Preparing for Orwell’s Internet | TechSNAP 114

Show Notes:

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Security against compelled disclosure

• How to protect yourself from laws that allow the government to force you to give up your encryption keys
• Use many short-lived sub-keys
• Decrypt encrypted emails, re-encrypt them with a long term storage key, and destroy the original key. If your encrypted email was intercepted as it passed over the insecure internet, the only key that can decrypt it has now been securely destroyed
• Use a separate key for each item, so when they force you to give up the key, it does not disclose any additional information
• use Steganographic File Systems to disclose only non sensitive data

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ZFS TRIM supported merged in to FreeBSD 9-stable, enabled by default

• ZFS TRIM has been in 10-current since 2012–09–23
• ZFS will TRIM/initialize new devices when they are first added to the zpool unless the sysctl is turned off, this may cause new devices to take a while to add
• Also supports TRIM on the L2ARC

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Feedback:

• NFS vs iSCSI Revisited

• pfSense = Very Costly Overhead?

• Scale Engine and RTMP / HTTP?

• Best way to download JB Shows?

• The Argument For Owncloud

• Securing OwnCloud?

• How do you retain some semblance of privacy on the Internet?

• KeePass on Android Sounds Great

• For the paranoid: Clipboard purging with xclip and cron.

• Good Things from hackers?

• Backup Fail

• Tales From Tech Support – Thx to Drumm in the TechSNAP subreddit

• Switching from Linux to FreeBSD

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A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the essential guide to preserving your personal security

Round-Up:

• Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying
• Sweden bans all Public Sector entities from using Google Apps over Privacy concerns
• The most sophisticated Android Trojan
• Iphone’s still open to old WiFi attack
• NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning. Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar
• Oracle has reversed a previous decision to stop offering timezone definition updates for Java, a support contract is no longer required
• Google uncovers phishing campaign targeting Iranians
• Pictures of the NSA’s new data center in Utah
• NSA also building new data center in Maryland