Pinboard: bookmarks for mottram tagged 'security'

"Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks."

privacy security proxy web advertising
march 2010 by mottram

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1Password 3 Feature Spotlight: 1PasswordAnywhere - Switchers' Blog

Very cool, especially if you keep your 1Password agile keychain inside your Dropbox.

1password security dropbox
november 2009 by mottram

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Stopping Spamblog Registration in WordPress MultiUser | D'Arcy Norman dot net
wordpress spam security
september 2009 by mottram

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Enabling the HTTPS setting - Help Center

I don't know why this isn't set by default. (Well, I do - it'd cost Google money.)

security google gmail
august 2008 by mottram

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That password-protected site of yours - it ain't | The Register

I love that everyone who can use Google is among 'the more elite computer users'.

security funny
august 2008 by mottram

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Easily Show The Contents of Password Fields » Raymond.CC Blog

Handy/dangerous.

browsers security passwords firefox
june 2008 by mottram

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Meerkat | Code Sorcery Workshop

App for setting up SSH tunnels. Not sure I want to pay for something that I can do from the command line pretty easily, but it does have some fancy features, and looks very simple to use.

ssh osx client security tunnel
june 2008 by mottram

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AnchorFree

Lets you watch Hulu, other US-only streaming video. (Not its intended purpose, admittedly.)

hulu vpn wifi security
may 2008 by mottram

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Do Not Reply

Chap owns donotreply.com, turns on catch-all. Wow.

security privacy funny
march 2008 by mottram

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Clickpass

Slick, simplified version of OpenID.

identity openid security web
march 2008 by mottram

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Bush orders clampdown on flights to US | World news | The Guardian

Crivens.

bush us twot security
february 2008 by mottram

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Cookie Stealing Scripts – Userscripts.org

If you've installed anything from userscripts.org recently, check your scripts for dodgy cookie-stealing code.

greasemonkey security
july 2007 by mottram

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Security Patterns - a photoset on Flickr

Envelope security patterns. Gorgeous.

security patterns design
april 2007 by mottram

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Blog by Kveton » MyOpenID: New anti-phishing tools available

A couple of good moves by MyOpenID - doesn't fix the phishing problem completely, but a definite step in the right direction.

openid phishing tools security
january 2007 by mottram

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Usable Security » Blog Archive » Phishing and OpenID: Bookmarks to the Rescue?

"...the way it’s currently deployed, described, and demonstrated, OpenID makes users even more susceptible to phishing than they are without it."

security openid
january 2007 by mottram

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Google Search: confidential "do not distribute"
funny security google
september 2006 by mottram

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Daring Fireball: An Open Challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch

"If you can hijack a brand-new MacBook out of the box, it’s yours to keep."

macbook mac security wifi challenge
september 2006 by mottram

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Mac Geekery - Remote Destruction of Data

"Can you set up a Mac so that if it is stolen, you can easily erase the contents of its hard drive from a remote location if the stolen Mac is connected to the internet? Answer: Absolutely!"

mac osx security theft data
february 2006 by mottram

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Google Secure Access VPN on Mac OS X at Apple Newbie
google osx vpn security
october 2005 by mottram

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Behind the Scenes with Apache's .htaccess - Brainstorms and Raves

Excellent set of .htaccess resources.

apache server web security spam bots referrers *
october 2005 by mottram

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Tor Mac OS X Install Instructions

"Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the T

privacy osx mac security
september 2005 by mottram

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OpenID: an actually distributed identity system

"An OpenID identity is just a URL. You can have multiple identities in the same way you can have multiple URLs. All OpenID does is provide a way to prove that you own a URL (identity)."

id identity internet movabletype privacy security typekey weblog
july 2005 by mottram

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