Security and Privacy {Links - 3}

Our information is not safe on internet..especially if we use Google everyday..now who doesn't use Google regularly..!!!

But Google TRACKS US..

Here is how it trackes us..albeit by sugar-coating it..

And we can opt out of it still I am doubtful about it..because Google has been really suspicious these days.. (Or was it always like this and we came to know now??)

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HTTPS means Secured Hypertext transfer protocol..read more about it here.

That article is full of tech lingo so for now just remember that HTTPS should (or must) be preferred over just HTTP. So EFF and Tor Project made this add-on named

 

Install it  for secure browsing. For Firefox and Chrome both..

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This awesome guy Giorgio Maone made an add-on for firefox.. NoScript Security Suite.. He says that

"Rather than disabling JavaScript and other potentially exploitable technologies everywhere, which was the only work-around available, I decided to develop a more usable approach, giving myself and other users the ability to allow active content on trusted sites."

Install it here..

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Illustrated guide to filter bubble by DuckDuckGo

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Do Not Track Us

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Fix Tracking

I installed all the add-ons enlisted here..

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I made DuckDuckGO my default search engine..and now I am being a bit skeptic about using Chrome because it is made by Google. BTW I am a Computer Engineer, buddying geek, sparsely use Windows and staunch supporter of FOSS. And I personally feel that privacy is utmost important and there should be no compromise when it comes to privacy, security and confidentiality. These three words may sound similar but they have different meanings. (For more information refer to Cryptography and Network Security by William Stallings)

How to install Google Chrome in openSUSE 12.3

I installed openSUSE 12.3 recently. Installing Chrome on it is pretty easy. Just two commands..

linux-gw6t:~ #

zypper addrepo http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/ google-chrome-x86_64

After this command, you will see something like this..

 

Having done that,

linux-gw6t:~ # zypper install google-chrome-stable

 

Done!!!

To run Google Chrome as root,

linux-3y8t:~ # vim /usr/bin/google-chrome

Enter --user-data-dir in the last line like shown in the image below.

Source>>

I got these commands here:

http://pkgs.org/fedora-centos-rhel-opensuse-mandriva/google-chrome-x86_64/google-chrome-stable-28.0.1500.71-209842.x86_64.rpm.html

How to install Chrome in OpenSUSE 11.4

Now this is something I think of achievement in itself..
Installing Google Chrome on OpenSuSe..
Here is how it goes..
Before downloading, see whether your processor is 32-bit or 64-bit..
Open terminal and enter

linux-3y8t:~ # uname -i

If you get output as i386, download the 32-bit version, otherwise 64-bit version.

After completing the download, in the terminal, go to the directory where the repo is downloaded and enter

linux-3y8t:~/Downloads # rpm -ivh google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm

If after entering this command, you come across error message like this,


warning: google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 7fac5991: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
        lsb >= 4.0 is needed by google-chrome-stable-25.0.1364.172-187217.i386

Enter

linux-3y8t:~/Downloads # zypper install lsb

This command will install the lsb package required.
Having done that, enter this command again


linux-3y8t:~/Downloads # rpm -ivh google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm 

It'll show you output like this:

warning: google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 7fac5991: NOKEY

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]

   1:google-chrome-stable   ########################################### [100%]

Starting service at daemon                                            done

Now enter the following commands one by one if you want to be able to watch Youtube videos in Chrome

linux-3y8t:~/Downloads # mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins

linux-3y8t:~ # ln -s /usr/lib6/browser-plugins/* /opt/google/chrome/plugins/

To run Google Chrome, enter:

linux-3y8t:~ # google-chrome &

If you are logged in as root, then you'll get error message:

linux-3y8t:~ # [5993:5993:0317/223156:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_gtk.cc(51)] Startup refusing to run as root.

google-chrome &

[2] 6030

[1]   Exit 1                  google-chrome

For that, do the following:

linux-3y8t:~ # vim /usr/bin/google-chrome

Enter --user-data-dir in the last line like shown in the image below.

Now go to Application Launcher>>Internet>>Web Browser and you'll see short-cut for Google Chrome there. If you want to run using terminal command, enter aforementioned

linux-3y8t:~ # google-chrome &

and you are done!! :D

After installing Google Chrome, i added my favourite Web Apps from Chrome Web Store..and now i feel at home on Linux. :P

:D
Adios!!