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Security Header Generator icon

Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

https://wordpress.org/plugins/security-header-generator/
https://kevinpirnie.com/kevin-pirnies-articles/wordpress-plugin-security-header-generator/

Adds various security headers into your blog to appease checkers and possibly improve SEO.



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BeautySnap - (Android spyware) icon

Software, Android >

(on Google Play)
(on F-Droid)
was loverscamera.com

A Chinese spyware/backdoor application default-installed and uninstallable on cheap Chinese mobile phones.

  • Abandoned: Not updated, and the domain is gone.



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AdminControl logo

Software, Android >

(on F-Droid)
https://github.com/linux-colonel/AdminControl

Additional security settings for Android.

  • Allows you to disable to fingerprint reader on the Lock Screen without deleting all of your fingerprints.

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  • Shows up as "Additional Security Settings"
  • Abandoned - As of 2023-02-25 - 1.0.4 was released 2018-09-10 and the last repository update was 2021-10-03



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These instructions were tested, and re-tested multiple times on devuan_ascii_2.0.0-rc_i386_dvd-1 on bare metal. They worked fine, but they magically stopped working, and so I'm giving up on this technology; it's too fucking hard to use.

Computer security: Devuan + dm-crypt >

Devuan's installer has an encryption feature, but it formats your whole hard drive and uses LVM, neither of which I want.

  • Given a hard drive which has regular partitioning and not LVM.
  • Where a / (root) partition is encrypted (dm-crypt) and in use.

    • Such as with an earlier release of Devuan
  • Install Devuan, re-using the encrypted partition without re-encrypting/formatting from scratch.

    Note - I will be writing separate instructions on how to manually make and manage encrypted partitions.

For more information on encryption, see dm-crypt.

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