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<!-- Copyright 2022 Jake Winters -->
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<title>Inferencium - About</title>
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<div><a href="index.xhtml"><img src="asset/img/logo-inferencium-no_text.png" width="110" height="110" alt="Inferencium logo"/></a></div>
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<div><a href="index.xhtml" class="title">Inferencium</a></div>
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<div><a href="about.xhtml">About</a></div>
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<div><a href="documentation.xhtml">Documentation</a></div>
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<div><a href="source.xhtml">Source</a></div>
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<div><a href="changelog.xhtml">Changelog</a></div>
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<div><a href="blog.xhtml">Blog</a></div>
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<div><a href="contact.xhtml">Contact</a></div>
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<div><a href="directory.xhtml">Directory</a></div>
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<div><a href="key.xhtml">Key</a></div>
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<h1>About</h1>
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<nav id="toc">
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<h2><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#about_me">About Me</a></li>
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<li><a href="#date_time">Date and Time</a></li>
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<li><a href="#licensing">Licensing</a></li>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#licensing-code">Code</a></li>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#licensing-bsd-3-clause">BSD 3-Clause License</a></li>
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<li><a href="#licensing-gpl-2.0">GNU General Public License v2.0</a></li>
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</ul>
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<li><a href="#licensing-noncode">Non-code</a></li>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#licensing-cc-by-4.0">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</a></li>
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</ul>
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<li><a href="#licensing-open_source_vs_free_software">Do I Distinguish Between Open-source and Free Software?</a></li>
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</ul>
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<li><a href="#services">Services</a></li>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#services-websites">Websites</a></li>
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</ul>
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<li><a href="#recommendations">Recommendations</a></li>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#recommendations-hardware">Hardware</a></li>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#recommendations-hardware-smartphone">Smartphone</a></li>
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</ul>
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<li><a href="#recommendations-software">Software</a></li>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#recommendations-software-desktop">Desktop</a></li>
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<li><a href="#recommendations-software-smartphone">Smartphone</a></li>
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</ul>
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<li><a href="#recommendations-music">Music</a></li>
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</ul>
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<li><a href="#gnulinux_or_linux">Is it GNU/Linux or Just Linux?</a></li>
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</ul>
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</nav>
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<section id="about_me">
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<h2><a href="#about_me">About Me</a></h2>
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<p>I am Jake Winters, also known by my pseudonym "Inference", a security
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researcher based in United Kingdom.<br/>
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I am the founder, lead developer, and administrator, of Inferencium.<br/>
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All opinions are my own, and are not necessarily shared with projects or people
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I am affiliated with.</p>
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<p>I write about my research and experience in cybersecurity and also physical
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security. Most of my postings are security-related, but I occasionally post
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about other aspects of my life.</p>
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<p>I am an open source advocate for the preservation and modifiability of source
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code. I believe source code should be considered human knowledge as much as past
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knowledge and teachings were; it is how modern humanity survives and runs.<br/>
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Source code being modifiable allows it to be adapted for use by anyone, whether
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to add features, harden it for increased security and/or privacy, or provide
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accessibility for disabled users.<br/>
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I am also a modular design advocate for the ability to securely and robustly
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make changes to hardware and software without the entire system being
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affected.</p>
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<p>I run multiple XMPP channels; a directory of channels can be found on the
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<a href="https://inferencium.net/directory.xhtml">directory</a>
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webpage.</p>
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<p>If you wish to contact me for any reason, you can use my
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<a href="https://inferencium.net/contact.xhtml">contact methods</a>.</p>
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</section>
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<section id="date_time">
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<h2><a href="#date_time">Date and Time</a></h2>
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<p>All dates and times across my services are
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<a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601">ISO 8601</a>-compliant. The
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short-form format <code>YYYY-MM-DD</code> is used for dates, and
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<code>hh:mm:ss</code> is used for times, with display of seconds being based on
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required level of accuracy. The full expression may be used when necessary;
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<code>YYYYMMDDThhmmssZ</code> (UTC without offset),
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<code>YYYYMMDDThhmmss+hhmm</code> (with positive offset), or
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<code>YYYYMMDDThhmmss-hhmm</code> (with negative offset).</p>
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</section>
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<section id="licensing">
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<h2><a href="#licensing">Licensing</a></h2>
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<p>I care about upstreaming and sharing code, strongly preferring licenses which
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have high license compatibility in order to permit sharing code with as many
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other projects as possible; for this reason, permissive licenses are my
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preferred choice, while avoiding copyleft licenses and other licenses which
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place restrictions on how my code may be used, and prevent me from including
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important proprietary code, such as firmware, which can patch security
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vulnerabilities, privacy issues, and stability issues.</p>
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<p>All of my code is and will be permissively licensed unless specific
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circumstances make it impractical or infeasible to do so. My goal is to share
