León Castillejos @L1Cafe@social.privacytools.io
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#ComputerScience & #Engineering student, #cybersecurity enthusiast, #privacy advocate.
I blog about CTFs and system administration. Sometimes a bit of reverse engineering as well.
Posts are my own and do not represent the views of my employer.
Joined Apr 2019
Crossposted from Twitter
“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” - Najwa Zebian
Good morning!
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Mastodon is not, and possibly never can be, the platform which will break the Twitter/Facebook/Youtube monopoly.
It is a Twitter-clone with perhaps something more of a social dimension.
But to really take on Big Tech what the Fediverse needs is a viable alternative to Facebook and neither Mastodon nor Pleroma fulfills that function.
Mastodon/Pleroma are too ephemeral. Real connections can be made, but they are the exception that proves the rule.
The fediverse must evolve.
Just realised I misconfigured this Mastodon account. I had the setting to reject unknown DMs enabled.
If you DM'd me in the past and I didn't reply, I'm sorry. Please, feel free to send me a new DM again!
León Castillejos
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"I imagine 99% of your thought process is protecting your self-conception, and 98% of that is wrong."
León Castillejos
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Chrome will block video ads that “people find to be particularly disruptive". Conveniently enough, YouTube ads are not so disruptive, so they most probably won't be touched.
"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others"
Use Firefox https://markosaric.com/firefox/
Does anyone have an invitation for https://lobste.rs that they'd like to share with me? Thanks!
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From HN discussion - "This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22124929)
This is GDPR in action. Wow.
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@xerz
Have you implemented the usual SSH hardening measures?
* Move SSH port to something high
* Use fail2ban or similar
* Disable root login
* Use Public/Private key auth instead of passwords
* Make sure the passwords you do use are secure and not re-used somewhere else
* Alert on positive SSH logins (e.g. via mail)
Have you implemented the usual SSH hardening measures?
* Move SSH port to something high
* Use fail2ban or similar
* Disable root login
* Use Public/Private key auth instead of passwords
* Make sure the passwords you do use are secure and not re-used somewhere else
* Alert on positive SSH logins (e.g. via mail)
Just set up my Tor relay https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/8BC3BBF901101500F58FEB9DA401B6725FB78AA6
It's reachable at IP 54.38.239.109:9922 with fingerprint 8BC3BBF901101500F58FEB9DA401B6725FB78AA6. Enjoy!
León Castillejos
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If you are interested in leaving #Medium (and you should!), there's
a nice script to migrate to Jekyll
I am a Computer Science student on my last year of university. I am looking for someone friendly who wishes to help me with my final thesis: https://github.com/L1Cafe/XYZ, it's a programming language.
It doesn't have to be a single person to help me, and it doesn't have to be full-time help. Suggestions are always appreciated, but it would just be great to have someone friendly to chat with who has experience with compilers and parsers.
If you don't, maybe you can boost this? Thx!
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Anonymous email forwarding, open source with paid features, capable of using gpg. Sounds good so far
https://anonaddy.com/
Reminder: I have developed a fully static status page. I wouldn't consider it production ready just yet, there are some cosmetic quirks that I'd like to fix soon, but it is regardless just usable for the time being https://github.com/Kydara/Andromeda
You can see it in action at https://status.kydara.com/
Do let me know if you'd like any changes made to it, or if you have suggestions or ideas.
Current favourite music genre: Asian atmospheric instrumental. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liRHO8QTAq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0el39Qudo-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7IXOJprmeI
Sometimes categorised as "Lo-Fi".
Pure bliss.
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this whole "the internet is intangible therefore safe" idiocy is annoying the shit out of me.
>"lol who cares what porn I watch?"
well that'd be Google, FB, NSA, CIA, MI5, et. al. pretty much anyone with a vested interest in data
>"why are they following you? what makes you so special?"
No one is special under the watchful eyes of the panopticon, so it's not just "me", everyone is equally regarded as potential threat/dissident/anomaly that must be quelled.
