Linux Matters

It’s Episode Thirty Nine of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Nick B and Martin Wimpress and are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show we are joined by guest presenter Nick B from #systemau podcast.

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

• Security researcher Joe Nord has discovered Dell has inadvertently shipped laptops to customers contaning a self-signed root certificate installed and its private key.
• The UK Internet Service Provider’s Association (ISPA) met with the Home Office outlining concerns with the Draft Invesigatory Powers Bill
• Mozilla has released “Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview”, including an Android App that allows you to try out FirefoxOS without flashing your device.
• Mozilla is seeking a new home for Thunderbird as it focuses on Firefox.
• The Rasperry Pi Foundation announced the Pi Zero, a smaller, cheaper Rasperry Pi.
• Sean Beaupre discovered and documented a vulnerability that affects all Snapdragon 805 devices, such as the Motorola Droid Turbo/MAXX, Motorola Nexus 6, and Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the Ubuntu community:

• Didier Roche proposes more languages to be baked into the live CD by default
• New community council elected

There are even events:

• 10th Egham Raspberry Jam – Gamification – Sunday 17 January 2016, 14:00 to 17:00 (GMT) – Gartner, Surrey
• SCaLE 14x – January 21-24, 2016 – Pasadena Convention Center, California (including UbuCon Summit – 21st to 22nd)
• FOSDEM 2016 – 30 Jan 2016 to 31 Jan 2016 – Brussels, Belgium
• LinuxConf AU 2016 – Geelong, Victoria, Australia in 2016, between 1st-5th February 2016 at Deakin University’s Waterfront Campus.
• DevConf.cz 2016 – February 5th – 7th 2016 – Brno, Czech Republic

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