In case you haven’t seen this, Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) is a live incognito DVD/USB which you can use to boot off any machine that supports USB boot (and for those which don’t boot of USB, you can use PLOP).

All connections go through Tor and since its a live disk, nothing is left on the hard disk (unless you choose to save something off the Internet, I guess).

I’ve been tinkering with Tor and managed to get my DNS routed through Tor, with my normal DNS as a backup, although routing traffic is a bit tricker, since not applications like to play with the Tor network properly. Some applications such as Vuze provide SOCKS capability, which allows routing of traffic through the Tor network via proxy. Others, like Chrome/Chromium don’t offer this as well, and you have to fudge it.

Looks like it wasn’t just me that was having trouble with the BB service.

Report on Sunday’s Outage

They mention a webcrawler caused the problem. I wonder which one it was? ¬_¬

Some may not know, but Google supports 2FA (2-Factor Authentication), and this basically means you need two items of information to log into your Google Account. Paypal also has this option.

I only found out about this through LastPass when I was cleaning up some old (and no longer used) accounts. This is worth a look and maybe switching on. But, as with most forms of authentication, you need to balance the convenience and risk (See related articles)

2-step verification - Accounts Help.

Related articles

• Google 2-step login verification flaw allows account hijacking (net-security.org)
• How We Extended Google 2FA to Every SaaS App (meldium.com)
• Bypassing Google's Two-Factor Authentication (duosecurity.com)
• Google squishes login-bypass bug perfect for account hijackers (go.theregister.com)