A year or so ago, I wrote a short article titled "Network Go
Bag". During the past year, I've gotten lots of email about that bag
and actually quite a few questions about working while traveling in
general.
In a previous article, I introduced
the Tiny Internet Project, a
self-contained Linux project that shows you how to build key pieces
of the internet on a single computer using virtualization software,
a router and free open-source applications.
In perfect alignment with its self-described identity as "the data reduction
expert", Permabit Technology Corporation recently announced availability of its
Albireo Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) 6 for Canonical's Ubuntu Server.
ADUPS is an Android "firmware provisioning" company based out of Shanghai,
China. The software specializes both in Big Data collection of Android
usage, and hostile app installation and/or firmware control. Google has
blacklisted the ADUPS agent in its Android Compatibility Test Suite
(CTS).
The special sauce in USMobile, Inc.'s Scrambl3, the mobile app that facilitates
"the world's most private calls and messages", is a set of open-source
components that create a top-secret-grade VPN, encryption algorithms and internet
protocols.
This article is the fourth in my series about the Qubes operating system,
a security-focused Linux distribution that compartmentalizes your common
desktop tasks into individual VMs.
The new second edition of Dave Taylor and Brandon Perry's classic Wicked Cool Shell
Scripts, published by No Starch Press, features a smorgasbord of favorite scripts and 23 brand-new ones.
Subtitled 101 Scripts for Linux, OS X, and UNIX Systems, Taylor
and Perry's guide
features a collection of useful, customizable and fun shell scripts
You'll recall that in my last
article I shared a long, complex explanation for why
spam email catches my attention and intrigues me, perhaps more than it should.
Part of it is that I've been involved in email forever—I even wrote one of
the most popular old-school email programs back in the day.
A few months ago I tried out the
recently open-sourced
Simplenote application from the folks at Automattic. One of the other
fairly new additions to their cross-platform note-syncing platform is
that an Android app is available for free in the Google Play Store.
Forensic image acquisition is an important part of the process of
after-the-fact incident response and evidence collection. Digital forensic
investigators acquire, preserve and manage digital evidence as part of
criminal and civil court cases; they examine violations of organizational
policy; and they analyze cyber attacks.