here the stories were covering this week in the category 5 TV newsroom Bristol Airport has blamed the cyberattack for causing flight delay screens to fail for two days it could soon prove expensive for media makers to chase online pirates in Canada the country's Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that internet providers are entitled to reasonable compensation when asked to link pirates IP addresses to customer details a few lines if CSS is all it takes to bring Apple devices to their knees and the father of Linux Linus Torvalds would like to apologize for years of being a jerk and is taking time off to learn empathy these stories are coming right up don't go anywhere Jeff Weston Gellin you're building a brand-new beautiful website what aren't you you're terrible actor what does where acting comes into play I don't know you're supposed to act okay are you building a really cool website are you building a really cool website just because Jeff is confused doesn't mean you have to be visit cap five dot TV slash DreamHost to sign up for unlimited web hosting for your website with unlimited email accounts MySQL databases the latest version of PHP WordPress and more and even a free domain name registration it's less than six dollars per month so sign up today cat five dot TV slash DreamHost this is category-five TV newsroom covering the week's top tech stories with a slight linux bias I'm Sacha Rickman in here the top stories were following this week Bristol Airport has blamed the cyberattack for causing flight delays flight display screens to fail for two days an airport spokesman said that the information screens were taken offline early on Friday in order to contain an attack similar to so-called ransomware the spokesman said no ransom had been paid to get the systems working again ransomware is a form of what malware which computer viruses threatened to delete files unless a ransom is paid spokesman James gore said we believe there was an online attempt to target part of our administrative systems and required us to take a number of applications offline as a precautionary measure including the one that provides our data for flight information screens that was done to contain the problem and to avoid any further impact on more critical systems mr. Gore said that flights were unaffected but contingency measures and manual processes including whiteboards and marker pens had to be used in place of display screens at no point where any safety or security systems impacted or put at risk he said that it had taken longer than people might have expected to rectify due to a cautious approach given the number of safety and security critical systems operating at an airport we wanted to make sure that the issue with the flight information application that experienced the problem was absolutely resolved before it was put back online no flights are understood to have been disrupted as a result we have that's the world we live in right that's that's right and to be honest with you I'm not super surprised something like this might happen my question is I guess more about like it happens here as well in in like our towns and stuff is what they did enough like if you if you notice it is and you just shut down one part is that enough we didn't really go into details as to how the infiltration was taking place and and to say that okay we're shutting down systems to to stop it from spreading I mean it makes sense because the way ransomware infects networks is it looks for other systems on the network finds the files that are shared on those systems and encrypts them right and then holds them ransom right it's usually not a targeted attack though it's something that just comes in through somebody opened a bad email or a website address they didn't have proper protection or here's a scary scenario for you Sasha somebody had Remote Desktop or something installed in their computer and active so that they can access their computer from home right so they can work from home and those protocols RDP for example Remote Desktop Protocol you can't tell when someone's brute-forcing your login okay so they find so these scripts bots if you will they find computers on the web that are open to Remote Desktop as the example and once they find that computer it starts guessing at the password and it keeps going keeps going until it gets in and once it gets in it then infiltrates the network and just goes you can spread yeah yeah so how it got in I'm not really clear on this one right but it could have been somebody opening about email a file that was ransomware that could spread in the news they're calling it a virus so it makes me think maybe it is a bit of a Trojan horse or something like that something that somebody opened and it you know here's your invoice open the invoice it's scary it's scary just to think that it's the airport so airport security is paramount and here's a computer system I mean mind you it's just the flight information but that's a system inside the airport so now they can get in there they could have gone anywhere so I understand but the end of the day it's flight information arrival times and departures which would be linked with air traffic control within the airport you think because it's monitoring the signals on the planes what I love about the story is that they go beyond the talking about the you know the issue to say but we use white boards and can erase markers reminds me of my recent work experience for my use my I use my blue keyboard and and as patients were coming in I was signing them in so that I knew the order of arrival and I could tell them where to go that's exactly what happened are you sure that this was ransomware just told Windows Update that's all it was shut this thing down before Microsoft updates all our computers and destroys our network yeah it could soon prove expensive for media makers to chase online pirates in Canada the country Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that internet IP addresses to customer details voltage pictures the production firm behind The Hurt Locker intended to sue roughly 55,000 customers of telecom giant Rogers for allegedly bootlegging movies but when but balked when Rogers wanted to charge $100 per hour to comply with their requests for information Rodgers won the initial federal federal court case but had to defend itself at the Supreme Court when voltage appealed the case voltage had insisted that these kinds of fees would make it too costly to pursue pirates good justice Russell Brown rejected this notion however and suggested that media producers could wind up imposing stiff costs on ISPs he noted that costs may well be small right now but that it would be wrong to assume that they would always be inconsequential inconsequential not surprisingly Rogers characterized the decision is a victory for customers claiming that millions of people face open season on their personal data if ISPs had to provide info no matter what the cost this doesn't mean that Canadian ISPs could ask for blank checks Brown indicated