Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one
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Technical author, FOSS advocate, public speaker, Linux security & infrastructure geek, author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks and many other books, ex-Linux Journal columnist.
Joined Apr 2019
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“If people saw a cop sitting in front of their church or their oncologist writing down license plates, people would be concerned."
But law enforcement are using automated license plate readers to effectively do just that, says EFF's @maassive https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/automatic-license-plate-readers-hoa-police-openalpr.html
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I'm on Mastodon again... Via Librem.one :D
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This sounds cool. I tried setting it up, but I can't reach the git repo (might be my corporate firewall having a good time with me). Has anybody else done this and what did you think? Thanks for the article @kyle!
"What Really IRCs Me: Mastodon | Linux Journal"
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/what-really-ircs-me-mastodon
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What Really IRCs Me: Mastodon
By @kyle
Learn how to use the Mastodon social network platform from the comfort of your regular #IRC client. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/what-really-ircs-me-mastodon
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Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/sunday-review/human-contact-luxury-screens.html @cybette good read
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Lessons in Vendor Lock-in: Google and Huawei
by @kyle
What happens when you're locked in to a vendor that's too big to fail, but is on the opposite end of a trade war?
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lessons-vendor-lock-google-and-huawei
There's nothing like a road trip to show just how much we overpay for gasoline in California.
Our new Librem Keys are Made in USA! I wrote a brief post on why having an even more secure supply chain is so important. Watching these come off the line is even more mesmerizing than watching my 3D printer. https://puri.sm/posts/made-in-usa-librem-key/
Today's office is brought to you by a lake outside of Lansing. #vanlife
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I've been reading @kyle Rankin's Hardening Linux book, and the client chapter confirmed what I suspected, since I've started using Linux, that Linux has security issues as a client OS. The Qubes setup was interesting, but sounds very resource intensive. It also reminds me of how the Unix workstation model was setup, when I was lucky enough to work under it.
I think apps were sandboxed better under OS/2, but I'd have to revisit The Design of OS/2 to be sure.
I recommend the Hardening Linux book
McCarthy built such a machine in the `40s and `50s. Started with Communists, then Communist-leaning views, then Socialist views, eventually expanded to include homosexuality. Victims lost their jobs, were blacklisted from their industries.
Black Hat drama this week shows the risks in creating a machine/process w/ the power to censor a group for personal views. Always starts w/ dangerous/unsympathetic views, inevitably expands to censor other groups based on shakier grounds. #slipperyslope
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Technical author, FOSS advocate, public speaker, Linux security & infrastructure geek, author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks and many other books, ex-Linux Journal columnist.
Joined Apr 2019
