Neil Brown, a UK technology lawyer, blogs about privacy, free software, email, XMPP, and law-related tech topics.
HN commenters describe the blog as good, note the author is a lawyer, and cite his post critical of Brave's privacy.
> While good luck doing that on a laptop that is only ever used to establish an SSH session.
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> Set that up about ten months ago now (don't remember exactly). It's working flawlessly. Not a single issue.
So now your laptop hasn't had security updates for 10 months? Things like this are part of the reason I did the research in https://dgl.cx/2023/09/ansi-terminal-security.
It also funny that you've reinvented basically a serial console, but in a modern way, with a second factor. (You could actually just use a physical terminal with S/Key or something.)
> P.S: it's just a proof of concept... But I think that requiring to tap a Yubikey every single time you want to do something as root is something that should be envisaged/discussed more and it was great to read TFA doing it too.
Agreed,
https://neilzone.co.uk/2022/11/using-a-yubikey-or-other-security-key-for-sudo-via-pam/ is another potential option for this.
The browser with built-in ads lol?
Reminder: https://neilzone.co.uk/2021/11/brave-browser-less-privacy-respectful-than-i-was-expecting
i.e. the browser redirecting you to affiliate links without permission?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-browser-brave-busted-for-autocompleting-urls-to-versions-it-profits-from/
Though explicitly stating "Nothing on this site is legal advice. Use it at your own risk", the information on this site is compiled by a lawyer. Neil Brown [0] specialises in English Internet, telecoms, and as tech lawyer at decoded.legal [1].
[0] https://neilzone.co.uk/
[1] https://decoded.legal/
Another well written article from Neil about some terribly written legislation.
His personal blog is also pretty good - https://neilzone.co.uk/