GPG is an integral part of my life. I’ve been using it since 2004 when a friend of mine, Glen Kingston, helped generate my key. Since then, I’ve been using it just about every day. I use it to digitally sign all of my outgoing email, and I encourage people to encrypt sensitive email sent [...]
It’s time to step it up with security when signing emails digitally with your GnuPG/OpenPGP key. For the longest time, SHA-1 has been the default hash for signing text documents. However, SHA-1, a 160-bit strength hashing algorithm has been broken. The tough thing, is there have been plenty of collisions with SHA-1 and MD5 hashes. [...]
I’ve blogged on and on about Irssi, the single best IRC client out there, as most of you would agree. The reason it is so great, is the sheer number of features it has. There is no other client like it. In fact, here is a quick and dirty Top 10, why Irssi is so [...]
I just read Christer’s post about creating secure passwords using a simple Linux utility ‘pwgen’. Good read, and even better tutorial. However, I hope you don’t mind a bit Christer, but I’m going to pick on your post a little. pwgen creates 8-character random passwords. Using the various options, you can increase/decrease the strength and [...]
I’m serious- don’t tell anyone. It could cause havoc in the IT department when they find out that they can no longer sniff your packets, or log your traffic. What am I talking about? SSH tunneling, of course. SSH is a powerful piece of software, but what’s even better is it’s ability to tunnel just [...]
Freenode is interested in your security. As such, they have two hidden Tor servers available for you to use. They have actually been using the hidden servers for a while now, but they just added a new one, and the added security benefits are great! First, aside from end-to-end encryption, which is a bonus of [...]
In my last post, I mentioned how to stay anonymous on the web generally by using Tor. Here, I want to discuss how to use Tor specially with Freenode. IRC channel ops are notorious for kicks and bans. Many reasons are called for, others are just plain silly. #okopipi on Undernet is notorious for klining [...]
Being an advocate of security protocols and applications, I am actually quite stunned that I haven’t thought of this before. Actually, I had heard of it a while ago, but didn’t give any thought to it. Now I kind of wish I had. I am talking about Tor. However, before getting into the nitty gritty [...]
According to a supposed email from lead developer of PHP Jani Taskinen, he’s outta here, and not looking back. Goodbye PHP, goodbye cruel world! is the theme of his email. From: Jani Taskinen Subject: Good bye. Group: php.internals Date: Thu Jul 27 20:28:45 2006 Thank you all for the last 6 years or so. It [...]
I am getting really frustrated with encrypting conversations between differing IM clients. Why in the world does this have to be so difficult? First, let’s talk about the principle of the matter. Then we’ll get into the nitty-gritty. Regardless of who I am talking to, regardless of what instant messaging client I am using, and [...]
Spammers must enjoying the relief from the very apparent strain that Blue Frog users were giving them. Well, they won’t be enjoying the relief for long. Thanks to a new startup group called Okopipi. For starters, it is peer-to-peer, de-centralized and completely open source. And the best part? DDOS attacks against Okopipi are now next [...]
Blue Security is no longer fighting the war on spam. Another victory for the spammers. So I guess I get to join the file and rank of “bend over and grab your ankles” when it comes to spam entering my inbox. Downloading filters is what to do, right? Out of sight, out of mind? Out [...]
There seems to be a lot of miscredited information spreading around the Internet like wildfire concerning Blue Security. Although I don’t work for them, or know their inside operations personally, I would like to take the time to put many of them to rest. I will admit, that because I am not up close and [...]
Bluesecurity is fighting the good fight. Unfortunately, the spammers are hell-bent over bringing them down. Three days ago, Bluesecurity began suffering DDoS attacks. Bluesecurity tried to wait it out, but found it wasn’t going to be letting up any time soon. They then moved their domain to the Six Apart servers hosting a Typepad blog. [...]
I have blogged about this before. If you haven’t already decided to protect your inbox with Blue Security, get on it now! I couldn’t be more serious. Blue Security is the single best solution for stopping spam COMPLETELY! If you are unsure about it, here is how Blue Security works. First, a Do Not Intrude [...]
