I’ve just installed SQRL as a login tool for this blog. So far, it’s working as it should. I have a challenge for anyone that stumbles upon this blog post; Get your SQRL ID and use it to set up a user account on this blog, and post a comment under this thread 🙂

Get SQRL information here. Hint, you MUST have a physical printer attached to your computer because you will be required to PRINT your get-out-of-jail code on a physical piece of paper. You must read all the instructions/explanations during each step of the process, Steve takes great pains to be crystal clear on who, what, where, and why you are doing the things required in each step. I encourage you to PRINT the QR code so you can capture the code with your mobile phone SQRL client, this will input the one time CODE into your phone, then you will need to put in your password to add your ID to your SQRL client on your phone. I’ve gone through all the steps, added the client to this blog using a wordpress plugin.

Again, I challange anyone who stumbles upon this blog post to get their SQRL client and ID, and test it out, it’s very very cool… 🙂

–heinz

After watching Snowden chat about the privacy issues cell phones impose on the account holders, not even 24 hours later, Laporte and crew bring up the same issue as they discover Apple by default is sending all your browsing data to a company named Tencent located in China. News article here.

Edward Snowden: How Your Cell Phone Spies on You

You can watch the podcast here; This Week In Tech 740 To skip directly to the discussion on this topic, fast forward to time stamp 45:35 or you can follow the simple instructions.

Here is how to disable this feature.
–Settings
–Safari
–Scroll down to the Privacy and Security section
–Fraudulent Website Warning (Turn this off)

–hf

For many years I have been using the OpenDNS servers, until it was made known that Cisco took them over, just like Oracle took over MySQL, now anyone that stays current on security news, doesn’t trust any of them. MySQL and OpenOffice have been replaced with MariaDB and LibreOffice, open source software–there is a reason for everything. I’m currently pointing my routers to primary DNS 9.9.9.9 and secondary DNS 208.67.222.222 however, I’m thinking of dropping the secondary completely and just running with the Quad9.

If you’re interested in this nonsense, you might also interested in running some benchmarks on DNS servers. For this I suggest you grab a copy of an awesome program written by Steve Gibson back in 2010 called DNS Benchmark. By right clicking on the title bar you will find more options than you ‘ll know what to do with. The program is Freeware and is crystal clear clean of any trickery like advertising and spyware….. DNS Benchmark can be found here.

For more info on Quad9 and what it does for you, you can find that info here.

Have a marvelous day!

heinz