02/06/2022
This morning I received an email inviting me to use Mozilla’s VPN service. Now I wasn’t really on the lookout for a VPN, as I’ve been more than happy with Cryptostorm for many years… but then I considered that for my mobile I’d give up a little privacy, for a bit more speed. Installed easily, paid for a year with a gift card given to me by a colleague, and…
10/08/2021
Tested this site with ssllabs test tool, now that I have the DNS going through Cloudflare, with an existing ssl cert. I’m stoked to have scored an A 🙂
03/09/2019
For years having a ssl certificate on your site was beyond the scope of simple sites, due to the cost of certs. This removes a layer of privacy, and I’ve tried many times, with a variety of methods and tools, to give Gamer-Geek-News the secure green lock, with limited success. I find DNS settings to be somewhat of a dark art, and my path to a solution when dealing with…
25/04/2019
Recently read that Chromium still has callbacks to Google, and here I was naively thinking that it was secure Still not sure if Brave makes these callbacks, but that’s tomorrows question 😜 Been using and enjoying @brave from launch on #Android and #linux Recently found that chromium makes call backs to Google, is this removed from Brave?#security — Gamer Geek (@GamerGeekNews) April 25, 2019 So all I keep Chromium about…
07/03/2017
Awesome EFF’s Let’s Encrypt is pre-installed on the DigitalOcean droplet I’ve setup, A rating for the gamer-geek-news.com domain 🙂 https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=gamer-geek-news.com Update: still working on the DNS, A rating for this one though 🙂 https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.gamer-geek-news.com
09/07/2016
I vaguely remember back in the 80’s as Rubik cubes were popular, the miners were striking, and Thatcher was invading the Falklands the height of technology was a keyring that would beep in response to a whistle. This technology has been brought into the modern age with a cool little blue-tooth device named a Tile From the site: Never lose anything again Are your things always running off? Not on…
Android Police: Facebook Is Adding Tor Support To The Android App. Engadget: Facebook on Android gives you privacy through Tor. The Guardian: Facebook adds Android app support for anonymity service Tor. So from what I understand all this will allow is FaceBook to be accessed via an onion domain. Is this a good / bad thing? Pro Given the FB user base size, this may encourage more individuals to use…
23/01/2016
I’ve not been posting as often as I’d like due to the Android WordPress app not connecting… that’s another post. What I have been doing over the last couple of days is dropping any stories that I like to Google Keep. This has to be the one mobile app that I find the most useful; from shopping, book, movie, games, and to-do lists, to inspirations, notes, and shit I must…
Thanks to The Register; here’s The Edward Snowden guide to practical privacy If you’re just an average user concerned about your privacy Use Tor when browsing. You don’t have to use Tor all the time (it does slow things down considerably and some sites will also block Tor traffic). But if you are looking at or for something that you feel is sensitive, then either set up your browser to…
yubikey-neo + KeyPassX + KeyPassDroid + OwnCloud portable secure password vault Searching through F-Droid for yubico I came across a link to KeyPassDroid; I’d come across a password safe solution on the yubico site using KeyPass, but was shied away as it mentioned the premium version… I don’t mind paying for shit, although if I can solve the issue with free open source alternatives I’ll spend hours trying 🙂 So…