Collaborate Disseminate
How do you assess the trustworthiness of a new website? Especially to download and then install software from.
Edit: My underlying concern is to:
Trust the website.
Trust the website to not inject installer trash into/over the top of th… Continue reading How to assess a website’s trustworthiness?
While on a client’s site using the corporate network, I see that only a few search engines are allowed. Google and Bing, possibly others; while my fav DuckDuckGo is blocked, and a few others that I’ve tried are also blocked…. Continue reading What benefits are there to blocking most search engines?
I have an old version of pfSense (2.3.2) running an OpenVPN client to a commercial server. Over the past few years, the OpenVPN connection has been dropping more frequently, and now it’s about once per day. For a while, it … Continue reading OpenVPN drops connection about once a day, logs indicate DNS failure [migrated]
I’m using the guest Wi-Fi at a large corporation, and connecting to a commercial VPN provider via the OpenVPN client. I do not know one way or another if a proxy is used on the guest wi-fi, but I know that a proxy is used on… Continue reading If I use a VPN, can an enterprise proxy insert itself in the middle?
I noticed a comment on this answer where another user said
…but it requires risking burning a 0day, which people are not always all that willing to do.
I did an Internet Search for the phrase “burning a 0day” (and similar permutat… Continue reading What does it mean to "burn a zero-day"?