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Migrating away from 'Prism' companies

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  • #32
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Mailvelope - GPG encryption for webmail clients. Pretty slick actually. Open source. Currently Chrome / Chromium only but a firefox version is apparently in the works.


  • #33
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,808 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    No mention of moving from brandname routers to dd-wrt ?


  • #34
    silentrust
    Closed Accounts Posts: 678 ✭✭✭silentrust


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    No mention of moving from brandname routers to dd-wrt ?

    Presumably this would make it impossible for the big brands to stick a backdoor into your firmware as you're putting your own on there?


  • #35
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,808 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    silentrust wrote: »
    Presumably this would make it impossible for the big brands to stick a backdoor into your firmware as you're putting your own on there?
    means they'd have to be sneakier, but on a cheap consumer router that would cost too much.

    you can get BSD firewalls that don't use IP addresses and just inspect the packets as they pass , but in a cheap router that extra HW would show up.


    Also if truly paranoid you'd need to vet your compiler too :pac:
    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/induc/
    Security experts seem more intrigued than alarmed over a newly-discovered virus that inserts itself into a Delphi compiler, and replicates itself in every program compiled.

    It can't be said too often that security is built up of layers and since any one layer could be compromised the more layers you have the better.


  • #36
    silentrust
    Closed Accounts Posts: 678 ✭✭✭silentrust


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    means they'd have to be sneakier, but on a cheap consumer router that would cost too much.

    you can get BSD firewalls that don't use IP addresses and just inspect the packets as they pass , but in a cheap router that extra HW would show up.


    Also if truly paranoid you'd need to vet your compiler too :pac:
    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/induc/

    It can't be said too often that security is built up of layers and since any one layer could be compromised the more layers you have the better.

    Did you see that it had found its way into a trojan? Oh, the irony! :-)


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