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

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

Some time back, someone - sadly, I cannot remember who, but - asked if there was a good, neutral, explanation of the end to end encryption debate. I have not found one, and I think it would be Read more

I bought a PinePhone on eBay. Not the shiny new PinePhone Pro, but the original "convergence" model. My plan is that, if I can get this doing what I want, it gives me a good justification for getting Read more

This is one for me, as I have to look this up Every Single Time I want to change a LUKS passphrase. Note to self: it might be safer to add a new passphrase, and verify that works, and then - and only Read more

We've had yet another round of "online anonymity should be banned" over the weekend. It's one of those tropes which has not died the death it deserves, and it appears with such predictable regularity Read more

Update: since writing this, I've also tested it on Debian 11 RC2. I had a bit of a hiccup with it on a Raspberry Pi 4, but I've got it to work using these intructions on both the RPi and a VM (amd64) Read more

Why bother with DNS-over-https? I have run a DNS-over-https proxy for a while now, to experiment with it. First, like the rest of my browsing acting, my DNS traffic is private. But DNS traffic is Read more

1 I wrote a post on decoded.legal's blog earlier this week, about "Unpicking the "making children as safe as they are offline" fallacy". The gist of the piece, in case you are reading this first, is Read more