that Rogers should go back to a lower court to prove its costs even so it adds a barrier to Hollywood studios and music labels expecting to track down pirates they can't just assume ISPs will work pro bono on their behalf I love this in no way am i say you know go pirates but I that's not it at all no I love that it's not just a steamroll process right like when it oddly enough with voltage pictures this is the second time that they've come into a high-profile case over The Hurt Locker the first time was years ago when they took on tech-savvy because they wanted to get access to who the people were that were downloading it but tech savvy took them to court and I don't remember all the details but basically tech savvy one to a certain degree to say you can't just have our data right and now they've so voltage pictures has continued their onslaught over The Hurt Locker who even watches The Hurt Locker anymore like this is an issue that's like movies what eight years old ten years old like who cares now but you know now it's like hey we want all your people oh you gotta pay for it and quite frankly I think they should mm-hmm and the Foo in in our chat room says exactly what comes to mind is that 100 bucks an hour I mean consider this as well the Foo this is Canadian dollars Rogers is a Canadian company hundred bucks an hour's cheap that's true I charge 150 yeah I mean I'm just saying I assume that there's information all over the place like I'm assuming that you're tracked all along the way so are they just looking for a legal way to get the information from you they're trying to get like like as if it's public record like as if Rodgers is obliged to provide this information because it's illegal what these people are doing so you must give us this information well then pay yeah and I Rodgers is a huge company so there's there's you know there's two sides of this where it's like I don't want to sound like I'm defending Rogers because that's not the case what the case is is that nobody should make that assumption that they could just go and and assume that well I can just get this information no charge because because the customer is breaking the law mmm-hmm Rogers has every right to charge twice what they're asking I totally agree yeah there'd be every right there being really reserved in this absolutely not only that depending on what the data is that's been requested I mean we're talking fifty five thousand clients I think it said in the story I mean Rogers would have to make sure that the information they're sharing in no way goes beyond what's been requested and so that means going through the fifty five thousand files and oh my god to say you know we want to make sure that we're not just you know maybe it's the addresses and the names we're not giving you billing information we're not giving you credit information like so I mean that's gonna take a lot of time right they need to be careful because if Rogers screwed up you know that anybody who gets sued is going to go after Rogers to say you gave information that you shouldn't have and impacted the case blah blah blah but it's a Hurt Locker for crying out loud I don't care what it is it has to do with like companies rights I mean it's the fact that one movie they're still pushing it's like there's other movies that people are pirating okay so speaking of other movies I went to the Toronto International Film Festival for the first time ever and I was sitting in the it was incredible I'll tell you but I was sitting in the audience and all of these warnings come up about you know don't bring your recording devices yeah I know print legging what's great about it is all of these warnings come up and then everybody goes are in the hole I mean it's pirating is wrong it's true is stealing but so many facets to the story giving information for free to somebody who just requests it is more wrong so yeah I love it that's it a few lines of CSS is all it takes to bring Apple devices to their knees Apple's iPhones iPads and Mac computers that stray onto websites with malicious CSS code while using Safari can crash or fail overdue or fall over due to a flaw in the web browser the WebKit rendering engine vulnerability can be triggered by just a few lines of code in a CSS file on iOS devices at least it all starts to go wrong when the browser tries to parse a processor-intensive CSS feature called backdrop filter on nested page elements the so called Safari Reaper attack developed by a Berlin based security researcher and uploaded to github this week effectively crashes iOS devices from iPads iPhones running iOS 7 to 12 and even Apple smartwatches the CSS causes the rendering engine to exhaust the system's resources and force the gadgets to reboot to recover Mac can be similarily frozen by the same exploit forcing them to restart so don't try this at home other browsers that make use of WebKit are likely also vulnerable on systems that don't crash the HTML renders a picture of a triggered Thomas Tank Engine the same trick crashes tabs on ie and edge the researcher came across the vulnerability while researching browser caching crashing attacks more generally last week story though is this story because Apple just doesn't like this Apple crash often is this why it's a story no well no I mean my wife has a Mac I know nobody yell at me I don't think it's ever crashed yeah it's but I mean a lot of the world runs on Mac because of all the graphics and all that kind of stuff so a lot of people use it so that makes it a newsworthy topic but I mean like I look at that and go okay sure great wonderful you crash you know there's other issues bigger than this it's like however so maybe it's not a huge issue but maybe the simpleness of the capability of an attacker to crash system like we can inject a CSS code into an existing site let's say we work it into a word plug-in yeah right right that is widely distributed and so then everyone gets their updates on their WordPress blog or website and now tens of thousands of websites are infected with this undetectable because it's not malware it's just a piece of yes s code yeah that now everyone with a Mac goes to that site and their computer reboots and it's right across the board like it's AI devices and the Smosh your phone - that's it that's quite a vulnerability that is incredible that soar for a system that like never crashes that there's something so simple that's it's its Achilles tendon like it's it blows my mind it's it's ultra small now here's a conspiracy theory for you okay now that it's Microsoft that owns github right yes yes put that code in all the CS that's exactly how Microsoft rolls - yeah it just injects it into this yeah that's bad anyways the father of linux linus torvalds would like to apologize for years of being a jerk and is taking time off to learn empathy Linux creator linus torvalds has apologized for years of rants swearing and general hostility directed at other Linux developers saying that he's going to take a temporary break from his role as maintainer of the open-source kernel