You might be running an OpenVPN server and found that your IPv6 clients get their IP leaked. I have a quick fix! The problem If your client machine has IPv4 only, you won't notice any problems. But if your client machine has IPv6, and your OpenVPN server is IPv4 only, [...]
You might have heard of LineageOS (formerly CyanogenMod), but did you know about microG? Read on! The issue with Android and Google As you probably know, getting an Android phone these days means getting a phone full of Google services, deeply integrated into the system. Not only are these services [...]
If you use Threema, you probably know of the "Threema Web" feature.But did you know it's open source? So what's Threema Web? It's basically a web application, that connects with your phone and allows you to chat on your desktop through the browser. You can see all your chats in [...]
SMS 2FA: Two Factor Authentication by SMS.In many cases, it's better to not have 2FA than SMS 2FA. As a rule of thumb, don't ever hand out your mobile number to sites. The problem with SMS authentication SMS authentication is completely insecure, as has been proven multiple times in the [...]
Uh oh... I don't like this! Remember how I said Matomo is great? Well it is, and I still recommend it! And I loved how Matomo respects the Do-Not-Track header from your browser... but what I don't like is its implementation. What's wrong? Well, Matomo does not only not track [...]
I thought the PayPal donation button looks ugly and I think there were some privacy issues with it, too. So today I've set up Liberapay and Ko-fi as alternatives. The fun thing is that in the end, I'll be paid out with PayPal anyway. But this way, with a middle [...]
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Just wanted to share a one-liner on how to encrypt a device,partition or volume with cryptsetup (dm-crypt/luks)and options to get you started! The idea is simple: You create a crypto container on a disk/partition/volume/file/whatever, you then unlock that container, and then mount that container to a folder. When you're done [...]
Just a quick post. I meant to share this video a few days ago but somehow didn't get around to it. Edward Snowden wrote a book called "Permanent Record". Trevor Noah interviews Edward Snowden about it. As always, with humour. Of course, fitting to the theme, I tried to embed [...]
This is getting ridiculous... In my previous post I mentioned how I got rid of requests going to PayPal, and in a post before that I briefly mentioned getting rid of Gravatar. I said that Gravatar can easily be turned off for the comment section, which turns out not to [...]