Yes. But SELinux can stop this, or at least make it much more difficult.
The distro knows what system your machine runs and upgrades/installs packages accordingly. And, yes, you can run 32 bit binaries on a 64 bit OS...
GnuPG is the best way to go. It is essentially a free and open-source version of PGP.
That's what it does. To "wipe" free space it has to overwrite the space with random data. Those files are the data. I am not familiar with that...
I didn't say I would block anything. Perhaps your reading comprehension is lacking. I said above: Hopefully that clears it up.
Bingo! You asked a lot of good questions and made a lot of very good conclusions. As you suggest, VPN services ultimately cannot be trusted....
I am not sure what "Blowfish Advanced" is, but I do know that Blowfish is an algorithm created by Bruce Schneier back in the day. He also created...
That's nonsense. The distros do the packaging, not the upstream developers. So, packaging is not a problem at all and does not impede progress....
I would say Chrome, yes. It has a built-in sandbox and runs in protected mode. Firefox does not.
For nmap, run something like this: nmap -PN -sT -sU -vv -p- <ip address> This will scan all 65535 TCP and UDP ports and will skip the ping...
This balderdash means nothing -- just words with no context or scientific validity. What is "node optimization?" What "traffic controls?" And...
Traffic analysis of this sort is worthless unless the "authorities" already have a suspect that they can perform analysis on.
Umm because they are the ISP and they are the one providing the IP address to you in the first place.
That's right. However, they will be forced, by law, into policing all P2P on their networks if ACTA passes.
Not true. All you have to do is simply create an AppLocker rule based on path. So, for instance, you would create a new folder somewhere in your...
LOL. How do you put IE ahead of Chrome and Firefox when it comes to development tools? IE is closed-source. How is that more friendly than...
1) You don't need AV software at all. No Linux viruses exist in the wild. The only protection you need is to always use the ubuntu repositories...
Why would I not compare a free product with Microsoft when the free product is clearly superior in every way? That was my whole point -- why pay...
He's got that right. However, I don't see the AV industry dying any time soon, no matter how often it is proven their products are ineffective....
It's ridiculous that people still put up with all of this activation nonsense and allow M$ to collect all of this information and treat them as if...
That's well and good but who can be sure they have implemented the encryption properly? Has the code been audited by experts in the field? Who...
That's not all the sandbox is for. It isn't just for stopping the tabs from affecting each other during crashes, but it also helps to stop them...
Nope, not in San Fran. Way away from there actually. I would doubt Comcast blocks Tor. Actually, it would be impossible to do because Tor has...
That guy's article, while entertaining, was ultimately pointless. He just doesn't get it; he is still living in the "blacklisting" world, where...
There is no "trust me" here. People like myself have provided a number of reasons for the increased security of the Unix based systems over and...
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