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

GrapheneOS - Sensors, Network, Exploit Protection | Changelog 02

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://youtu.be/hx2eiPTe7Zg - Sensors and Network permission toggle video https://grapheneos.org/features#sensors-permission-toggle - Sensors permission toggle https://grapheneos.org/features#network-permission-toggle - Network permission toggle https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/502-mahjong-soul-game-constantly-crashing - Thread discussing Unity memory corruption bug https://grapheneos.org/usage#exec-spawning - Exec spawning https://grapheneos.org/usage#bugs-uncovered-by-security-features - Bugs uncovered by security features https://grapheneos.org/features#exploit-mitigations - Exploit mitigations

October 24, 2022 · 1 min · 48 words · Josh

Why you probably don't need a VPN | Do I need a VPN?

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://matt.traudt.xyz/posts/2019-10-17-you-want-tor-browser-not-a-vpn/ https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/index.html https://privsec.dev/knowledge/commercial-vpn-use-cases/ https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/ftc-calls-out-internet-providers-for-amassing-user-browsing-data/ https://blog.james.cridland.net/why-you-probably-dont-need-a-vpn-e7bb35e7d744 https://www.tomsguide.com/news/you-may-no-longer-need-vpn

October 10, 2022 · 1 min · 13 words · Josh

Trezor Model T Unboxing | Best Monero wallet (XMR)

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://shop.trezor.io/product/trezor-model-t - Trezor Model T https://blog.trezor.io/shamir-backup-a-new-security-standard-3aa42a6ebb5f https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ralb99/ultimate_guide_to_cryptocurrency_wallets_for/ https://coindiligent.com/benefits-cryptocurrency-hardware-wallet https://dcxlearn.com/cryptocurrency/what-are-cryptocurrency-wallets-what-are-the-types-of-cryptocurrency-wallets/ https://www.coincover.com/post/what-are-the-different-types-of-bitcoin-wallets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox https://crystalblockchain.com/articles/the-10-biggest-crypto-exchange-hacks-in-history/ https://www.investopedia.com/trezor-vs-ledger-5193580 https://privacypros.io/trezor/shamir-backup/ https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/custodial-vs-non-custodial-wallets-what-s-the-difference https://www.theblock.co/post/139554/a-350000-bored-ape-nft-was-just-sold-for-only-115 https://intercom.help/bity-help-center/en/articles/5609077-how-do-i-import-my-bitcoins-btc-from-a-paper-wallet-to-a-software-wallet https://blog.trezor.io/getting-started-with-trezor-model-t-a8db9096a7a6 https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/cryptopia-exchange-currently-in-liquidation-gets-hacked-again%3A-report-2021-02-20 https://www.nerdwallet.com/best/investing/crypto-exchanges-platforms

October 3, 2022 · 1 min · 27 words · Josh

Tornado Cash | The threat to Open Source Software (FOSS)

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0916 - US Treasure Sanction Press Release https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/08/26/wife-of-pertsev-arrested-tornado-cash-developer-denies-russia-secret-service-links/ https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/08/21/arrest-of-tornado-cash-developer-draws-dutch-crypto-community-protest/ https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/08/24/alleged-tornado-developer-pertsev-must-stay-in-jail-dutch-judge-rules/ https://www.coincenter.org/education/advanced-topics/how-does-tornado-cash-work/ https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-announces-140-million-civil-money-penalty-against-usaa-federal-savings https://etherscan.io/ - Blockchain explorer https://decrypt.co/resources/what-are-coin-mixers-tornado-cash-how-do-they-work https://en.0xzx.com/ethereum-mixer-tornado-cashback-banned-on-github/ https://thehackernews.com/2022/08/tornado-cash-developer-arrested-after.html https://forkast.news/headlines/tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-stay-in-jail/ https://learn.bybit.com/defi/what-is-tornado-cash/ https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-is-fighting-back-as-the-sec-closes-in-on-tornado-cash https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-12/dutch-arrest-man-suspected-of-being-involved-in-tornado-cash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Cash https://www.banklesstimes.com/cryptocurrency/top-nft-rug-pulls/ Tornado Cash This is where Tornado Cash is hosted on IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) This URL will take you to the actual service. I’m linking it for reference if you’re curious. hXXps://ipfs[.]io/ipns/tornadocash.eth/ https://twitter.com/tornadocash - Tornado Cash twitter account

September 26, 2022 · 1 min · 70 words · Josh

Progressive Web Apps | How they work + Security & Privacy

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://appsco.pe/ - Site with list of Progressive Web Apps https://medium.com/@amberleyjohanna/seriously-though-what-is-a-progressive-web-app-56130600a093 - What is a Progressive Web App? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest - Web app manifests https://web.dev/learn/pwa/service-workers/ - Service Workers https://infrequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-tabs-without-losing-our-soul/ - Alex Russell post about “websites that took all the right vitamins.” https://blog.nviso.eu/2020/01/16/deep-dive-into-the-security-of-progressive-web-apps/ - Progressive Web App security https://www.simicart.com/blog/pwa-hardware-access/ - Progressive Web App and hardware access https://asperbrothers.com/blog/pwa-vs-native-app/ - PWA vs Native App

September 19, 2022 · 1 min · 66 words · Josh

Best eReader for Privacy | kobo | Kindle

🎥 Video Link Mobile privacy guide https://sideofburritos.com/docs/setup-guides/mobile-privacy/ How to bypass kobo account On Kobo screen, tap Don't have a Wi Fi network? Attach kobo to computer with a USB cable. Open terminal and change to the Kobo directory: cd /Volumes/KOBOeReader/.kobo/ Open KoboReader.sqlite using sqlite3 sqlite3 KoboReader.sqlite If you don’t have sqlite3 installed you can download it from - https://www.sqlite.org/download.html Enter the following command and press enter - INSERT INTO user(UserID,UserKey) VALUES('1','');. Enter the following command and press enter to exit the database - .exit. Eject the Kobo from your computer and you should see the main device screen. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/mt2f30/how_to_bypass_account_setup/ ...

August 28, 2022 · 2 min · 223 words · Josh