According to Western Digital, there is no known way under Linux to disable (and hide) the “Virtual CD” (VCD) partition that can often be found on their external hard disks (such as the popular My Passport series).
No results with Google either, so I had to dig a little further. Please keep in mind that the following solution worked well for me, but that it could, potentially, brick your hard disk. You’ve been warned.
Today I wanted to mount an iPhone inside a KVM-based VM. My host is Ubuntu 15.04, the guest is Windows XP. Well, it didn’t quite work at first because the host kept stealing back the phone’s USB connection. The culprit was usbmuxd, a “USB multiplexing daemon” that handles communications with iOS devices and Linux. To temporarily overwrite its behavior I added an empty udev rules file:
$ sudo touch /etc/udev/rules.d/39-usbmuxd.rulesThis rule file (which does nothing) takes precedence over the original rules in /lib/udev/rules.d, with the result that it would no longer trigger the usbmuxd daemon whenever an iPhone is detected on the USB host.
Reload udev with:
$ sudo udevadm control --reload-rulesAnd now, it’s time to run the TaiG Jailbreak.
I was fiddling with the fonts on my Linux notebook today, and I thought, why not upgrade all the Windows-based fonts with the latest fonts from Windows 10 (preview version)? Well, something definitely got changed and I don’t think I like it.
I have five invites for Google Domains available. The first five users to reply to this post will get one (make sure to enter a valid e-mail or I won’t be able to send it to you).
Keep in mind Google Domains is currently only availble for users in the US; your location is determined by the billing address for the credit card you use with Google Wallet to purchase or transfer a domain.
Recently I purchased a Samsung 840 Pro SSD for my frayed old notebook (a Thinkpad X200s). It’s a self-encrypting drive where data is always stored with AES-256 encryption. But first, to benefit from the encryption, I needed to encrypt the underlying encryption keys. One way of doing that is to set an ATA user password for the drive, which is supported by the BIOS of most notebooks.
But there is a problem.
BoringSSL is a Google fork of OpenSSL. It includes various interesting patches, including an implementation of the ChaCha20 cipher. In addition, BoringSSL allows you to group cipher suites of equal preference:
Equal preference cipher groups. This change implements equal-preference groups of cipher suites. This allows, for example, a server to prefer one of AES-GCM or ChaCha20 ciphers, but to allow the client to pick which one. When coupled with clients that will boost AES-GCM in their preferences when AES-NI is present, this allows us to use AES-GCM when the hardware exists and ChaCha20 otherwise.
In this article I show you how you can tweak your nginx configuration to take advantage of this feature.
tcpdump -i lo -s 65535 -A -ttt port 11211| cut -c 9- | grep -i '^get\|set'In this article I will walk you through setting up a domain DNS zone using the Google Cloud DNS service.
Google Cloud DNS is a high performance, resilient, and global DNS service, which allows you to easily publish and manage DNS records.
To keep this short and sweet, I assume that you know the basics of DNS.
Update: Meanwhile you could also switch to the BoringSSL fork.
D. J. Bernstein’s ChaCha20-Poly1305 has not been merged into the OpenSSL master branch yet (ETA, anyone?). If you are curious to test it with nginx or any other application relying on the OpenSSL libraries with support for TLS 1.2, you can check it out via the 1.0.2-aead branch:
$ git clone https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git
$ cd openssl
$ git checkout 1.0.2-aeadThen follow the usual instruction from the INSTALL file on how to compile OpenSSL.
Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) has garnered widespread publicity in recent months thanks to Snowden and the NSA. As a result, an increasing number of websites and email service providers have been pushing for PFS to provide better security to their users.
PFS protects previous key exchanges even if the current one is compromised.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said about current popular IPSec VPN clients. Neither of the ones I tested – all of them from recent distributions including Windows and OS X – offered PFS out of the box, meaning previous IPSec key exchanges could be decrypted by an attacker if the current one is compromised.
