Network security guide from vpnmentor.com
A couple of days ago I got solicited to promote an online security how-to for journalists, published at vpnmentor.com. On the whole I like it. The article presents one fairly obvious error: The reader is advised that using well known and frequently quoted lines of poetry as pass phrases is a secure option, with a strictly imaginary "hundreds of trillions of years" estimate of the time needed to brute force the world's least random pass phrases. Steve Gibson's online "search space calculator" is used to illustrate this claim. There is no mention of Diceware or anything similar. http://diceware.com I think the article over-estimates the security of the Black Phone product, and couple of my personal favorite tools and toys are not mentioned at all. But I also see a couple of interesting toys that are new to me, i.e. the Mailvelope browser extension which isolates plantext from web mail interface pages while composing or reading encrypted content. On the whole I think the author made a serious effort and got most of the things right. Operational security content and references to case histories make it stand out from many similar guides. https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/online-privacy-journalists/ :o)
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Steve Kinney