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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
| Time |
Event |
| 2:48p |
Bottomley: Adventures in Microsoft UEFI Signing James Bottomley's UEFI
bootloader signing experience is worth a read...still a few glitches in the system. " Once the account is created, you still can’t upload
UEFI binaries for signature without first signing a paper contract. The
agreements are pretty onerous, include a ton of excluded licences
(including all GPL ones for drivers, but not bootloaders). The most
onerous part is that the agreements seem to reach beyond the actual UEFI
objects you sign. The Linux Foundation lawyers concluded it is mostly
harmless to the LF because we don’t ship any products, but it could be
nasty for other companies." | | 4:40p |
Tuesday's security advisories Fedora has updated cumin ( F17; F16:
multiple vulnerabilities).
openSUSE has updated plib (multiple
vulnerabilities) and phpmyadmin (cross-site
scripting).
SUSE has updated libvirt (multiple
vulnerabilities). | | 4:48p |
[$] Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts The kind folks at Google decided that your editor was in need of a present
for the holidays; soon thereafter, a box containing a Nexus 7 tablet
showed up on the doorstep. One might think that the resulting joy might be
somewhat mitigated by the fact that your editor has been in possession of an N7 tablet since last
July, and one might be right. But the truth of the matter is that the gift
was well timed, and not just because it's nice to be able to install
ill-advised software distributions on a tablet without depriving oneself of
a useful device.
Click below (subscribers only) for your editor's thoughts
on tablets and a look at the Android 4.2 release. | | 4:51p |
Portuguese Government Adopts ODF (The Standards Blog) Andy Updegrove covers
a press release from the Portuguese Open Source Business Association on the government adoption of standard formats for documents. " [T]he Portuguese government has opted for ODF, the OpenDocument Format, as well as PDF and a number of other formats and protocols, including XML, XMPP, IMAP, SMTP, CALDAV and LDAP. The announcement is in furtherance of a law passed by the Portuguese Parliament on June 21 of last year requiring compliance with open standards (as defined in the same legislation) in the procurement of government information systems and when exchanging documents at citizen-facing government Web sites." | | 5:59p |
[$] LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers
Interest in high-quality random numbers has increased in parallel with the
increasing demands to secure stored data and network communications with
high-quality cryptographic keys. However, as various examples in
H. Peter Anvins's talk at LinuxCon Europe 2012
illustrated, dealing with random numbers has many pitfalls for the unwary,
and it is easy to make subtle but dangerous errors. | | 10:09p |
| | 10:25p |
New Linux Rootkit Emerges (Threat Post) Threat Post reports
the discovery of a rootkit that targets 64-bit Linux systems. " The Linux rootkit does not appear to be a modified version of any
known piece of malware and it first came to light last week when someone
posted a quick description and analysis of it on the Full Disclosure mailing list. That poster said that his site had been targeted by the malware and some of his customers had been redirected to malicious sites." | | 11:00p |
Day: The Next Step At his blog, Allan Day outlines
the next phase of GNOME 3's user experience development, which focuses
on "content applications." The project is aiming to make
it "quicker and less laborious for people to find
content" and subsequently organize it. "To this end,
we’re aiming to build a suite of new GNOME content applications:
Music, Documents, Photos, Videos and Transfers. Each of these
applications aims to provide a quick and easy way to access content,
and will seamlessly integrate with the cloud." New mockups are
available on the GNOME wiki. |
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