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Technical write-ups on NixOS, privacy-focused system design, and forensic testing. No accounts, no tracking. Subscribe with any RSS reader.
- Brave's Tor window fetched sidebar favicons outside Tor
Adding a page to the sidebar from a Brave Private Window with Tor sent a request to that site from the real IP address. How it worked, what caused it, and the fix in Brave 1.96.60.
- Running forensic tools against my own hidden NixOS environment
I ran disk forensic tooling against the hidden NixOS environment from my NAILS thesis and wrote down what leaked and what did not.
- Running Portmaster on NixOS
Portmaster is now packaged in nixpkgs with a full NixOS module. How to enable it, how declarative application profiles work, and what to watch out for.