Mid Week Links
Not going to be a mentally massive mid week links, more a small feeler to see how I can fit this into my evening’s activities.
Firstly I’d like to talk about Backtrack, this is a linux based security distribution, which can be booted from CD, USB key or over a network. This distro is based on two exsisting distros Whax and Auditor Security Collection, which merged to form Backtrack. The distribution is built on a Slackware core and is designed specifically to be used for network penetration testing. It supports a rather wide hardware platform, has a vast range of software and quite a few nice features. Specifically integration with the metasploit framework.
Now for a few random links. First up is Linux MCE, a distro that combines Ubuntu and MythTV into one easy to install package. Secondly is zcars.org a kitcar maker that makes conversion kits to put bike engines in a variety of cars. Cool kits and a good website, with plenty of good videos. Thirdly, peacefire.org a organisation that aims to prevent unnecessary censorship of website, specifically for young people.
Like I said this was going to be short, so one last piece:
What if google wanted to be sued when they bought YouTube? That is the thought behind the article on michiknows.com. Quite an interesting thought. As the article states Google obviously wants to be a major player in the video advertising world, when it finally hits the internet in what ever form it takes. So from that point of view having the current major player in the video world makes a lot of sense. Especially when the second largest site is the myspace video site. Myspace is owned by News corp, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, who I’m sure would love to have the number one video site on the internet. Basically seems to be a bit of a rumble between the old and the new.
A good article, well worth the read. The outcome will be interesting to see, thats for sure.
There should be a sunday links up as per usual. Maybe another post before then, who knows.