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2019 (44)

• 19-03-22 ‘first’ and ‘only’ are four-letter words in cloud. How to do something `once` and `first` in a Kubernetes Deployment
• 19-03-16 Increase your CI speed && decrease your cost. The preemptible node
• 19-03-16 Let’s Encrypt Staging. Curl without the -k
• 19-03-16 Let’s Encrypt Staging. Safely.
• 19-03-16 pause: how to debug your Kubernetes setup
• 19-03-13 When you throw in the towel on declarative
• 19-03-11 Gitlab via the API: prepare a repo with automatic deploy keys and protected branches/tags
• 19-03-10 Ancient wisdom of books?
• 19-02-25 Multiple Kubernetes contexts and your multi-coloured prompt
• 19-02-21 What’s your open source profile?
• 19-02-21 I Declare is not the same as Make It So
• 19-02-20 Cloud logging and the return of `dink`
• 19-02-18 When did stack traces become the new user interface?
• 19-02-15 You want to see something really random? Infinite entropy returns
• 19-02-14 Using single-sign-on oauth2 across many sites in Kubernetes
• 19-02-10 Project Block Heater: an update
• 19-02-09 IoT (h)army: hacking the smart switch
• 19-02-06 Cloud anti-pattern dilemma: shared ‘state’
• 19-02-03 DoS’ing the cloud with logs
• 19-02-03 Helm, Kubernetes, and the immutable configMap… a design pattern
• 19-02-02 Project Block Heater
• 19-02-01 A smarthome platform bytes the dust: Lowes Iris is dead
• 19-01-31 Crispy Cold Cyclist Counters
• 19-01-31 Tales from the Road: Christ the redeemer of … coupons
• 19-01-31 Snooping on your Kubernetes nodes containers without ssh’ing to it: dink
• 19-01-30 Brrr… bikes and batteries. We need more torque!
• 19-01-28 I thought the cloud was modern? The sad tale of the 32-bit world
• 19-01-27 When the bulb costs more than the lamp…
• 19-01-26 Smart locks on an AirBnB in oakland? Are you nuts?
• 19-01-25 The sad case of the DNS and the Deployment
• 19-01-21 Cool weather and e-bikes observations
• 19-01-20 Cool weather and e-bikes
• 19-01-18 Lucky iron fish soup
• 19-01-15 Security and the Cloud: The need for high bandwidth entropy
• 19-01-14 Mickey Mouse Arrests DDoS Criminal. 10 years hard time!
• 19-01-14 $$$ if you are interested in building a better online Canada?
• 19-01-10 Button down your 2-factor-auth and dnssec lest ye be hijacked
• 19-01-10 work versus toil, TLS, government shutdowns
• 19-01-08 Doorbell licker: are your smart appliances giving you too much information?
• 19-01-06 Electrocute your hands with this new gadget!
• 19-01-04 Another cloud suicide: Cloud lessons on pinning and semVer, and CI
• 19-01-04 High precision web error codes and cloud availability
• 19-01-02 The risk of the link shortener
• 19-01-01 Deleting pipelines in Gitlab 11.6

2018 (327)

