Thieves are stealing iPhone pin codes | GrapheneOS settings and protections

🎥 Video Link Links referenced in/for video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlQFyVF8oW0 - Wall Stree Journal YouTube video https://www.karltarvas.com/2023/02/25/protecting-your-iphone-against-shoulder-surfing-password-theft.html - How to protect your iPhone from password theft. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201355 - How to Change your Apple ID password https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/if-hackers-crack-a-six-digit-iphone-passcode-they-can-get-all-your-passwords/ - If Hackers Crack a Six-Digit iPhone Passcode, They Can Get All Your Passwords https://grapheneos.org/features#auto-reboot - GrapheneOS Auto reboot https://grapheneos.org/features#pin-scrambling - GrapheneOS PIN scrambling https://grapheneos.org/features#improved-user-profiles - GrapheneOS Improved user profiles https://grapheneos.org/features#more-secure-fingerprint-unlock - GrapheneOS fingerprint unlock Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ ...

March 13, 2023 · 7 min · 1477 words · Josh

How to guide - Raspberry Pi USB Boot

🎥 Video Link Links referenced in/for video https://youtu.be/CnRYn-9EGvE - What is Raspberry Pi Imager? https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ - Download Rapsberry Pi Imager Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ The default boot order on the Raspberry Pi is to first boot from the micro SD card, which is less than ideal if you would like to boot from a USB drive first. So, in today’s video, I’m going to cover how you can change the boot order on your Raspberry Pi. ...

March 6, 2023 · 3 min · 556 words · Josh

Considering GrapheneOS? Quick tour + useful settings

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org - GrapheneOS https://grapheneos.org/features - GrapheneOS Features https://grapheneos.org/usage - GrapheneOS Usage https://grapheneos.org/faq - GrapheneOS FAQ Auditor App https://attestation.app/ - Auditor App https://attestation.app/tutorial#scheduled-remote-verification - Remote attestation setup GrapheneOS Camera https://grapheneos.org/usage#grapheneos-camera-app GrapheneOS Camera documentation https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera - GrapheneOS Camera GitHub GrapheneOS PDF Viewer https://grapheneos.org/features#grapheneos-pdf-viewer - GrapheneOS PDF Viewer documentation https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer - GrapheneOS PDF Viewer GitHub GrapheneOS Vanadium https://grapheneos.org/features#vanadium - GrapheneOS Vanadium documentation https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium - GrapheneOS Vanadium GitHub Settings https://grapheneos.org/features#auto-reboot - Auto reboot https://grapheneos.org/features#attack-surface-reduction - Wi-Fi/Bluetooth timeout https://grapheneos.org/features#pin-scrambling - Pin Scrambling Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ ...

February 27, 2023 · 7 min · 1310 words · Josh

What is Raspberry Pi Imager?

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ - Raspberry Pi Imager Download https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager - Telemetry collection details Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ Raspberry Pi Imager makes it easy to install a variety of operating systems onto your micro SD card, external SSD, or whatever other medium you choose to install your operating system on for your Raspberry Pi. They make it super easy to install. You can head on over to raspberry pi.com. Once you get there, select “Software” and then, depending on which operating system you are running, select that download. In my case, download for Windows. ...

February 20, 2023 · 3 min · 489 words · Josh

Apple Has NOT Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent | How to spot FUD

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-now/ - Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent by Jeffrey Paul https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34392391 - Hacker News thread https://twitter.com/mysk_co/status/1617291107456454656 - Mysk Twitter thread https://youtu.be/_YQEE9Jl7fs - Mental Outlaw video https://youtu.be/6LfCJGSUcfk - Louis Rossman Video https://youtu.be/-aRp0fSw3uk - Louis Rossman followup Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ FUD stands for “fear, uncertainty, and doubt.” It’s a popular term used a lot in the privacy community, and leads me to a topic I’ve been wanting to talk about: best practices when researching and analyzing information on the internet. I will be referencing an article written by a security researcher about Apple. I am not making this video to defend or shill Apple, but because I believe that real conversations about privacy and security should be based on facts, not lazily written articles attempting to lead readers down a path the author wants. ...

February 13, 2023 · 8 min · 1612 words · Josh

Raspberry Pi 4 Explained | Hardware layout

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HKGGPLR - Western Digital 250GB WD Blue SN570 NVMe https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08G14NBCS - ORICO M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure https://www.hackster.io/news/meet-the-new-raspberry-pi-4-model-b-9b4698c284 Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ In today’s video, I wanted to cover the hardware components on the Raspberry Pi. Understanding what you are working with is helpful and I find it impressive what they have managed to cram on this circuit board. Towards the end of the video, I will suggest an upgrade if you plan to use it for full-time hosting. On the top right, we have a gigabit Ethernet port, which supports true gigabit Ethernet speeds. The Ethernet transceiver chip on the Raspberry Pi allows you to achieve full gigabit speeds of 1000 megabits per second, compared to the Raspberry Pi 3, which was limited to 300 megabits per second. Below the Ethernet port, we have two USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports. On the side view, we can see the Ethernet port in the center and two USB 3.0 ports (which have blue inside) and two USB 2.0 ports (black) on the left. Below the Ethernet controller, we have the USB controller chip. On the previous Raspberry Pi 3, the Ethernet and USB controller were on the same chip, causing the limitation of 300 megabits per second on the gigabit Ethernet interface. ...

January 30, 2023 · 6 min · 1143 words · Josh

Should you use self hosted applications?

