This is a fairly short post but it's another one of those Note to self things, I've done this 100 times but I can never remember and need to keep looking up again.

Often I want to go through a directory and set all subdirectories to be readable and all …

LWN has an interesting article CVE woes and alternatives about how hard it is to get a CVE number for a vulnerability. The general thrust is that some researchers have found it too hard and so simply don't bother.

There were some suggestions about a new system that makes it …

Recently the Linux Mint website and forums were compromised and the download link for the Linux Mint ISO file was replaced with a link to a backdoored ISO file.

While the fact that they were compromised doesn't concern me that much, it happens to just about everyone in the long …

Being an EFA member it probably wouldn't surprise anyone that my views are heavily in favor of net neutrality.

EFA recently published an article Why Digital India took on Facebook and won and it got me thinking about some of the practices of Australian ISPs. Some I think are reasonable …

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 …