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code which has the least amount of restrictions as possible, to allow wider
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propagation of my code and allow more use cases and possibilities, as well as
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ensuring proprietary code, whenever required, is permitted to be included and/or
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linked to.</p>
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<p><a href="https://iso.org/standard/81870.html">ISO 5962:2021</a>
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is used for licensing, in the format
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<code>SPDX-License-Identifier: <license></code>; see the
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<a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/">SPDX License List</a>
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for the full list of available licenses under this standard.</p>
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<p>My preferred licenses and rationale for using them are below; any licenses
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not listed are chosen on a case-by-case basis.</p>
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<h3 id="licensing-code"><a href="#licensing-code">Code</a></h3>
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<h4 id="licensing-bsd-3-clause"><a href="#licensing-bsd-3-clause">BSD 3-Clause License</a></h4>
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<code>SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause</code>
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<p><b>Type: Permissive</b></p>
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<p><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause.html">BSD 3-Clause License</a>
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is a highly permissive license which allows content
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licensed under it to be used in any way, whether in
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source or binary form, and allows sublicensing under a
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different license, with the only restrictions being the
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original copyright notice must be kept in order to
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attribute the original creator of the licensed content,
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and the name of the project and/or its contributors may
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not be used to endorse or promote products derived from
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the original project.</p>
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<h4 id="licensing-gpl-2.0"><a href="#licensing-gpl-2.0">GNU General Public License v2.0</a></h4>
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<code>SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only</code>
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<p><b>Type: Copyleft</b></p>
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<p><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-only.html">GNU General Public License v2.0</a>
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is a strong copyleft license which restricts use of
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content licensed under it by requiring all source code
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of the content to be publicly available, making
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binary-only form and inclusion of proprietary code
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impossible, requiring all derivatives to be licensed
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under the same license (allowing sublicensing under only
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newer GPL licenses if <code>GPL-2.0-or-later</code> is
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specified in the SPDX license identifier), and requiring
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the original copyright notice to be kept in order to
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attribute the original creator of the licensed
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content.</p>
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<p>Due to the restrictive and invasive nature of this
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license, it is avoided unless such restrictions would be
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beneficial to my code; whenever this is the case, the
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GNU General Public License v2.0 will be used, rather
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than the more restrictive
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<a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0-only.html">GNU General Public License v3.0</a>,
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and relicensing derivatives under the GNU General Public
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License v3.0 will be disallowed.</p>
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<h3 id="licensing-noncode"><a href="#licensing-noncode">Non-code</a></h3>
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<h4 id="licensing-cc-by-4.0"><a href="#licensing-cc-by-4.0">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</a></h4>
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<code>SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0</code>
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<p><b>Type: Permissive</b></p>
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<p><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</a>
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is a highly permissive license which allows content
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licensed under it to be used in any way, in any medium,
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with the only restriction being the original copyright
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notice must be kept in order to attribute the original
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creator of the licensed content.</p>
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<h3 id="licensing-open_source_vs_free_software"><a href="#licensing-open_source_vs_free_software">Do I Distinguish Between Open-source and Free Software?</a></h3>
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<p>No. If code is not released under an open-source license and
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places restrictions on how the code may be used, it is either
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source-available (if viewing the code is permitted) or
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proprietary. "Free software" only causes confusion and exists to
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push an ideology by a specific group of people. If software
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isn't "free", it's not open-source, either.</p>
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</section>
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<section id="services">
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<h2><a href="#services">Services</a></h2>
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<p>This list contains the policies and practices of my services.</p>
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<p>My policies and practices are heavily security- and privacy-focused, with
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improvements made on an ongoing basis as new technologies, protocols, and
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software become available.</p>
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<h3 id="services-websites"><a href="#services-websites">Websites</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Unnecessary logging avoided (only logs required for security
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and debugging purposes)</li>
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<li>All server logs purged every 14 days</li>
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<li>User IP addresses used only for security and debugging
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purposes (purged along with logs)</li>
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<li>All connections made via
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<a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#TLS_1.3">TLS 1.3</a>
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only to ensure the most secure
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<a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_encryption">AEAD</a>
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ciphers are used, along with
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<a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy">forward secrecy</a></li>
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<li>All connections made via high-security AEAD ciphers,
