Finux Tech Weekly Show Notes
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Episode Zero - The beginning

Released on the 7th of January 2010

Recorded between the 5th and 6th of January 2010

News - Ryan Ward-Mcconville 

Guest - Ken Fallon

Host - Arron Finnon
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Intro Music

	Vendor Defender - Golden Shiver 

	http://www.vendordefender.co.uk
	http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000954418918
	
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This weeks News Items

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#1 PHP Bug on all OSs

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/04/weird_php_dos_vuln/

Web developers are in a lather following the discovery of a bug in the PHP programming language that causes computers to freeze when they process certain numerical values with large numbers of decimal places.

		http://www.exploringbinary.com/php-hangs-on-numeric-value-2-2250738585072011e-308/

		http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53632

#2 PSP cracked with the roll of a dice

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/29/hackers-obtain-ps3-private-cryptography-key-due-to-epic-programm/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

The 27th annual Chaos Communication Conference already hacked encrypted GSM calls with a $15 cellphone, but there was a second surprise in store this morn -- the souls who unlocked the Nintendo Wii's homebrew potential (and defended it time and again) claim to have broken into the PlayStation 3 as well. Last we left the black monolith, Sony had won a round, forcing the community to downgrade their firmware for any hope at hacking into the console.

#3 SMS of Death

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/sms-death-attacks-can-crash-simplest-phones-123010

Malicious text messages can crash many types of mobile phones, including devices by Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and LG, according to a presentation given at the Chaos Communication Congress hacking conference this week in Berlin.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/03/BA5N1H3G12.DTL&tsp=1

#4 The rozzerz can search your smart fone

The California Supreme Court allowed police Monday to search arrestees' cell phones without a warrant, saying defendants lose their privacy rights for any items they're carrying when taken into custody.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12094227

#5 GSM network popped, for cheap as chips

Mobile calls and texts made on any GSM network can be eavesdropped upon using four cheap phones and open source software, say security researchers.

	http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/18/gsm_hacking/

#6 Wheeler dumped
	
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/04/body-john-wheeler-delaware

Police in Delaware are trying to piece together the mystery of how a decorated soldier and former adviser to three US presidents was murdered, stuffed in to a dustbin lorry and dumped in a landfill.

#7 Zionist Plot, vultures circling 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12120259

Saudi Arabian officials have "detained" a vulture on accusations of being a spy for Israel, media reports say.

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FTW Interview of the Week

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Ken Fallon from HackerPublicRadio.Org talks about the podcasting community there, and how listeners at home can get involved 

HPR WEBSITE

http://www.hackerpublicradio.org

HPR FACEBOOK GROUP

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_130169220378872

HPR TWITTER

http://twitter.com/hpr

HPR IDENTICA

http://identi.ca/group/hpr

OGGCASTPLANT WEB IRC CHAT

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=oggcastplanet

EMAIL 

admin(AT)hackerpublicradio.org

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Finux Leak of the Week 

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# Israel said would keep Gaza near collapse - Wikileaks

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza's economy "on the brink of collapse" while avoiding a humanitarian crisis, according to U.S. diplomatic cables published by a Norwegian daily on Wednesday.

http://news.stv.tv/world/218342-israel-said-would-keep-gaza-near-collapse-wikileaks/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/05/israel-gaza-collapse-wikileaks_n_804583.html

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For The Win Linux Tip of the Week 

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So for this weeks tip, its a oldy but it is a goldern.  If you have ran Ubuntu and ever had to issues root level commands in the terminal i'm sure you'll be aware of the use of sudo.  How many times have you forgotten to type sudo before it? (i.e. apt-get update)

Well if you use !! it repeats the last command, so you would be able to type sudo !! (i.e. sudo apt-get update)

You can also use !$ to return the last arguments of a command, so in essance you could do.

mkdir /home/user/foo && cd !$ 

http://www.faqs.org/docs/bashman/bashref_109.html
http://blogs.howtogeek.com/jatecblog/posts/repeat-last-command-bash-shortcut/

You can learn more about BASH by typing in the terminal man bash

If you have a tip that you think other listners would be interested in then drop us an email and let us know