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privacy random security

What else happened in 2015

Time to post a short update on things that happened, since I attended WWW in Florence 2015. In 2015, I devoted the majority of my research time on the development of the Usable Privacy Box (upribox). The upribox is a RaspberryPi-based WiFi router that automatically filters advertisement and optionally routes traffic through the Tor anonymity […]

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nysos v3 – home theater PC

In June 2015, i replaced my old home theater PC with new hardware. This is the third time I upgraded my HTPC hardware, thus the name: nysos v3. I am now using an AMD Kabini APU, which resulted in quite some performance improvements for the full-encryption RAID5 storage of my setup. In May, I attended […]

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personal privacy

Bye Bye Facebook

I will close my Facebook account for good on the 31st of December 2014. It is no secret that Facebook is bad for your personal information and ultimately leads to security problems (shameless promo of my own research e.g. 1,2,3). Originally I intended to close my account once I am done with my PhD. One […]