office
  better than before.

• CodeWeavers Blogs – Jana Schmid – Having Ourselves a Merry Little Release | CodeWeavers

Get your copy of CrossOver 15 EARLY and receive 25% off with code CX15. If you buy today you will automatically be upgraded to CrossOver 15 when it ships on December 8, 2015.

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PLUS: HP Announces their plans to Open Source WebOS, we share our thoughts, and Linux Mint stepped in a pile this week when it was revealed they changed Affiliate revenue links in Banshee. Has they failed to learn from past mistakes, or is there another side to this story? We give you the details!

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