Blocklist-Update.sh is a script that I wrote to manage blocklists from bluetack etc to be used in conjunction with Transmission torrent downloader in Linux/MacOS. The script can be taylored to work with Qbittorrent as well, but the placement of the blocklists means you'd have to redirect the blocklist to go somewhere locally manageable as Transmission uses its own blocklist directory in .config. I believe there are about 10 lists there now. It works well for my needs. It can be ran weekly using crontab in standard user profile. To download: blocklist-update.sh To download the others: Github
There are becoming an increasing number of privacy concerns in regards to email and communication in general. Popular Text apps are hopping on the trend of end-to-end encryption and so too are many web mail sites. There is even an email service that uses a disposable, throwaway system, such as Mailinator. Communication has come a long way, from the first working electric telegraph, using static electricity, built by Francis Ronalds, in 1816, to the first computer network in 1969. Communication separated our primal ancestors from other early hominids. But as the internet of things continues to fill our lives, we often forget who or what we are talking to, and through what intermediary we make that connection. In the early parts of the 2016, United States elections, emails containing sensitive material were negligently leaked over insecure networks. The emails were supposed to be sent using PGP encryption but this failed to be implemented. Later on we read in various articles about...