Month: September 2018
If you can’t clean ’em, cook em’. Glass cleaner goes turbo
Glasses. The only thing worse is no glasses. Always smudged. You can solve the problem of them not being around by buying many and carpet bombing your life (3 pack for $20 @ shoppers). But the smudge issue. No more. We went ultrasonic (its one step below plaid) speed. Who wants to mess around with…
More bike thievery
So there are these nice bike coffins in uptown waterloo. I have no idea how you get a key to them (they are by the parkade). But, today, I see a sad little note. Similar to mine but lower tech. And the tried and never true reward. I hope this person is luckier than I…
They got in via the logging! remote exploits and ddos using the security logs
So the other day I posted my pride and joy regex. You know, this one? ‘^(?<host>[^ ]*) – \[(?<real_ip>)[^ ]*\] – (?<user>[^ ]*) \[(?<time>[^\]]*)\] “(?<method>\S+)(?: +(?<path>[^\”]*?)(?: +\S*)?)?” (?<code>[^ ]*) (?<size>[^ ]*) “(?<referer>[^\”]*)” “(?<agent>[^\”]*)” (?<request_length>[^ ]*) (?<request_time>[^ ]*) \[(?<proxy_upstream_name>[^ ]*)\] (?<upstream_addr>[^ ]*) (?<upstream_response_length>[^ ]*) (?<upstream_response_time>[^ ]*) (?<upstream_status>[^ ]*) (?<last>[^$]*)’ Seems simple, right? But, it leads to…
The infinite uncertainty engine: what cloud can learn from telecom
A lot of my background is telecom related. And one of the things telecom is very good at is alarm + fault management. Its an entire industry devoted to making sure that when something goes wrong, the right action happens immediately. That when things trend or fluctuate they get caught. Its complex and a lot…
Of Twitter Cards and SSL Ciphers and Mismatches
You have certainly seen a ‘twitter card’. Its an image with a bit of text in it, something like this one. Behind the scenes what twitter does is fetch the URL you give it, look for some meta tags, and build. You can test your twitter cards at their ‘card validator’. Now, for me, sometime…
