EFF’s Dice Random Number Generator digitized to become DicePass.org

TL;DR – this is why (and how) I created the electronic version of EFF’s Dice. I love the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and believe in their just cause. I support it as much as I can and try to educate as many people as I can about their rights, privileges online and how to correctly behave in this new found jungle. A while back I got a post about their new “toy”/campaign EFF’s Random Number Generator also known as Dice. [Read More]

Lets Encrypt Error: The server could not connect to the client to verify the domain :: Failed to connect to host for DVSNI challenge

Are you using Lets Encrypt? (If not, you should go ahead and use it to generate SSL certificates to ALL of your web servers). If you want to run it on EC2 or GCE using the –standalone argument (./letsencrypt-auto certonly –standalone -d example.com) make sure port 443 (for SSL) is open on that server. Otherwise you’ll get the infamous: `Are you using Lets Encrypt? (If not, you should go ahead and use it to generate SSL certificates to ALL of your web servers). [Read More]

GoogleWorld the new Web and privacy

Whether it is Gmail, Google Base, Google Video, Google Answers, Froogle, Google Blog Search, Google Book Search, Google Maps and Google Toolbar, Google seems to be conquering the world by offering a lot of services in different and diverse areas. (You can get a good review of the various Google Services here) With your Google Account (which is also your Gmail email), Google can also track a person specifically and learn things about what him/her, what he/she searched for, shoped, interest in, etc. [Read More]