Category: internet

FTP->SFTP now! first things first: ABANDON FTP IT IS INSECURE AND WILL TRANSFER YOUR PASSWORDS AND FILES IN CLEAR TEXT OVER THE INTERNET! MOVE TO SFTP (FTP OVER SSH) with strong passwords! if you run your own server – disable […]

salt water crocodile with gps transmitter on its back (src) “The word is derived from Greek roots: tele = remote, and metron = measure.” telemetry is in general about the health of systems but also humans and apparently animals. what […]

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 […]

Thanks! thanks to all the contributors of open source soft- and hardware and people that share their knowledge online for free 🙂 i hope/think that better technology could possibly also change humans to the better… freely sharing information surely does […]

checkout the space weather today 🙂 “Schwabe cycle, is a nearly periodic 11-year change in the Sun’s activity” (src) but the sun’s particles ALSO shield from even more outer space radiation BUT the sun is ALSO protecting Earth & Mars […]

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 […]

“You can be profitable and green” An expert at Gerson Lehrman Group wrote that, given today’s electricity transmission losses of about 7% and utility-size gas-fired power stations efficiency of 33–48%, the Bloom Energy Server is up to twice as efficient […]

i use https://startpage.com (ixquick) more than google… but i realized today, that google.de for example but also a lot of other domains seem to be blocked by OpenDNS? Resulting in this strange error? the reason for blocking “google.de” but not […]

By Ernesto on July 25, 2018 Mozilla sees intellectual property legislation as a threat to the open Internet because it stifles creativity and innovation. The foundation, best known for its development of the Firefox browser, is now asking the NTIA […]

always interesting to check your server logs and webstats… whois 193.106.30.99 % This is the RIPE Database query service. % The objects are in RPSL format. % % The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions. % See http://www.ripe.net/db/support/db-terms-conditions.pdf […]

“Thank you” i feel much safer now, that you know EVERYTHING about me, you, everybody. it is about influencing and directing the masses like a herd of cattle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility in the SBC Communications […]

there are a lot of service providers where you can rent a virtual server… for example: hetzner, for 3€ per Month you would get 1x CPU core and 2GB of RAM, instead of VPS they also call it “cloud”, it […]

“In the world of Information Technology, change is constant, compliance is inevitable, adaptability is required” i would add: “resistance is futile” “In the world of Information Technology, change is constant, compliance is inevitable, adaptability is required; therefore, staying one-step ahead […]

By the amount of commentary SPAM i get on WordPress using Google’s ReCaptcha… it wonder if i shut just disable comments all together (kind of what Anti Spam Bee did… it was impossible for me to comment on my own […]

Update: 2024 unfortunately also some ARM CPUs are affected by Spectre v1 and v2. Update: 2020.03 “The newly developed Rowhammer- attack TRRespass can crack the RAM-a security mechanism by many DDR4-DRAM-modules as well as LPDDR4 Chips. Until now, these were […]

Is this SKYNET? https://youtu.be/y3niFzo5VLI “The Iridium satellite constellation provides voice and data coverage to satellite phones, pagers and integrated transceivers over the entire Earth surface.” “The constellation consists of 66 active satellites in orbit, required for global coverage, and additional […]

will soon all the freedom of speech and wildness of the net disappear under lawmaker’s bureaucrazy and lawyers suing bloggers? People have been sued by profit seeking lawyers over the use of “Facebook Like Buttons“. Also in EU/Germany law makers […]

Die einfachste Art Artikel vi Website zu verkaufen ohne gleich eine ganze Shop-Software zu installieren – der PayPal verkaufen Button Generator. So wie es aussieht – kann man als Privat-User keine Verkaufen-Buttons mehr generieren, man muss vermutlich sein Konto “auf […]

Wifi Modes of an Access point: DLink has painted a nice overview over the possible different modes of an Accesspoint: cybersec: from great wifi modes that allow bridging two wifi networks, it would be GREAT if vendors test their products […]

nginx can be used as webserver, web-proxy and even mail-proxy. “Apache ist aufgrund seiner Architektur und Arbeitsweise doch eher der Traktor unter den Webservern.” X-D (src) let me try to translate: “Apache is due to its architecture and functioning rather […]

checkout what is the latest version: ftp://ftp.cuhk.edu.hk/pub/packages/info-systems/www/squid/ probably this is more recent: https://github.com/squid-cache/squid you could also try git clone https://github.com/squid-cache/squid.git and compile with the git source tree… let me know if it worked. hostnamectl; # tested on [root@CentosMaster squid-4.0.21]# hostnamectl […]

warning! this howto is very old (2017) rhel7 and CentOS7, while both distros are kind of EOL (End Of Life = no more updates) they are still widely in use. this howto is UNTESTED! in general: social skills social competence […]

i tried to compile under debian…. but it’s way more compli cated. also: you probably do not need all the packages stated here… but i did not have the time to sort those out sorry for that. feel free to […]

according to https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/web_server/all apache(2 i guess) is still the dominant webserver on the internet with a market share of 50%. src: https://trends.builtwith.com/web-server according to builtwith.com it is “only” 40% market share for the apache(2) webserver. also most sites are running […]

“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 […]

“You will constantly have to fight for even the most basic of rights – and build your own infrastructure – or your government will spy on you and lobbyists try to take away your freedoms.” Watch this video and this: […]

https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/our-thinking/state-of-the-internet-report/ https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/news/press/2017-press/akamai-releases-first-quarter-2017-state-of-the-internet-connectivity-report.jsp security Q1 2017: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/state-of-the-internet/q1-2017-state-of-the-internet-security-report.pdf connectivity: Q4 2016 https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/state-of-the-internet/q4-2016-state-of-the-internet-connectivity-report.pdf https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/our-thinking/state-of-the-internet-report/state-of-the-internet-connectivity-visualization.jsp

a classic example of the exaggerated use of javascript. which is an slow and unreliable language and i really wonder how people manage to build larger applications with it. result was… “no there is no faster internet from us for […]

this guide is abit outdated… If you need XDebug + Eclipse look here (allows step-debugging of your php code very very nice 🙂 . (slightly more complicated setup) lighttpd is “just as good” as apache2 – except – it does […]