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From Monday, it is going to be more difficult for single parents to get benefits. Until now they have had income support automatically. But if the child is over 12, the government wants the lone parent to look for work and so they will get the jobseekers allowance instead. That means having to report to a job centre and prove they're looking for a job. Kim Catcheside investigates if the plan should be put off because of the economic crisis. Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell responds to criticism of the plans.

The BBC is to release its report into the Jonathan Ross-Russell Brand affair. Two BBC managers resigned as a result of the controversy that erupted over the offensive telephone calls left by the Radio 2 presenters on the answer phone of the actor Andrew Sachs last month. Andrew Hosken reports. Caroline Thomson, the BBC's chief operating officer, answers the criticism about how the BBC handled the crisis.

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Our regular mailbag episode with questions and comments from our listeners.

Audible pick of the week: The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, Unabridged, By Jonathan Alter, Narrated by Grover Gardner. To sign up for a free audio book, visit AudiblePodcast.com/securitynow.

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UK retail spending / International Space Station's 10th birthday / Sparrows in crisis.

Was John Sergeant bullied into leaving the dance floor or was he right to quit Strictly Come Dancing? Jim Moir, former head of light entertainment at the BBC, and Kevin O'Sullivan, television critic of the Daily Mirror, debate the implications of the dancing debacle.

Andy Street, managing director of John Lewis, and Sir Philip Green, who owns BHS and the Arcadia Group, discuss how the economic downturn is affecting UK retail.

Lightweight apps, Deepgeek reviews "rox-filer," a lightweight gui file manager. An excellent jumping off point on the web is this link... http://polishlinux.org/apps/window-managers/rox-filer-a-lightweight-file-manager-that-simply-rocks/ The add-on for an integrated trash can can be found here... http://www.skepticats.com/rox/trash.html

UK Prostitution / Tissue engineering / Sergeant quits dancing

Session Hijacking with a Pineapple, Hamster and Ferret and cell phone? A free and easy way to virtualize physical servers! And is WPA Broken? Ikea clusters, screencasting, and canvas technolust.

Paul Frields - Fedora Project Lead, Fedora, JZA joins us for some OpenOffice updates.

The Italian film Gomorra, depicting the destructive workings of the Neapolitan criminal organisation, the Camorra, is based on a book by the Italian writer Roberto Saviano. The Camorra now says it wants him dead by Christmas. Increasingly it is brave individuals - not the Italian state - who are taking on the Camorra, by breaking the code of silence and stripping away the glamour that surrounds organised crime in Italy.

Across the UK, paying for sex with a prostitute is legal. But the law in England and Wales is set to change - the government is proposing a change to make it illegal to pay for sex with a prostitute working to benefit someone else who is controlling them. Crucially, the onus is on the client to know that the prostitute is working for a pimp or a drug dealer.

EC Lug November 13th Meeting

We’re joined today by Glenn Fleishman to talk about our own recent past and the recent cracks in the WPA armor.  Rich recently got to visit Russia to participate in a talk on Data Leak Prevention, while Martin got his own sit down with DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff.  Glenn had a little excitement of his own, with a detailed article on the recently revealed vulnerabilities in WPA using TKIP.  It’s a small vulnerabilty, but both Rich and Glenn suspect it’s just a precursor to bigger, badder things to come. And somewhere in there, a three year anniversary for the podcast slipped by.

Network Security Podcast, Episode 128, November 18, 2008

Show Notes:

• Battered but not broken:  understanding the WPA crack 
• Practical attacks against WEP and WPA 

No time for any music or fancy stuff like that. 

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the eighteenth Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In a rather belated episode we have:-

• We discuss our experience of upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 - the Intrepid Ibex.
• We review Ubuntu Kung Fu, a book by Keir Thomas, and we give away a copy in our competition - which due to the late arrival of this podcast will be extended until 3rd December.
• The news.
• We discuss what we do to our systems after installing Ubuntu, and briefly discuss Automatix and Ultimatix.
• Finally we have your feedback.

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Hijacked tanker off Somalia / Cameron's policy shift / Mickey at 80.

Techno art with the world's largest interactive video installation; Andrew Keen and Solana Larsen debate whether the internet is destroying culture; and Brazilian cinema meets social networks. With presenter Gareth Mitchell and studio expert Bill Thompson.

Pirates who seized a giant Saudi-owned oil tanker are heading towards a port in Somalia. The Foreign Office has confirmed that two of those on board are British. The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said last night he was stunned by how far from the coast the ship had been captured. Security correspondent Frank Gardner explains how the Somali pirates are living well on the proceeds of piracy.

Across Europe there are efforts to breathe life into a "peace process" between Israel and the Palestinians which has been dormant. The Israeli President, Shimon Peres, discusses how to revitalise the peace process.

Cause I am Free by Chad from the linuxbasement