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Update for Squeeze, also added some useful links.

Posted 04-05-2011 at 11:29 AM by craigevil

Howto get Adobe Flash working in Debian amd64

http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer

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Debian 5.0 'Lenny' amd64

In September 2010 Adobe announced Flash Player "Square". As of September 17 it is a fully working preview release.

Flash Player Square Installation

First remove the version you may have installed (it's probably a 32 bit version or too old):

$ apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree nspluginwrapper (the same applies to the 32bit version from debian-multimedia)

Get the Flash Player "Square" binary from Adobe (look for the Download plug-in for 64-bit Linux (TAR.GZ, 4.1 MB) link.

Extract the tar ball:

$ tar xvzf flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz

As root copy the extracted file to the mozilla plugins folder(this will work with Google Chrome as well):

$ cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

Posted 09-18-2010 at 06:08 AM by craigevil craigevil is offline

Howto get Adobe Flash working in Debian amd64

Looks like Adobe has come out with 64 bit Flash yet again.

Adobe Finally Releases A New Adobe Flash Player 64bit - Yes, For Linux Too! ~ Web Upd8 : http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/adobe...obe-flash.html

Adobe Labs - Downloads: Flash Player "Square" Preview Release : http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

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Adobe® Flash® Player "Square" is a preview release that enables native 64-bit support on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows operating systems, as well as enhanced support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 beta.

We have made this preview available so that users can test existing content and new platforms for compatibility and stability. Because this is a preview version of Flash Player, we don’t expect it to be as stable as a final release version of Flash Player. Use caution when installing Flash Player "Square" on production machines.

The key new capabilities in the Flash Player "Square" preview are:

64-bit support — Native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.
Internet Explorer 9 hardware accelerated rendering support — Enhanced support for Internet Explorer 9 Beta. It takes advantage of hardware accelerated graphics in Internet Explorer 9 Beta, utilizing hardware rendering surfaces to improve graphics performance and enable seamless composition.

Important: Please note that if you install the Flash Player "Square" preview, you will need to keep this version up to date by manually installing updates from the Flash Player "Square" download page on Adobe Labs. You will not receive automatic update notifications for future final releases of Flash Player, and you will need to manually uninstall Flash Player "Square" before installing a final shipping version of Flash Player.

Posted 09-16-2010 at 06:17 AM by craigevil craigevil is offline

Security and Privacy on the Internet

NotScripts - Google Chrome extension gallery : https://chrome.google.com/extensions...pidmdajjpkkcfn

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NotScripts gives you a high degree of "NoScript" like control over what javascript, iframes, and plugins runs in your browser to increase security and lower the CPU usage. It is useful to help mitigate attacks like cross-site scripting (XSS) and drive by downloads by blocking the third-party content before it even runs with it's default deny policy. You can whitelist the sites you want through an easy to use url bar icon and drop down menu.

NotScripts uses a unique and novel method to provide this "NoScript" like functionality in Google Chrome that was not previously possible. It introduces a break through technique of intelligent HTML5 storage caching to over come the limitations in Google Chrome that prevented an extension like this from being made before. NotScripts blocks third-party content BEFORE they load and it does this while also having a whitelist. This is one of the key extensions that many people have been waiting for since Google Chrome came out.

You can test NotScripts' ability to block third-party javascript over at the project's homepage:
http://optimalcycling.com/other-proj...tscripts/#test

NOTE: When you install NotScripts, you will be required to set a password for it to use to encrypt it's site specific settings. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you read the instructions about NotScripts on the project homepage to understand how it works:
http://optimalcycling.com/other-projects/notscripts

I expect to answer a lot of questions from people about NotScripts since V0.9 is the first release, so please be patient and leave a comment on the website or here.

NotScripts is inspired by the “NoScript” addon for Firefox (http://noscript.net) and seeks to emulate it within the limitations of the Google Chrome extensions API. It is not affiliated with “NoScript“, I just happen to like it’s functionality.

