“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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
…and it is even FAST! hardware support: 250 mainboards supported in 2012! Chromebook (IvyBridge / Thinkpad X60 / Thinkpad T 60 It comes with OpenBoot = also good and a direct rival to Intel’s EFI adoption. (checkout: https://www.coreboot.org/, coreboot interview: […]
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 […]
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/online-cheating-site-ashleymadison-hacked/
update 2022: build a Kindle like eBook reader 🙂 with this Display 🙂 (raspberry compatible) https://e-radionica.com/en/inkplate-6.html (that is the 6″ inch display) there is also a 10″ inch display https://e-radionica.com/en/blog/inkplate-10-crowdfunding-campaign-is-now-live/ https://www.crowdsupply.com/e-radionica/inkplate-6plus by TAVU Limited Liability Company for the Design and […]
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 […]
Is social media, facebook, twitter endangering democracy? Well if you bring in rich individuals such as Mr Mercer with the need to manipulate society: YES. “Cambridge Analytica is a Full Service Propaganda Machine” “In 2016 CA worked for Donald Trump’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
mail is still THE most used communication service (even before WhatsApp), spam is a massive problem renders mail hard to use. Every once and a while websites and databases get hacked and spammers update their databases. Is your mail address […]
“The Unix Philosophy in One Lesson” “All the philosophy really boils down to one iron law, the hallowed ‘KISS principle’ of master engineers everywhere:” “Keep It Simple, Stupid” or “Keep It Super Simple” (less offensive) The Unix philosophy emphasizes building […]
It is actually a scandal that the world depends on chips and operating systems – that are designed to do mass-surveillance – it seems – in order to build up a world-wide-dictatorship that no-one can escape… by information and money. […]
update: 2020-05: it is a wild speculation but: What if… guess one is not the only one thinking that way “Governments at one time laughed at the cryptocurrency or simply feared it. They rejected the technology as useless or suitable […]
IPv6 is great for everything that is (more or less) DIRECTLY connected to the internet (needs a public accessible address): firewalls / routers modems servers (using firewalls / routers and modems to connect) but it seems completely “overkill” and even […]
update: 2018.04 PaleMoon archive Server HACKED! “A malicious party gained access to the at the time Windows-based archive server” (src) oh gosh! ? GO USE CENTOS DEBIAN AND LATEST KERNEL NOW! “malware dropper tracked by ESET as Win32/ClipBanker.DY” (steals bitcoins) […]
2021: update! the old Mumble App (Plumble) does not work well with Android v10 and higher. luckily, someone made an updated version called “Mumla”: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/se.lublin.mumla/ backup: https://dwaves.de/software/apps/Mumla_se.lublin.mumla.zip (sha512sum: e3d9f366a1c3895e24c051a96f6114a30d89713e3098de77a7716ff9187b0b47db58b98eaca3386ddfd09433cd3f1a3aa5a1e29043cb9d40cb280d966852b42e) (tested and works with LineageOS 17 / Android 10) what is great […]
one’s mistake: Chrome is simply a name for a “frame”. The naming is imho badly chosen. BSI: Firefox only browser to meet criterias (src) Google has given money to Mozilla foundation to make Google default search engine per default… this […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
WARNING: use at own risk! use a dedicated computer for shredding harddisk, that has no valuable data stored or attached (in case the operator enters the wrong drive letter = all data gone) have been warned! WARNING! this method might […]
what is great about mumble: clients exist for Windows, OSX, (at least Debian/Ubuntu) Linux and even Android and IPhone. the audio quality is SUPERB (better than phone) if you use good headphones like sennheiser a disadvantage is the reverb that […]
Java is a “great” = well designed, can handle big workloads, scales well, cross-OS support and security should be pretty good as well, language, but in the end of course C and C++ are faster. simplicity: it is quiet simple […]