Security and Privacy

Wouldn’t it be great to have your Pi-Hole hosted in the cloud and accessible everywhere? Perhaps you could use its ad blocking on your smartphone. Or at work. Or, when your laptop connects to a Wi-Fi network outside your home. I tried, but it is tricky. A typical Raspberry Pi sits behind a home router. … Read more

One of the common ways to do two-factor Authentication is to use an authenticator app like Authy, Microsoft Authenticator, 1Password or LastPass Authenticator. Authy manages one-time passwords The common denominator of Authy and other apps mentioned above is that they generate time-based one-time passwords (TOTP). They are usually set up like in the screenshot below. … Read more

If you use PiHole to block your ads, you might be unpleasantly surprised after installing NordVPN. After you connect to a VPN server, your previous DNS settings won’t be respected. In other words, DNS queries will no longer go to your PiHole resolver, but to NordVPN’s resolver. When I originally wrote this post in 2021, … Read more