Aaron Jones: Intro to GNU IceCat

Aaron Jones presented "Introduction To GNU IceCat" to the Phoenix Linux Users Group's Security meeting on Oct 18th, 2018

This was a quick into that Aaron tacked onto the beginning of his main talk. It was good information so I made it into it's own video.

[maj]

hi I saw this video as a search result while searching for gnu icecat. I just stopped by to say that I really like the thumbnail lol

[chuckmyers]

Aaron, I am a huge fan, I am suggesting that you make online classes on step by step from beginners to advanced and I'll pay to support your work and do my best to share the word with others. BTW, I hate JavaScript too and I'm not apologetic about it, I hate how it gives full access to pretty much anyone to watch you and steal your sensitive information. Someday we will go back to gopher equivalent.

Here's a quote from H.P. Lovecraft: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” Cheers!

[sammywilliam]

Isn't it sad that people are on a watch list not for anything they've done but for literally wanting to read a magazine and get on a freaking web browser

[Kazserah]

This may seem counter productive but is there any way to install Widevine? so I can watch movies. I try to install it manually and enabled the DRM setting from about:config but Widevine is automatically disabled and removed immediately.. idk what is causing that...some setting in a config file perhaps but if anyone knows...please help

[stackspace]

Aaron does a lot of "Intro to 'X'" vids on this channel, but does he ever do more in-depth, intermediate or above classes for this group?

[asswhole]

This video was recorded in 2018 and since Icecat is no longer being maintained, this advice could be a big security and opsec risk to follow in 2020. Your fingerprint would be unique if you were to follow these instructions today, there are probably many CVE's that have been discovered since this was published that Icecat has not received any updates for. It might be a good idea to take this video down because it is a potential risk to anyone that follows this today not realizing this talk almost two years old.