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Éibhear, 2021-01-15 18:30:00 GMT
Yesterday morning, 14th January, I was interviewed briefly by Áine Lawlor of Morning Ireland regarding the @theauldsthretch twitter account.
You can access a recording of the interview here1
Update [2021-01-19 Tue]: Initially, the spelling of my first was incorrect. Upon a request from me, the Morning Ireland team fixed it.
Éibhear, 2020-12-13 11:09:00 GMT
We're coming to the end of a new season for the twitter account @theauldsthretch, and as it now has more than 6,000 followers, it's no longer easy for me to answer individually all questions that may arise. Therefore, I'm putting together this set of questions and some short answers
Éibhear, 2020-11-24 15:19:00 GMT
A proposed "Resolution on Encryption" is under consideration by the EU Council.
The proposal encourages the EU to work with technology companies to develop mechanisms to allow security services to read messages that would otherwise be encrypted beyond their access.
Some technical proposals have been published over the last few years that seek to address the challenges and concerns with this approach to criminal investigations. Some of these are well-considered proposals
Éibhear, 2020-10-21 18:38:00 IST
I've been trying to figure out how I can get Let's Encrypt SSL cert configured for my blog for the longest time. Today, I cracked that nut.
This blog is now available only over HTTPS, which means that the traffic between you and the server that hosts the blog is encrypted.
I don't use the blog to capture any personal information from anyone (except myself). In fact, the site is completely read-only, but HTTPS also prevents the
Éibhear, 2020-10-20 17:35:00 IST
A quick one.
The guys over at Matrix.org (Matthew Hodgson, specifically) have posted a proposal for addressing the concerns of the police and politicians around illegal material being available on the internet through channels that employ end-to-end encryption.
As you can tell, I'm very much a "you can't do that" person
Éibhear, 2020-08-20 21:24:00 IST
I am a fan of the idea of selfhosting, where people create and use their own internet service instead of using one of the large services that we all have come to love to hate. I would also regard myself as an advocate for selfhosting.
For example, instead of using WhatsApp, I have built my own implementation of the
Éibhear, 2020-08-18 08:23:00 IST
Australia is forging ahead with its plan to require Google and others to pay the news industry for sending it traffic.
As has happened in other countries, the Australians should prepare themselves for Google just upping sticks and leaving, resulting in far less internet traffic going to those news sites
Éibhear, 2020-08-13 13:04:00 IST
I've done a complete restyle of the web site.
I'm a massive fan of emacs for a very long time, specifically org-mode (for nearly as long). More and more, I use these tools for my writing, whatever the context, and many years ago I went looking for a mechanism to blog through emacs and orgmode.
I eventually found o-blog, which I have been using ever
Éibhear, 2020-07-11 22:03:00 IST
There have been calls from police and other government agencies all over the world to ban the use of end-to-end encryption messaging services, in order to more easily fight against all the things that these agencies believe to be bad. I'd like to demonstrate how this won't work.
PGP is a method of encryption, typically used for e-mails. There are many software packages for computers and hand-held devices like 'phones and tablets that provide PGP encryption, but they
Éibhear, 2020-07-05 22:10:00 IST
It's being reported (following some lobbying, no doubt) that the new government is considering providing a power to An Garda Síochána to use an "electronic key" to access encrypted communications, the logic being that this will be the best way to combat organised crime.
Let
