Recently we have been testing our new hypervisor clusters backed by Ceph storage before putting it into production. This way we can ensure that the… Read More »July Ceph cluster woes and learning (postmortem fun)
The Graham-Blumenthal Bill, also known as the “EARN IT Act” is a threat to privacy and freedom of speech. The bill is being introduced in… Read More »The Graham-Blumenthal Bill, reject it
The European Union has passed a law that will require smartphone manufacturers to adopt USB-C. The claim is that all smartphones should support the same… Read More »European Union to require USB-C on smartphones
With the rise of quantum computers, our current asymmetric (public key cryptography) will become insecure. Shor’s algorithm running on a powerful quantum computer will be… Read More »How to use quantum resistant cryptography with OpenSSH on Debian
We recently came across a product by Yandex, called Metrica. It’s arguably one of the more creepy pieces of web analytics software we’ve seen. It’s… Read More »Yandex Metrica is spyware for your browser
There’s a lot of chatter about VPNs and VPN companies since the NordVPN hack. Our general idea is that VPN companies can’t be entirely trusted… Read More »Our thoughts on the NordVPN hack
Hi all, We’d just like to notify everyone that our new custom panel.ulayer.net is coming along nicely and it has some new features which we’re… Read More »New Universal Layer Panel Information
Nathaniel at Engineering here – when working on the Universal Layer LLC Customer Panel one of the challenges that came up was writing logic that… Read More »Writing clean, readable, and complex application logic in Crystal Language
VPN companies often create a lot of confusion with their unfortunately deceptive marketing. Promises of complete anonymity, privacy and “military” grade security are commonplace when… Read More »Top 3 common misconceptions about VPNs
In this tutorial, we’ll be going over how to harden your SSH client and server configs with Ansible on Linux. At ULayer, we use the… Read More »How to harden SSH configs with Ansible on Linux!