Much of the content below is becoming out-dated, but may still be relevant or interesting. It is unlikely there will be any more updates and this page will probably be removed.
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Smart Meters – The “Facebook Helmet” | or, WTF? Noway!
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Cyber Psychology:::::::::
☻ Not particularly related to either IT or cyber-security; the following link is a well-written essay which presents persuasive perspectives on info-combat (anti-transparency), as well as a trove of thinking-material. It has obvious flaws, but is sure to make any security-conscious individual ponder deeply. While I doubt any reasonable mind will agree with the entirety of the essay, there is much to consider, and I have not yet found material which presents the other side’s perspective to this extent. I would be very interested to read a counter essay by Schneier. A great read for anyone seeking both security and transparency simultaneously: Protecting Sensitive Information: The Virtue of Self-Restraint – Dallas Boyd
*Note on above essay: Boyd’s admirable concept of “voluntary restraint” is a respectable proposal. However, our society has become far beyond repair concerning any collective values. We have seen that the only collective values we can hold must apply to the lowest common denominator, thus being poisoned from inception. I cannot help but to respect this writer, but I will never forget the horrible practices of this country; those which abuse its own citizenry and promulgate the epitome of deception, and those which have long since sold our greatest values for trinkets. If the US was not the champion of the world’s prison industry, and we had decent education – or a paradigm of kindness vs competition – I might place more confidence in such a proposal. It is unfortunately no more than optimistic idealism at this point. We have been so defiled by our government in this nation, that cynicism will easily outlive cockroaches. Such an intelligent writer might have also mentioned the government’s elaborately displayed lack of ability to distinguish common citizenry from terrorists, as well as their openly arrogant refusal to even try.
☻ Cyber Signal – Signals Intelligence, or Amplifying the Monkey (cryptome)
Privacy, Internet security:::::::::
“100% Privacy for the individual is part of “personal security” the flip side 0% Privacy for the individual is part of “National security.”" -commenter on www.schneier.com
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John Young Interviewed on Microsoft’s (law enforcement) Spyware Program, & other interesting links (on the youtube page):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPoQ14scoAc
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☻ Essay on the importance of privacy – Bruce Schneier
☻ Surveillance Self Defense – EFF’s SSD Project
☻ flossmanuals: Basic Internet Security
☻ dcfldd – hard-drive wiper, forensics..
☻ Tails – Privacy for anyone anywhere
☻ YaCy – Decentralized Web Search
☻ Secure and “anonymize” your google searches with Scroogle & Firefox Addon
☻ HTTPS Everywhere | Plugin/Addon, By the EFF
☻ “Anonymously-ish” search the web via proxy, without additional configurations by using Ixquick. To make this more effective, it is helpful to have NoScript installed. And here too, for mobile devices. To be truly anonymous, you’ll need something a little more robust, but the above works for general privacy purposes.
☻ Local Shared Objects Understanding them, and what they mean for your privacy.
☻ Killing LSO’s Easily in Mozilla Firefox with BetterPrivacy. In Ubuntu and other distros, you can also simply chmod ???, or remove the files from: /home/”your system name”/.macromedia and: /home/”your system name”/.adobe (Note the dots “.” before the target directories) This manual method can possibly cause minor troubles with Flash videos
☻ KISSmetrics – Spying on you whether you like it or not, regardless of your skills of evasion. Privacy punched in the nuts & ashkansoltani.org/docs/respawn_redux.html
☻ Chris Soghoian – Blog1 & Blog2
☻ Tyler Pitchford – Search And Seizure Explained, DEFCON 17 (video lecture)(coder of Azureus bittorrent client & attorney)
Encryption/Communications:::::::::
☻ ronja.twibright.com – Information Transfer Over Light/Lasers (light modulation)
☻ A superb article on Certificate Authorities, or https, by: Mokeysphere Developer
☻ Practical Guide to PGP in Ubuntu
☻ Think Skype is Really Secure? It Aint, and Here’s One Reason Why (pdf).
☻ A Fascinating Essay on VOIP Encryption Flaws(pdf). Or, why not just pad it?
☻ A little on the CISCO Lawful Intercept Architecture, and a few other things. (PDF)
☻ SSL-Strip – Bypassing HTTPS
☻ Tonika – Social Routing with Organic Security? Know C(++)? Visit the site if you want to help out. Seems quite interesting.
☻ Practical Cryptography – Learning Resource
DNS:::::::::
☻ Censorship Free DNS | One, Two, Three
☻ tinyurl.com – Shorten your url for various purposes
Miscellaneous:::::::::
☻ ANHOSTING – Really friendly, and really fairly priced webhosting. I’ve linked them here because I use them, and their customer service has been surprisingly friendly.
☻ pagekite.net/ – Host your site on your own machine, anytime, anywhere. (based in Iceland!)
☻ Gubment Forensics? | Or knowing who’s Fussing With Wikipedia
☻ Bruce Schneier “The Security Mirage”
Big Gubment, Their Tools, and so on:::::::::
☻ Your ISP and the Government Best Friends Forever – Christopher Soghoian
☻ A few of their tools, resources and strange concepts:
CIFA
FISA
COINTELPRO
FISMA
CALEA
Total Information Awareness Act
Carnivore
Echelon
Narus
Lincoln
Lawful Interception
Patriot Act
NSA Blackroom, or Room 641A Watch an interview with Mark Klein below:
Other::::::::
☻ wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page – Private-contractor investigations, and other interesting stuff.
☻ One reason why Cisco sucks – Cisco and Abuses of Human Rights in China: Part 1
Known Unknown Knowns, and so on::::::::
☻ www.thales-navalsystems.com/Pages/Solution.aspx?id=15436&pid=11604 – The Thales Group (“intelligence”)?
