Category: Privacy

eye surveillance watching

Paranoid or Prepared? The spies on your desk

I usually receive questions about why I have a sticker on ambient light sensors my laptops and phone. Some think I don’t know the difference between a light sensor and a camera and try to explain to me that this is not a camera. What they don’t know is that ambient light sensors can be…
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Cybersecurity jobs

How to land an entry level cybersecurity job

This post is a response to a friend who is seeking a cybersecurity role in an extremely challenging market. Given that this is a widespread issue these days, I decided to write a post rather than simply leaving a comment. Various statistics from multiple sources suggest that there is a wide gap in cybersecurity roles,…
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Quomodo agere cum novis technicis tracking; Zombie cookies et Canvas fingerprinting

Canvas fingerprinting, et Zombie cookie trackers nihil novi sunt; tamen, haec methodi emendatae sunt et factae sunt manifeste efficax per tempus. Nuper, studium patefecit unum in quattuor 10,000 maxime visitavit websites in interrete utitur canvas fingerprinting ad vestigandum visitantes cum usque ad 99.9% accuratio. Tentamen tracking colligere…
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PHP Suhosin

The end of Suhosin; what is next?

For many years, I zealously have used Suhosin with any implementations of PHP5 on Apache2 or PHP-FPM Nginx webservers to defend against SQL injection and other common web attacks. In fact, PHP5 was so disastrous, both in terms of its core security, and its functions and modules that I could have never conceived using it
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