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use a VPN & https, which would reduce the attack surface, but it’s not ‘perfect’.
Update from Forbes
Lots of stuff updated. Lots of stuff not. This is where it pays to know what you have in use and monitor your suppliers for notices.

Mobile carriers selling personal data

Mobile carriers sell users’ personal information to third parties

Western Digital Stuns Storage Industry with MAMR Breakthrough for Next-Gen HDDs

Western Digital Hard Drives Will Provide Over 40TB of Storage by 2025
new tech is MAMR – microwave-assisted magnetic recording instead of HAMR (Heat-assisted magnetic recording) with a laser
[Why MAMR over HAMR?]](https://www.extremetech.com/computing/257352-western-digital-reveals-mamr-technology-allow-40tb-hard-drives)

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Old Men Yell at Macbooks | CR 229

chris — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:22:39 +0000

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Stuck between a rock and a hard place

It’s been 4 years since the last substantial update to the MacBook Pro. The exact reasons why Apple decided to neglect their pro equipment, and why they still have not updated the Mac Pro or the iMac are known only to Apple, but it seems reasonable to assume that if Mac’s were still their main profit generator that this would not have happened. The iPhone is updated like clockwork at the same time every year.

Apple Unveils New 13-Inch and 15-Inch MacBook Pros With Retina ‘Touch Bar’ – Mac Rumors

Apple calls it “the most powerful MacBook Pro ever,” and the 13-inch model features a 2.9 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo Boost speeds.

up to 3.3 GHz, 8GB of memory and 256GB of flash storage.
The 15-inch version has a 2.6 GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.5 GHz
16GB of memory and 256GB of flash storage.
Both computers reach “up to 2.3 times the graphics performance” of the previous generation.
Each edition includes SSDs with sequential read speeds over 3GBps, and the ability to drive a 5K display through a single Thunderbolt 3 ports

The level of pushback from the MacBook Pro event is staggering. I sure hope someone at Apple who can make a difference is paying attention.

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• Why is it limited to 16GB of RAM? Supporting more RAM would just require a bigger battery, so instead of making it thinner, they could have included 32GB of RAM and kept it the same width as the previous model

Although this is technically true, there is a seemingly little-known legal obstacle to this. The Federal Aviation Administration has capped the maximum allowable size of laptop batteries on flights to 100 watt-hours. That explains why Apple’s pro model contains _precisely_a 99.5 watt-hour battery. Making a thicker laptop would not allow them to increase the size of the battery due to these regulations.

Apple’s new Intel driven MacBook Pros have a secondary ARM processor that runs Touch ID and security

Apple’s new 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pro models come equipped with a Touch Bar — that bar and the accompanying Touch ID sensor are powered by both the Intel processor at the core of the laptop and an Apple designed T1 chip. That T1 is the same chip that is inside the S2 in the new Series 2 Apple Watch.

The T1 consists of the processor in the Apple Watch’s S2 and the Secure Enclave.

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Starting At 8 | WTR 52

chris — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 08:40:09 +0000

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Linux: Bug or Feature? | CR 188

chris — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:43:33 +0000

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Ang and Mike discuss business operational tools, practices & common issues, how Ang got her kids started on computers, good languages to get started with & she makes a pretty poignant comment about Linux. Mike discusses TarDisk & whether or not he recommends it & more!

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Astrophysicist to Designer | WTR 19

chris — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:47:15 +0000

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Fun With Twitter | FauxShow 162

chris — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 12:32:52 +0000

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Linux Mint 16 Review | LAS s29e09

chris — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 14:44:05 +0000

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We’ve got the Cinnamon and MATE editions of Linux Mint 16 Petra loaded, we’ll give you a tour of the release highlights, and share our thoughts on this latest release. Has Mint reclaimed the perfected desktop crown? We’ll debate.

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Linux Mint 16 is the result of 6 months of incremental development on top of stable and reliable technologies. This new release comes with updated software and brings refinements and new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

Cinnamon 2 Review | The Linux Action Show! s29e04

Cinnamon 2.0 is a serious desktop contender, but not for the reasons you might think. Has this desktop environment come into its own?

No Btrfs during install. Mint don’t play.
Mint’s refinement comes from controlled areas of change. Once they get something the way they like it, it’s an iterative process of improvement. Not giant leaps of innovation.
Mint Cinnamon feels like a modern desktop, that still faces the possibility of over mixing modern and classic UI metaphors.
But for now, seems to pull it off with success. After a couple week’s useage I start to miss KDE.

MATE

Mate accepts you for who you are.
Mate feels beyond Gnome 2, inspired, yet surpassed in features and power.

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Linux Drive Recovery | LAS s27e10

chris — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:38:15 +0000

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Some of the best tools to save and recover data from a failing drive are free, and built for Linux. We’ll demo some of the best tools to save your data, and make the best of a bad situation. Plus a few tips to prevent data loss and monitor the health of your drives.

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GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive’s SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.

Ddrescue

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors.

Recover a data disk with ddrescue

Basic Syntax

ddrescue /dev/disk /mnt/tuna/partimg/mydisk.img logfile
Be sure to write the image to a separate disk/storage location.

Mount the Image

mount -t loop -o ro mydisk.img /somewhere

Comparison to GNU dd

The following features are available in dc3dd that are not found in GNU dd:

On the fly hashing with multiple algorithms (MD5, SHA–1, SHA–256, and SHA–512) with variable sized piecewise hashing
Able to write errors directly to a file
Combined error log. Groups errors together (e.g. Had 1,023 ‘Input/ouput errors’ between blocks 17–233’ )
Pattern wiping. Wipe output files with a single hex digit or a text pattern
Verify mode
Progress reports. See the progress of the operation while it’s running
Split output. Able to split output files into fixed size chunks

The following changes to GNU dd’s behavior were made:

On a partial read, the whole block is wiped with zeros. This allows for repeatable reads/hashes of a drive with errors.

