Privacy in Computing
The series Ungoogling my Computing alluded to the use of Wireguard to help secure networking. It might be useful to look at the general structure of the setup more closely, hence a separate post on the subject.
Wireguard is a relatively new VPN technology which owes its breakthrough in the …
For the past 15 years my "home cinema" setup has been a 55 inch Sony LED TV and an all-in-one Sony 5.1 Surround sound system with integrated Bluray player. Additionally there is a Linux VDR for FTA satellite broadcasts, and a Xiaomi Mibox streaming client.
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 …
I've avoided delving into the calendaring topic for a long while. It seemed a hassle and also I wasn't sure how to best integrate work and private calendars. I don't have very many private appointments anyway, and the ones I do have should ideally also block out the respective times …
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 …
In July 2020 The Register, our usual source of unbiased news (ahem), ran an interesting piece on a pending court case against Microsoft in California. Within the article the actual complaint document was linked via courtlistener.com, to wit: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.362635/gov.uscourts …
In late July 2021 Amnesty International together with The Citizen Lab published an analysis showing the widespread use of NGO Group's Pegasus software. Pegasus is a type of spyware that is commercially available to anyone willing to pay the asking price, and can be used to spy on the carrier …
Backups and more Network Sniffing
Loading up with Applications
Phone setup and initial impressions
Setting up the environment
Escaping the walled gardens
Google Changes the Rules, and that brings with it the end of the walled gardens.
A short news item on Late Night Linux episode
126 referencing this
Public Security Announcement
in r/privacytoolsIO on Reddit gave me a very rude awakening. It describes
Google forcing application developers to hand over …
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