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The Makers of StartPage and IxQuick Are Launching A Private Email Service
The makers of the private search engine StartPage and IxQuick are getting ready to launch a new email service that boasts of privacy. This is huge due to the recent (public) revelations that the NSA...
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Firefox/Chrome Plugin That Allows You To Schedule Sending Emails on Gmail
Image via CrunchBase I have always enjoyed the ability to schedule sending an email from Outlook at a specific time. Sometimes knowing an email has to go out precisely at say, 7PM Eastern Time on June...
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Google Glass: Creepy or Useful?
Google Glass is eyeglasses that allow you to connect with friends through social networks, make phone calls, surf the Internet and do a myriad of other amazing, helpful things just with your voice. It...
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New Firefox Plugin Detects If You Are Being Spied On By The NSA
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) [RT] Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day? The government is likely logging even the most mundane day-to-day computer habits of millions of Americans, but there’s...
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Bauer-Puntu 13.04 is Alive! Download It Now!
Well I finally got it done. I finished up Bauer-Puntu 13.04. This time I decided to cut out a lot of the stuff I don't really use. stuff like Metasploit, SET, and some other hacking tools. If you want...
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How To Create A Backup System Image In Windows 8
Last Saturday I wanted to test the latest edition of Bauer-Puntu on my laptop at home. Normally I would have just wiped my laptop without a second though and installed Bauer-Puntu. The problem this...
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Encrypt The Sensitive Files On Your Linux VPS Using Truecrypt
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) I like many people got upset when they heard the news about the NSA's PRISM program. It's one of the reasons I added a number of encryption programs to Bauer-Puntu Linux. One...
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Actively Combat Hackers on Your Linux Server With Fail2Ban
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) I've already mentioned that I have moved off of Google Apps for my email onto my own email server running on Linux using iRedmail. One of the components that comes with the...
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Monitor Your Public Facing Servers For Free With UptimeRobot
Still on the kick of talking about my new anti-NSA email server, I wanted to tell you about monitoring it. I found a public service that lets me keep an eye on my email server 24/7 in five minute...
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Encrypt Your Linux Tarball Backups
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Again with my anti-NSA server... This time I had to figure out how to back it up. Now Linode.com, where I am hosting it, does have a backup solution for an extra $100 per...
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Are Your Running Microsoft Windows? The NSA Has Backdoor Access
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) In a chilling, yet somehow unsurprising report I read on Monday it turns out that no matter how well you think you've locked down your Windows workstation or server, the NSA...
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NSA Proof Your Cellular Phone Calls With RedPhone
(Photo credit: HarrisonEarl) A lot of what I've been blogging about lately has been to do with covering your ass from illegal government snooping. One of the big bombshells that broke recently was...
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Configure Postfix and Dovecot SSL Settings For PCI Compliance
Yes, this is yet another post on my Linux email server that I am using to get off of Google's teat, and of course avoid the NSA's PRISM program. As a part of setting up my email server I wanted to lock...
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Android Users: Get The NSA Out Of Your Text Messages With TextSecure
Last week I wrote about a really great app for your Android or iPhone that allows you to encrypt phone conversations so the NSA and the other federal alphabet soup guys can't snoop on your...
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Get Off The Free Teat of Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo by Setting Up Your Own...
In this final episode of Tech Chop, I talked about how I decided to give up my free Google Apps email account and setup my own email server on an Ubuntu Linux VPS using iRedMail. As you can see in the...
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Get Rid Of The Stupid Landscape Advertisement In Ubuntu Server
I am one of the few people in this world that like to add a little something to my motd in Ubuntu so when I ssh into one of my servers it's a little less boring. I love putting ASCII art in my...
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Manage Amavis Spam/AV Quarantine For Free in iRedMail With Amacube
This may very well be my final post about my new anti-NSA Linux email server I setup on an Ubuntu VPS using iRedMail... No seriously, I think this should cover it.iRedMail is a free Linux package you...
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Fix Untrusted Chain Issue With Firefox and GnuTLS
I have GnuTLS setup on numerous Apache web servers. It's just better than OpenSSL because with GnuTLS I can use the more secure TLSv1.1 or TLSv1.2. The only problem I've had with it, until now is that...
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How To Generate A CSR in Linux Using OpenSSL
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) One of the main points of Bauer-Power is that it is my own personal knowledge base. I can't remember everything, so I often times will write up a how-to here on Bauer-Power...
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My Local City's Website For Paying The Water Bill Is Not PCI Compliant
One of the many facets of my day job is making sure my company's public facing web servers are PCI compliant because we do a lot of business with Banks and financial institutions and they require it....
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