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Boot a Failing System

SystemRescueCd

Description: SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions. It comes with a lot of linux software such as system tools (parted, partimage, fstools, …) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It can be used for both Linux and windows computers, and on desktops as well as servers. This rescue system requires no installation as it can be booted from a CD/DVD drive or USB stick, but it can be installed on the hard disk if you wish. The kernel supports all important file systems (ext2/ext3/ext4, reiserfs, btrfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs).

Tuxboot – About

Tuxboot helps you to create a bootable Live USB drive for Clonezilla live, DRBL live, GParted live and Tux2live. It is modified from UNetbootin and runs on both MS Windows and GNU/Linux. You can choose to download the latest version of Clonezilla live, DRBL live, or GParted live ISO/zip file then create the live USB.

Features:

Support Clonezilla live, DRBL live, GParted live and Tux2live. Tuxboot uses the syslinux in the ISO/zip file to make your USB drive bootable, so it is compatible with the same version of syslinux boot menu in the ISO/zip file.
Auto find the latest version.
Download an ISO file and build bootable USB flash drive on the fly.

OSFClone – Open source utility to create and clone forensic disk images

OSFClone is a free, self-booting solution which enables you to create or clone exact raw disk images quickly and independent of the installed operating system. In addition to raw disk images, OSFClone also supports imaging drives to the open Advance Forensics Format (AFF).

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Ubuntu forums hacked; 1.82M logins, email addresses stolen
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HoneyDrive honeypot bundle distro

HoneyDrive is a virtual appliance (OVA) with Xubuntu Desktop 12.04 32-bit edition installed. It contains various honeypot software packages such as Kippo SSH honeypot, Dionaea malware honeypot, Honeyd low-interaction honeypot, Glastopf web honeypot along with Wordpot, Thug honeyclient and more. Additionally it includes useful pre-configured scripts and utilities to analyze, visualize and process the data it can capture, such as Kippo-Graph, Honeyd-Viz, and much more. Lastly, many other helpful security, forensics and malware related tools are also present in the distribution.

I installed a Kippo honeypot on a Raspberry Pi to log attacks against a specific service,

Glastopf Pi: A Simple Yet Cool Web Honeypot for your Raspberry Pi

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The 56k Solution | CR 58

chris — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:25:21 +0000

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Amazon: Some data lost in cloud outage is not recoverable

\”To be told four to six hours, and then just wait and wait and wait and nothing\’s happening for three days, was beyond frustrating and maddening,\” she said. Flores also said she noticed a difference in the way Amazon worked with large sites compared to smaller ones.

Customer Data Reportedly Lost In Amazon EC2 Outage

\”A few days ago we sent you an email letting you know that we were working on recovering an inconsistent data snapshot of one or more of your Amazon EBS volumes,\” says the letter, quoted in the BI piece. \”We are very sorry, but ultimately our efforts to manually recover your volume were unsuccessful. The hardware failed in such a way that we could not forensically restore the data.\”

How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages | World news | The Guardian

Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users\’ communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company\’s own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.

The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over the last three years. They also shed new light on the workings of the top-secret Prism program, which was disclosed by the Guardian and the Washington Post last month.

The documents show that:

• Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;

• The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;

• The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;

• Microsoft also worked with the FBI\’s Data Intercept Unit to \”understand\” potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases;

• In July last year, nine months after Microsoft bought Skype, the NSA boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism;

• Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a \”team sport\”.

Report: Microsoft collaborated closely with NSA – CNN.com

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Privacy Under Linux | LAS s27e04

chris — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:02:25 +0000

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We demo tools for Linux to protect your privacy. And we’ll highlight Bitmessage, an up and coming open source project designed to kill email, and encrypt your communications from the start.

Plus: The big plans for Cinnamon, FireFox OS’ get a big boost, the conclusion to our Let’s Play giveaway…

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Just Ship | CR 33

chris — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:50:11 +0000

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When is the time right to launch your project? Mike and Chris discuss how understanding your market can be key to answering that question, building a community, advertising, and when to just ship it.

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Hello Michael and Chris,

I work in a medium sized development shop with about 20 developers working on what\’s essentially an enterprise client side app. I have always considered our process for releasing bug fix updates as being rather backwards and poorly executed. Essentially our head of \”QA\” will send an e-mail one morning to all developers that the code is \”frozen\”.

He will then do a build, test it for 4 or 5 days and then send an e-mail to everyone that the code is \”unfrozen\”. During this \”frozen\” time the developers are still expected to continue fixing bugs but rather than check in their changes they are supposed to \”sit\” on them, usually for several days, until the \”unfrozen\” e-mail is sent out. At this point a free-for-all of code check in commences with all sorts of conflict and collision shenanigans.

That said, there is nothing physically restricting the checking in of code. If a developer doesn\’t see the \”fr eeze\” e-mail or simply forgets after a few days then \”QA\” unleashes their wrath on the poor sod. I\’m sure you can see all sorts of problems with this joke of a build/test/release process and I am even a little embarrassed just describing it. I would like to offer some suggestions to my superiors about ways to improve this and was wondering if you guys had any thoughts or suggestions.

One, perhaps obvious idea would be to switch to using Git as we are still using the ancient CVS for source control. However I\’m still very much a novice and trying to learn it better in my spare time. How would you suggest to use Git in a way that we can improve our build/test/release cycle? Do you have any other thoughts or suggestions to bring our release cycle up to a more sane and reasonable, not to mention modern process?

Thanks for your thoughts and thank you for the awesome show you do each week.

Sincerely,
Brian M.

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