Stuff tagged encryption
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Video: ORGCon Open BBC Session
In case you haven't noticed their "Protect Your Bits" poster in the background of the IT Crowd, let me introduce the Open Rights Group. The work they're doing on digital civil rights is crucial to everyone who values freedom or privacy on the interwebs. Not just activists and geeks but everyone who doesn't want to see the UK sleepwalk into a surveillance society. They had a conference, ORGCon in London on 24 July and this is the Open BBC session from that conference with Tony Curzon Price from OpenDemocracy, Mo McRoberts, and David Tomlinson. With Cory Doctorow facilitating. Read More …
- 2011-05-19T11:22:36Z
- Published: 11:22:36 on Thursday, 19 May
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Backtrack5, on an encrypted USB filesystem and nouveau driver
Backtrack Linux has become increasingly useful to me over the last few months. The latest release Backtrack 5 came out on 10 May, so I, of course wanted to have a play. Just a little background on Backtrack. Its specifically aimed at security professionals and hackers and has everything that you might need to do information security work, digital forensics, pen testing and so on. The new release brings a GNOME desktop – the previous version was a KDE-only distro – which is a big deal for me. Its got the shinyness of Ubuntu with the focus of a proper infosec distro. Very, very good. Read More …
- 2011-05-18T21:45:02Z
- Published: 21:45:02 on Wednesday, 18 May
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My GPG Key
I mentioned on 2010-10-10 that I'd revoke my old B1233772 key and transition to 196AA973. I have now revoked it. There's a full writeup of why I did this on the Debian admin blog and a more accessible writeup of the DSA1 rollover at riseup.net. Read More …
- 2010-12-04T13:14:15Z
- Published: 13:14:15 on Saturday, 4 December
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