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<p>An embarrassing vulnerability has been found in the apt package manager, we’ll break it all down. Plus Alessandro Castellani tells us about his plans to build a professional design tool for Linux.</p>
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<p>We also have a batch of big community news, and the case for the cloud killing Open Source.</p><p>Special Guests: Alessandro Castellani and Brent Gervais.</p><p><a href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=52946" rel="payment">Support LINUX Unplugged</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a href="https://oggcamp.org/" title="OggCamp 19" rel="nofollow">OggCamp 19</a> — OggCamp is an unconference celebrating Free Culture, Free and Open Source Software, hardware hacking, digital rights, and all manner of collaborative cultural activities.</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/oggcamp" title="OggCamp on Twitter" rel="nofollow">OggCamp on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://justi.cz/security/2019/01/22/apt-rce.html" title="Remote Code Execution in apt-get" rel="nofollow">Remote Code Execution in apt-get</a> — A vulnerability in apt allows a network man-in-the-middle (or a malicious package mirror) to execute arbitrary code as root on a machine installing any package. The bug has been fixed in the latest versions of apt.</li><li><a href="https://whydoesaptnotusehttps.com/" title="Why does APT not use HTTPS?" rel="nofollow">Why does APT not use HTTPS?</a></li><li><a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/turkish-isp-swapped-downloads-of-popular-software-with-spyware-infected-apps/" title="Turkish ISP Swapped Downloads of Popular Software with Spyware-Infected Apps" rel="nofollow">Turkish ISP Swapped Downloads of Popular Software with Spyware-Infected Apps</a></li><li><a href="https://www.circonus.com/2019/01/which-block-i-o-scheduler-is-the-best-we-asked-ebpf/" title="Which block I/O scheduler is the best? We asked eBPF." rel="nofollow">Which block I/O scheduler is the best? We asked eBPF.</a> — I set out expecting to see differing distributions of latencies for each block scheduler, but ultimately found that I didn’t understand low-level systems behavior to the degree I thought I did.</li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/multipass/" title="Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass." rel="nofollow">Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass.</a> — Windows 10 developers have been gifted yet another way of running Linux on their desktop in the form of Canonical's Multipass.
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</li><li><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-employee-leaks-windows-core-open-source-components,38476.html" title="Microsoft Employee Hints at Windows Core OS Open Source Components" rel="nofollow">Microsoft Employee Hints at Windows Core OS Open Source Components</a></li><li><a href="https://techsnap.systems/395" title="TechSNAP Episode 395: The ACME Era" rel="nofollow">TechSNAP Episode 395: The ACME Era</a></li><li><a href="https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/conferences/2019" title="LinuxFest Northwest 20th Anniversary" rel="nofollow">LinuxFest Northwest 20th Anniversary</a></li><li><a href="https://t.me/linuxfest2019" title="LFNW Telegram Group" rel="nofollow">LFNW Telegram Group</a></li><li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/jupiterbroadcasting/events/258303320/" title="LinuxFest Northwest Parking Lot BBQ Meetup" rel="nofollow">LinuxFest Northwest Parking Lot BBQ Meetup</a></li><li><a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x" title="SCALE 17x" rel="nofollow">SCALE 17x</a></li><li><a href="https://t.me/joinchat/DgyWhBZyAm7Q18a2NBkElw" title="SCALE Telegram Group" rel="nofollow">SCALE Telegram Group</a></li><li><a href="https://2019.texaslinuxfest.org/" title="Texas Linux Fest 2019" rel="nofollow">Texas Linux Fest 2019</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/vmbrasseur/Public_Speaking#proposing-talks" title="Public Speaking: A repository of resources about public speaking, specifically in the context of software development and IT conferences." rel="nofollow">Public Speaking: A repository of resources about public speaking, specifically in the context of software development and IT conferences.</a></li><li><a href="https://linuxacademy.com/linux/training/course/name/linux-operating-system-fundamentals" title="Linux Operating System Fundamentals" rel="nofollow">Linux Operating System Fundamentals</a> — Have you heard of Linux, but don't really know anything about it? Are you a non-technical person just wanting to know what this 'Linux' thing is? Then this course is for you.</li><li><a href="https://github.com/Alecaddd/Akira" title="Akira: Native Linux App for UI and UX Design" rel="nofollow">Akira: Native Linux App for UI and UX Design</a></li><li><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alecaddd/akira-the-linux-design-tool/?ref=kicktraq" title="Akira on Kickstarter" rel="nofollow">Akira on Kickstarter</a></li><li><a href="https://exponent.fm/episode-159-inverted-pyramids/" title="Exponent episode 159 — Inverted Pyramids" rel="nofollow">Exponent episode 159 — Inverted Pyramids</a></li><li><a href="https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-55/" title="Late Night Linux – Episode 55" rel="nofollow">Late Night Linux – Episode 55</a> — Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises?</li><li><a href="https://stratechery.com/2019/aws-mongodb-and-the-economic-realities-of-open-source/" title="AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source" rel="nofollow">AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source</a></li><li><a href="http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts-its-midlife-crisis/" title="Open source confronts its midlife crisis" rel="nofollow">Open source confronts its midlife crisis</a></li></ul>
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