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by paulfurley 8y ago
Thanks for the kind words, and for the message ;)
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by paulfurley 8y ago
They do, when you receive messages you're prompted to delete them, with a default of "yes". And we're careful for the secrets not to end up in any log files either.
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by paulfurley 8y ago
> We use our own server to store public keys and transmit encrypted secrets. > We chose not to use the public keyserver network until it supports deleting keys and cryptographic validation. ... as well as the fact that there's no
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Show HN: Send encrypted secrets from the command line(fluidkeys.com)
117 points by paulfurley 8y ago|42 comments
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Respect Do Not Track with Google Analytics(paulfurley.com)
6 points by paulfurley 9y ago|1 comments
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A personal retrospective to work out what I really love doing(paulfurley.com)
1 points by paulfurley 9y ago|0 comments
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Signing automated Expirybot emails with GPG(paulfurley.com)
1 points by paulfurley 9y ago|0 comments
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by paulfurley 9y ago
I look forward to it when Ubuntu LTS includes a more recent NetworkManager :) “I learned that NetworkManager 1.4.1+ can do MAC address randomization right out the box. If you’re using Ubuntu 17.04 upwards, you can get most of the way with t
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by paulfurley 9y ago
Damn, I didn't know about these. Do you know what it is that makes them incompatible? And is there a list of cards you can avoid?
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by paulfurley 9y ago
Not sure if I'm missing the point here... if I were using Google Location services, wouldn't that mean I was giving Google my location directly? Why would they need to use my MAC address?
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by paulfurley 9y ago
Identifiers in DHCP requests is a really good point, thanks for raising this. I'll do some captures and see what my client is revealing.
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by paulfurley 9y ago
The capture would occur inside the router. You can just dump its ARP table which translates between MAC and IP address. "If you're on your home network, this has no impact what so ever." Yes, I'm fairly happy with my own
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by paulfurley 9y ago
Amazing!!
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by paulfurley 9y ago
No, because they use the 'locally administered' prefix [1]. This is deliberate in order not to collide with real existing MAC addresses. (The original version of the post used real, Intel MAC prefixes [2] and you can look in the g
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by paulfurley 9y ago
If anyone here's involved developing NetworkManager, it would be brilliant to see a 'stable-for-n-days' type setting. This would prevent a WiFi network tracking you over time, as well as between networks.
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by paulfurley 9y ago
Unless you're using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, in which case you're stuck with NetworkManager 1.2. From the post: "I learned that NetworkManager 1.4.1+ can do MAC address randomization right out the box. If you’re using Ubuntu 17.04 u
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by paulfurley 9y ago
There's probably a one-liner in Linux too, but not one which satisfies the three caveats in the post.
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by paulfurley 9y ago
I believe iPhones and Android phones only do it while in scanning mode. Once connected, they use the real MAC address.
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by paulfurley 9y ago
Or to be more precise, those access points probably need a consistent mac, not your real one. So it would be nice if you could configure those networks to receive their own mac, but that stays the same over time. This is what the Networ
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by paulfurley 9y ago
Good tip, thanks for linking to this.
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by paulfurley 9y ago
Yep, feel free to modify to spoof a real hardware MAC address (as the original version of my blog post suggested: https://github.com/paulfurley/www.paulfurley.com/commit/bebc... ) As @_fink on Twitter pointed
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by paulfurley 9y ago
I also used macchanger in the past but it seems that recent versions of NetworkManager overwrite the changes that macchanger makes.
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by paulfurley 9y ago
Yes, in network manager 1.4.1+ (ubuntu 17.04+) you can set each network to `random` or `stable` as well as a global default for new networks. This config file updates the global default (but I can't use it yet!): https://gis
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by paulfurley 9y ago
True - I could update the script to allow for whitelisting certain networks so they receive a stable-forever MAC address..?
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Randomize your WiFi MAC address on Ubuntu(paulfurley.com)
211 points by paulfurley 9y ago|105 comments
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by paulfurley 12y ago
I'd be interested to know what other software professionals think of this. I believe policies like Halifax's and Barclays' nudge us towards a world of software jaildom - and I don't think this is the direction we should
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Barclays and Halifax are misguided and unethical for disallowing rooted phones(twitter.com)
1 points by paulfurley 12y ago|1 comments
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by paulfurley 12y ago
I find it really useful as a (nearly) zero-config way of accessing devices behind a NAT box. Even my work internet connection is behind a carrier-grade-NAT box so I can't even port forward. I use it to access our Jenkins server which i
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Improving Freecycle with SMS alerts(paulfurley.com)
1 points by paulfurley 12y ago|1 comments
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by paulfurley 12y ago
Thanks for the tip, and I feel your pain in being blocked. Does the Open Rights Group have any advice on what to do in this case? I wonder if there's a reasonably low cost/effort legal avenue you could pursue against BT? My feelin

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