Privacy in Computing
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 released version 8.2 it came with support built-in and "only" like 2.5 years later I finally got around to try it out...
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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 in my work calendar so people don't book me for a meeting when I'm at the dentist or something. So I just put my private …
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 sends a fraudulent (deceptive) message designed to trick a person into revealing sensitive information to the attacker.
A scam is a deceptive scheme or trick …
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.cand.362635.1.0.pdf.
This thing makes for good, if somewhat dry, reading. It's information straight from the horse's mouth, though; you might be …
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 of a mobile phone using pretty much any technological feature of the phone. Reading messages and Emails, turning on the camera and microphone, capturing keystrokes …
Backups and more Network Sniffing
Loading up with Applications
Phone setup and initial impressions
Setting up the environment
Escaping the walled gardens