Hardened Application Firewall

Network firewalls for the Linuxes have historically been application-blind. Which is a point of shame for a platform prided on security and privacy, especially considering that proprietary competitor Windows has had per-program discriminating firewalling so much sooner.
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New Year, New Security Measures: DNSSEC Deployed

While the internet has been taking well to IPv6 deployment, the same cannot be said for the domain name system’s authenticity mechanism, DNSSEC.
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Designating Digital Rendezvous Points

Problem: You deployed a remote system that you access at a site which you may not physically visit for weeks, months or even years at a time.
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