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Friday, January 15th, 2016

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    12:12a
    Hearn: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
    Core Bitcoin developer Mike Hearn writes
    that the Bitcoin experiment has failed    . "In a company, someone
    who did not share the goals of the organisation would be dealt with in a
    simple way: by firing him. But Bitcoin Core is an open source project, not
    a company. Once the 5 developers with commit access to the code had been
    chosen and Gavin [Andresen] had decided he did not want to be the leader,
    there was no procedure in place to ever remove one. And there was no
    interview or screening process to ensure they actually agreed with the
    project’s goals.    " If Bitcoin is indeed failing as the article says,
    it's failing due to project governance issues rather than technical or
    regulatory problems.
    3:45p
    Friday's security updates

    Arch Linux has updated openssh (multiple vulnerabilities) and php (multiple vulnerabilities).

    CentOS has updated openssh (C7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian has updated ganeti (denial of service; regression) and openssh (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian-LTS has updated dbconfig-common (information leak), dwarfutils (information leak), giflib (denial of service), isc-dhcp (denial of service), and openssh (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Mageia has updated ffmpeg (M5: multiple vulnerabilities), giflib (M5: heap-based buffer overflow), librsvg (M5: multiple vulnerabilities), and ruby-mail (M5: message injection).

    openSUSE has updated libebml, libmatroska (13.1, 13.2, Leap 42.1: multiple vulnerabilities), openssh (13.2; Leap 42.1: multiple vulnerabilities), and xen (13.2; 13.1; Leap 42.1: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated openssh (O7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated openssh (RHEL 7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated openssh (SL7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Slackware has updated openssh (multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated openssh (SLE12; SLE11-SP3; SLE11-SP4: multiple vulnerabilities) and openssh-openssl1 (SLE11-SECURITY: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated openssh (12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10: multiple vulnerabilities).

    10:47p
    MyPaint 1.2.0 is available

    Version 1.2 of the MyPaint natural-media-painting application has been released. Changes include new tools for smooth-stroke inking and flood filling, automatic file backup and recovery, the ability to group layers, and GTK+3 support. Ubuntu packages are already available through the project's official testing PPA; builds will follow shortly for other distributions and platforms. In the meantime, source bundles are provided at the project's GitHub page.

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