Open Source is about enabling users “Amazon, Microsoft, Google” and the White House, want to help make Open Source more secure… https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-150-millionen-us-dollar-sollen-open-source-absichern-2205-165382.html https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-linux-foundation-will-security-praxis-vereinheitlichen-2008-150036.html src of src: “White House OSS Mobilization Plan” 2022: https://openssf.org/blog/2022/05/11/testimony-to-the-us-house-committee-on-science-and-technology/ 2020: “The OpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration […]
update: major of Berlin fooled by Klitschko LIVE deep fake video conference (actually not so funny) it would mean: do not trust phone calls, even if the number is shown as “police” “doctor” “friend” trust no video conference what can […]
# will open file:///home/user/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/share/doc/rust/html/std/index.html in browser rustup doc –std which looks like: of course there is an online version: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/
Snowden says: “Ultimately, saying that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.” “Or that you don’t care about […]
“Basically, rust-gdb is a wrapper that loads external Python pretty-printing scripts into GDB. This is useful (and somewhat necessary) when debugging more complex Rust programs because it significantly improves the display of Rust data types.” (src) what the developer has […]
computers are no way perfect: the rise of the machines: who is scared of killer robots? who is scared of doctors, judges and police blindly trusting in AI and computer output? “we are driving in (heavy) rain right now with […]
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ “where it has gone from defending America to controlling it” data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of […]
this is why high quality journalism and education are sooooo important: trust is so important & journalism should be about truth and trust context: media outlets that use numbers out of context (do those numbers apply to the US, or […]
scroll down and behave! (slaves of digital dictatorships) short version summary of 1984: short version: 1984 needs to be avoided at any cost. because: it is evil. (Google did not drop it’s motto “don’t be evil” for nothing) in essence: […]
“We need to be more vigilant with what we trust from the internet” – BigBrother will use this against you! … even if Putin, Trump and Obama will die some day… his digital deep fake copy will feed you lies […]
setup rustc hostnamectl; # tested on Static hostname: lenovo Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-17-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 # also tested with Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) su – root apt update apt install build-essential # otherwise […]
why is RUST so popular? well… it is the better C++, so fore those familiar with C++ it will be a breeze, but for anyone else it might be a steep learning curve (the compiler gives very very helpful error […]
is Rust safer than C/C++? “show me the src” https://github.com/rust-lang https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src DebConf 2019: Why would a python programmer learn rust when there are no jobs in it https://ytpak.net/watch?v=IYLf8lUqR40 “This means no matter what language you use, the only safe way […]
Capitalism inspires the short sighted incentives. But trust and honesty is key in long term relationships. So for a short period of time – some dishonest people might enjoy the benefits – but in the end – it comes home […]
Pwn2Own 2020: opening a pdf can be enough to compromise system! https://youtu.be/u1udr7j9MQA?t=359 thank you ccc you are doing a lovely work – make this planet more interesting by creativity and more informed about security 🙂 keep it up 🙂 https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/gpn/gpn19/h264-hd/gpn19-45-eng-BADPDF_-_Stealing_Windows_Credentials_via_PDF_Files_hd.mp4 […]
make sure you downloaded the SHA512SUMS.sign from the same directory as the iso. https://keyring.debian.org/ https://www.debian.org/CD/verify https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/9.4.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/ https://bits.debian.org/2016/08/debian-and-tor-services-available-as-onion-services.html otherwise you will get BAD signature. steps to reproduce: # download the iso image with non-free drivers (yes it sucks non-free drivers are […]
https://dwaves.de/2014/11/24/how-nsa-surveillance-free-is-mozilla-firefox-and-thunderbird-landuke-says-they-are-fucking-capitalists/ Checkout: IceCat Ok, let’s put this straigt. Mozilla HAD (!!!) a contract with Google from 2012 – 2014 that showered them with money – which they probably got a lot of shitstorms, and online-bashing. But even worse: Google stole […]
… it’s a self-signed SSL certificate… that’s why it’s not trusted ;-p
Update: 2021-01 Mozilla changed a lot in Thunderbird, Enigmail and other addons are not working anymore. This guide will need be be rewritten. Update: 2020-10 apt-listchanges: News ——————— thunderbird (1:78.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium The Thunderbird ESR series starting with version 78.x […]
I really wonder what the software-culture @ RIM is… … it seems to be a little “aberrational” / “blunderous“. Just like Microsoft nobody is perfect. But what when it comes to trust? Look how beautiful their readme is displayed: (completely […]
and again: another “Elon Musk will give you bitcoin if you scan this QR code” fake scam live stream of an recorded video in loop 2023-01: (using the same video X-D) this also works so well because youtube allows the […]
one fine day, DNS stopped working. the reason this time was NOT on the server-side, but on the Google side, blocking all DNS servers that are NOT google. while this can be understood in the terms of CyberSec: + (manipulation […]
ALWAY something positive first: Elon actually cares about truth even if Elon WILL have a hard time accepting some truth X-D keep it up 😀 how Elon reacts to “inconveniant truths” will highly decide, if he will stay true or […]
OF COURSE Dennis Ritchie is the father of C. (An appreciation of the late Dennis Ritchie) (src of the src) Ken Thompson: “was writing FORTRAN in TMG” “when it finally got down to 4k, called it B“ “B and C were […]
as most users know, Ubuntu (a Nguni Bantu term meaning “humanity”) is, still (luckily) based on GNU Linux Debian. But more software is not necessarily better. What Ubuntu nicely does: more recent kernel it aims for even greater hardware compatibility […]
want to make this world a better place? want to support true alternatives? Thunderbird.net (donate there!) still genius mail program 😀 constantly getting better (they are NOT sponsored by Mozilla anymore) GNU Linux based OperatingSystem that protects user’s privacy https://tails.boum.org/ mail […]
BUT: only 1.5% of all OpenSSL instances were found to be impacted by this security flaw HeartBleed revival party? why complexity is the enemy: “parser written in C was never properly tested for security problems” says golem.de “The Heartbleed bug would […]
czkawka it is the rust rewritten successor to fslint what is neat: it searches a directory for duplicate files and lists the biggest files first pitfalls: the terminal version is sufficient (imho) in theory it has a gui practically it […]
“The biggest network security threat today is a remote code execution exploit for Intel’s Management Engine.” “Every computer with an Intel chipset produced in the last decade would be vulnerable to this exploit, and RCE would give an attacker full […]
cyber is on heightened alarm levels … ya’ll know why. timeline of a successful attack on the most basic tools like: exiftool cve-2021-22204 (failed to properly validate parsed input) This was reported by a security researcher on April 7, 2021, […]