We here at GamingOnLinux.com have decided to show our support for the Reset The Net campaign and join the fight against mass surveillance of NSA, GCHQ and the likes.
This mass surveillance is done using exploits and wire tapping. Reset The Net promotes applications that allow encrypted and secure communications to stop this. The campaign has listed many different apps, extensions and services you can use to improve your privacy. You might already be familiar with some of them, like Tor and Pidgin for example.
We at GOL believe that privacy is important and these mass surveillance operations are a danger to the freedom and openness of the Internet. We encourage you to take a look at their list and try some of their options not only for yourself but also for the rest of the Internet.
Mass surveillance will not go away on its own, we have to make it stop. By making it difficult for them to intercept and listen to our communications it will become impossible for them to continue their operations and they will have to find other ways of enforcing the law and protecting people, and hopefully those ways will be more legitimate and more acceptable.
Reset The Net campaign: https://www.resetthenet.org/ Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
This mass surveillance is done using exploits and wire tapping. Reset The Net promotes applications that allow encrypted and secure communications to stop this. The campaign has listed many different apps, extensions and services you can use to improve your privacy. You might already be familiar with some of them, like Tor and Pidgin for example.
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We at GOL believe that privacy is important and these mass surveillance operations are a danger to the freedom and openness of the Internet. We encourage you to take a look at their list and try some of their options not only for yourself but also for the rest of the Internet.
Mass surveillance will not go away on its own, we have to make it stop. By making it difficult for them to intercept and listen to our communications it will become impossible for them to continue their operations and they will have to find other ways of enforcing the law and protecting people, and hopefully those ways will be more legitimate and more acceptable.
Reset The Net campaign: https://www.resetthenet.org/ Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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You should enforce SSL use on GOL. I only found out the site was available over it by adding https:// to the URL.
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Quoting: tayloradding https:// to the URL.
And the RSS feed still links to http:// even then.
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FutureSuture Jun 5, 2014
Quoting: taylorYou should enforce SSL use on GOL. I only found out the site was available over it by adding https:// to the URL.You should install this so you do not have to do that in the future.
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FlutterRage Jun 5, 2014
But you can easily add the site to the list yourself.
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Quoting: FlutterRageBut you can easily add the site to the list yourself.how do you add it to the list?
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Yes, of course you can add it yourself. But you wouldn't have discovered that GamingOnLinux offers SSL with it.
You can't expect people to try that for every single website they visit. :)
You can't expect people to try that for every single website they visit. :)
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I'm all for this, something has to be done before it's too late.
I do find it amusing that one of their "Participants" is Google!
I do find it amusing that one of their "Participants" is Google!
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Quoting: DrMcCoyQuoting: tayloradding https:// to the URL.And the RSS feed still links to http:// even then.
And some images are not using the secure url:
<img src="http://wiki.manjaro.org/images/1/1b/Manjaro.png" alt="avatar" /><br />A bit of a shameless plug to my website, but I did a lot of testing with SSL and Nginx, and my results can be found (along with the required config code) here
SSL3 is obsolete and a big risk without RC4; also forward secrecy is a big thing now and you want it to be enabled in as many browsers as possible by forcing your preferred suites.
Not sure if it is all possible on the version you are running (1.0.15) but it works for 1.4.5 and up. I would also suggest hiding your version number from the headers (as well as possibly upgrading Nginx to the 1.4 branch) which can be set with:
server_tokens off;in your http {} block.
Edit: Oh, and you may want to update to PHP 5.5.13; there are several vulnerabilities that have been patched since 5.5.9.
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Quoting: DrMcCoyQuoting: tayloradding https:// to the URL.And the RSS feed still links to http:// even then.
Where?
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There:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php
article_rss.php could/should see that it's accessed via https and could/should modified all URLs to say https, then.
Ditto with images within the item's descriptions.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php
<link>http://www.gamingonlinux.com/</link>
<atom:link href="http://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
[...]
<link>http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/jagged-alliance-flashback-strategy-game-now-on-linux.3845/</link>
[...]
<guid>http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/jagged-alliance-flashback-strategy-game-now-on-linux.3845/</guid>article_rss.php could/should see that it's accessed via https and could/should modified all URLs to say https, then.
Ditto with images within the item's descriptions.
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Also, your [code]-Tag is broken. It shouldn't HTML-entity-fy <, > and ".
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Wow! Google is backing this too. We're in good hands 
PS. The ultimate weapon to fight internet censorship and protect your data as is would be VPNs. As long as you're not logging into accounts that can't be traced back to you on said VPN as well, it will also make you anonymous on the net (no one can find you)
Quickest way to do this is TOR.
PS. The ultimate weapon to fight internet censorship and protect your data as is would be VPNs. As long as you're not logging into accounts that can't be traced back to you on said VPN as well, it will also make you anonymous on the net (no one can find you)
Quickest way to do this is TOR.
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If GOL was really serious about this, GOL would remove and disconnect from anything Facebook.
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