Articles tagged security

• 27.2.2026 2022-05-01 sailfish os, systemd, ssh, security, linux

  Making sshd more secure on Sailfish OS

  This article deals with making SSH access more secure on your SFOS phone, after initial SSH setup.Please read the chapter SSH on SFOS first.All Linux users & admins highly …
• 16.11.2024 24.9.2019 security, server

  Installing a Commercial SSL Server Certificate (nginx)

  Since CACert still isn’t “Browser Trusted”, and I still don’t want to use letsencrypt, I decided to give this a try.The company resides inside the European Union …
• 11.4.2021 linux, security

  Encrypt any block device

  A hard drive or a USB stick set up in this way is recognised by common filemanagers (e.g. Thunar, PCManFM) - it shows up as an encrypted device in the …
• 25.2.2021 firefox, security

  Firefox: user.js to tighten security

  I finally manned up to tackle the ghacks (now arkenfox on github) user.js for Firefox. I felt that if I want to continue using Firefox I really have to …
• 15.9.2019 security, shell, linux

  How to not only encrypt but also decrypt a (password) string

  Towards the end (points 4. and 5.) this article has instructions on how to encrypt/decrypt any string.It might come in handy when e.g. checking your Email with …
• 8.9.2019 shell, security

  Translate Text via Command Line through Tor

  I sometimes use a shortcut to quickly translate snippets of highlighted text, via google translate. I hate to admit it, but it does this best. It auto-detects the input language …
• 25.8.2019 android, security, ungoogle

  No More Android - Part 1

  Before I even start, let me clarify one thing: LineageOS is Android, too. Every custom ROM that is based on AOSP is Android, too.For a long time I was …
• 29.4.2019 firefox, security

  uMatrix

  I have since changed to µBlock Origin, which provides similar functionality in expert mode.It seems I had to make the switch away from seamonkey. Firefox for now, but I …
• 20.4.2019 lineageos, security

  Upgrade LineageOS from 15.1 to 16.0

  I am not particularly keen on upgrading my phone to 16.0, LineageOS’ newest, Android-9-based version. They claim that 15.1 is still supported in general, but upon closer inspection …
• 24.3.2019 security, server

  About HTTPS on this site

  This site is also viewable encrypted through https.I finally decided to shell out some real money for this, so for the next two years there’s no snag. See …