Collaborate Disseminate
I meant to install iStats but accidentally installed a different program that goes by a similar name.
Naturally, I tried to uninstall program, but when I run
brew uninstall –cask istat-menus
==> Uninstalling Cask istat-menus
==> Rem… Continue reading Installing a brew cask didn’t require password, but uninstalling it does?
The answers to Can a PDF file contain a virus? show that clearly it can!
Sometimes we can be quite sure a certain pdf should not need to do anything sophisticated – for example a book in pdf form – so we wouldn’t expect them to contain emb… Continue reading Is there a way to scan a pdf to ensure it doesn’t contain anything that could be a virus?
I am creating a basic website contact form. It requires entering a ‘from’ email address. I entered a dummy email address, which I do not control, yet the email is still sent, and, to the recipient, it looks as though the email came from an… Continue reading How can you tell if an email is really from the address it claims it’s from? [duplicate]
I noticed some very advanced sites don’t offer 2 factor authentication via phone/text. Example Salesforce’s Heroku:
Is phone/text based 2 Factor Authentication generally weaker than using an authenticator app? I’m trying to work out why a… Continue reading What’s stronger: phone/text 2FA or authenticator app? [duplicate]
I was reading about whether you should trust a VPN any more than your ISP, and I see that some VPN providers claim they do not log users, when they do indeed log users: UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs.
I see concerns a… Continue reading What stops a nation state starting a "VPN service" to view its customers’ logs?
The recommended way of ensuring that data on a hard disk cannot be recovered is to destroy it physically, for example using a hammer, drill or even thermite.
Question
When physical disk destruction is not an available option, what is the n… Continue reading How to best prevent data recovery on a disk drive without physically destroying it? [duplicate]
I’ve finished migrating data from several drives on to one newer disk. The older drives were a mix of old mechanical drives, thumb (flash) drives, and SSDs.
Now I will dispose of the worthless drives and sell the rest. In order to sell the… Continue reading How to ensure that information deleted from external hard drive cannot be recovered after being sold? [duplicate]
To get to 50% on a 1.8TB volume, VeraCrypt has taken about 30 minutes. If it takes another 30 minutes to finish, that’s 1h to create the volume. Is this normal? (if it in’t should start over after figuring out what went wrong). The process… Continue reading VeraCrypt taking a very long time (~1 hour) to create volume? [migrated]
Google provides instructions for how to add a device to its two-step verification.
Add trusted computers and devices
Sign in on a computer or device you trust.
When you enter a verification code, select Don’t ask again on this computer.
… Continue reading How to add trusted devices to Google two-step verification? [migrated]
Stripe’s fraud detection documentation claims it has
Proxy Detection
When I search for how it might be detecting traffic from proxies, I see this great answer, which show how to detect that traffic.
But I am not sure how reliable it is. … Continue reading Is it possible to completely obfuscate proxy servers?