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What is HSTS and do I want to enable it?If you are a website owner or admin, keep reading to know more! Imagine you are browsing to your online banking page. You are redirected to HTTPS automatically every time, you sign in and do your business privately and all is [...]
Less than 24h ago, Pi-hole released an update to the Pi-hole core. The update is version 4.3.2 and it removes support for the adblock style lists. What does this mean for me? If you are using adblock style (format) lists - the lists you'd use in browser extensions like AdBlock [...]
Useful to use SSH securely using a smart card / hardware token / yubikey / etc. Prerequisites Of course, you need to have GPG installed on your system, and possibly some drivers and applications to support your smart card / hardware token if used. This guide assumes you already have [...]
This is just a quick post to share a hardened gpg.conf Usually stored in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf personal-cipher-preferences AES256 AES192 AES personal-digest-preferences SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 personal-compress-preferences ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP Uncompressed default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 AES256 AES192 AES ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP Uncompressed cert-digest-algo SHA512 s2k-digest-algo SHA512 s2k-cipher-algo AES256 charset utf-8 fixed-list-mode no-comments no-emit-version [...]
Enhance your privacy and security with this guide! If you don't know what DoT or DoH are, check out my earlier post! This guide assumes you are running the latest version of Firefox, which you should be doing anyway, as it's important to keep your browser up to date for [...]
Here are just some DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS providers to get you started, but there are many more and you should evaluate your options. Make sure to check each provider's privacy policy. Please note that the following are not links! They are the addresses you need to [...]
DNS over TLS is long over due, and here's why. Should I care and does it affect me? Yes. TLS or Transport Layer Security, is the same technology that protects your browsing when using HTTPS. It basically wraps HTTP into a secure tunnel, so that no one can see or [...]
Encrypted DNS is a must, and easy to set up! Android 9 even has the option built-in! And as a bonus, ad blocking! Android 9 and later (built-in) Android Pie only supports DNS over TLS. To enable this on your device: Go to Settings → Network & internet (or Connections) [...]
Looking for an alternative app "store" on Android, where all the apps are open source and for free? Look no more! What is F-Droid? F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and [...]
Need a VPN to stay protected on the go while on public Wi-Fi but don't want to pay for a VPN provider? Here's how! Prerequisites This guide requires you to have a public IPv4 address pointing to your router, and you should be able to set up port forwards on [...]