Streaming media without the trackers
Often streaming sites are filled with adverts and trackers, and the videos can be problematic or just inconvenient to play in a web browser. It is possible to stream many media sources with a separate … Read more
Posts Tagged ‘privacy’
DoH and DoT for Vivaldi and other browsers
Recently Mozilla decided their testing of DoH with Cloudflare is now ready for regular users and it can be enabled for those that want it. Are you feeling jealous of your Firefox friends and DNS … Read more
Windows 10
Windows 10 fixes and tweaks Tip: Disconnect the internet while you install Windows 10.It will skip lots of steps and make only a LOCAL user account. Re-enable the ability to control updateshttp://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/27/microsoft-releases-tool-to-block-windows-10-updates/ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930 Several options are availablehttp://www.askvg.com/fixing-windows-10-automatic-updates-install-problem/ … Read more
Droid Tools
Tools for Android This page contains a mix of geeky tools and security scanners that I find useful or essential. There are a few alternative App stores, Linux distros and emulators for a few alternative … Read more
Web-Mail and Email
Accessing your Email via a web page is a convenience not the recommended way to do it. Using a web browser is usually less secure. Webmail settings/configuration For use in a normal/standard email program/client/phone app. … Read more
Security
Security related sites, and tools. Check for vulnerabilities https://www.browserleaks.com https://browsercheck.qualys.comhttp://www.haveibeenpwned.comhttp://www.java.com/en/download/uninstallapplet.jsphttp://secunia.com/community/advisories/search/http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/http://www.whynopadlock.comhttp://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.htmlhttps://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ Security for communicationshttps://proxpn.com/freemium.phphttps://airvpn.orghttp://www.gnupg.orghttp://www.gpg4win.orghttps://www.startssl.com/?app=1https://www.comodo.com/home/email-security/free-email-certificate.phphttps://calomel.org/ssl_certs.html (Guide to Webserver SSL Certificates)https://letsencrypt.orghttps://www.sslshopper.com/article-free-ssl-certificates-from-a-free-certificate-authority.htmlhttps://konklone.com/post/switch-to-https-now-for-free DNSSEC – Secure DNS Lookupshttps://wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Extensionshttps://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htmhttps://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/dns-checkhttp://www.howtogeek.com/161808/htg-explains-what-is-dns-cache-poisoning/ http://www.opennicproject.org/configure-your-dns/ 156.154.70.22 UltraDNS156.154.71.22 UltraDNS 8.8.8.8 Google8.8.4.4 Google 193.67.79.39 UUNET193.78.240.12 … Read more
