I use signal as my instant messenger app on my ‘phone and I have the desktop version installed on my, well, desktop. Signal was written by the kind of people I trust and in my view it is infinitely better than plain unencrypted SMS and much better than any of the alternative IMs around (whatsapp, …
December 2022 archive
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longer trivia
- “loose” iptables firewall for servers
- “tight” iptables firewall for servers
- about trivia
- allowing users in
- archives
- broadband problems
- contact
- debian linux on a linksys NSLU2 – the slug
- how to build a ubuntu or debian kernel package – the debian way
- mailman with lighttpd and ssl
- mailman with postfix
- non-existent support
- postfix with mailman and tls configuration file
- privacy policy
- reflashing the BT home hub from a linux PC
- ripping and encoding a DVD to psp format using k9copy on linux
- upstream authentication with tls on postfix
- using postfix and dovecot to provide mail to egroupware
coding and admin
free software
linux and unix
mail and mail lists
- anonbox email
- backscatter
- cyberabuse whois
- dontbouncespam
- email privacy tester – by Mike Cardwell
- email RFCs
- ISP Information
- mail-tester.com
- mailing list archive
- mxtoolbox
- postfix add-on software
- schleuder encrypting mail list manager
- secure list server
- spam and RBLs
- test your email server at wormly
- tls forward secrecy in postfix
miscellany
- 99 bottles of beer
- A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
- aluminium foil deflector beanie
- amanfromMars
- esoteric programming languages
- geek humour – really
- human DNA sequenced in C
- man false
- obfuscated c
- odd RFCs
- on-line calculators
- Onion News Network
- programming quotes
- real programmers
- RFC 3514
- the jargon file
- unix and c – a hoax!
- valgol parser
- Verity Stob
net tools
- anti-abuse RBL checker
- broadband tools
- check your tls servers
- DNS information
- DNS propagation checker
- DNS report
- dnsstuff tools
- geek tools
- IANA assigned port numbers
- IP subnet calculator
- IPV4 address report
- linux networking tutorial
- MAC address generator
- MAC address list search
- md5sum check
- network monitoring tools
- network tools
- pagesinventory.com
- pingability DNS and mail check
- public route servers
- robtex
- server side TLS security
- speedof.me
- speedtest.net
- squishywishywhoo
- ssl server test
- ssl tools
- submarine cable map
- TLS configuration generator
- user agent strings
- web page load test
- webserver security guidelines
- website reachability test
- where is that ip address
- xmpp server test
netiquette
network (in)security
- abuse IP database
- Bruce Schneier
- dan pollock's hosts file
- decide for yourself
- exploit database
- full disclosure
- have I been pwned?
- insecure .org
- lcamtuf talks
- Marcus Ranum
- naked security
- packetstorm
- phrack 55 loopback
- reflections on trusting trust
- RFC 3514
- sectools.org
- shadowserver foundation
- threat intelligence
- vault 7 – CIA hacking tools
people
privacy and anonymity
- airVPN
- anonbox email
- anonymity check
- anonymity papers
- are you unique
- browser spy
- dns leak test
- dnsprivacy
- don't bubble us
- don't spy on us
- don't track us
- eff.org
- eff's ssd
- encryption works
- exodus – android privacy checker
- google's privacy policy
- ipleak
- off the record
- online privacy for beginners
- open rights group
- panopticlick
- prism-break
- privacy tools
- privacy.net analysis
- ssh as a tor hidden service
- tails
- the cryptoparty handbook
- the online privacy resource centre
- tor
- tor advocacy
- tor blog
- tor network status
- tor relay hardening
- tor wiki
- torflow
- whonix