with security there is no “done” it can be clearly seen that: the amounts of it-security problems is increasing of course there is no 100% security with state-actors playing “hot” “cold war” in cyberspace private-spy-companies developing exploits that then leak […]
2020-12: another reason why JavaScript SUCKS badly and websites NEED TO WORK without JS: it might “destroy” NAT security: NAT Slipstreaming allows an attacker to remotely access any TCP/UDP service bound to a victim machine, bypassing the victim’s NAT/firewall (arbitrary […]
Your mobile phone is giving away your approximate location all day long. This isn’t exactly a secret: It has to share this data with your mobile provider constantly to provide better call quality and to route any emergency 911 calls […]
one was running CyanogenMod “Beanstalk” on Samsung Galaxy S3 (i9300) for the last 2-3 years and it worked pretty well, but after a while (and a lot of Apps) it becomes unreliable/unstable. (but that is with all systems that […]
Crowd funding platforms are great – i love em. They actually do what Banks are supposed to do – get the money where it can build great products and foster innovation. problem: as more and more money flows through crowdfunding […]
update: 2024-04: can the PI be trusted? while many cool projects are made with Raspberry PIs, including camera surveillance projects, the PI’s design requires a GPU binary blob driver to be loaded BEFORE the OS is loaded… this is Open […]
what to do to improve online privacy? use a privacy respecting DNS server by https://www.opennic.org/ for example: 195.10.195.195 (not google’s (8.8.8.8)) use Freifunk use a VPN such as: mullvad VPN https://mullvad.net/en/help/pricing-discounts/ https://mullvad.net/en/check/ Mozilla launched it’s own VPN service https://vpn.mozilla.org/ use tor […]
2018-04: RISC-V CPUs not affected by spectre & meltdown “No announced RISC-V silicon is susceptible, and the popular open-source RISC-V Rocket processor is unaffected as it does not perform memory accesses speculatively.” (2018-01-05 src) “If you’re selling an IoT sensor […]
update: 2023-08 software support wise that 32bit ARMv7 xu4 SoC has aged EXTREMELY WELL 😀 thanks all involved! (check prices on ebay) here is the “official” ArmBian (Debian 12 “bookworm” for ARM) image for the odroid xu4 “inofficial” Debian 12 […]
“Thinking is hard work and not worth the effort” (The Love Police) Ever wondered why WhatsApp is for free? It is a self-surveillance tool. Phones with closed-source wifi drivers are cheap. Because to know the last detail about you – […]
LibreSignal is like Signal – the private WhatsApp and SMS service – but without using requirement for GooglePlay. So people with alterntive firmwares on their phones (CyanogenMod) can use it as well. Is it a fake alternative that started off […]
MicroKernel for mobile devices? LK (Little Kernel) is a tiny operating system suited for small embedded devices, bootloaders, and other environments where OS primitives like threads, mutexes, and timers are needed, but there’s a desire to keep things small and […]
Da haben wir es – Bequemlichkeit vs Privatsphäre 😀 Es ist sehr schade/seltsam – dass es scheinbar neben dem ActiveSync / ExchangeProtokoll von Microsoft – dere Android / Linux implementation leider nicht 100%tig funktioniert – kein anderes Open-Protokoll gibt – […]
Unfortunately Debian – and i guess the rest of the Linux world as well – users have a pretty hard time finding WIFI and LAN cards but also grafix cards that can run with 100% free software. (FSF! STALLMAN! HELP! […]
While biodiversity is GOOD and efficiency is NOT all we need. Nature looks for a balance of efficiency (30%) and resilience (70%). Standardization is enshuring that your work is compatible with future versions – therefore important for programmers, administrators and […]
NSO Group – Wikipedia Type Private Industry Computer security Founded 2010; 7 years ago Founders Niv Carmi Omri Lavie Shalev Hulio Headquarters Herzliya, Israel Key people Shalev Hulio (CEO)[1] Products Pegasus Owner Francisco Partners (70%) Omri Lavie Shalev Hulio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group Proxy […]
WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages WhatsApp = Facebook pretends to protect your privacy with a faulty implementation of the OpenWhisper-System-Encryption. “Steffen Tor Jensen, head of information security and digital counter-surveillance at the European-Bahraini Organisation for Human Rights, verified […]
STATUS: BROKEN! this program used to work with test files in 2016, but just tested it and it does not work. you can give it a try… but most likely it will not return what you want. will have to […]
UPDATE: I am testing this firmware since 3 months and it is pretty good. Better than previous versions. LANDSCAPE PICTURE IS BACK! YEAH! you might want to check what is latest unofficial from: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=55224 I am testing this latest “UNOFFICIAL” […]
Update: 2021: von Congstar zurück zu SimDiscount 🙂 (Drillisch) Nachdem ich jetzt 2 Jahre Congstar Kunde war muss ich sagen: Drillisch war doch gar nicht sooo schlecht X-D Aktuell der einzige Vorteil welcher mir Congstar bietet: 3er Telefonkonferenz. Meine Erfahrung […]
You will neet to open a terminal (you might need to install an App like ConnectBot) prompt and copy and paste this into it: (Android 5.1 / Cyanogen 12.1 worked and tested) cat /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
who/what to trust in 2022? it’s hard… “A February 2020 research report published by the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin tested six browsers and deemed Brave to be the most private of them, in terms […]
it ain’t quiet easy… you can not start android sdk manager out of adt-enabled eclipse or start it from command line: (this applies to Android Studio and Eclipse) so you have to find it yourself. the default location would be: […]
Updates from CryptoCat “With great user data comes great responsibility.” (src) it has become a desktop app… not a firefox plugin. https://crypto.cat/ Checkout the video from it’s creator (thanks for all your efforts! 🙂 https://youtu.be/n7MHWuppPSo developer’s site : https://nadim.computer/ Sind […]
if possible (hardware support) please use replicant, not cyanogen – it might fix this backdoor: https://dwaves.de/2017/05/01/the-problem-with-closed-source-drivers/ successor to cyanogen mod: LineageOS: https://download.lineageos.org/i9300 All i9300 users: -> https://dwaves.de/2016/06/29/alternative-firmware-for-samsung-i9300-android-6-0-1-beanstalk-6-18-20160624-i9300-seems-to-work-pretty-well/ <- testing: i tested the ROM since 2 Months now and i have […]
Update: 2020-05 PDF are important file formats for document exchange, but in 2020 PDF as Mail-Attachments can not be 100% trusted anymore. how to create PDF under Linux? there are various programs that support export to PDF format least but […]
update: 2020-09: problems getting bigger without regular updates because a SmartPhone (no matter Android/Samsung or IOS/Apple based) are essentially complete “notebook computers” with a very very small form factor directly or NAT (NAT better to avoid direct attacks, but no […]
Mozilla stopped providing direct download links with Firefox.apk currently (2022-08) latest version is v103.2.0 which is only available (?) through the official Google App (called “Play”) store (why? maybe that is why) unless u trust this site u can download […]
XMPP: https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-setup-an-openfire-xmpp-server-on-centos-7 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-ejabberd-xmpp-server-on-ubuntu Project Name Platforms Apache Vysper Linux / Windows AstraChat Linux / macOS / Solaris / Windows ejabberd Linux / macOS / Windows IoT Broker Windows Isode M-Link Linux / Windows jackal Linux / macOS Metronome IM Linux […]
update: 2021-01 “the best (most privacy & security & usability) Smart Phone solution” is yet to be found (PinePhone (yet untested) comes close) and it would be like: runs standard unmodified GNU Linux kernel 100% open source drivers comes with […]