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http://cudge.org/files/Tunneling-Pidgin
Yeah, the above link has to be commended for its awesomeness and its brevity. 8 simple steps (7 for those of us running Linux) to tunnel all Pidgin traffic over an ssh connection. Excellent. And kudos to you, lordm, for the suggestion of using the Pidgin OTR plugin, a most excellent piece of code that [...]

It’s always surprising some of the things that can be found on Google with a little digging. Personal email, intimate photos, credit card numbers, you name it, someone has had it indexed by Google. Each new search service that Google rolls out adds new ways to find some of this interesting information. And Google Code [...]

Big thanks to  to iSpider.pl for pointing me towards FreeEnigma, a Firefox extension which can encrypt/decrypt webmail messages on the fly:
FreeEnigma brings cryptography to webmail, with an ingenious set of free and open browser plug-ins that work with Yahoo, Gmail, and others. The plugins implement a version of GPG (the free/open version of Pretty [...]

David ‘cdlu’ Graham apparently was trying to make some kind of point about freedom or privacy or… well, I have no idea what his recent post on NewsForge (”Tor: Freedom for whom?”) was trying to say. See if you can parse this bit:
Schneier states that the debate is wrongfully categorised as a debate between privacy [...]

Security Blog has an article pointing out that most passwords are insecure:
Vu, who is a assistant professor in the Psychology Department at California State University, Long Beach, goes on to say that the average password is easy to crack, but access to biographical data makes guessing that much easier with favorites being birthdays and children’s [...]

Want to try out Tor, the anonymizing TCP service? TorPark makes it easy with a customized version of Portable Firefox altered to communicate via Tor.
With TorPark on a USB flash drive, you can bring the power and flexibility of Firefox with you when you travel — and count on Tor to keep your browsing anonymous [...]

ssh (secure shell) is an extremely useful tool. I won’t say much about it, because odds are if you are reading this blog you know what it is and what it does. One thing I’ve been meaning to do forever is set up my Linux machines to do passwordless authentication, mainly for security. A password [...]

Okay, so like me, you take the obvious route of using a tax preparation software package, a la TurboTax to take care of your federal and state income tax returns. It’s silly not to: if you have all the data needed on-hand, and there’s nothing complex about your financial situation, you can either save a [...]