Collaborate Disseminate
I recently stayed at a hotel where outbound SSH traffic (and seemingly only SSH traffic) was blocked on the guest WiFi network, and I’m trying to figure out what security-based rationale they might have had for this policy. Unfortunately, … Continue reading What would be the security rationale for a hotel blocking only SSH traffic?
I am increasingly being requested to join videoconferences through Zoom, which I don’t trust to run on my machine. I understand that there are two common ways of sandboxing this software: you can either download the standalone Zoom applic… Continue reading How does Chromium’s sandboxing compare to Firejail’s?
For the last 15 years I’ve been using SpamCop to report the spam I receive. I do this because
it sometimes results in spammers and the third-party machines they compromise getting shut down, at least temporarily (as evidenced by the occa… Continue reading Can/should I automatically report network break-in attempts?
I run my own IMAP server on my own machine, and am the only user of it. The server uses a self-signed certificate that I generated with OpenSSL. I don’t use the certificate for any other purpose. I connect to the server only from the lo… Continue reading Any disadvantages to long-lived self-signed certificates for personal use?
I’ve seen videos showing how tech support scammers operate. In nearly all of these videos, the scammer instructs their intended victim to install and run remote-control software, which allows the scammer to control the victim’s computer. … Continue reading Why do scammers use victims’ computers to remote-control their own computers?