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preferring AES-256-GCM for devices with AES
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hardware-acceleration, and ChaCha20-Poly1305 for devices without
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AES hardware-acceleration, with AES-128-GCM as a fallback
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(AES-128-GCM is mandated for TLS 1.3 by
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<a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8446#section-9.1">IETF RFC8446 section 9.1</a>)</li>
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<li>All connections are made via high-security key exchange
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protocols, preferring X25519, with secp256r1 as a fallback
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(secp256r1 is mandated for TLS 1.3 by
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<a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8446#section-9.1">IETF RFC8446 section 9.1</a>)</li>
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<li><a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Extensions">Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)</a>
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enabled to provide a root-of-trust for encryption and
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authentication for domain and server configuration</li>
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<li><a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_Certification_Authority_Authorization">Certification Authority Authorization (CAA)</a>
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records enabled to prevent all certificate authorities other
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than
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<a href="https://letsencrypt.org/">Let's Encrypt</a> from
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issuing TLS certificates for my domains</li>
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<li><a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFP_record">Secure Shell fingerprint (SSHFP)</a>
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records enabled to provide a DNS-based root-of-trust for SSH
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connections to my domains</li>
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<li>Referrer headers disabled to prevent knowing where a user
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was redirected from</li>
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<li>All content sourced from my own domains, with third-party
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content prohibited via
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<a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Security_Policy">Content Security Policy</a>
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configuration</li>
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<li>All servers physically under my control (no VPS or other
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hosting providers)</li>
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<li>No proprietary services, ensuring I have complete control
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over my services, and vendor lock-in does not occur</li>
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</ul>
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</section>
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<section id="recommendations">
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<h2><a href="#recommendations">Recommendations</a></h2>
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<h3 id="recommendations-hardware"><a href="#recommendations-hardware">Hardware</a></h3>
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<h4 id="recommendations-hardware-smartphone"><a href="#recommendations-hardware-smartphone">Smartphone</a></h4>
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<div style="overflow-x:auto;">
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<table>
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<tr>
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<th id="hardware-smartphone-type">Type</th>
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<th id="hardware-smartphone">Hardware</th>
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<th id="hardware-smartphone-description">Description</th>
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<th id="hardware-smartphone-source_model">Source model<br/>
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(License)</th>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th id="hardware-smartphone-smartphone">Smartphone</th>
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<th id ="google-pixel" headers="hardware hardware-smartphone-smartphone">
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<img src="asset/img/google-pixel_8_pro.png" width="100" height="100" alt="Front and rear view of a Google Pixel 8 Pro in Obsidian colour"/><br/>
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Google Pixel
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</th>
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<td class="desc" headers="hardware-description google-pixel">
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<h5>Security/Privacy</h5>
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<p>Google Pixel devices are the best Android
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devices available on the market for
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<a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2021/10/pixel-6-setting-new-standard-for-mobile.html">security and privacy</a>.</p>
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<p>They allow locking the bootloader with a
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<a href="https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/avb/+/master/README.md#pixel-2-and-later">custom Android Verified Boot (AVB) key</a>
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in order to preserve security and privacy
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features when installing a custom operating
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system, such as
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<a href="https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/verifiedboot/">verified boot</a>
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which verifies that the OS has not been
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corrupted or tampered with, and
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<a href="https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/verifiedboot/verified-boot#rollback-protection">rollback protection</a>
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which prevents an adversary from rolling
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back the OS or firmware version to a
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previous version with known security
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vulnerabilities.</p>
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<p>They also include a
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<a href="https://developer.android.com/training/articles/keystore#HardwareSecurityModule">hardware security module</a>
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(Titan M2, improving on the previous
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generation
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<a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/building-titan-better-security-through.html">Titan M</a>)
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which is extremely resistant to both remote
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and physical attacks due to being completely
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isolated from the rest of the system,
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including the operating system. Titan M2
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ensures that the device cannot be remotely
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compromised by requiring the side buttons of
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the device to be physically pressed for some
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sensitive operations. Titan M2 also takes
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the role of
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<a href="https://source.android.com/docs/security/best-practices/hardware#strongbox-keymaster">Android StrongBox Keymaster</a>,
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a
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<a href="https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/keystore">hardware-backed Keystore</a>
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containing sensitive user keys which are
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unavailable to the OS or apps running on it
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without authorisation from Titan M2 itself.
