There is a great video that's come out of linux.conf.au 2016 where Matthew Garrett talks about Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) what they are, what they can do and how you can use them to secure your computer.

Before watching the video I was vaguely aware that there are …

I've been running CyanogenMod on my Samsung Galaxy S4 since pretty much the day I bought it. As far as I can tell it's pretty close to the stock Android Open Source Project (AOSP) with a minimum of bloat and a few Google things (like the Play Store) removed^{1 …}

I was lucky enough to get into the Let's Encrypt Limited Beta. I signed up from the link on their community page and a few days later got the email saying the domains I'd signed up with had been white listed and I could get certificates now.

I went to …

Update 2017-06-29: I've done an updated version of this tutorial with Debian Stretch. The updated version is simplified, it uses the graphical installer and guided partitioning. However, if you want to manually partition your disks, this tutorial will still work for Debian Stretch.

This is part 2 of a two …

Full disk encryption on Linux is surprisingly easy once you pick up a few basic commands you are good to go. Although that being said GPG is surprisingly easy too, or at least basic usage is not that hard. But as I pointed out in The best crypto is the …