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What is suExec..??

Posted 08-12-2010 at 03:50 AM by aher.praju@yahoo.com

CGI programs are the most common way of servers to interact dynamically with users.

Abbreviation of Common Gateway Interface, a specification for transferring information between apache server and a CGI program. A CGI program is any program designed to accept and return data that conforms to the CGI specification.

If your application with CGI on your website then of course suExec be solution, provided by apache server. Apache users having the ability...

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Security and Privacy on the Internet

Posted 08-12-2010 at 03:31 AM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 04-24-2021 at 09:07 PM by craigevil (Most of the advice is outdated.)

Tags anonymity, firefox, pgp, privacy, security

This post like all of my posts are several years out of date.
Use the Tor Browser, or a VPN preferably a paid one.
You can also use a browser like Librewolf that is a bit more hardened than Firefox or Chrome.

If you are really worried about privacy there are a few things you can do including:
Use the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox and use the
Easy Privacy list as well as the Antisocial list.
This list blocks the ever increasing social networking content...

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Random song constrained by keyword on MPC

Posted 08-12-2010 at 12:17 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 08-12-2010 at 12:21 AM by the dsc

Tags mpc, music

Save it as a script, perhaps even as an alias:

Code:

mpc play `shuf -e $(mpc playlist -f "[(%position%) %artist% %title% %file%]" |egrep $1 | grep -Eo "\(.*\)"| sed 's:).*::g' | sed 's:(::g') -n 1`

Then type at some terminal:

mpcr[andom] <artist/keyword>

(or however you chose to name/alias it)

And mpc will play a random song from the pool resulting from the keyword filter.

I guess the whole...

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Creating a VPN in Minutes Using Remobo

Posted 08-11-2010 at 05:06 AM by sridhar11

Remobo is a free software which can be used to replace the paid versions of existing difficult to use VPN setups
as it can create a VPN instantly and securely. It lets you login easily and add users to your buddy list, and
create a secure network for you. In private chat messaging, the file sharing client helps share information
within the buddy list as well. Remobo lets you control your computer and access files securely while away from
the system.

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independent network/app auditors...

Posted 08-10-2010 at 08:34 AM by suprstar

//start rant

LOL yeah ok, so some kid fresh out of college who "knows everything there is to know" about network and program security is gonna come in here and tell us what's wrong with our stuff..... I spend hours producing screen shots of programs, statistics on activity, most of which prove absolutely nothing.

First the application
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Their big investigation focuses on a front end...

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