Completely wipe a hard drive with PowerShell! We have to do this from time to time and I thought it would be nice to use a simple utility I wrote myself. Hammers work too and are way faster. Do you plan on pitching an old hard drive? Are you selling…
The two best terminals in 2025
The two best terminals in 2025 are Tabby and Wave. The best part is that they are both open source and run on Linux, Mac, and Windows. Tabby is just perfect and has support for Vault and is great for SSH work. You get great themes and can split your…
A quick and dirty password generator in PowerShell
Most password apps have built in password generators. I generate my own passwords for things I automate on my systems, like rotating passwords for whatever, which I store in my own vaults. This is an example, or one way to generate your own passwords. You could make it more complex,…
Recommendations to help secure yourself from scammers, hackers, and data brokers.
Modern computing has made it easier than ever for hackers, scammers, and data brokers to access, share, or steal your data. A wise move is to secure yourself as much as possible to limit the impact of existing or future breaches and limit the amount of personal data as you…
Linux tools to assist in privacy, security, and censorship.
Do you want piece of mind when working online? Concerned about privacy, security, or censorship? If so, here are some suggestions to put your mind at ease, at least a little. Just be aware that nothing is full proof, but making things harder for the bad guys sure makes you…
Why Facebook and PayPal, and most online services, are worse than scammers
I used to tell a joke back in the eighties, what’s the difference between an outlaw biker and a cop? The length of their hair. Facebook is the cop. A major retailer named Sam Ash went out of business recently and the scams flooded in on Facebook offering huge clearance…
