Category: Security
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Debian migration to nftables
If you have upgraded to Debian 10 buster you will know (if you have read the release notes) that Debian has now migrated to the nftables filtering framework. See 2.2.6. Network filtering based on nftables framework by default What is not covered is how you do this and what it really means. The release notes say…
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Twitter security is very lax
Twitter don’t seem to take account security very seriously. For over six months I’ve been trying to enable two factor authentication on my account and I want to use the Google authenticator app, rather than SMS codes with are insecure. However, for no logical reason twitter require you add and verify a mobile number on…
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letsencrypt hell
I simultaneously both love letsencrypt and also hate it. Maybe hate is the wrong word, the project’s goals are fantastic. What I hate is the official software – certbot. Firstly the way it installs is horrible, under some weird directory structure in your home directory, who in the world generally manages their software like this? …