During the last year hell seems to have frozen over: our corporate overlords neighbours at Apple, Google and Facebook have all pushed for crypto in one way or another. For Facebook (WhatsApp) and Google (Allo) the messenger crypto has even been implemented by none less than the famous, endorsed-by-Edward-Snowden anarchist and hacker Moxie Marlinspike! So all is well on the privacy front! … but is it really?
Category Archives: (Free) Software
OpenBSD on the Thinkpad X250
Since posts like these often helped me setup some device, I thought I’d write one as well this time. Also it is advertising for a good free operating system.
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Secure Texting Part II
Last summer I blogged about secure messaging and why FSFE cares about it (and why you should, too!). Since then a few things have changed, and I want to give you an update on the situation. Continue reading
Encrypting cron’s daily mail
Most you have probably set your system aliases to receive root’s e-mail, and that of course is a very good idea so you are kept up to date. On the other hand you do send a lot of information about your system through the wire, often package diagnostics with information about locally installed vulnerable software and many other things that might help a person or entity gain access to your computer. Now living in a world, where we know that all unencrypted mail is automatically parsed and possibly filtered and stored that is something you might want to avoid. The natural answer is to encrypt the mail which is what I am going to explain in the following.
FreeBSD Port of luminance-hdr updated
I finally managed to update graphics/luminance to 2.3.1. Thanks to lme@freebsd and pawel@freebsd for feedback and commit.
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A KISS GNU/Linux distro?
As most of you know, I use FreeBSD as my main Desktop-OS. But I also keep a ArchLinux around that I use (almost exclusively) for gaming. After being disappointed with the way it is headed since a while already, I am now completely fed up with it and am desperately seeking an alternative. Continue reading
HowTo: Dual-Boot Ubuntu [arm] and CM10.1 on the TF700t
I thought I’d cover how I got to my current dual-boot on my Transformer. The main difference to other setups is, that my Transformer’s data partition is encrypted, which makes some steps more difficult. Continue reading
Missing (Free) Android Apps – II – E-Mail
This is a pretty serious one: there are no proper E-Mail apps for Android tablets. Continue reading
Hacking encryption into Android
Next weekend we are going to have a small hackathon in Berlin to port/fix/implement disk encryption on various Android devices. Continue reading
Missing (Free) Android Apps – I – Office
Ok, so you know that I am using Android, and that I am not too happy with the situation. Ultimately Android is a JAVA-based operating system for phones, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that trying to replace a FreeBSD (or proper GNU/Linux) laptop with it, will cause some grief. Continue reading