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Who Am I - Kein System ist sicher (2014) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3042408/

A young, broken, man, enters an underground community of computer crackers, trying desperately to prove himself but with consequences.

An extremely good movie. While not quite mandatory, it's definitely a proper advancement of the "hacker kid" movies that have sullied past movies. Highly recommended, even for people that "know their stuff", as it doesn't lay on the techno-babble which describes everything painfully wrong. Instead, it takes a reasonable middle ground, staying away from pop culture and fairly-firmly on the social side of storytelling.



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The network connection status icon, found at the lower-right of the taskbar (the tray), is a privacy flaw.

This is because in order for it to operate, it has to reach out to check. Its first check will be its internal IP, to your router. Its second check is to ping a Microsoft server. This means every time your computer boots up, or wakes up, it's informing..

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KeePassX icon

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.keepassx.org/

A password manager.

I found KeePassx while exploring replacing Firefox, and when looking at replacing web browser components. I wanted something cross-platform and open source.



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eCryptfs honey badger

encryption >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.ecryptfs.org/

A cryptographic filesystem.

A fantastic concept and program which I used heavily for a long time across multiple Linux distributions.

  • Be aware that attacks on people, hardware and implementation are the go-to methods for defeating encryption. Some points:

    • A legal or physical threat, lies and other social engineering.
    • A hardware or software keylogger. Are you typing your password on a keyboard and computer you control?
  • eCryptfs-mount.sh is my helper script.



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