Yesterday, 10 October 2025, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado, the Venezualan opposition leader. Machado had been forced into hiding following Venezuela’s presidential election in January 2025, when authorities loyal to Nicolas Maduro, the country’s autocratic leader, declared, despite all evidence to the contrary, …
October 2025 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