I had a couple of comments on my earlier post about autossh which suggested that I should look at alternative mechanisms for keeping my ssh tunnel up. Rob in particular suggested that setting “ServerAliveInterval” should work. Oddly I had tried this in the past whilst trying out various configuration options and I swear it didn’t …
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the latest from El Reg
- Dish Networks locks horns with broadcasters over ad skipping 2012/05/19
- SpaceX Dragon chokes at the last second 2012/05/19
- Ten... Qwerty mobiles 2012/05/19
- Microsoft to devs: Don't ruin Win 8 launch with crap code 2012/05/18
- Apache OpenOffice security fixes emerge 2012/05/18
- Facebook jumps then slumps in first few minutes day's trade 2012/05/18
- What's on the cards at EMC's casino royale next week? 2012/05/18
- Call of Duty hacker jailed after meatspace burglary 2012/05/18
- Next UK gov CloudStore lumbers online 2012/05/18
- Does Britain really need a space port? 2012/05/18
- HP pumps cash into EVA range capacity boost 2012/05/18
- RIM-Moto sketch THIRD nanoSIM design as peace offering 2012/05/18
- Ethernet sales slump punches Brocade in the wallet 2012/05/18
- ICO on new Cookie Law: 'Don't expect torrent of enforcement action' 2012/05/18
- UK.gov: ICT in schools ain't dead, it's just resting 2012/05/18
- UK prosecutions for hacking appear to be be dropping 2012/05/18
Category Archive: privacy
Aug 02 2010
they are taking over the entire net
Some time ago I disabled my wp-recaptcha plugin because it had the unfortunate side effect of marking all comments as spam. I don’t have a particularly high comment rate, but the ones I do get, and which get past akismet, are usually OK. Apparently a flaw in version 2.9.6 surfaced when wp-recaptcha was used in …
Aug 01 2010
autossh – or how to use tor through a central ssh proxy
Since I first set up a remote tor node on a VPS about this time last year, I have played about with various configurations (and used different providers) but I have now settled on using two high bandwidth servers on different networks. One (at daily.co.uk) allows 750 Gig of traffic per month, the other (a …
Jul 04 2010
scroogle is having a problem
I posted a note about scroogle back in January. Scroogle offered an SSL interface to the google engine, and, moreover, didn’t lumber its users with google cookies and sundry other irritations. Since then, however, google themselves have started to offer an SSL interface and, coincidentally, scroogle seem to have started to have some problems. If …
May 03 2010
email address images
Adding valid email addresses to web sites is almost always a bad idea these days. Automated ‘bots routinely scan web servers and harvest email addresses for sale to spammers and scammers. And in some cases, email addresses harvested from commercial web sites can be used in targetted social engineering attacks. So, posting your email address …
Mar 30 2010
what a user agent says about you
I get lots of odd connections to my servers – particularly to my tor relay. Mostly my firewalls bin the rubbish but my web server logs still show all sorts of junk. Occasionally I get interested (or possibly bored) enough to do more than just scan the logs and I follow up the connection traces …
Jan 22 2010
tor server compromise
According to this post by Roger Dingledine, two tor directory servers were compromised recently. In that post Dingledine said: In early January we discovered that two of the seven directory authorities were compromised (moria1 and gabelmoo), along with metrics.torproject.org, a new server we’d recently set up to serve metrics data and graphs. The three servers …
Jan 10 2010
are you /really/ sure you want that mobile phone
The launch of the google nexus one “iPhone killer” reminds me just how prescient Dr Fun’s cartoon of 16 January 2006 (see third cartoon down from the top on the right) really was. I just love the way the google employee in the video says at the end that Verizon and Vodafone have “agreed to …
Jan 02 2010
using scroogle
For completeness, my post below should have pointed to the scroogle search engine which purportedly allows you to search google without google being able to profile you. Neat idea if you must use google (why?) but it still fails the Hal Roberts test of what to do if the intermediate search engine is prepared to …
Jan 02 2010
scroogled
One of the more annoying aspects of the web follows directly from one of its strengths. The web is actually designed to make it easy for authors to cross refer to the work of others – hyperlinking is intended to make linking between documents anywhere in web space seamless and transparent. Unfortunately, this cross linking …
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