The youtube-dl project is a swiss-army knife of video production tools. While the developers do a great job keeping the project updated, package maintainers aren’t… Read More »Keeping youtube-dl Updated with Puppet
Let’s say you need to access a resource that’s protected by HTTP Basic authentication but the system you’re using doesn’t support it. Like, say, Google… Read More »Automatic HTTP Basic Authentication with mod_proxy
Maybe you’re tired of all the fail2ban log messages about attempts to crack your ssh passwords. Maybe you have developers who need to access a… Read More »Multi-Port Port Knocking with IPTables
LastPass has good security, but since they’re reporting a breach on their hashes and salts, but not on the encrypted data, it’s time to change… Read More »Change Your LastPass Master Password
TL;DR: set security.tls.version.fallback-limit and security.tls.version.min to 0. Firefox 34 takes the strong stance of disabling SSLv3, completely, by default, with no publicized workarounds. Due to… Read More »Re-enable SSLv3 on Firefox 34
Do mail servers really encrypt mail opportunistically? Does STARTTLS really leak metadata?
The vsftpd standard FTP daemon on Fedora 17 comes configured to not work. It doesn’t work in normal mode (chroot problems) it doesn’t handle TLS,… Read More »vsftpd Configuration for TLS and Passive Mode