>"only bad people care about anonymity"
a lot of famous people boost their own posts and reply to their own posts with fake profiles. Governments do it too, so this is a very telling argument tbf... And while anonymity is not the same as pseudonymous, to pretend to be someone else is very much disingenuous, to "have no name" is *not* disingenuous whatsoever. It puts a focus on words and merit, not just "identity" (w/e that means)... Furthermore, to say that "bad people do X, therefore people that do X are bad" is just embarrassingly bad logic...
>"it's not like they can even do anything even if they are following us lmao"
These are real people who have put together a massive data collection apparatus for the world's spy agencies, and real people who act on the data. What makes FB, Google so profitable? Not advertising, that's for sure! It's their ability to *target* (which just means de-anonymize)
>"why are you so scared? what are you afraid of?"
Why are you so blind? Data collection, data leaks, data sale, data trade, search engine manipulation, content manipulation, context manipulation, government spying, corporate spying, spousal and familial spyware, IOT Panopticon, stuxnet 2.0, WWIII, "Terminator IRL"
>"lol who cares what porn I watch?"
well that'd be Google, FB, NSA, CIA, MI5, et. al. pretty much anyone with a vested interest in data
>"why are they following you? what makes you so special?"
No one is special under the watchful eyes of the panopticon, so it's not just "me", everyone is equally regarded as potential threat/dissident/anomaly that must be quelled.
>"only bad people care about anonymity"
a lot of famous people boost their own posts and reply to their own posts with fake profiles. Governments do it too, so this is a very telling argument tbf... And while anonymity is not the same as pseudonymous, to pretend to be someone else is very much disingenuous, to "have no name" is *not* disingenuous whatsoever. It puts a focus on words and merit, not just "identity" (w/e that means)... Furthermore, to say that "bad people do X, therefore people that do X are bad" is just embarrassingly bad logic...
>"it's not like they can even do anything even if they are following us lmao"
These are real people who have put together a massive data collection apparatus for the world's spy agencies, and real people who act on the data. What makes FB, Google so profitable? Not advertising, that's for sure! It's their ability to *target* (which just means de-anonymize)
>"why are you so scared? what are you afraid of?"
Why are you so blind? Data collection, data leaks, data sale, data trade, search engine manipulation, content manipulation, context manipulation, government spying, corporate spying, spousal and familial spyware, IOT Panopticon, stuxnet 2.0, WWIII, "Terminator IRL"
León Castillejos
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Encryption has greatly enhanced privacy and security in the past few years. But in 2019, law enforcement officials in the US, UK, and Australia launched an all-out attack on encrypted messaging, to users’ detriment. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/fancy-new-terms-same-old-backdoors-encryption-debate-2019
People I admire: Scatman John.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8kmNEo1i8
His birth name is John Paul Larkin.
Did you know he suffered from a severe stutter? Before singing, he hid behind pianos because he was afraid to talk to others.
In 1995, at age 53, he became a worlwide star with his hit "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)". He passed away at age 57, merely four years after becoming incredibly famous.
León Castillejos
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🚪 
-*meow?*
-"No kitty, there's a storm outside."
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-*meowww~ ;.;*
-"It's raining hard you're gonna hate it."
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-*mewww~ T-T*
-"Ugh FINE. Just go."
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-*!!*
-"Yeah. I know. It's raining."
León Castillejos
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- Keybase
- l1cafe
- 🏠 Homepage
- https://L1Cafe.blog
- 💬 Languages
- 🇪🇸 🇬🇧
- 📍 Location
- 🇪🇺 EU Soutwest
- 💸 Donations
- https://L1Cafe.blog/donate/
#ComputerScience & #Engineering student, #cybersecurity enthusiast, #privacy advocate.
I blog about CTFs and system administration. Sometimes a bit of reverse engineering as well.
Posts are my own and do not represent the views of my employer.
Joined Apr 2019
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