This morning I had a little bit of free time so I thought I’d (finally) check out the Firefox extension Firesheep. The main website mentions that it isn’t supported for Linux, but the source code is available and as it turns out very easy to compile. Below are instructions for downloading, compiling and installing the… Read More »
I have been tunneling all of my web traffic over an encrypted SSH connection for some time now. Considering the fact that I travel a lot, I’m very regularly on untrusted, insecure networks. I prefer to secure those connections (web, IM, email, etc) by creating an encrypted SSH connection and pushing the traffic through it.… Read More »
I covered VNC this afternoon in my Linux system administration course and the question came up on how to secure VNC. You may or may not be aware than VNC is not encrypted by default, which could be a security concern. If you use VNC regularly to connect to other Linux machines you may want… Read More »
Update : Encypted root file system option now available at installation in Ubuntu 7.10. See Install Time Ubuntu Encryption for more information. This last week I’ve been very interested in encryption. If you missed it you might be interested in my post on encrypting files or emails with GPG. In this tutorial I wanted to… Read More »
Preface Saturday night the Ubuntu Utah Team had a great presentation on Privacy and Encryption. One very important topic and another very interesting topic. With as much is going on these days to screw with our privacy (NSA) it isn’t a bad idea to learn a little bit about encryption. Now, I know you may… Read More »
I was discussing VNC this afternoon with some students and the question came up on how to secure VNC. As you may have noticed most network protocols do not have much for built in security. Many rely on other programs for their network security needs, such as ssh. This is also the case with VNC.… Read More »