Tag Archives: compsec

CompSec and Surveillance

Posted on December 19, 2024 by ehurst

Let’s talk about practicalities: What should you do about online surveillance? Notice that I didn’t say, “What could you do…” The starting point is to discern what your convictions require of you. Should you fight it? How hard? Only you … Continue reading →

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Online or Offline

Posted on December 9, 2024 by ehurst

Wake up, blog! I’m torn between the desire for operational security (OpSec) on one hand, and on the other hand, the commission from God to teach what I know. I use a VPN on my computers. I discovered some time … Continue reading →

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Ransomware and Colonial Pipeline

Posted on May 11, 2021 by ehurst

There are too many sources I could link, so I’ll just summarize what I’ve read so far. I’m sure it’s no consolation to anyone, but I learned yesterday that the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack affected only the office computers and … Continue reading →

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The Intel CPU Flaw Simplified

Posted on January 4, 2018 by ehurst

Maybe you’ve heard about this: Major Flaw in Millions of Intel Chips Revealed. Most of the reports assume too much about what you already know, or obfuscate things and miss the point. Bottom line: This flaw allows naughty software to … Continue reading →

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How Faith Works

Posted on August 7, 2017 by ehurst

Your commitment to Christ is the starting point for everything. As with the rest of Creation, the human body has a rhythm and cycles of its own. Anyone with a good body consciousness can tell it, but it shows up … Continue reading →

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Update on Windows Snooping

Posted on August 1, 2017 by ehurst

If you happen to be interested in the subject, I ran across something fresh: NSA Collects MS Windows Error Information. The article discusses how the NSA is harvesting any bug report or telemetry sent from your Windows computer back to … Continue reading →

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Cyber Siege

Posted on June 17, 2017 by ehurst

While I await the coming mission adventure somewhere ahead of me on the road, I still have plenty to do in the meantime. I have a gospel message, the eternal core of all missions. It includes warning people of sin, … Continue reading →

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Politics and Malware Attacks

Posted on June 1, 2017 by ehurst

As I expected, it turns out the DNC operatives did attempt to use malware attacks on their political opponents during the election. In this case it was a limited attack on some of the folks at 4chan and 8chan. That’s … Continue reading →

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Follow-up to Paranoia

Posted on May 24, 2017 by ehurst

Ref: Previous blog post — Paranoia? Testing by real experts reveals that Windows 10 ignores privacy settings. To be specific, someone who actually understands this stuff tested Windows 10 Enterprise, the one you are supposed to be able to actually … Continue reading →

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Linux versus WannaCrypt

Posted on May 15, 2017 by ehurst

You don’t have to read this, but I do have to write it. Some of you, dear Readers, are sympathetic to my ranting about the virtues of switching from Windows to Linux. The recent big wave of ransom-ware commonly known … Continue reading →

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