-Eric Wong

Posted 08-19-2010 at 04:45 PM by craigevil craigevil is offline

Security and Privacy on the Internet

Extra security for paranoid users: PGA - Pretty Good Anonymity

Posted 08-18-2010 at 07:49 AM by Web31337

Security and Privacy on the Internet

Click to play plugins now in Chrome:
Google Chrome Flash Blocker and Plugin Blocker

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Google Chrome dev version has been updated to 6.0.490.1 and this version now has out-of-the-box Apps support and also adds a new feature called Click-to-play which is similar to a Flash blocker and can be used to block content served by browser plugins like Flash, Shockwave etc.

Google Chrome dev build users (and future stable users), here is some good news for you. The latest dev build of Google Chrome now includes an integrated Plugin blocker in the form of Click-to-play, which can block Flash content and content served by other plugins used by Google Chrome.

Click-to-play is a really welcome feature since it will allow you to control what content is shown in the browser and block content on a plugin to plugin basis. To enable the Click-to-play feature in Google Chrome, just add the "–enable-click-to-play" command line switch to the Chrome shortcut.

Once you do that, you will be able to block plugin content by visiting "Options -> Under the Hood" and clicking on the "Content Settings" button.

Posted 08-17-2010 at 03:26 PM by craigevil craigevil is offline

Security and Privacy on the Internet

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on Download Page

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Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (BETA)

To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, we developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not prevent information from being sent to the website itself or to other web analytics services.

If you want to opt out, download and install the add-on for your current web browser. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is available for Internet Explorer (versions 7 and 8), Google Chrome (4.x and higher), and Mozilla Firefox (3.5 and higher).

Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on (by Google) - Google Chrome extension gallery
https://chrome.google.com/extensions...odhfapmkghcbnh

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on now ready for download
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05...-for-download/

For more info on how Google handles your privacy take a look at:
Google Privacy Center
http://www.google.com/intl/en/analyt...yoverview.html

Posted 08-17-2010 at 03:24 PM by craigevil craigevil is offline

	Security and Privacy on the Internet Use a temporary email address when signing up for things like forums or web pages that need a valid email address. 10 Minute Mail http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html Other disposable email addresses Disposable e-mail addresses - JonDonym Wiki http://secure-proxy-howto.anonymous-...mail_addresses
	Posted 08-15-2010 at 11:15 AM by craigevil

Security and Privacy on the Internet

Beefree is an extension, also called add-on, for Mozilla Firefox.
http://honeybeenet.altervista.org/beefree/?id=101000

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Beefree is a little extension that will avoid your searches target links to be recorded! It works with several of the most known web search engines!

Beefree can't prevent a search engine to know what you are looking for, but it'll prevent a search engine to know what you are looking in!!!

Beefree will also help you to hide your browser and operating system information from web search engines! This is possible, because beefree will generate random (fake) User-Agents and, instead of send your real one, beefree will send those fake information to web search engines.

One of the newest features of beefree is to remove the referer link sent from your browser to search engines and to external websites. This is very important because also targets websites of your search-results could be websites made to track your online activity, and recording which keywords you used and on which search engines. Beefree will automatically detect which referrers to remove, this will avoid to compromise the working operations of others web-sites that require referrers to work.

Posted 08-15-2010 at 10:37 AM by craigevil craigevil is offline

Security and Privacy on the Internet

For more information see:
GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/Articles/398545/
GoogleSharing :: A Special Kind Of Proxy http://www.googlesharing.net/
GoogleSharing :: Add-ons for Firefox : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60333/
The SSD Project | EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project https://ssd.eff.org/
Tor: anonymity online - https://www.torproject.org/
FoxyProxy Standard :: Add-ons for Firefox : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2464/
CsFire :: Add-ons for Firefox : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/58189/
OpenDNS > FamilyShield - http://www.opendns.com/familyshield
TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software http://www.truecrypt.org/
HTTPS Everywhere [LWN.net] http://lwn.net/Articles/393387/

Posted 08-13-2010 at 01:03 PM by craigevil craigevil is offline

Security and Privacy on the Internet

i2P - Anonymizing Network

What is I2P?
http://www.i2p2.de/

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I2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties.

Many applications are available that interface with I2P, including mail, peer-peer, IRC chat, and others.

You can get the source from the homepage or a .deb package from the German Privacy Foundation e.V. repo at
https://www.awxcnx.de/wabbel-en.htm

Enjoy your anonymity and privacy!

There's a version for Windows (also portable), Linux, MacOS.

