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Bastille - Harden Your Security

From Bastille Man page:

Bastille Linux is a security hardening program for Mandrake, Red Hat, and Debian GNU/Linux. If run in the preferred Interactive mode (using InteractiveBastille), it can teach you a good deal about security while enhancing your system’s protection against attacks. If run in the quicker Automated mode (using AutomatedBastille), it can quickly tighten [...]

pwgen - Generate Pronounceable Passwords

The pwgen program generates passwords which are designed to be easily memorized by humans, while being as secure as possible. Human-memorable passwords are never going to be as secure as completely completely random passwords. In particular, passwords generated by pwgen without the -s option should not be used in places where the password could be [...]

How to Hide Your p0rn Stash in Linux

While talking to my friend stan I was quite surprised to see his non-tech ways of hiding p0rn from his girlfriend in his windows box. Which he thinks is a genius method. What he basically does is make a bunch of folders with different, confusing, not-so-interesting names and hide his stash deep deep inside the [...]

Generating Strong Passwords with apg

Automatic Password Generator application (APG)
The default behavior of APG is to prompt for random data from standard input and upon pressing enter, display six strong “pronounceable” passwords. They are referred to as “pronounceable” because the passwords may actually be pronounced like regular words. In fact, APG includes the pronunciation in parentheses () to the right [...]

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