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<a href="https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/05/insider-attack-resistance.html">Insider attack resistance</a>
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ensures that Titan M2 firmware can be
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flashed only if the user PIN/password is
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already known, making it impossible to
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backdoor the device without already knowing
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these secrets.</p>
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<p>Google Pixel device kernels are compiled
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with
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<a href="https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/control-flow-integrity-in-android-kernel.html">forward-edge control-flow integrity</a>
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and
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<a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2019/10/protecting-against-code-reuse-in-linux_30.html">backward-edge control-flow integrity</a>
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to prevent code reuse attacks against the
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kernel. MAC address randomisation is
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<a href="https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/04/changes-to-device-identifiers-in.html">implemented well, along with minimal probe requests and randomised initial sequence numbers</a>.</p>
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<p>Google releases
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<a href="https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/">guaranteed monthly security updates</a>,
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ensuring Google Pixel devices are up-to-date
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and quickly protected against security
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vulnerabilities.</p>
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<p>Pixel 6-series and 7-series devices are a
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large improvement over the already very
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secure and private previous generation Pixel
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devices. They replace ARM-based Titan M with
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RISC-V-based Titan M2, reducing trust by
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removing ARM from the equation. Titan M2 is
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more resiliant to attacks than Titan M, and
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is
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<a href="https://www.tuv-nederland.nl/assets/files/cerfiticaten/2022/09/nscib-cc-22-0228971-cert-final.pdf">AVA_VAN.5 certified</a>,
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the highest level of vulnerability
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assessment. Google's in-house Tensor
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System-on-Chip includes Tensor Security
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Core, further improving device security.</p>
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<p>Pixel 8-series includes Armv9's
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<a href="https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architectures-and-processors-blog/posts/enhanced-security-through-mte">Memory Tagging Extension</a>,
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which dramatically increases device security
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by eliminating up to 95% of all security
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issues caused by memory-unsafety.</p>
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<h5>Support</h5>
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<p>Pixel 4a (5G), Pixel 5, and Pixel 5a, are
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supported for a
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<a href="https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705#zippy=%2Cpixel-a-g-pixel-pixel-a-g-pixel-a-pixel-xl-pixel">minimum of 3 years from launch</a>.</p>
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<p>Pixel 6-series, Pixel 7-series, Pixel
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Fold, and Pixel Tablet, are supported for a
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<a href="https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705#zippy=%2Cpixel-a-pixel-pixel-pro-pixel-a-pixel-pixel-pro-pixel-fold">minimum of 5 years from launch</a>.</p>
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<p>Pixel 8-series is supported for a
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<a href="https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705#zippy=%2Cpixel-pro">minimum of 7 years from launch</a>,
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putting it on the same support level as
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Apple; Google have even surpassed Apple in
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this regard, as Apple does not commit to a
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support timeframe for their devices.</p>
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</td>
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<td headers="hardware-smartphone-source_model google-pixel">
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</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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</div>
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<h3 id="recommendations-software"><a href="#recommendations-software">Software</a></h3>
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<h4 id="recommendations-software-desktop"><a href="#recommendations-software-desktop">Desktop</a></h4>
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<div style="overflow-x:auto;">
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<table>
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<tr>
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<th id="software-desktop-type">Type</th>
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<th id="software-desktop">Software</th>
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<th id="software-desktop-description">Description</th>
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<th id="software-desktop-source_model">Source model<br/>
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(License)</th>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th id="software-desktop-os">Operating system</th>
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<th id="gentoo_linux" headers="software-desktop software-desktop-os">
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<img src="asset/img/logo-gentoo_linux.png" width="100" height="100" alt="Gentoo Linux logo"/><br/>
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Gentoo Linux
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</th>
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<td class="desc" headers="software-description gentoo_linux">
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<p><a href="https://www.gentoo.org/">Gentoo Linux</a>
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is a highly modular, source-based, Linux-based
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operating system which allows vast customisation to
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tailor the operating system to suit your specific
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needs. There are many advantages to such an
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operating system, with the most notable being the
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ability to optimise the software for security,
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privacy, performance, or power usage; however, there
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|
are effectively unlimited other use cases, or a
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combination of multiple use cases.</p>
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<p>I have focused on security hardening and privacy
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|
hardening, placing performance below those aspects,
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although my system is still very performant. Some of
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|
the hardening I apply includes
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow_protection">stack protection</a>,
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|
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_overflow">signed integer overflow trapping</a>,
|
|
and GrapheneOS'
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc/">hardened_malloc</a>
|
|
memory allocator.</p>
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|
<p>You can find my Gentoo Linux configurations in my
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|
<a href="https://src.inferencium.net/Inferencium/cfg/">configuration respository</a>.</p>
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</td>
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<td headers="software-desktop-source_model gentoo_linux">
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Open-source<br/>
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(GPL-2.0-only)
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|
</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th id="software-web_browser">Web browser</th>
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<th id="chromium" headers="software-desktop software-web_browser">
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|
<img src="asset/img/logo-chromium.png" width="100" height="100" alt="Chromium logo"/><br/>
|
|
Chromium
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|
</th>
|
|
<td class="desc" headers="software-description chromium">
|
|
<p><a href="https://chromium.org/">Chromium</a>
|
|
is a highly secure web browser which is often ahead
|
|
of other web browsers in security aspects. It has a
|
|
dedicated security team and a very impressive
|
|
<a href="https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/brag-sheet/">security brag sheet</a>.
