So in an effort to make the world safer, Firefox now lets you know when a cert is not 100% legit.
If you use firefox, then you by now are probably conditioned to the following:

Libcurl is a great library that supports a variety of protocols and allows simple scripting of activities.  It can be used for all sorts of things like testing applications, automation, screen-scraping, etc. 

Disclaimer:
I am sure that there are plenty of how-to pages available for these tasks, and I am sure that you may be able to google yourself up one that you like better than this one.  The point of the following entry is to show "a" way to format a usb drive and transfer a LiveOS ISO to it using the command line in linux.