🎥 Video Link Supplies needed Raspberry Pi - I purchased the Raspberry Pi Model B (4GB). If you can afford it, try to get 2 (1 for a backup). Micro SD Card - I went with a 64GB High Endurance SanDisk card (linked below). I would suggest buying 1 extra. External monitor - this isn’t required, but it would make things easier to see the display out from your Raspberry Pi. You can use it without a monitor, as long as you know how to find out the IP address for SSH. If you want to use a monitor, you’ll need a Micro HDMI to HDMI cable Keyboard & mouse (wireless or wired). Again, this isn’t required. You can SSH into the Raspberry Pi from another computer. A desktop/laptop you can SSH to the Raspberry Pi from. The other option would be to configured it using a monitor you plug into it with a keyboard/mouse, and you wouldn’t need access to another computer. Ethernet cable if you’d like to use the Ethernet port. It also supports Wi-Fi. Links referenced for video https://rpilocator.com/ - Helpful tool to monitor multiple sites for Raspberry Pi availability. This will be your best bet at finding one. https://store.rakwireless.com/ - I’ve purchased two from here. They ship directly from China and have a heat sink attached. I don’t know if these are knockoffs, but everything looks legitimate. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P3D6Y5B - SanDisk 64GB High Endurance Video MicroSDXC https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08ZY3RR9X - Micro HDMI to HDMI cable Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ...

January 16, 2023 · 5 min · 996 words · Josh

Most Secure and Private Browser for Mobile | Vanadium

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing - GrapheneOS | Web browsing https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/ - Mullvad Adblocking DNS server https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Secure-Mode/ - Microsoft article on CVE data https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium - Vanadium GitHub Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. If you’ve been following my channel for any length of time, then you know that I use graphene OS on my mobile device. My browser of choice is the one that’s bundled with it, which has vanadium. In addition to being bundled with the OS, there are a few other reasons I really like it, which I’ll cover in today’s video on graphene OS vanadium is the user facing browser that’s included with the OS and the provider of web view, which is used by other apps to render content. Now you might be asking what is what view. So as an example, let’s take a look at mastodon. Now there’s a post on Mastodon with a link included with it. And I selected, we can see that the page was opened, but I wasn’t actually taken outside of the Mastadon app to my web browser. Instead, the app displayed the link using web view. So even though you might not think you’re using vanadium, if we select the three dots in the upper right-hand corner, we can see at the bottom running in vanadium. So, that’s what web view is, as the name implies, that lets you view the web vanadium is a chromium-based browser, which means it provides the strongest sandbox implementation available for browsers at this time. Among other security features like exploit protection and site isolation. Vanadium actually improves upon these features, so you get even more protection as compared to using the standard Chrome browser. ...

January 2, 2023 · 5 min · 904 words · Josh

My Brave Browser Setup and Recommendations

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://brave.com/download/ - Brave Browser Download https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebRTC_API - WebRTC Explained https://brave.com/privacy/browser/#safe-browsing - Brave Safe Browsing Privacy Policy https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls Extension Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. So I’m going to be brave here and to share with you my brave browser settings. Before that, I want to make a quick disclaimer, there is some benefit that comes with just using the default settings the browser comes with, you blend in with all the other default installs instead of using a customized browser. Brave is what I’m using right now on my desktop. On my mobile, I’m using vanadium. Privacy and security are always changing. So what you see now will likely evolve over time and change. But this is what works well for me at the time of this recording. In the past, I used Safari on Googled chromium, chromium, Firefox with a bunch of add ons. So take it with a grain of salt, always do your own research and use my advice as a starting point to figure out what’s best for you. And then lastly, as far as security goes, Chromium is more secure than Firefox at this time, which is why I’m using brave a chromium based browser. The only time I use Firefox is when I’m using Tor browser. So for this demonstration, I’ll be using a fresh install of brave on Windows 11. So once you first install brave, you’ll see this screen, I’m going to just click Skip welcome tour, you’re presented with this busy dashboard. And the first thing we’re going to do to start our customization, click the three bars in the upper right hand corner and go into settings. If you already have brave installed on your computer, you can just follow along and go into the settings. So on the first section getting started, I just leave all this set to the default, I don’t change anything here, you can make brave your default browser if you want. ...

December 19, 2022 · 11 min · 2278 words · Josh

How Microsoft killed 'Do Not Track'

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_21i.htm - Firefox Snake Oil - Main article referenced https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/online-trackers-and-social-networks - EFF original announcement of DNT https://gizmodo.com/do-not-track-the-privacy-tool-used-by-millions-of-peop-1828868324 https://www.wired.com/story/browser-fingerprinting-tracking-explained/ https://www.groovypost.com/reviews/internet-explorer-10-preview-windows-7/ https://www.wired.com/2012/08/microsoft-do-not-track-is-good-for-users-on-by-default-in-ie-10/) https://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-stops-supporting-not-track-privacy-setting-163054926.html - Yahoo stopping support for DNT https://martech.org/know-twitters-latest-privacy-policy-update/ - Twitter stopping support for DNT https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761 - Google doesn’t support DNT https://www.macworld.com/article/232426/apple-safari-removing-do-not-track.html - Apple removes DNT from Safari How to disable “Do Not Track” in popular browsers https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761 - How to disable “Do Not Track” in Chrome https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature - How to disable “Do Not Track” in Firefox https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/do-not-track-setting-in-edge/b3d7b40f-dfce-47f7-b9ab-9d0e940ccf97 - How to disable “Do Not Track” in Edge Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ...

December 12, 2022 · 4 min · 674 words · Josh