I wanted to let you in on a secret you may not know. There is a free and open source drive/system encryption package for your operating system. Yes, the same kind of drive encryption that is being pushed out in corporate environments to protect “road warriors”. The point of the software being [...]
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“FireGPG is a Firefox extension under GPL which brings an interface to encrypt, decrypt, sign or verify the signature of a text in any web page using GnuPG.”
This is the plugin I have been waiting for. I run Ubuntu Linux on my main desktop at the house. I am an avid Gmail user [...]
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I am very particular about what goes on within my home network. It is sacred territory. Even my 6 year old son knows what hacking is. Therefore, I take measures to protect my home network. Why? Well, I don’t just assume that no one cares about what goes on in my home network. I may [...]
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I have spent the past month trying to get a machine (computer) built to serve as a honeypot. What is a honeypot, you ask? Well, for my less-than-geeky friends, it is a sneaky little trickster. It sits on my home network and pretends to be a webserver, ftp server, or whatever I [...]
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Security by Philip Williams
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