Why I Decided to Host a Family‑Only Mastodon Instance

Self-Hosting a Mastodon server at home

  I was recently asked by a friend that was concerned with the level of discourse on Social media and He wanted to know if there was something that could be done. While I can’t solve the problems that we are experiencing on social media as a whole, there is one positive direction that you […]

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Emergency‑Response Plan for Personal Hardware

Emergency Response plan - Personal - Hardware. Step by step considerations and code to help you plan.

Emergency‑Response Plan for Personal Hardware Introduction When a determined adversary stands at your front door, ready to snatch your computer or launch a sophisticated cyber‑attack, the outcome hinges on whether you have a pre‑written emergency‑response plan. A well‑crafted “kill‑switch” that instantly isolates the device, rotates all cryptographic material, and dumps fresh secrets to an encrypted […]

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Using MITRE D3FEND to strengthen you home network

Using MITRE D3FEND to Secure & Privatize a Home Network

  Using MITRE D3FEND to strengthen you home network D3FEND is a knowledge base of cybersecurity countermeasure techniques. In the simplest sense, it is a catalog of defensive cybersecurity techniques and their relationships to offensive/adversary techniques. It is designed for “Blue Team” Cybersecurity defenders to have a methodology to make their networks more secure. I […]

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Getting Smart With: PASS – the command line password manager

Open source command line tool to store passwords securely

Getting Smart With: PASS – the command line password manager PASS is a password manager that uses the command line in Linux to create encrypted files for the sites that you visit. PASS was designed for simplicity and adheres to the Unix philosophy. With PASS, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose […]

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Best Linux distributions for old computers

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Best Linux distributions for old computers There are hundreds of Linux distributions out there, but most have hardware requirements that are above and beyond what old computers and laptops have in them. So, what to do to breathe new life into old computers?  Older hardware usually does not have the specifications that you would need […]

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