Bookmarks for April 2, 2019
- A Few Simple Steps to Vastly Increase Your Privacy Online
This is a really good guide – there are a few things in here I didn't know about, and will start doing.
Tag: security
Bookmarks for January 17, 2019
- Project Alias Smart Home ‘Parasite’ Is the Anti-Alexa – Geek.com
This looks interesting. Wonder if I can build one, and wonder if it really works?
- Largest dump in history: 2.7 billion records; 773 million of them unique; 140 million never seen before / Boing Boing
It's time to check and update your passwords again. Relevant useful links contained in post, but also my traditional reminder: use a password manager on all your devices. Do not, do not, do not, *ever* log in to any website with a password it is remotely practical for you to type by hand.
Bookmarks for May 10, 2018
- Laravel Translation via Google Spreadsheet – SkyshiDigital – Medium
An interesting way to set up translations within Laravel – make it easy to give non-techical users access to edit a site's translations.
- Kolide
Device/security management system that's got a free tier that might actually be worth install in my own devices to give me a central place to manage them and keep an eye out for security issues.
- Laravel API Documentation Generator
Might be useful at work. Or for myself another time.
- 20 Laravel Eloquent Tips and Tricks – Laravel News
I knew about half of these, and want to remember the others for later.
- 1.1.1.1 — the Internet’s Fastest, Privacy-First DNS Resolver
This is really nice, and from a company with a pretty good track record. I'll be setting it up at home myself later, and I encourage others to do the same.
- PolaPi-Zero | Hackaday.io
I would like to go a few steps past this project, but in order to do that, I need to build this project.
Bookmarks for February 18, 2016
- Why the FBI's request to Apple will affect civil rights for a generation | Macworld
If you care about electronic security or privacy, this case is one to watch closely, and with a certain amount of creeping dread. This case isn't about one phone, it's about the precedent.
- Apple can comply with the FBI court order – Trail of Bits Blog
Apple can easily comply with the order, without placing (all) their customers at risk, because they literally couldn't comply with the order on their newer phones. But what the order would establish is that the US govt can ask private business to work to circumvent their own security features.
Bookmarks for August 5, 2015
- Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are | Hacker News
Need to go through this and clean up my ssh settings.
Bookmarks for November 20, 2014
- Russell Davies: Inevitable
If you work in marketing or comms, this is a mandatory read.
- Alan Moore – This Is Not A Dream – YouTube
Alan Moore's history of the CIA, "Brought to Light" appears to be available in full on Youtube. No idea if it's legit, and it's not his best audio work by any means, but it's still worth a listen as a history of the CIA.
- Let's Encrypt
Technical level incomprehensible bollocks to most of you, but the short version is that if this works like it says on the tine, then summer next year cannot come soon enough. This represents a massive improvement to one of the more frustrating tasks on my plate at work *and* means that in theory *every* website should be able run encrypted, even just little stuff like personal blogs. Which is actually really important, these days.
Bookmarks for September 18, 2014
- Just how much information can be squeezed from one week of your metadata? | Naked Security
This is a) proper interesting and b) proper scary. I encourage the reading of it. And then the purchasing of tinfoil hats and faraday-lined cases for phones and tablets. Because I think we're at the point where nothing else will keep us private.
Bookmarks for July 10, 2014
- Five Computer Security Myths, Debunked by Experts
A collection of myths about security (as in, how people justify not being secure enough to themselves). Just in case anyone reading this is someone who might believe any of these.
- danah boyd | apophenia » The Cost of Contemporary Policing: A Review of Alice Goffman’s ‘On the Run’
Bookmarking this as a reminder to pick this book up.
Bookmarks for January 20, 2014
- Cthuvian Ipsum Generator
Lovecraftian Lorem Ipsum Generator. Exactly what I need.
- Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach
Handy website for checking if any of your commonly used usernames/email addresses have been leaked with password details attached recently. Happily, I have only been (ahem) "pwned" once, and I already knew about that and took steps. If you haven't checked, you should, and insert all the usual computer security advice here.
Bookmarks for June 14, 2013
- Using Metadata to find Paul Revere – Kieran Healy
In the terribly unlikely even that anyone reading this isn't worried about PRISM, metadata gathering, or the general sense that there's an enormous surveillance state out there that is not your friend, I encourage you to read this.
- Map Stack by Stamen
This was closed when I went to look at it, so this is a note to remember to look at it properly, because I love their maps -= particularly their toner map in hard B&W. Also, interested in the idea of a web app with opening hours. I quite like it.