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Archives: January 2022

The "Wild West Web" fallacy

I tweeted last week about the fallacy of the "Wild West Web" analogy, which is trotted out with depressing regularity. My tweets auto-delete, so this short blogpost reflects the key themes. It is not Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 31 January 2022 Category Legal Tags Internet regulation web wild west web America

An unplanned business continuity test, and what I learned from it

I did something stupid this week. I should probably hang my head about this, because, frankly, I shouldn't have got myself into this mess in the first place. But you know what? I'm not hanging my Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 28 January 2022 Category Tech Tags business continuity LUKS raspberry pi resiliency redundancy backups

Implementing BusKill: shutting down a Debian 11 Bullseye machine when a specific USB device is removed

I saw the BusKill security project some time back, and thought "what a neat idea". In essence: BusKill is a Dead Man Switch triggered when a magnetic breakaway is tripped, severing a USB connection. Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 26 January 2022 Category Tech Tags BusKill security Debian Debian 11 Bullseye udev

Book review: "Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier"

Hacking - clever, innovative solutions to computer and telephony problems - fascinates me. "Underground" is a detailed look at the relatively early days of computer hacking, with a focus on the Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 24 January 2022 Category Books Tags review hacker

WireGuard not routing IPv6 traffic: GNOME 3 / Network Manager

A reminder for me. If you've got WireGuard configured as a VPN client in Debian 11 Bullseye's Network Manager, and it does not route IPv6, check Allowed IPs contains ::/0. Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 23 January 2022 Category Tech Tags WireGuard GNOME Network Manager VPN networking Linux Debian Debian 11 Bullseye

End to end encryption, and services which let you meet and message people you do not already "know"

In the context of a prohibitions or limits on the deployment of end to end encryption, I've heard the argument that one should distinguish between: services which enable contact between "known" Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 21 January 2022 Category Tech Tags encryption end to end encryption Internet regulation online safety bill

Installing Twitter client cawbird from the official Debian 11 Bullseye repo

cawbird is a superb GUI Twitter client for Linux. It's easy to use, it has none of the distractions of the Twitter web interface, and it supports multiple accounts. I'm a fan. (If there was a client Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 20 January 2022 Category Tech Tags cawbird twitter Debian Debian 11

Fixing "tee: command not found" on Debian 11 Bullseye

I get this error whenever I try to use tee on my Debian 11 Bullseye installation: tee: command not found tee is part of coreutils: Specifically, this package includes: arch base64 basename cat chcon Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 20 January 2022 Category Tech Tags Linux Debian Debian 11 tee

A prohibition on end to end encryption could leave you with #NoPlaceToHide. And that's not a good thing.

The government's #NoPlaceToHide campaign (I've intentionally not included a URL) got me thinking: if end to end encryption on popular messaging services was prohibited, how many users would be left Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 18 January 2022 Category Tech Tags child protection interception Internet regulation equipment interference #NoPlaceToHide end to end encryption encryption

Age verification: an Epic mess

I have a Gmail account which I use for testing purposes. I get a lot of spam to it. Presumably, there are lots of people called "Neil Brown" who forget, or mistype, their own email address, and so Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 18 January 2022 Category Tech Tags age verification child protection children Internet regulation
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