ABE Quantum is the combination of Contextual Policies, one of the most requested features in NoScript’s history, and LAN protection, an important “Classic” defense lost in the 2017 Quantum migration. After years of waiting and months of hard work, this good stuff (which I personally missed a lot, too) is finally in the hands of… Continue reading Contextual Policies & LAN Protection (ABE Quantum) in NoScript 11.3!
Category: Security
Welcome SmartBlock: Script Surrogates for the masses!
Today Mozilla released Firefox 87, introducing SmartBlock, a new feature which “intelligently fixes up web pages that are broken by our tracking protections, without compromising user privacy […] by providing local stand-ins for blocked third-party tracking scripts. These stand-in scripts behave just enough like the original ones to make sure that the website works properly.… Continue reading Welcome SmartBlock: Script Surrogates for the masses!
Save Trust, Save OTF
As the readers of this blog almost surely know, I’m the author of NoScript, a web browser security enhancer which can be installed on Firefox and Chrome, and comes built-in with the Tor Browser. NoScript has received support by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) for specific development efforts: especially, to make it cross-browser, better internationalized… Continue reading Save Trust, Save OTF
Targeted email attack against (open source?) developers
Second email I’ve received today (some headers omitted): Return-Path: <ludv.jani-2015@vrg.se> Received: from unknown (HELO mail.bsme-mos.ru) (95.163.65.54) by ariel.informaction.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2017 11:25:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO o) (zayavka@bsme-mos.ru@94.23.58.202) by mail.bsme-mos.ru with SMTP; 27 Jan 2017 14:25:17 +0300 Subject: question Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:25:26 +0100 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live… Continue reading Targeted email attack against (open source?) developers
Turkey, proud member of NATO :(
An update from the field by a friend of a friend on the situation in Turkey. It’s hard to believe Erdogan’s criminal regime sits practically inside Europe and is a prominent member of NATO. Today 11 HDP (Peoples’ Democracy Party) parliamentarians were taken into custody. And to-date, 170 media outlets have been banned, 130 journalists… Continue reading Turkey, proud member of NATO :(