|
|
Chromium's security features include a strong
|
|
<a href="https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxSandboxing">multi-layer sandbox</a>,
|
|
strong
|
|
<a href="https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/site-isolation">site isolation</a>,
|
|
<a href="https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/binding-integrity">Binding Integrity</a>
|
|
memory hardening, and
|
|
<a href="https://www.chromium.org/developers/testing/control-flow-integrity/">control-flow integrity (CFI)</a>.</p></td>
|
|
<td headers="software-desktop-source_model chromium">
|
|
Open-source<br/>
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|
(BSD-3-Clause)
|
|
</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
</table>
|
|
</div>
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|
<h4 id="recommendations-software-smartphone"><a href="#recommendations-software-smartphone">Smartphone</a></h4>
|
|
<div style="overflow-x:auto;">
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|
<table>
|
|
<tr>
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|
<th id="software-smartphone-type">Type</th>
|
|
<th id="software-smartphone">Software</th>
|
|
<th id="software-smartphone-description">Description</th>
|
|
<th id="software-smartphone-source_model">Source model<br/>
|
|
(License)</th>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<th id="software-smartphone-os">Operating system</th>
|
|
<th id="grapheneos" headers="software-smartphone software-smartphone-os">
|
|
<img src="asset/img/logo-grapheneos.png" width="100" height="100" alt="GrapheneOS logo"/><br/>
|
|
GrapheneOS
|
|
</th>
|
|
<td class="desc" headers="software-smartphone-description grapheneos">
|
|
<p><a href="https://grapheneos.org/">GrapheneOS</a>
|
|
is a security-hardened, privacy-hardened,
|
|
secure-by-default, Android-based operating system
|
|
which implements extensive, systemic security and
|
|
privacy hardening to the Android Open Source Project
|
|
used as its base codebase. Its hardening includes
|
|
closing gaps for apps to access sensitive system
|
|
information, a secure app spawning feature which
|
|
avoids sharing address space layout and other
|
|
secrets AOSP's default Zygote app spawning model
|
|
would share,
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/kernel_gs-gs101/">hardened kernel</a>,
|
|
hardened memory allocator
|
|
(<a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc/">hardened_malloc</a>)
|
|
to protect against common memory corruption
|
|
vulnerabilities,
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_bionic/">hardened Bionic standard C library</a>,
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_system_sepolicy/">stricter SELinux policies</a>,
|
|
and local and remote hardware-backed attestation
|
|
(<a href="https://attestation.app/about/">Auditor</a>)
|
|
to ensure the OS has not been corrupted or tampered
|
|
with.</p>
|
|
<p>GrapheneOS only supports
|
|
<a href="https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support">high security and well-supported devices</a>
|
|
which receive full support from their manufacturers,
|
|
including firmware updates, long support lifecycles,
|
|
secure hardware, and overall high security
|
|
practices.</p>
|
|
<p>For an extensive list of features GrapheneOS
|
|
provides, visit its
|
|
<a href="https://grapheneos.org/features/">official features list</a>
|
|
which provides extensive documentation.</p>
|
|
</td>
|
|
<td headers="software-smartphone-source_model grapheneos">
|
|
Open-source<br/>
|
|
(MIT)
|
|
</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<th id="software-smartphone-web_browser">Web browser</th>
|
|
<th id="vanadium" headers="software-smartphone software-smartphone-web_browser">
|
|
<img src="asset/img/logo-vanadium.png" width="100" height="100" alt="Vanadium logo"/><br/>
|
|
Vanadium
|
|
</th>
|
|
<td class="desc" headers="software-smartphone-description vanadium">
|
|
<p>Vanadium is a security-hardened, privacy-hardened
|
|
Chromium-based web browser which utilises
|
|
GrapheneOS' operating system hardening to implement
|
|
stronger defenses to the already very secure
|
|
Chromium web browser. Its hardening alongside
|
|
Chromium's base security features includes
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/blob/13/patches/0081-Implement-UI-for-JIT-site-settings.patch">disabling JavaScript just-in-time (JIT) compilation by default</a>,
