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Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 1,584 posts.
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Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network
The Tor Project has learned that there may be an attempt to incapacitate our network in the next...
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Meltdown and Spectre Linux kernel status
By now, everyone knows that something “big” just got announced regarding computer security. Heck, when the Daily Mail does a report on it …
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Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security
The publishing world may finally be facing its “rootkit scandal.” Two independent reports claim that Adobe’s e-book software, “Digital Editions,” logs every document readers add to their local “library,” tracks what happens with those files, and then sends those logs back to the mother-ship, over...
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NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent
Yesterday (Feb 5 2014) On February 4th, NBC News ran a story claiming that if you bring your mobile phone or laptop to the Sochi Olympics...
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Hey advertisers, track this
If it feels like the ads chasing you across the internet know you a little too well, it’s because they do (unless you’re an avid user of ad blockers, i
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VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
17 out of 20 popular VPNs exit traffic from different countries than they claim. Dig into what that means and why it matters in our VPN report.
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Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
Use Dagster, dbt, and BigQuery to analyze suspicious GitHub star activity and protect open-source credibility.
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CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University
Get ready for the CCPA compliance scams from Princeton.
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The protester's guide to smartphone security
Your phone is an essential tool, but it also represents a huge risk to your privacy and security. Understanding these best practices when it comes to securing your smartphone will help keep you and your data safe.
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Introducing Collusion: Discover who’s tracking you online
Web Extension version of the Firefox Lightbeam add-on - mozilla/lightbeam-we
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Get your loved ones off Facebook
I originally wrote this for my friends and family in 2015, to explain why the latest Facebook privacy policy is really harmful. It’s since been read b
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained
Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
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Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level
[Sidney Harris cartoon used with permission. Copyright holder: ScienceCartoonsPlus.com .]
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LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s…
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iOS 11 Horror Story: The Rise and Fall of iOS Security
We loved what Apple used to do about security. During the past years, the company managed to build a complete, multi-layer system to secure its hardware and sof
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Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance
If you’ve been keeping up on the latest tech news, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the CPU security flaw that Google’s Project Zero disclosed last Wednesday. On Friday, w…
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A Hacker's Replacement for Gmail
Note: Since writing this I’ve replaced Exim with Postfix and Courier with Dovecot. This is outlined in the Addendum, but the main text is unchanged. Please read the whole guide before starting, as you can skip some of the steps and go straight to the final system.
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Lastpass Security Incident
Please refer to the latest article for updated information.nbs[..]
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Google AdWords Exploit Seen in the Wild
See the ad for ebay at the top of the results? Not particularly interesting, right?…
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New study: The advertising industry is systematically breaking EU law
The online advertising industry is behind comprehensive illegal collection and indiscriminate use of personal data, research from the Norwegian Consumer Council shows.
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When it comes to privacy, default settings matter
What if I told you that on nearly every single website you visit, data about you was transmitted to dozens or even hundreds of companies, all so that the w
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In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law
Outpourings of grief and calls for change continue to flood the Internet after the suicide of Aaron Swartz, only 26 years old. Aaron was one of our community's best and brightest, and he acheived great things in his short life. He was a coder, a political activist, an entrepreneur, a contributor to...
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Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates
On Thursday, September 3rd, 2020, Let’s Encrypt issued six new certificates: one root, four intermediates, and one cross-sign. These new certificates are part of our larger plan to improve privacy on the web, by making ECDSA end-entity certificates widely available, and by making certificates smaller. Given that we…
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