Question: What is best to use? WEP or WPA ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Discussion here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=10272… more »

Quote: If your data is online, it is not private. Oh, maybe it seems private. Certainly, only you have access to your e-mail. Well, you and your ISP. And the sender's ISP. And any backbone provider who happens to route that mail from the sender to you… more »

Every time i recommend something to someone in their own benefit regarding their personal privacy; i always get 2 outcomes. a: they have nothing to hide and have more important stuff to worry about. b: only me to think of these things. Regardless… more »

It's old news but everyone should be using it. So here goes another reminder. Enigmail is a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey. It integrates the renowned OpenPGP standard provided by GnuPG. Sending and receiving encrypted and… more »

Local attacks against disk encrytion. Bruce Schneier blog The root of the problem lies in an unexpected property of today’s DRAM memories. DRAMs are the main memory chips used to store data while the system is running. Virtually everybody, in… more »

How to encrypt your linux harddrive http://blog.gnu-designs.com/truecrypt-on-linux-with-xfs-and-ext2ext3-volumes Other interessting links: Truecrypt 5.0 more »

I have decided to upgrade the irc network service to fully work with Tor. While the network was already configured to allow regular Tor irc client connections; now you can also access irc.freethinker.ws via Tor hidden service. The current Tor hidd… more »

As of this post all *.freethinker.ws ssl capable services have been updated with new and stronger encryption. for those that have the old certificates stored you may want to delete them. more »

Encryption algorithms more »