security
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WireGuard VPN + PiHole on Free Oracle Cloud
I will be using MacOS Catalina 10.15.6 for this tutorial, complexity level: Medium, time required: 30 minutes 01. Sign-up for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Free Tier 02. Create a new Compute (VM) Instance 03. Choose a name for your virtual machine and select as OS Image: Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 04. Save the Private and the Public Keys and create Create 05. after a few seconds the Public IP Address will be allocated and you need to copy that in order to…
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Secure email and chat OpenPGP Thunderbird v78 and Pidgin (Adium)+ OTR
Email – Thunderbird install Thunderbird v78.3.1 (64-bit) configure email account – create a app specific password (ex: Gmail, Hotmail, YahooMail….) back-up the generated keys in a safe location set a personal key pair for your email address – Account Settings – e2ee – End to End Encryption -add new key: expire in 1 year, Key type: ECC (elliptic curve) ensure both the communication parties have the same level of encryption test the system before using it regularly Chat – Install…