to learn how to behave better for more for many years Torvalds has been infamous for his explicit expletive filled aggressive outbursts on the Linux kernel mailing list chewing outs developers who submit pasture patches that he believes aren't up to the standards necessary for the kernel he's defended this behavior in the face of pushback from other developers insisting that people being nice to one another was an American ideology but that many that may be coming to an end in a lengthy email posted too mailing-list Sunday nights Torvalds explained expressed a change of heart taken to task over attacks that he recognizes were unprofessional and uncalled for he says now he recognizes that his behavior was not okay and that he is truly sorry he's going to step back from kernel development for a while something he's done before while developing the git source control system so that he can get help on how to behave differently at the same time the Linux project now has a code of conduct previously the project had a code of conflict a code of conflict a short document that asserts that the code quality is the only thing that matters and implores developers to be excellent to each other the new code of conduct is more extensive and sets explicit standards for behavior requiring it to be positive professional welcoming and inclusive thank you for listening to me what I mean I feel like Linus literally just watch this show some day very good to want to know exactly right people should be nice to each other it smarts to care empathy is something I should build compassion is important this is what happened and I thank you - I actually really I want to be a friend we have such a such a mentality here of community and and caring for one another and and supporting one another between our community the hosts yes what's this about why he's like this has legal proceedings written all you think so yeah 100% 100% there's somebody within the company who within the quali within the development community yes whose own but I think probably even more so within the company that filed a complaint that became a legal matter and that's why these kind of statements are issued that's why on his departure you see a change in the code of conduct all that kind of stuff this says settlement all over it ah okay so I watched the Steve Jobs movie on Netflix like the last two days I watched a little bit at each night before I fell asleep who is that good and I fell asleep in this movie and I don't know how true it is Steve Jobs is a big old jerk - oh yeah like really yeah this is this is where I was going is that I have mad respect for leanness thorvald's yeah like he is a brilliant man and he admits his flaws and he is flawed and we're all flawed and and backing up like we have such a community mindset here and we care but I have bad days right right and I have stressful days and he is like the head of this thing right when you have that like flame of genius in your mind you really need to protect it and I really do think like he's a genius and Steve Jobs just a genius oh come on now oh but I think that that's I like how that went that's our t-shirt for the week folks sometimes you get so consumed by feeding that because you know that like it becomes your worth that you forget about how you look to everybody else I joked about it before our show tonight about how incredibly particular I am about certain things right behind the scenes like just making sure that things work and things are the way they have to be set up the way that they should be right but it's super respectable like I respect the fact that you have have figured it out you've plotted it out in the future you know what may go wrong and you you want to check it before it happens right I'm I'm more like throw caution to the wind I walk around with reckless abandon I need like you but when I can so imagine so if like I'm small fries but leanness you know he is that guy for Linux and so if somebody steps in and and offers a commit that is not up to his standard that is not in line with the things and he's admittedly brusque with people and and you know very pointed with people and he says it's you know he's just not a people person he just he he likes to sit in front computer and that's his comfortable place that's where he's comfortable and and and he doesn't deal nicely with people and he admits that and and so if somebody is offering a commit he may appreciate the commit but if he has to go back and recoat it to make it work the way that he wants it to look and work and function and he yeah expects people to instead follow that code of conflict if you will the the here's how the code should be do it that way that's how we've laid it out I want you to when you submit it I want it to be that way so I I understand I admire and I respect his position right as a delicately emotion person right I need very maybe I'm a millennial I don't know like I need I just need a lot of positive reinforcement if I put effort into something so okay I say I go ahead and I send him a kernel I don't know what I do but I great I don't want to be told I'm a bad person right it's a bad yeah thing no absolute right but again he had he he knows his flaws we know his flaws is his community right and it takes people skills and a willingness to be that people person to like I as a father for example and I incur I do my best to encourage my children and you've been through it as well like sometimes sometimes the kids won't do things the way that I want them to do it or maybe you know the first time is always a disaster but I still want I don't want to blast them for doing it wrong no I want to encourage you to be better and and to learn but that's part of me as a father yes feedback sandwiches I learned this in therapy where you must have thing that makes constructive criticism and then another positive thing what we need to do to improve but that's not him right and that's he's not our Father he's not he doesn't love me he doesn't love his unity the way that I love my children and so don't expect that of him so but I think you may be right I think I'm 100 percent I don't know what do you think watch this show and he was like Sasha's got it people should be nice to each other I should start with me let's grow my empathy lawsuit I like it I like it big thanks to Roy W Nash and our community of yours for submitting stories to us this week thanks for watching the category-five TV newsroom don't forget to Like and subscribe for all your tech news with a slight Linux bias and for more free content be sure to check out our website from the category-five TV newsroom I'm Sasha Rickman and I'm Robbie Ferguson yeah Jeff Weston it has been a pleasure having you here with us this week you see how did I was so nice so friendly you've been good yeah you know and that's how we can do it around here so thank you thank you for being a part of this community we appreciate you there we go don't forget to visit our website category 5 TV if you're 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