Raccoons? On the internet? It’s more likely than you think!
The Desktop and Web versions of the popular Matrix client Element, as well as its fork Schildichat, support link previews. These can also be activated inside of end-to-end encrypted chats.
The problem arises from its implementation: The setting is stored insecurely on the homeserver and URLs are sent to the homeserver for link preview generation.
This article is the a full disclosure on this issue.
End to end encryption in chat protocols is a complex topics with lots of pitfalls.
One such pitfall is failing to verify that a ciphertext is meant to be decrypted with a specific key, or that a ciphertext is meant to decrypt to a specific plaintext, especially when an attacker can specify the key.
This post is about how Matrix does not perform authenticated encryption at all for media sent in end-to-end encrypted chats.
Final Fantasy 14 is an MMORPG that is fully playable on Linux with only minor bugs and that I have been playing for a while now. This post will describe my personal setup of it.
Parts of this will also apply to non-NixOS systems
Expanding or slideover style menus are a popular way to create menus in newer websites, since they are friendly to touchscreen users (unlike menus that activate on hover).
I will show you how I have implemented the settings menu on this website.
As mentioned in the previous blog post, I am creating a Living Dex in Pokémon Yellow. Currently I possess a total of 40 Pokémon from previous games, but this number is of course going to increase starting now.
I have wanted to build a living Pokédex in the Pokémon games for quite a while and decided that this summer would be as good time as any to start catching them all. After noticing accidental save corruption (some Pokémon disappeared from the box) in the emulator I was using previously, I decided to restart Pokémon Yellow and write down my experiences down the line.
This article explores an alternative to regular password managers that attempts to store as little information about passwords as possible.