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…
14/10/2015
So in a spurt of geekdom the other night I changed all of my passwords to work on a combination of different passwords for each login together with one of 2 static passwords, and 2 factor authentication, that I’ve set up on my new yubikey-neo. Within 8 hours I had locked myself out of 2 Google accounts, a Reddit account, PayPal, and I’ve just gained access back to this blog…
12/10/2015
I’ve just been playing with a yubikey I picked up a couple of weeks ago, and have gone a a binge of changing online passwords. Wonder how many I’ll have forgotten the setup to by dawn 🙁 On the upside have unlocked Quiet on MGSv, and enjoying the more relaxed powerplay style completing missions again to max out special troops
11/09/2015
Today I ordered a YubiKey, mainly motivated that I keep forgetting passwords 🙂 I hope this will allow me to step up the complexity of passwords that I use, and free up a little personal RAM One key. Two form factors. The Standard and Nano deliver a one-time passcode (OTP) with a simple touch of a button. No SMS-like passcodes to retype from one device to another. Our most basic…
When Amnesty International are warning against government spyware, I think it’s a good time to listen. Detekt is a free tool that scans your Windows computer for traces of FinFisher and Hacking Team RCS, commercial surveillance spyware that has been identified to be also used to target and monitor human rights defenders and journalists around the world. https://resistsurveillance.org/ or to check for root kits for Linux: sudo rkhunter –check
19/11/2014
Mozilla, EFF And Others Band Together To Provide Free SSL Certificates
14/10/2014
With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world. But for guarding anything other than Web browsing, Tor has required a mixture of finicky technical setup and software tweaks. Now routing all your traffic through Tor may be as simple…
13/07/2014
Finally I have the Piratebox v1.0 working on the TP-Link 3020 🙂 I had tried redownloading the install_piratebox.zip file, and the 3020 firmware, and running through the step by step instructions with no luck 🙁 I sat like a doting puppy watching the flashing green lights, leaving the box for some times up to 45 mins! Once I dug into the log file though, I could see where the install…
24/06/2014
It’s quite easy to make a Raspberry Pi a Tor Proxy, just order the parts from AdaFruit, and work through their easy to follow guide. Or if you’re Gen Y, there’s a YouTube video 🙂 But this isn’t why I’ve acquired a Raspberry Pi! I access Tor via a Arch Linux VirtualBox machine, booting a live version of Tails on my PC, and Orbot on my Android devices. What I…