I2P Tutorial for Windows Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3nh1DoRMw

I2P Tutorial for Linux - Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeRN2G9VW5E

How to set up your own website on I2P - Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ylW85vc7SA

http://geti2p.net
http://i2p2.de
IRC on i2p:127.0.0.1:6668

For more and active I2P sites visit: http://inr.i2p
The ports I2P is using: http://www.i2p2.de/faq#ports
See also your router's configuration.

I2P installation and running on Linux
I2P on Linux: just download and extract the installation files, no need for separate install (such as apt-get install). Run the router from /i2p folder with 'sudo sh i2prouter start'. In seconds, I2P should open a Konqueror-browser page of I2P-main console. Configure your bandwidth settings. You might also consider opening some ports on your firewall for optimizing the use of your bandwidth.

Portable I2P (windows only)
Windows users can use a portable package; it contains I2P, several plugins (email, torrent client), preconfigured browser,preconfigured IRC client and messenger. Download located at:
http://portable-i2p.blogspot.com
! Before you can use anything on I2P, you have to start the I2P router from the portable apps tray icon-menu with the button "I2P Launcher".

Anonymous surfing with I2P
To enable I2P to anonymize you in your browser, go to your browser options/preferences (depending on your browser) -> network/connection settings -> select manual proxy configuration and in http insert 127.0.0.1 and 4444 for port, in https 127.0.0.1 and 4445 for port. Make sure that you have 'No proxy for' as 'localhost, 127.0.0.1' so you'll be able to reach your I2P configuration page. To test your anonymity, go as example to: cmyip.com

Also see Debian/Ubuntu - I2P : http://www.i2p2.de/debian#debian
The Invisible Internet Project

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I2P is an anonymous network, exposing a simple layer that applications can use to anonymously and securely send messages to each other. The network itself is strictly message based (a la IP), but there is a library available to allow reliable streaming communication on top of it (a la TCP). All communication is end to end encrypted (in total there are four layers of encryption used when sending a message), and even the end points ("destinations") are cryptographic identifiers (essentially a pair of public keys).

Posted 08-13-2010 at 12:57 PM by craigevil craigevil is offline

Updated 02-26-2012 at 01:37 PM by craigevil (added more info)

REAL Firefox on Debian

Isn't debian's own iceweasel preferable to "real" firefox? The whole name change issue does not revolve around not being legal to use the firefox brand if there are unofficial modifications, even if they're security patches?

I don't know if the same happens with Debian, but at least with Fedora (if I recall), Fedora's "firefox" was a tiny bit better on some benchmarks (google's v8) than mozilla's. But the most shocking was that mozilla's windows' firefox outperformed both of linux' firefoxes when running under wine.

http://tuxradar.com/content/browser-...-linux-firefox

These v8 benchmarks, however, don't correlate too much with any "feel" of speed, perhaps not even actual speed, as measured by a stopwatch site like numion's.

But firefox' golden days seems to have passed, anyway. These days I use either chromium or chrome the most, switching to firefox only when I need some extension that chrome does not have. I have the impression that firefox is considerably less unbearable with the liquorix kernel, though. Or perhaps with any 2.6.34, which is the one I have on Arch, and it seems to be not so bad here as well.

Posted 08-12-2010 at 07:20 PM by the dsc the dsc is offline

Updated 08-12-2010 at 07:22 PM by the dsc

Grokking Debian GNU/Linux

Thanks for this compilation of resource links!

Posted 08-12-2010 at 07:07 PM by the dsc

	Grokking Debian GNU/Linux Quote: Originally Posted by the trooper Good work Craig. This might be better served as a 'sticky' in the Debian forum here. Thanks, but 99% of it is just factoids from the dpkg bot in #debian. I just copied the factoids and arranged them.
	Posted 08-07-2010 at 05:08 PM by craigevil

Grokking Debian GNU/Linux

Good work Craig.
This might be better served as a 'sticky' in the Debian forum here.

Posted 08-07-2010 at 04:42 PM by the trooper
Grokking Debian GNU/Linux

Thanks! A pretty useful resource!

Posted 08-06-2010 at 04:53 AM by rich_c
Irssi the irc client that rocks

+1!!!

