Articles and News

Bring Your Own VM - Mac Edition

The author illustrates some of the implications of the Virtualization framework in macOS.

https://blog.xpnsec.com/bring-your-own-vm-mac-edition/

Fediverse in 2020

This blog post shows stats of the progress the fediverse made in 2020.

https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2020/

The Big Little Guide to Message Queues

The author gives an introduction to the underlying concept of message queues and introduces popular implementations.

https://sudhir.io/the-big-little-guide-to-message-queues/

Linux Hardening Guide

This guide provides extensive information on hardening Linux.

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/guides/linux-hardening.html

How Complex Systems Fail

Easy to remember site with Richard Cook’s essay on »How Complex Systems Fail«.

https://how.complexsystems.fail/

AIR-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers

The article shows that it’s possible to exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers with Wi-Fi signals.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.06884.pdf

http://five.sentenc.es/

»five.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less. It’s that simple.«

http://five.sentenc.es/

Releases and Projects

Git 2.30

This release of git doesn’t contain significant user-facing changes but comes with several internal improvements and fixes.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/xmqqk0t1g326.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/

sshuttle

sshuttle adds VPN-like capabilities to SSH that go beyond the built-in port-forwarding features of SSH.

https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle/

reptyr

reptyr allows »re-ptying« programs. It comes in handy for reattaching a long-running process in terminal multiplexer sessions originally started outside of one.

https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr

NoiseTorch

NoiseTorch is a program for PulseAudio that creates a virtual microphone that suppresses noise.

https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch

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