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/blob/13/patches/0051-stub-out-the-battery-status-API.patch">stubbing out the battery status API to prevent abuse of it</a>,
|
|
and
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/blob/13/patches/0084-Toggle-for-navigating-external-URL-in-incognito.patch">always-on Incognito mode as an option</a>.</p>
|
|
<p>Vanadium's source code, including its Chromium
|
|
patch-set, can be found in its
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/">official repository</a>.</p></td>
|
|
<td headers="software-smartphone-source_model vanadium">
|
|
Open-source<br/>
|
|
(GPL-2.0-only)
|
|
</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<th rowspan="2" id="software-smartphone-messenger">Messenger</th>
|
|
<th id="molly" headers="software-smartphone software-smartphone-messenger">
|
|
<img src="asset/img/logo-molly.png" width="100" height="100" alt="Molly logo"/><br/>
|
|
Molly
|
|
</th>
|
|
<td class="desc" headers="software-smartphone-description molly">
|
|
<p><a href="https://molly.im/">Molly</a>
|
|
is a security-hardened, privacy-hardened
|
|
<a href="https://signal.org/">Signal</a>
|
|
client which hardens Signal by using a variety of
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android#features">unique features</a>,
|
|
allowing
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android/wiki/Data-Encryption-At-Rest">locking the database when not in use</a>,
|
|
and
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android/blob/a81ff7d120adc9d427be17239107343146bad704/app/src/main/java/org/thoughtcrime/securesms/crypto/MasterSecretUtil.java#L91">utilising Android StrongBox</a>
|
|
to protect user keys using the device's hardware
|
|
security module.</p>
|
|
<p>Molly is available in
|
|
<a href="https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android#free-and-open-source">2 flavours</a>:
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>Molly, which includes the same
|
|
proprietary Google code as Signal to
|
|
support more features.</li>
|
|
<li>Molly-FOSS, which removes the
|
|
proprietary Google code to provide
|
|
an entirely open-source client.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</p>
|
|
</td>
|
|
<td headers="software-smartphone-source_model molly">
|
|
Open-source<br/>
|
|
(GPL-3.0-only)
|
|
</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<th id="conversations" headers="software-smartphone software-smartphone-messenger">
|
|
<img src="asset/img/logo-conversations.png" width="100" height="100" alt="Conversations logo"/><br/>
|
|
Conversations
|
|
</th>
|
|
<td class="desc" headers="software-smartphone-description conversations">
|
|
<p><a href="https://conversations.im/">Conversations</a>
|
|
is a well-designed Android
|
|
<a href="https://xmpp.org/">XMPP</a>
|
|
client which serves as the de facto XMPP reference
|
|
client and has great usability.</p>
|
|
</td>
|
|
<td headers="software-smartphone-source_model conversations">
|
|
Open-source<br/>
|
|
(GPL-3.0-only)
|
|
</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
</table>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section id="recommendations-music">
|
|
<h3><a href="#recommendations-music">Music</a></h3>
|
|
<p>For a curated list of music I enjoy, visit my
|
|
<a href="music.xhtml">music page</a>.</p>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section id="gnulinux_or_linux">
|
|
<h2><a href="#gnulinux_or_linux">Is it GNU/Linux or Just Linux?</a></h2>
|
|
<p>It's just Linux. GNU is unrelated to Linux, which is a kernel developed by
|
|
Linus Torvalds. Linux can be used entirely without GNU software in userspace,
|
|
and the kernel can be compiled without the use of GNU tools. Just because GNU
|
|
tools were used to initally develop and compile the kernel, and were initially
|
|
the only available tools for userspace, does not make this true today, and it
|
|
never made GNU a part of Linux itself at any point of time.</p>
|
|
<p>Where are all of the other forward-slashes for every other piece of software
|
|
on a Linux-based system which makes it just as usable? If a system is running
|
|
"GNU/Linux", it should be using more than a single forward-slash when there is
|
|
more to the system than only GNU.</p>
|
|
</section>
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