Finux Tech Weekly Show Notes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Episode Two - Officer Dibble, tweeting for the win! Released on the 21st of January 2010 News - Ryan Ward-Mcconville Guest - Tom Mackenzie Host - Arron Finnon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ News Shock over Apple boss Steve Jobs' medical leave http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12212431 News that Apple boss Steve Jobs is to take another medical leave of absence has been greeted with a mixture of sadness and shock in technology circles. #################################################### Assange vows to drop 'insurance' files on Rupert Murdoch WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he has a trove of private documents on Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp empire and is prepared to release them in the event the whistle-blower website is taken down. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/12/wikileaks_insurance_files/ #################################################### Banking whistleblower hands over offshore secrets to WikiLeaks - video In a news conference at London's Frontline club, Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer gives what he says are details tax evasion by the rich and famous to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, before flying home to stand trial over his actions http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2011/jan/17/banking-whistleblower-offshore-wikileaks-video http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12205690 #################################################### Peter King, Chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security, wants WikiLeaks placed on the Treasury Department's blacklist in order to "strangle (its) viability," by threatening, if not strangling, the viability of any person or company that dares to engage in any economic transaction with WikiLeaks or Assange. Conducting business, or providing any economic assistance to a blacklisted entity, even unknowingly, no matter how trivial, is a violation of federal law, for which you too may be blacklisted, losing access to all your property and interests in the U.S. (I've written previously about the blacklists here and here.) http://m.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/blacklisting-wikileaks/69535/ #################################################### 'Israel tested Stuxnet on Iran, with US help' US and Israeli intelligence services collaborated to develop a destructive computer worm to sabotage Iran's efforts to make a nuclear bomb, The New York Times reported on Saturday. In its online edition, the Times quoted intelligence and military experts as saying Israel has tested the effectiveness of the Stuxnet computer worm, which apparently shut down a fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges in November and helped delay its ability to make its first nuclear weapons. http://www.hindustantimes.com/Israel-tested-Stuxnet-on-Iran-with-US-help/Article1-650988.aspx #################################################### Hackers will not be deterred by UK cyber defences, report warns Military "cyber weaponry" will become commonplace this century, but it will be unlikely to deter attacks by "hacktivists" and criminal gangs, and could easily be used for state-sponsored cyber attacks instead, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warns. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/17/hackers-uk-cyber-defences #################################################### Mark Kennedy 'took part in attack on Irish police officers at EU summit' Undercover police officer was involved in violent protest and helped train other demonstrators, anarchists claim http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/14/mark-kennedy-eu-summit-protest?cat=environment&type=article Revealed: Second undercover police officer who posed as activist http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/12/second-undercover-police-officer #################################################### Tayside Police trial 'tweet from the beat' Police officers in Tayside are to use social networking site Twitter to communicate with the public. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-12201815 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Weeks Interview is with Tom Mackenzie from UpSploit.com http://tmacuk.co.uk/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Leak of the Week Welcome back to the show we've come to finux's leak of the week, our segment that gives people at home the chance to have their input. If you have come across a cablegate file that you think we should be talking about on the show then please feel free to get in touch. Send as much information as you can to finuxtechweekly@gmail.com with the subject line ftw leak. Its yet again another one from me, as i'm still waiting for someone at home to send me something for this section, however this one is a good one and could not be missed. Ireland, and US extraordinary renditions. In US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks its gradually drawing a picture that the Irish government has ignored public opposition about suspected US rendition flights through its territory, and in fact looked for ways to co-operate with alleged US practise whilst trying to avoiding liability and political fallout. The Shannon airport has a history of use as a military stopover point. Post-9/11, the US military had been allowed to use Shannon as a conduit for "War on Terror" flights involving munitions, supplies, and the transport of vehicles and troops to Afghanistan and Iraq. This move was unpopular with many irish citizens since the Iraq war, the Shannon stopover was perceived by the Irish anti-war community as a violation of the principle of Irish neutrality. In the leak 06DUBLIN1020 the visibility of U.S. troops at Shannon has made the airport a symbol of Irish complicity in perceived U.S. wrongdoing in the Gulf/Middle East... In late 2005/early 2006, EU-wide debate on extraordinary renditions similarly galvanized this lobby, and the Irish public generally, to question U.S. military access to the airport... The Irish Government consistently has acted to ensure continued U.S. military transits at Shannon in the face of public criticism... Notwithstanding its general support for U.S. interests, the Irish Government has more recently begun to place limits on certain forms of U.S. transits at Shannon... http://wlcentral.org/node/996 In the same week we have also seen Ireland getting caught up in yet more cablegate drama State department cable reveals possible use of Irish IT infrastructure to pilot unmanned drones in Afghanistan. A recent article in Phoenix Magazine conjectures that undersea fibre-optic cables channeled through sites in Ireland, revealed in Wikileaks release of 09STATE15113, are in fact part of the U.S. military infrastructure for piloting Predator Drones in Afghanistan from a military base in Nevada. If true, this could be illegal under Irish constitutional commitments to neutrality. http://wlcentral.org/node/999 The links to these stories will be available in our show notes. Now If you would like to run a promo on the show for your USER GROUP, Conference, or Your Podcast then please feel free to get in touch with me. If you are a commercial entity wishing to advertise with us then as always i'm pretty cheap and can be paind in various currencys such as BEER, T-Shirts, and SWAG. Just drop us a line at finuxtechweekly@gmail.com For the Win Linux Tip of The week i'm looking at wget; The GNU wget package is a non-interactive utility for downloading files from the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies. You may want to retrieve a number of files from a web site, such as all the ogg files, or maybe all the isos wget -r -np -nd --accept=ogg http://example.com/ftw/shows/ the -r is for recursively through that directory the --np represents no parent directories, making sure you stay within your desired down load section, Adding the --accept argument with a file extensions (or extensions separated by a comma) will grab only those files ending in the specified extension. You can also use an input file with wget, so you may have a list of resources you want to automatically download then you can add them to a file. wget -i filename.txt Or if you have a poor internet connection then? $wget -c http://example.com/really-big-file.iso The “-c” option tells wget to continue and retry until it has completed downloading. You may want to mirror a site as well, this too can be done through wget wget -m -k http://www.example.com/ Mirror a site, converting its links to work locally, so that you can move the site to another server. Use the ‘-H’ option if images are loaded from another site. You can find more information by typing man wget in the terminal. http://tipotheday.com/2007/10/11/wget-some-quick-tips If you liked this weeks intro music it is by go1dfish and is called; Cases of Misused Apostrophe's http://ccmixter.org/files/go1dfish/29125 So i would like to finish off by thank everyone that has been on the show, especially this weeks guest Tom Mackenzie. As always feel free to emails us, tweet us, or join us at our facebook groups Thank you for downloading the show, we hope you've enjoyed. Our next show is scheduled for the 27th of January. Catch you all again soon on the next Finux Tech Weekly