Community-gathered blocklist for YouTube ad domains, suitable for pihole on e.g. raspberry pi

Various settings and extensions for Firefox, sorted from essential to suggested, to help escape tracking and telemetry.

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We analyzed the best secure messaging services that will encrypt and secure your communications. Here are the top recommendations.

Going by open-source, audited, and ownership-based recommendations.

With all the praise for Signal, do be aware that supporting the Signal developers might not be the optimum choice since they are putting large blocking stones in front of what should be collaborative open source work in order to retain centralized ownership and power, especially through platform centralization and trademark lawsuit threats. See here.

This is the Free Software Foundation (FSF) guide to smarter gift giving, compared with their restrictive counterparts.

Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications

Takes stock of malpractices and bad behaviors by proprietary actors.

By FSF, so take with a grain of salt

Securing api endpoints with different access and authorization policies with the help of a reverse proxy (traefik) and a policy enforcement gateway (OAP).

Can be used for all sorts of authorizations and validifications of credentials and policy configuration language called Rego.

Storing passwords is a pretty simple problem in software development, right? Wrong! Storing passwords correctly is pretty complicated. With that said, it’s very simple to just lean on work someone else has done, and the libraries available for your language of choice.

Interesting writeup of password storing strategies and pitfalls.

Wireguard is an open-source cross-platform VPN implementation that uses state of the art cryptography. It is faster, simpler and more functional than ...

The scrypt key derivation function and encryption utility

Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.

akin to an open source keybase.io

• Verifies your identity by linking your various account
• does not actually store identity data on its own servers
• can be self-hosted
• can integrate into openkeychain / conversations by generating QR codes

Pi-hole compatible blocklists for you to have a more enjoyable online presence

Secure messaging, anywhere

Messenger service working without centralized server, akin to mesh-network over e.g. bluetooth

zero width characters to embed secret messages / phrases into text for unique identification. Could be embedded e.g. in a served website or similar.

Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords 🧙🏻‍♂️⭐ - KuroLabs

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