• Weekly Tech Roundup #3

    This week NASA, MIT and…d'oh! COVID-19, again! Sandboxie's Source Code has been released Sophos, the company that acquired the Sandboxie sandboxing software and technology from Invincea in 2017, has released the source code of the application to the public. Sandboxie,… read more »
  • Weekly Privacy Roundup #3

    Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be – Chuck Palahniuk EU Commission Recommends a Common Approach to Using Mobile Apps and Location Data to Combat and Exit COVID-19… read more »
  • A TikTok flaw could allows hijacking of contents, leaving users open to fake news

    The issue has been discovered by two developers, Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk. Developers have demonstrated how easy it is to trick TikTok into connecting to a fake server, exploiting app architecture, that uses HTTP instead of HTTPS to retrieve media… read more »
  • Privacy by Obfuscation

    In an interesting article on The MIT Press Reader, Finn Brunton & Helen Nissenbaum discuss how opting out of surveillance is practically useless, and suggests to use data obfuscation as a better alternative. I suggest to read the whole article,… read more »
  • Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup #3

    Happy (quarantined) Easter! Hackers accessed staff mailboxes at Italian bank Monte dei Paschi Italian state-owned bank Monte dei Paschi discloses a security breach, hackers have accessed the mailboxes of some employees and sent emails to clients. The news was reported… read more »
  • Weekly Tech Roundup #2

    Don't worry, 5G did not cause Coronavirus! https://twitter.com/Sandford_Police/status/1246125769539162113 How the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory tore through the internet It started with one doctor. On January 22, Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws published an interview with Kris Van Kerckhoven, a general… read more »
  • i3: how to make a pretty lock screen with a small bash script

    My regular readers already knows that my favorite desktop environment on Linux is i3.However, let's face it, the UI of the default theme of lockscreen tool (i3lock) is hawful. Luckily, i3lock provides some command line options, such us the -i… read more »
  • Weekly Privacy Roundup #2

    Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion - Mikko Hypponen Twitter warns users – Firefox might hold on to private messages A bit of a brouhaha erupted at the end of last week – it wasn’t quite an… read more »