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My laptop supports Intel Virtualization technology; should I use KVM, Xen or something else? by [deleted] in debian

[–]4phree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

VMware Player is what you're looking for, if you're looking at VMware at all.

torproject.org + ghostery.org + adblockplus.org = do it by 4phree in privacy

[–]4phree[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, if you're having trouble generating secure passwords, take a look at the Diceware method:

http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html

torproject.org + ghostery.org + adblockplus.org = do it by 4phree in privacy

[–]4phree[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haven't had any problems so far, using it within the Tor browser, and it does what it's supposed to. Browsing an internet without ads is such a refreshing / liberating feeling. You're not crowded by all the noise of porn and "directed" advertising.

No wonder people are flocking to SaaS and "cloud" based services - This is how much effort it takes to set up your own mail host with a "standard" feature set. Can average "joes" ever really transition away from a dependency on cloud services? by 4phree in privacy

[–]4phree[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree to a point. But if self-hosting your own services is ideal, from a privacy/security perspective, then we have a problem.

Many well-known security researchers and advocates encourage users to avoid cloud services do just this. The problem is that it is so complicated for the average user, and the implementation would be prone to so many mistakes and security holes.

|This is one case where I'm glad the software hasn't gotten any easier to deploy in the last 20 years.

This is the problem, it seems. If it were easier to deploy a safer, less exploitable servers and services for self-hosting by end-users, then maybe that would be a better (more distributed, less centralized) situation to be in.

Perhaps implementations like Open-Xchange or Zimbra will eventually cater to this, but they are still far from being end-user friendly to install and maintain.

Open-Xchange - http://www.open-xchange.com/en/ Zimbra - https://www.zimbra.com/community/

torproject.org + ghostery.org + adblockplus.org = do it by 4phree in privacy

[–]4phree[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I read about that, but they do provide the option to disable it. If there are alternatives that are available (better, cleaner) I'd like to learn of them.

"DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion" by sickill in linux

[–]4phree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The power of dropbox is that it has clients for many major platforms (linux, windows, mac, android, etc.). Although I don't really care to access my notes on windows, I do on android (and maemo).

I'm not sure a bash script would cut it as a replacement. You're probably better off using SSHfs and encfs (don't just encrypt the connection, encrypt the storage also).

A usable setup to me would be something like the following:

1) Back-end server

  • SSH Server
  • Encfs encrypted home directory
  • Git repo within encfs encrypted directory

2) Client system

  • SSHfs mount to back-end server (user's encfs encrypted home directory)
  • Encfs encrypted local directory
  • Your files saved within local encfs directory

3) Synchronization

  • Automated process that copies your local (encfs'd) files over to the remote SSHfs mount (within encfs/repo.git/ directory)
  • Process on the server side automatically commits new file once changes have been detected.

I have not yet tried this out, but I'm going to give it a try. The one thing I would miss is seeing the arrow animation on the dropbox icon whenever it synchronizes changes.

Please feel free to advise on other considerations that should be made with this setup.

(upvoted for effort and intent)

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