{"id":1824,"date":"2018-10-27T08:19:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2018-10-28T05:48:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T05:48:02","slug":"weekend-reading-privacy-linux-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/10\/27\/weekend-reading-privacy-linux-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Reading: Privacy | Linux Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMost people simply are unaware of how much personal data they leak on a
\ndaily basis as they use their computers. Enter this weekend’s reading topic:
\nPrivacy.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

FOSS Project Spotlight: Tutanota, the First Encrypted Email Service with an App on F-Droid<\/a>
\nby Matthias Pfau<\/p>\n

Seven years ago Tutanota was built, an encrypted email service with a strong focus on security, privacy and open source. Long before the Snowden revelations, Tutanota’s team felt there was a need for easy-to-use encryption that would allow everyone to communicate online without being snooped upon.<\/p>\n

The Wire<\/a>
\nby Shawn Powers<\/p>\n

In the US, there has been recent concern over ISPs turning over logs to the
\ngovernment. During the past few years, the idea of people snooping on our
\nprivate data (by governments and others) really has made encryption more
\npopular than ever before. One of the problems with encryption, however, is
\nthat it’s generally not user-friendly to add its protection to your
\nconversations. Thankfully, messaging services are starting to take notice of
\nthe demand. For me, I need a messaging service that works across multiple
\nplatforms, encrypts automatically, supports group messaging and ideally can
\nhandle audio\/video as well. Thankfully, I found an incredible open-source
\npackage that ticks all my boxes: Wire.<\/p>\n

Facebook
\nCompartmentalization<\/a>
\nby Kyle Rankin<\/p>\n

Whenever people talk about protecting privacy on the internet, social-media
\nsites like Facebook inevitably come up\u2014especially right now. It makes
\nsense\u2014social networks (like Facebook) provide a platform where you can
\nshare your personal data with your friends, and it doesn’t come as much of a
\nsurprise to people to find out they also share that data with advertisers
\n(it’s how they pay the bills after all). It makes sense that Facebook uses
\ndata you provide when you visit that site. What some people might be
\nsurprised to know, however, is just how much. Facebook tracks them when they
\naren’t using Facebook itself but just browsing around the web.<\/p>\n

Some readers may solve the problem of Facebook tracking by saying “just
\ndon’t use Facebook”; however, for many people, that site may be the only way
\nthey can keep in touch with some of their friends and family members.
\nAlthough I don’t post on Facebook much myself, I do have an account and use
\nit to keep in touch with certain friends. So in this article, I explain how
\nI employ compartmentalization principles to use Facebook without leaking too
\nmuch other information about myself.<\/p>\n

Protection,
\nPrivacy and Playoffs<\/a>
\nby Shawn Powers<\/p>\n

I’m not generally a privacy nut when it comes to my digital life. That’s not
\nreally a good thing, as I think privacy is important, but it often can be
\nvery inconvenient. For example, if you strolled into my home office, you’d
\nfind I don’t password-protect my screensaver. Again, it’s not because I want
\nto invite snoops, but rather it’s just a pain to type in my password every
\ntime I come back from going to get a cup of tea. (Note: when I worked in a
\ntraditional office environment, I did lock my screen. I’m sure working from
\na home office is why I’m comfortable with lax security.)<\/p>\n

A
\nMachine for Keeping Secrets?<\/a>
\nby Vinay Gupta<\/p>\n

The most important thing that the British War Office learned about
\ncryptography was how to keep a secret: Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park
\nearly enough in World War II to change the course of the war\u2014and of
\nhistory. Now here’s the thing: only if the breakthrough (called Ultra, which
\ngives you a sense of its importance) was secret could Enigma’s compromise be
\nused to defeat the Nazis. Breaking Enigma was literally the “zero-day” that
\nbrought down an empire. Zero-day is a bug known only to an attacker.
\nDefenders (those creating\/protecting the software) have never seen the
\nexploit and are, therefore, largely powerless to respond until they have
\ndone analysis. The longer the zero-day is kept secret, and its use
\nundiscovered, the longer it represents absolute power.<\/p>\n

Own Your
\nDNS Data<\/a>
\nby Kyle Rankin<\/p>\n

I honestly think most people simply are unaware of how much personal data
\nthey leak on a daily basis as they use their computers. Even if they have
\nsome inkling along those lines, I still imagine many think of the data they
\nleak only in terms of individual facts, such as their name or where they ate
\nlunch. What many people don’t realize is how revealing all of those
\nindividual, innocent facts are when they are combined, filtered and
\nanalyzed.<\/p>\n

Cell-phone metadata (who you called, who called you, the length of the call
\nand what time the call happened) falls under this category, as do all of the
\nsearch queries you enter on the Internet.<\/p>\n

For this article, I discuss a common but often overlooked source of data
\nthat is far too revealing: your DNS data.<\/p>\n

Tor
\nSecurity for Android and Desktop Linux<\/a>
\nby Charles Fisher<\/p>\n

The Tor Project presents an effective countermeasure against hostile and
\ndisingenuous carriers and ISPs that, on a properly rooted and capable
\nAndroid device or Linux system, can force all network traffic through Tor
\nencrypted entry points (guard nodes) with custom rules for iptables. This
\naction renders all device network activity opaque to the upstream
\ncarrier\u2014barring exceptional intervention, all efforts to track a user
\nare afterward futile.<\/p>\n

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Most people simply are unaware of how much personal data they leak on a daily basis as they use their computers. Enter this weekend’s reading topic: Privacy. FOSS Project Spotlight: Tutanota, the First Encrypted Email Service with an App on F-Droid by Matthias Pfau Seven years ago Tutanota was built, an encrypted email service with … <\/p>\n

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