Bits and pieces of security and privacy
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There’s this very handy feature I’ve blogged about in the past : /home folder encryption in Ubuntu. This is clearly a feature I’ll keep on using as long as I use laptops.
But the Mac counterpart… Well, I didn’t use it. Then I used it. And it bugged me so much on the way it [...]
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I remember a few months ago, when the Ubuntu One service was first announced by Cannonical. Many were doubtful of its utility or commercial reliability. At that time, you had two options : the free (as in free beer) one giving you 2Gb of online storage, and the paid one giving 10Gb for 10 US.$ [...]
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Once again, Ubuntu’s commitment to security concerns is proven. As of Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 5, using the Live CD installer (that is to say the installer the majority of users install from) will great you with a high value feature : encrypt your home directory using eCryptfs.
This is great news, and I heavily encourage anyone [...]
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As of today, one of my computers is going to be testing a new OS : Moblin. For those of you who don’t know about Moblin, this is an Opensource OS developed by Intel to fit the Netbooks.
So I’ve downloaded and installed the disk image, made a bootable USB stick and fired my testing machine [...]
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For 3 days I have been playing around with my new pet : a snow leopard. While this is not a typically Mac blog, I’m forced to post my early impression, before reviewing the security side of the new Mac OS X release.
So far, I have to say I am very, very pleased with Snow [...]
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