It has been quite a while since I started to get SSL Certificates working on my server machines – so it was time to get that stuff running on my mobile phone too. You might wonder now why the phone would need such a certificate, but in this case it’s just some root certificates to enable it to […]
Tag: security
Let’s get active
Today is a wonderful day, the Linux Day in Dornbirn – the place to gather my CAcert points to become an active assurer for the Web of Trust. As it was possible to take the assurer test on site – god bless the inventor of wireless lan – I could start to assure people immediately and gain the […]
Now with new Certificates
It shouldn’t be a new topic to secure your data while sending it across public lines like the internet. This usually happens using server certificates, which are made once and never touched again – if self signed. In my case I wanted to do it better and got me a certificate from CACert.org. At least it is a […]
Messing around with an eToken
Security is a very nice topic – especially if you are allowed to mess with them (or even break them). Today’s toy is an eToken by Aladdin. Looking at it, you might mistake it for an USB Stick, but nevertheless – let’s plug it in and see what ‘lsusb’ might tell:
Windfall
Today I have really started thinking about apple computers again due to the latest incident. This time we’re talking about windows shares in a cooperated network, called smb or samba shares in combination with an active directory. The task itself shouldn’t be that hard as it was just accessing a windows share on a remote server – but […]
Somethin’ fishy
During the last days I was looking for a prepaid card for some mobile internet device for having a small backup. I was really wondering to see that you don’t even have to register the card somewhere as it’s completely anonymous. On the other hand there’s that transparent user idea and storing logfiles for a long time for […]