https://www.alvarez.io/ Recent content on Gregory Alvarez Hugo -- gohugo.io en Gregory Alvarez - All Rights Reserved Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:30:00 +0200 https://www.alvarez.io/posts/living-like-it-s-99/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:30:00 +0200 https://www.alvarez.io/posts/living-like-it-s-99/ At the time of writing this article, I’ve been living without social media for 3 years and without a smartphone for 2 years. Everything started as an experiment motivated by my privacy concerns. I ended up living like that for an entire different reason: peace of mind. You can find a lot of people on internet that have tried this experiment, from a couple of days to an entire month. https://www.alvarez.io/posts/two-factor-encryption/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:30:00 +0200 https://www.alvarez.io/posts/two-factor-encryption/ Security is an illusion, especially with computers. The systems are so complex, handled by so many different people that nobody really has a good idea of how everything works. Even the best specialists have knowledge gaps: software, hardware, etc… This creates a security nightmare: breaking stuff is trivial, fixing the systems is nearly impossible. High Security Systems Still Exist There are systems that are protected against nearly all attacks. Their main philosophy is not to fix the security issues but to prevent an attacker from accessing the system in the first place.