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Does Cloudflare’s DNS over TLS (DoT) implement DNSSEC too?

Posted on October 18, 2020 by LinuxSecurityFreak

I am confused about if I decided to implement DNS over TLS (DoT), would I lose DNSSEC?
Details:

I am connected with IPv4 + IPv6 Cloudflare DNS directly in my home OpenWrt router.

I love the idea of safer DNS, even if for home purposes, D… Continue reading Does Cloudflare’s DNS over TLS (DoT) implement DNSSEC too?→

Sacrificing 30% of my CPU performance (by disabling Hyper-Threading) to fully mitigate CPU vulnerabilities, necessary?

Posted on October 17, 2019 by LinuxSecurityFreak

I used the spectre-meltdown-checker, version 0.42, without any option resulting in all-green results. But, in a help page, I found the –paranoid switch, which resulted in about a half of later CVEs to become red. I read what… Continue reading Sacrificing 30% of my CPU performance (by disabling Hyper-Threading) to fully mitigate CPU vulnerabilities, necessary?→

Is security by obscurity / obfuscation a valid option, or do the crawlers have JavaScript enabled?

Posted on June 10, 2019 by LinuxSecurityFreak

I’m creating a new website, so I am thinking about how to protect my email address and phone number against crawlers, I actually mean email harvesters (most of which I suppose don’t have JavaScript enabled, but I don’t have a… Continue reading Is security by obscurity / obfuscation a valid option, or do the crawlers have JavaScript enabled?→