Signal is warning that an anti-encryption bill circulating in Congress could force the private messaging app to pull out of the US market. “At a time when more people than ever are benefiting from these (encryption) protections, the EARN IT bill proposed by the Senate Judiciary Committee threatens to put them at risk,” Signal developer Joshua Lundhttps://signal.org/blog/earn-it/

For the LastPass database, the attacker will not need the user’s Windows login credentials of macOS account password. All that’s actually required is the file containing the encrypted password database, which can be easily obtained from the forensic disk image. Neither Windows credentials nor master password are required. Source: Breaking LastPass: Instant Unlock of the…

A hosted service to test and verify that the email logic in your application is correct. Source: Announcing unverified.email . Pavlo Kerestey

Source: GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Vitor Monteiro – The GitHub Blog

Python 2 reached the end of life on January 1, 2020. Python 3 has been available since 2008, but converting from 2 to 3 has been slow because of dependencies on libraries that were not available in Python 3 initially, earlier versions of python 3 were slower than python 2 and also because Python 2…

Depending on the kind of work you do on the command line in Linux, you may want a utility that can act as a Swiss army knife of quick text editing. Gladly, there exists a tool dubbed tr, which qualifies for this role. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of tr using some…

Server migrations may need to happen for a number of reasons.  Sometimes, a user decides to change hosting providers; what worked well in the past is no longer adequate for the future. Other times, a user needs to move to a larger or smaller server, and takes the opportunity to choose different infrastructure entirely. In…

Source: HTML DOM – Common tasks of managing HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript

Jami is free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users. Its main goal is to provide a communication framework and end-user applications to make audio or video calls, send text messages and make generic data transfers. It makes this possible via multiple paradigms: a modern decentralized approach using a DHT…

There’s no denying that SSH is the de facto tool for *nix server administration. It’s far from perfect, but it was designed with security in mind and there’s been a huge amount of tooling written over the years to make it easier to use. In addition, many popular products and just about every server deployment system integrates with SSH…