I’ve made chrome my default linux browser. It’s been performing very well… The thing is, flash on linux is unstable, gosh darn adobe! I have ff crash about every few days due to something like google finance. No more! The separate processes of chrome isolate this somewhat. So although it’s still “unstable” it seems to [...]
The gnu Privacy handbook has a ton of useful information, but I thought I’d make a quick reference for the gpg usage I use most. Especially because I was just an idiot and lost my gpg private key (though I do remember the passphrase) – this time there will be a backup! List all keys [...]
From the system man page, it explicitely says: Do not use system() from a program with set-user-ID or set-group-ID privileges, because strange values for some environment variables might be used to subvert system integrity. Good advice, but sometimes you need to get stuff done anyway. This is experimenting with pam and execv from a stupid [...]
I am doing some research that involves a *lot* of google searches. Because this research involves a significant number of directed queries, it seems logical to hide this information as much as practical. If there is a web host who notices sequential names in a Google referer URL repeatedly, this might raise suspicion or alter behavior which could skew results. Similarly, it is desirable to hide IP information from both the web host (for similar reasons) and possibly even search engines.
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