Questions tagged [privacy]

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How important is customer support for just domain registration?

I'm looking at two companies to register a domain in, it's either going to be GoDaddy or 1and1. I checked out some of the reviews and saw that 1&1 offers free private domain registration while GoDaddy offers better customer support. My question is:…
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are new snapshots that are being created using elastifox are public ?

I use elastifox firefox plugin to create instances and snapshots of volumes that I created. in 'volumes and snapshots' tab in the bottom table i can filter the snapshots that I see by 'My snapshots' and 'no filter'. does it mean that people can use…
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Trying to erase disk content by filling all bits with "1", not "0"

I have 2 old 160GB WD drives that do not have "Security-Delete" option when querying with hdparm. I understand the current acceptance of the mechanism overwriting entire disks with zeros. REF: Does filling up disk with dd removes files securely? But…
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Nginx - Redirect a bunch of domains to a single domain, with SSL

Nothing insidious going on but I've got a bunch of domains that we've bought for a service and I don't want to buy an SSL certificate for them all (there's about 11). As an example, we've…
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Deep packet Inspection Stenography

I'm trying to develop something that can get around Deep Packet Inspection so that rather than looking like OpenVPN traffic etc, I could put all that into HTTP packets as extra information or some other protocol. I would control the client and the…
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How does The Pirate Bay mask itself from its VPS providers?

From https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-becomes-raid-proof-121017/ The hosting providers have no idea that they’re hosting The Pirate Bay, and even in the event they found out it would be impossible for them to gather data on…
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Privacy implications of a LAN-wide DNS server

My university department has a local DNS server that serves all of the computers in the department. I am concerned about the privacy and security implications of this. Posit that I am merely one of the users on a workstation, with no privileged…
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Does connecting to a work VPN via Cisco AnyConnect give the domain administrator access to your computer?

I've been connecting to my work computer via Cisco AnyConnect for the duration of the pandemic and I'm now concerned about privacy. Can a domain admin on the company network access my files or my PC remotely while I'm connected to the network? Can…
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IPv6 NAT information leakage

Edit: Since I was asked to edit this, I'll ask about an awfully specific issue. The question was obviously never about information leakage on OSI layer 7, since that wouldn't be a network issue. I'm going to assume that we have a bad guy sitting in…
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