Posted 06-27-2010 at 03:55 PM by Web31337

Easy way to install Multimedia codecs, flash, java, mplayer

------------------------------------------------------------------
Exoodles - Multimedia Installer - Version: 3.9.31 Date: 2010-02-24
------------------------------------------------------------------
The following are the available options for package installs. Please note that each
main application will also get all required codecs and libs added automatically,
so there's no need to manually install the specific codecs unless you want to.

Exoodles believes that your Debian distribution level is: unstable
and will install packages using the package manager: apt-get

You can return to this main menu to pick from another group to install
more packages, then to exit, just hit the quit number and the script will exit.

There are 3 main types of programs, which will require libraries and packages from the
following desktops, or none, in the case of CLI tools. The amount of libraries required
varies application to application, but you will see what will be added for each package
and can decide whether to install it all or not.
QT/KDE; GTK/Gnome; CLI (command line tools). The script will note which applies.

Check each subsection for complete package list.
See exoodles -h for advanced setup help options for some applications.
------------------------------------------------------------------
1 - browsers-internet google chrome, opera, opera beta, java, flash, skype,
acroread mozilla plugin, mplayer mozilla plugin, vlc mozilla plugin.

2 - codecs-plugins libdvdcss, ffmpeg, flac, gstreamer-plugins, lame, vorbis-tools, w32codecs
3 - editing-authoring brasero, k3b, k9copy, lxdvdrip, mencoder, qdvdauthor, xdvdshrink
4 - media-players-audio aqualung, amarok, audacious, banshee, gmusicbrowser,
quod-libet, streamtuner
5 - media-players-video mplayer, kaffeine, vlc, xine
6 - miscellaneous-media abcde, acroread, audacity, evince-gtk, Java, streamripper

7 - quit Exit script.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Please type the appropriate number and hit enter.
------------------------------------------------------------------
1) browsers-internet 4) media-players-audio 7) quit
2) codecs-plugins 5) media-players-video
3) editing-authoring 6) miscellaneous-media

Posted 06-26-2010 at 10:23 PM by craigevil craigevil is offline

Easy way to install Multimedia codecs, flash, java, mplayer

Nice script there craigevil

Posted 03-06-2010 at 07:36 PM by rokytnji

Easy way to install Multimedia codecs, flash, java, mplayer

------------------------------------------------------------------
Exoodles - Multimedia Installer - Version: 3.9.24 Date: 2009-08-23
------------------------------------------------------------------
The following are the available options for package installs. Please note that each
main application will also get all required codecs and libs added automatically,
so there's no need to manually install the specific codecs unless you want to.

Exoodles believes that your Debian distribution level is: unstable
and will install packages using the package manager: apt-get

You can return to this main menu to pick from another group to install
more packages, then to exit, just hit the quit number and the script will exit.

There are 3 main types of programs, which will require libraries and packages from the
following desktops, or none, in the case of CLI tools. The amount of libraries required
varies application to application, but you will see what will be added for each package
and can decide whether to install it all or not.
QT/KDE; GTK/Gnome; CLI (command line tools). The script will note which applies.

Check each subsection for complete package list.
See exoodles -h for advanced setup help options for some applications.
------------------------------------------------------------------
1 - browsers-internet google chrome, opera, opera beta, java, flash, skype,
acroread mozilla plugin, mplayer mozilla plugin, vlc mozilla plugin.

2 - codecs-plugins libdvdcss, ffmpeg, flac, gstreamer-plugins, lame, vorbis-tools, w32codecs
3 - editing-authoring brasero, k3b, k9copy, lxdvdrip, mencoder, qdvdauthor, xdvdshrink
4 - media-players-audio aqualung, amarok, audacious, banshee, gmusicbrowser,
quod-libet, streamtuner
5 - media-players-video mplayer, kaffeine, vlc, xine
6 - miscellaneous-media abcde, acroread, audacity, evince-gtk, Java, streamripper

7 - quit Exit script.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Please type the appropriate number and hit enter.
------------------------------------------------------------------
1) browsers-internet 4) media-players-audio 7) quit
2) codecs-plugins 5) media-players-video
3) editing-authoring 6) miscellaneous-media
#?

Posted 12-28-2009 at 10:50 PM by craigevil craigevil is offline

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