Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
January 14, 2016
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…
October 15, 2015
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…
June 7, 2014
This was a fantastic campaign that began yesterday (a year after the Snowden NSA leaks), from Fight for the Future, to encourage the users of the web to step up their security. A coincidence that I set up unique IP, and HTTPS with a self signed cert for this site yesterday 🙂 Block mass government surveillance and take back privacy! Share this so we can reset the net everywhere.
November 24, 2013
2 interesting articles from the MIT Technology Review: Engineers Plan a Fully Encrypted Internet. Online Anonymity in a Box, for $49. MIT added to news feed :o)
August 18, 2013
Here’s a list of firefox (you are using firefox arn’t you?) plugins, that were shared on Reddit, to help keep your browsing more secure and anonymous. I already used a few of them, but in this day and age you can’t be too careful 😉 Adblock (with the privacy easylist added) Annoyed by adverts? Troubled by tracking? Bothered by banners? Install Adblock Plus now to regain control of the internet…
August 14, 2013
OK I’m intrigued, here’s the idea User>>Lahana VPN>>Tor>>Website, thanks to Hacker 10 Lahana is a set of scripts that can quickly create a VPN on Amazon EC2 cloud servers using Linux instances and tunnel everything through the Tor proxy network. And here’s a Lahana link. Off to play, will put together a guide if I can get this to work Links r/netsec
August 11, 2013
TechCrunch: MIT Students Show How To 3D Print Your Own Non-Duplicatable Keys For Easy Breaking And Entering. This is both interesting and scary. The key (with lock) has long been considered the first and last line of defence in keeping your precious things private… our keeping thieving villainous scum out of your house. This application of technology could be a game changer, I wonder what alternatives to the traditional lock…
February 6, 2012
I can’t believe it took me so long to find GreaseMonkey, from Greasepot: Greasemonkey is a user script manager. It is an extension for the Firefox web browser. So what does it do? It adds user created functionality to the web sites you use. Very easy to use: install the firefox plugin search userscripts.org click install The 1st script I tried deleted all of my 6 months posts on Reddit.…