harddisk encryption is important from critical data to get physically stolen (can’t do much about data that get’s stolen while DEcrypted) (except: to not have any physical network connection while the data is in DEcrypted state?) hostnamectl; # tested on […]
not sure if the news rang through… the Amazon Cloud (AWS) guy will be the new CEO of Amazon. What cloud? Amazon “cloud” Hetzner “cloud” cloud (centralized digital infrastructure) can be designed / implemented in different ways. from: the user/admin […]
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 age of mass surveillance… … who is observing “the observers”? 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
sad update: Peter Eckersley of Let’s Encrypt is Dead may his soul find rest in the open source nirvana from earthly troubles… may the pain of his family and friends be overcome may let’s encrypt live on! Why: Do MAJOR […]
AES is often used in conjunction with IPSec-VPNs. K.U. Leuven, Belgium; Microsoft Research Redmond, USA; ENS Paris and Chaire France Telecom, France Abstract. Since Rijndael was chosen as the Advanced Encryption Standard, improving upon 7-round attacks on the 128-bit key […]
Warning! while gpg is very likely sound and solid encryption – what is far more likely to be compromised is YOUR HARDWARE – every network card – wifi card – usb UMTS G3 modem – PCI-Card – contains enough RAM […]
I don’t know if its fake or not. Since April 2016 or since WhatsApp Version 2.8.2-5222 (iPhone) Facebook-Whatsapp seems to have added encryption. A pretty brave move of the Facebook-Whatsapp guys… if this is for real. If this is for […]
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: Bitcoin Gold hacked – 18 Million USD stolen https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Ende-der-Grafikkarten-Aera-8000-ASIC-Miner-fuer-Zcash-Bitcoin-Gold-Co-4091821.html https://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2018-14-Wie-51-Prozent-Angriffe-Bitcoin-Co-bedrohen-4085333.html Elliptische Kurven: hm… hatte ich nie viel zu tun mit. Ist aber die Basis von ECDSA welcher verwendet wird um die echtheit von Bitcoin-“Überweisungen” zu verifizieren. Schlüsselpare: Es […]
Update: 2022: GPG is now integrated into Thunderbird 🙂 And it works pretty okay, thanks all involved 🙂 https://www.linuxbabe.com/security/encrypt-emails-gpg-thunderbird https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-howto-and-faq Update: 2021-01 Mozilla changed a lot in Thunderbird, Enigmail and other addons are not working anymore. Update: 2020-10 apt-listchanges: News […]