285: Pain the APT

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.

We also have a batch of big community news, and the case for the cloud killing Open Source.

Special Guests: Alessandro Castellani and Brent Gervais.

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Links:

• OggCamp 19 — OggCamp is an unconference celebrating Free Culture, Free and Open Source Software, hardware hacking, digital rights, and all manner of collaborative cultural activities.
• OggCamp on Twitter
• Remote Code Execution in apt-get — 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.
• Why does APT not use HTTPS?
• Turkish ISP Swapped Downloads of Popular Software with Spyware-Infected Apps
• Which block I/O scheduler is the best? We asked eBPF. — 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.
• Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass. — Windows 10 developers have been gifted yet another way of running Linux on their desktop in the form of Canonical's Multipass.
• Microsoft Employee Hints at Windows Core OS Open Source Components
• TechSNAP Episode 395: The ACME Era
• LinuxFest Northwest 20th Anniversary
• LFNW Telegram Group
• LinuxFest Northwest Parking Lot BBQ Meetup
• SCALE 17x
• SCALE Telegram Group
• Texas Linux Fest 2019
• Public Speaking: A repository of resources about public speaking, specifically in the context of software development and IT conferences.
• Linux Operating System Fundamentals — 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.
• Akira: Native Linux App for UI and UX Design
• Akira on Kickstarter
• Exponent episode 159 — Inverted Pyramids
• Late Night Linux – Episode 55 — Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises?
• AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
• Open source confronts its midlife crisis