Category: internet

what if – instead of security – Google wants mass surveillance and a direct uplink to the US-Pentagon to blow all “terrorists” (basically anyone who is against Google) to hell? What if? as long as EVIL pays off (incentive) this […]

guess with it-security and internet-security (internet = roads, cars = computers that users use every day) it is like with real-life-security – there is no 100% security. all users of a system are in constant potential danger of having an […]

Tor is easier to use than ever just get the tor bundle – it is tor bundled with firefox https://www.torproject.org/download/ Is Tor essentially an NSA honeypot? in other words: is the NSA running a lot of (modified to their tracking […]

1984 mass surveillance: for a better world? as people might have noticed: privacy is survival critical when a state becomes tyranny. WARNING! violent and disturbing! but highly recommend to anyone to watch it – at least once – the “middle […]

check it out on: https://nmap.org/favicon/ done with nmap, pretty NOICE! how is it created? “scanning the top million web sites for 2013 (as ranked by the analytics company Alexa). (bought up by Amazon in 1996) We then downloaded each site’s […]

As with all hot debated topics: Linus Torvald’s “show me the source” in this case, the source of one’s informations (always give the source!) is IMPORTANT for the information’s credibility. It is absolutely vital in science to give all sources […]

now WITH SPICY COMMENTS X-D SecurityLab, [22.12.19 12:40] A Twitter user using the alias 08Tc3wBB created tfp0-an exploit that allows you to jailbreak the latest iPhone models with IOS 13.3. The functionality of the exploit has already been confirmed by […]

firewall & pinguin: iptables where do thou go? it is said that when using “ip-sets” iptables and nftables achieve almost same performance (amounts of ips possible to block, without server becoming slow/unresponsive) Redhat and nftables on DDoS “so the only […]

one will need to disable SIP-ALG in GigaCube: Then follow: this setup for Fritzbox: SipGate Anleitung Einrichtung Fritzbox avm-fritz-box-7490.pdf

wishes for next year: free wifi for eels (and other creatures) Why does EVERYONE have to run their own WIFI / pay their OWN internet access? When it would be enough to have one fast internet access plus 2-3x WIFI […]

Update! .org NOT FOR SALE! send ICANN a thank you card! 🙂 resistance takes enormous amount of effort! but it works! democracy ain’t dead yet! and then: CELEBRATE! CELEBRATE! CELEBRATE! 🙂 (do a little wiggle dance whatever!) X-D “Today, the […]

Will StarLink be sufficiently protected against “space weather”? StarLink  while it is a cool project, promising cheap (? hope so?), fast and global internet and phone (?) connectivity, it comes with some problems: if a solar flare “1859 Carringont Event” style […]

  update: Emotet trying to spread by WIFI since 2018 https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/emotet-malware-wifi-hacking.html BUT ALSO VIA PDF! on the heise security conference last year was said: Virus Scanners since around 10 years are not sufficient anymore. (heise a computer focused news outlet […]

just reinstalled (of course with LVM + encrypted partition) the giada f300 (very fine machine unfortunately “they” stopped building it). screw Realtek, what one wants is should work out of the box with recent Linux kernels on Open Source drivers […]

what IT can learn from nature: (src) mostly US users affected. Big Business: Big Companies and Big Money can afford Big Staff to maintain and secure their products, but they also provide Big Infrastructure (AWS, Office) and thus a single […]

look at this superb piece of Open Source software: … that is actually USED BY PEOPLE (like this one to write this article). unlike windows it comes with: life-time FREE UPDATES (!!!!!!!!!) a simple no f*****ing tiles design it comes […]

bc is a nice calculator that one can use under linux terminal. a good exercise: count from 0 to 255 and convert it to binary # install # debian/ubuntu apt install bc # fedora/redhat/centos yum install bc # run bc […]

THE ECB BIRD WAS HACKED! “however, the internal system of the Bank has not been compromised” the site http://www.banks-integrated-reporting-dictionary.eu/ was taken offline. It is fascinating. The Europeans probably do not even know about “what is going on” and according to ex […]

Why is quantum computing important: optimization Update: Google claims to have reached quantum supremacy The tech giant unveiled its x-quantum computer chip Bristlecone in March 2018 (src: cnet) original nasa paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19lv8p1fB47z1pEZVlfDXhop082Lc-kdD/view book: https://deepai.org/machine-learning/researcher/eleanor-g-rieffel https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-Introduction-Engineering-Computation/dp/0262015064 Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ! […]

“Linux desktop remains an unpopular choice among mainstream desktop users, making up a little more than 2% of the desktop operating system market share. This is in contrast to the web server market share, which consists of 70% of Linux-based operating systems. […]

Warum VoIP? Viele Anbieter von LTE z.B. bieten gar keine Festnetz-Telefonie an, sondern nur Internet. (das zum Teil (nicht günstiger) aber schneller (und schnurloser via Handy-Netz) als die Telekom (4G/LTE/UMTS)). D.h. man braucht dann noch einen weiteren Anbieter der die […]

don’t be evil “Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. […]

it might sound strange… and even if it sucks, but if you are concerned about security, call me paranoid but: your company’s critical infrastructure SHALL NOT BE REACHABLE BY WIFI! (especially not if you are running a nuclear power plant, […]

also roaming within the “(more or less)United States of Europe” (EU) is pretty scary endavor. If you travel across the EU and wish to use your home mobile phone number – you will NEVER know what this phone call or […]

servers/clients/computers/programs/services/webservers need accurate time… they usually get it from time servers that have an atomic clock attached to their USB port. (just guessing) ping time.google.com PING time.google.com (216.239.35.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from time2.google.com (216.239.35.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=43.5 […]

ONLY BUY FROM HARDWARE VENDORS THAT SUPPORT OPEN SOURCE! (release the sources for their drivers and documentation for their hardware) had to swap the Wifi card on both LibreBooted Lenovo x60s for Atheros ar5b95 Wireless WiFi WLAN Karte für HP […]

ich behaupte Hetzner ist mit diesem absolut genialen Angebot weltweit absolute Spitze. Okay es ist kein XEON und kein EEC RAM, läuft aber trotzdem ziemlich gut. Warning / Achtung! Defekte Bauteile (RAM)/Festplatten werden ersetzt. Im gegensatz zu den Cloud-VMs ist […]

scroll down for ENGLISH: ) OMG! Da die IT von Baltimore sich einen Ransome-Virus eingefangen hat, können die Bürger ihre Steuern und ihre Blitzer-Tickets nicht zahlen! Wunderbar! 🙂 Mit welchem Aufwand man rechnen muss, wenn man sich von der Digitalisierung […]

IPv6: Introduction it’s the year 2019, roughly 14% of the web is running ipv6. you can watch real time statistics here: (i have no clue how accurate the data is, how they are generated) https://ipv6.he.net/v4ex/sidebar/? … but it seems there […]

It is one of the most critical of digital infrastructures – update servers – thus vendors need to be EXTREEEEMELY careful how they run their update servers. they could get hacked and their downloads and updates get virus and backdoor […]