both are centralized Messengers meaning: the user is in control of the device + software (to the extend that the user can understand the src) Android-Client “the client” 100% Open Source (Java 70.8% Kotlin 29.1%) iOS-Client 100% Open Source (Swift […]
the positive vision (always start with something positive) if big data about every keystroke every step we make (the police: every step you make) algorithms determine how mankind will live and thus: technology is “neutral” until it is used for […]
update: join me @ online-coworking-space.com https://play.workadventu.re/@/online/coworking/space.com first of: the online conferecing as RPG game format is really fun and innovative idea to make online events more fun! 🙂 (it is accompanied by live streams via vimeo or youtube) Corona will […]
“Better Than Nothing” Starlink-Beta started across the US & Canada Starlink: amazing but and also a bit “crazy” “On 15 October 2019, the United States Federal Communications Commission submitted filings to the International Telecommunication Union on SpaceX’s behalf to […]
SecurityLab, [14.07.20 15:35] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has unveiled a new database demonstrating how and where us law enforcement agencies use tracking technologies. A map of the use of tracking technologies in the United States is presented (https://www.securitylab.ru/news/510018.php) SecurityLab, […]
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 […]
second take on trying to get a xmpp server (OpenFire, Java) client (Pidgin, C (C#, Perl, Python, Tcl are used for plugins)) up and running. at least this time with partial luck (was able to login via pidgin) but it […]
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: […]
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/ hm…. let me think where one has seen this before: TELEGRAM! Zoom’s service is “not suited for secrets” “The researchers also found that Zoom protects video and audio content using a home-grown encryption scheme, that there is a vulnerability […]
Update: 2021-02 “A statement from the German Federal Criminal Police Office about their participation in Operation Ladybird said prosecutors seized 17 servers in Germany that acted as Emotet controllers.” and many bars of gold and cash were seized in Ukraine… […]
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 […]
Mail Server (MTA) Market share: Server Type Number of Servers Percent Exim 507,200 57.13% Postfix 308,036 34.70% Sendmail 34,948 3.94% MailEnable 18,921 2.13% MDaemon 7,464 0.84% Microsoft 4,706 0.53% IMail 1,375 0.15% CommuniGate Pro 1,263 0.14% XMail 783 0.09% Qmail […]
TLS v1.1 is labeled insecure, TLS v1.2 is current, TLS v1.3 is about to become current. the (e)mail system from 1972 (slightly modified) is still the #1 communication channel, if one believes one’s surveys. The current approved version of TLS […]
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. […]
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 […]
What is the problem? Microsoft just came up with another closed standard file format… Microsoft’s proprietary TNEF (Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format) often named winmail.dat or win.dat, and has a MIME type of Application/MS-TNEF is a proprietary email attachment format used […]
google’s security lab “project zero“ has made itself a name. (you can subscribe to their rss feed with thunderbird.) Posted by Ben Hawkes, Project Zero (team lead) (2019-05-15) Project Zero’s team mission is to “make zero-day hard”, i.e. to make […]
one week downtime – they got backups and are not planing on paying the ransome. “Norwegian oil and gas and metallurgical Corporation Norsk Hydro was hit by the encoder LockerGoga — to stop the spread of malware, IT-specialists had to […]
RSS-Feeds are files.xml, which are auto-generated by CMS like WordPress. It can be subscribed to with an RSS-Client Software. Thunderbird (the Mail program) for example (tested on version 60.6.4 and above) has a pretty convenient functionality to stay up to […]
this mail looks so convincing… i bet it gets a high “return” rate. mail is fundamentally broken system – that’s why Google keeps cranking up requirements to send mail to Google and one day it will probably deny ALL […]
Firefox: einfach auf die Links klicken, dann auf “Add” to Firefox… und nochmal mit “OK” bestätigen. Neue Rechtschreibung: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/german-dictionary/ Alte Rechtschreibung: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/german-dictionary-de_de-for-sp/ … jetzt kann man(n)/Frau auf jeden beliebigen Text eines Formulares R-Click und … sich nie wieder vertippen X-D […]
please see: https://dwaves.de/2019/01/08/fail2ban-manually-ban-and-unban-ip/
you COULD use imapsync actually… but it failed me with some obscure error. rsync is NOT a good idea… because dovecot/thunderbird/icedove does not rebuild index files/folder structure. the solution is actually simple: use thunderbird/icedove your mail client! create same mail […]
check the logs: i can highly recommend a colorful log output: yum install ccze; # rpm based apt install ccze; # apt based and this script that will “follow” all changes to all logfiles on your system… vim /scripts/mon_all_logs.sh #!/bin/bash […]
“server has disconnected The server may have gone down or there may be a network problem” is shown – but the mail is send anyway. strange enough: the error message is misleading – this is not a server problem – […]
THERE IS NO PGP ATTACK VECTOR! PGP IS SANE! the problem is the mail client: so mail clients SHOULD disable loading of external or embedded content for encrypted mails. “Email clients are usually configured to automatically decrypt the content of […]
on the blog of the Enigmail Developers, it reads like this: “The Mozilla developers have been and still are actively working on removing old code from their code base. This affects not only Thunderbird itself, but also add-ons. While it […]
When you reserve a new domain – and the registrar asks you for your (personal?) mail to be published in the whois database. You better give it a mail address designated for spam. I just received a spam letter at […]
first of all – thanks for this cool mail client 🙂 Thunderbird NEEDS THE USER’S DONATIONS more than ever! checkout their blog and subscribe to rss What is cool: Thunderbird is Open Source and respects the user’s mails privacy Thunderbird […]