Greek rules for HTTPS Everywhere
HTTPS Everywhere is a browser addon by EFF whose job is to redirect you to the HTTPS versions of certain, whitelisted, web sites. What this means is that HTTPS Everywhere protects your communication...
View Article*Experimental* Chrome extension containing Greek HTTPS-Everywhere rules
I’ve just uploaded an experimental version of HTTPS-Everywhere Google Chrome extension containing Greek rules. You can find it on https-everywhere-greek-rules downloads page on github. To install it,...
View Articlesetting up tor + obfsproxy + brdgrd to fight censhorship
*WARNING* 14/01/2014 This post is quite deprecated. For example obfsproxy has been completely rewritten in python and there is a newer and more secure replacement of obfs2, named obfs3. Please read...
View ArticleBypassing censorship devices by obfuscating your traffic using obfsproxy
*WARNING* 14/01/2014 This post is quite deprecated. For example obfsproxy has been completely rewritten in python and there is a newer and more secure replacement of obfs2, named obfs3. Please read...
View ArticleReview of the first Athens CryptoParty
On Sunday the 11th of November we finally had our first CryptoParty in Athens, Greece. We hosted it at the Athens Hackerspace. Organizing We organized our first CryptoParty in a very ad-hoc way. A pad...
View ArticleWorld city map of Tor nodes
Some months ago I started playing with the idea of creating a world map that would have every Tor node on it. Obviously I wan’t the first one…I soon discovered Moritz Bartl’s post on the same topic....
View ArticleHow Vodafone Greece degrades my Internet experience
The title may sound a bit pompous, but please read on and you’ll see how certain decisions can cripple, or totally disrupt modern Internet services and communications as these are offered(?) by...
View ArticleGreek PGP Web of Trust 2012 edition
I’ve very glad for hosting this guest post. Dorothea put some real effort into it. So…enjoy! —————————————————————————————————————– In 2008 Patroklos Argyroudis created the first visualization of the...
View ArticleNew gpg key
I’ve decided to change my old gpg key with a new RSA 4096bits. My new gpg key id is 0x7011E02C or if you prefer the longer version 0x897C03177011E02C Transition statement Date: 11/11/2013 For a number...
View ArticleCreating a new GPG key with subkeys
A few weeks ago I created my new GPG/PGP key with subkeys and a few people asked me why and how. The rationale for creating separate subkeys for signing and encryption is written very nicely in the...
View ArticleSMTP over Hidden Services with postfix
More and more privacy experts are nowdays calling people to move away from the email service provider giants (gmail, yahoo!, microsoft, etc) and are urging people to set up their own email services, to...
View ArticleΚατάργηση ηλεκτρονικών ψηφοφοριών και ψηφιακός αναλφαβητισμός
Στις 08/05/2015 στην βουλή σχολιάστηκαν οι ηλεκτρονικές ψηφοφορίες των πρυτανικών συμβουλίων και ουσιαστικά ο Πρωθυπουργός κ. Τσίπρας υπερασπίστηκε την κατάργησή τους. Το κύριο πρόβλημα (μου) με το...
View Articlekeys.void.gr – A GPG Keyserver in Greece
After some months of entertaining the idea of setting up a public gpg keyserver I finally managed to find some time and do it this weekend. Habemus keys.void.gr Keyserver! Some history The first time I...
View ArticleThe sorry state of STARTTLS support of Greek email providers
I started looking into the STARTTLS support of Greek email providers completely by accident when one email of mine wasn’t being delivered for some reason to a friend who has an email address at a...
View ArticleUpdate on the state of STARTTLS support of Greek email providers
2 months ago I wrote a blog post describing the really bad state of STARTTLS support of Greek email providers. Things have slightly gotten better since then. Updates on STARTTLS support per provider...
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