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Fixing an OpSec Hole…

As return readers of this blog know, I try pretty hard to maximize my privacy and security online and also share what I’ve learned with the readers. One (in retrospect) painfully obvious hole, however, in my operational security (OpSec for … Continue reading

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How To: Privacy-centric DNS

For those who aren’t as technically minded, it’s worth talking about what happens when you type a URL into your web browser and how that impacts privacy. The first thing is that the string you type in, say https://mycoolsite.com needs … Continue reading

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Save Me from the Data Brokers!

In looking back over my most recent posts on this blog, I’m noticing a pattern. I’m tending to focus on technical aspects of privacy and security and am leaning more towards the security side of things. Given that I want … Continue reading

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Quick and Dirty OpenBSD Version Upgrade on a Running System

I probably should have checked the mailing lists before writing my last two blog posts on how I install and “beautify” an OpenBSD bare-metal install on a laptop because sure as I was done with the second one and shared … Continue reading

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Fast follower post – making OpenBSD UI a bit “prettier” (as I see it)

In my last blog post, I shared how I set up my OpenBSD laptop from the bare metal. In retrospect, there are a handful of UI tweaks that I also perform to make my UI and workflow more consistent between … Continue reading

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OpenBSD Laptop

Hi, I know it’s been a while. I recently had to nuke and re-pave my personal laptop and I thought it would be a nice thing to share with the community how I set up OpenBSD on it so that … Continue reading

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Let’s dial it up to 11

So. It’s been a few months since I last posted here. I decided that the best way to sharpen my cyber skills would be to start treating my home environment like an enterprise one. In approaching this thought experiment, I … Continue reading

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OpenBSD Full Disk Encryption with CoreBoot and Tianocore Payload

It has been a while since I have posted here so I wanted to share something that was surprisingly difficult for me to figure out.  I have a Thinkpad T440p that I have flashed with Coreboot 4.11 with some special … Continue reading

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The Key to the Kingdom!

Hi everyone.  It’s been a few months since I last posted and I wanted to let everyone (who probably already knows about this wonderful tool) know about something I’ve just started using full-time.  If you aren’t familiar with it, there … Continue reading

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Installing Snort on OpenBSD 6.4

As you may recall from previous posts, I am running an OpenBSD server on an APU2 air-cooled 3 Intel NIC box as my router/firewall for my secure home network.  Given that all of my Internet traffic flows through this box, … Continue reading

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