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Privacy in Computing


Fri 02 September 2022

Using Yubikeys for SSH

Posted by fedops in Security   

Something I've been meaning to try for a while was using a physical MFA token in conjunction with SSH to secure connections to remote servers. I've been casually reading blogs on the subject, but it seemed to be a bit of faff surrounding the issue.

Then when the OpenSSH project …

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Wed 25 May 2022

The Case for Per-Service Email Addresses

Posted by fedops in Security   

Phishing, online scams, and identity theft are big problems. All three of them are quite closely related, and to a significant degree revolve around something virtually everyone has these days - an email address. Let's look at the definitions real quick:

Phishing is a type of social engineering where an attacker …

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