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massar

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About massar

Hi,

I am Jeroen, one of those persons trying to make the Internet more secure and also private.

More details: https://jeroen.massar.ch

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/massar; my proof: https://keybase.io/massar/sigs/bG4_OZ-n60-f3pWNB4mya_IgOxy2KSN8RAu7bzCkt5A ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #24552029

    > transfer photos off of my phone is not so easy. If you have a Mac, then "Image Transfer" is what you are looking for. It allows to simply sync fotos and images as their raw files…

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    Comment #16843922

    Submitting to HN, as I've noticed a few folks here too asked about this. Primarily pushed to github for historical reasons and to show how relatively simple that code was that was …

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    Comment #15363220

    https://www.example.com" addr="ip/192.0.2.1 ip/2001:db8::1 tor/examplecomrewwwi.onion">Example You do trust the origin site to send you to the correct next site right? :) The big p…

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    Comment #15362905

    DNSSEC is primarily, like TLS, about message integrity. TLS adds encryption of content so that sniffers can't read along. With DNSSEC everybody still reads along. DNSCurve is not r…

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    Comment #15362855

    Well said. Being one of those "DNS people" (having given a few talks etc on the subject), I also have been telling people that I cannot privately deploy DNSSEC, simply because the …

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    Comment #15136710

    I make red lights green, and sometimes I on break a light with a hammer so that it gets replaced with something better.

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    Comment #15075790

    I hope they finally acknowledge the Security Bypass they have in this "Enterprise" version... where it will be even more serious https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?…

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    Comment #15075744

    While login happens with a Google account, guest logins are possible. The advice given typically is to have a separate account for the device 'ownership', that way, even if your ma…

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    Comment #15075712

    As there is a Linux kernel underneath, basically anything could in theory work; but non-standard options require 'developer mode' operation which kinda destroys the security model …

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    Comment #15075694

    Please do check: https://unfix.org/projects/chromeos-openvpn-onc/ which is a WebUI thingy I wrote to solve exactly that problem. [disclaimer: "advertising" tool I wrote]

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    Comment #14702544

    And not a word about security or even how to update. That makes it a true IoT device.... See also... https://twitter.com/internetofshit Please stuff boxes like this in a separate V…

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    Comment #14702508

    Rendering a Microsoft Word/Powerpoint document as a PDF is a good thing as then one does not need a Doc/Docx/PPT/pptx viewer anymore while most devices come with a PDF viewer built…

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    Comment #14687462

    https://ninjajobs.org is a good job board run by people in the "infosec" / security / etc industry.

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    Comment #14658691

    The EFF is apparently on the side of ElGoog: https://www.eff.org/cases/google-v-equustek "Such a broad injunction sets a dangerous precedent, especially given that it is likely to …

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