• 18-12-30 The humble power bank as a marketing swag giveaway: Don’t bother
• 18-12-30 The car charger virus arrives
• 18-12-24 When good recursives go bad: why does 1.1.1.1 not give the same answer as 8.8.8.8?
• 18-12-20 Force docker to always rebuild from a certain layer
• 18-12-20 Build a docker container with a relative path to another directory
• 18-12-17 The art of the dramatic demo: Knative and ‘serverless’ in Kubernetes
• 18-12-17 Phippy and Friends: Kubernetes gets simpler
• 18-12-15 Project solitude: silence the power supply
• 18-12-11 Sponsor a conference as a means of hiring?
• 18-12-11 Tis the season for charitable giving
• 18-12-07 Are you tech enough for marketing?
• 18-12-07 Never SSL
• 18-12-07 When managed software goes bad… A cloud tale
• 18-12-06 Canadian National Cyber Threat Assessment
• 18-12-06 The studs on bike in snow verdict: great success!
• 18-12-03 Swap from Debian to Ubuntu as Linux image on Pixel Slate Chromebook
• 18-12-03 Bringing Python 3.7 to the Chromebook
• 18-12-03 The many minds of the Chromebook
• 18-12-03 I am the new snow stud! Meet the tires that will (hopefully) keep the bottom of the bike below the top
• 18-12-03 Suicidal clouds cause consternation
• 18-11-27 Supply chain risk: more javascript npm shenanigans, OSS governance
• 18-11-27 Why does Bell Canada not allow encrypting your email in transit?
• 18-11-27 Do the phish scammers care more about your security than you do?
• 18-11-27 Why is Canada worse than the UK and US for encrypted web?
• 18-11-26 Next Chautauqua: Continuous Integration!
• 18-11-23 Best Black Friday deal: Shodan membership for $5
• 18-11-16 Separate CI cluster woes: can hierarchical caching help?
• 18-11-15 CI’s Gone Wild: Totally Tenacious Test Tuning
• 18-11-13 Laughably Loquacious Logging
• 18-11-12 Its looking like HTTP/3 will be all encrypted and all UDP, all the time
• 18-11-12 Smart speaker bearing witness in murder trial
• 18-11-11 Today’s adventure: the Chevy Bolt gets a double dashcam
• 18-11-09 The agony and the ecstasy of the read-only
• 18-11-09 Have you set your security context recently?
• 18-11-09 PSA: launcher.gcr.io is not being maintained
• 18-11-07 Ontario Cannabis is first past the post for PIPEDA breach disclosure
• 18-11-05 Kubernetes volume-mounts with subPath and inotify. Bah humbug
• 18-11-05 My LED bulb saga: a chart to show the consumption
• 18-11-01 The election that ended open source?
• 18-10-31 DNS roulette
• 18-10-31 Radon is November month. Or something like that. Check early, check often
• 18-10-30 An autumn ride home through Waterloo Park: the video
• 18-10-30 Hackable spoke lights? Sign me up!
• 18-10-30 The fastest hacking tool in the world is a microphone
• 18-10-29 T-2 for reporting breaches under PIPEDA
• 18-10-29 Dramatically simplify developing your app for Kubernetes: a sample
• 18-10-29 Duck Duck Toddler. A Waterloo Park Adventure
• 18-10-29 Dark off-roading: fat tires to the rescue
• 18-10-28 Kooking Kontainers With Kubernetes: A Recipe for Dual-Stack Deliciousness
• 18-10-26 Microservices unplugged: Chautauqua meetup filmed and posted
• 18-10-25 Lessons learned: COPY . and geometric size progression
• 18-10-25 Pytosquatting, Supply Chain Risk, and the Slovak National Security Bureau
• 18-10-25 Software supply chain risk management robots
• 18-10-24 My webinar today on surprises in cloud security migration
• 18-10-23 The return of the bike thief: spoiler, the lock held, but my hands were cold
• 18-10-22 One letter ~= 700K. The taxpayers of DC are sad
• 18-10-22 The case of the nosy neighbour: Azure is poking me!
• 18-10-18 Cat eating pigeon related packet loss in SMS? Banking in the 21st century
• 18-10-17 The quest for minimalism
• 18-10-17 Pruning elastics with Kubernetes CronJobs
• 18-10-17 The chautauqua continues next week: meetup on microservices @ Auvik
• 18-10-16 A purple monkey ate my homework? The inter-connectedness of cloud
• 18-10-16 Misguided auto-updates in a container world
• 18-10-15 The deflation of crypto-currency (stinking cesspool!) and crypto-kitties: an update
• 18-10-14 The brave new world of soldering iron software: work-around QuickCharge 3.0 charger issue
• 18-10-14 Of E-bikes and range and efficiency
• 18-10-12 Blockchain is a stinking cesspool… Tell us what you really think!
• 18-10-12 Skeeter + Bubba: two TCP options that might have reshaped the world
• 18-10-11 Tales from the road: the worst airport queuing in the world, and Don eats a Cairo pigeon
• 18-10-10 LightBulbs of Unusual Size: Is this ‘bright-like-the-sun’ big like a planet also a death-star?
• 18-10-10 O great SHA, protect me from this hack
• 18-10-09 Bloomber’s latest: the hack was in the Ethernet connector. Plausible?
• 18-10-07 The supply chain security risk in action: ESLint
• 18-10-06 When good containers go bad: github issues are the new release notes
• 18-10-05 ELI5: How can I protect (a bit) against this BMC issue?
• 18-10-05 ELI5: Bloomberg, China, Supermicro, Apple, Amazon, Facebook et al security
• 18-10-04 Even more gadgets! light-up valve stem for the bike
• 18-10-04 Another new gadget: the TS80 USB-C soldering iron
• 18-10-04 CIRA election results: I’m in
• 18-10-03 The rabbit-hole of log parsing: istio-proxy sidecar log routing and parsing with fluent-bit
• 18-10-02 The upstream software risk. Are we really checking it?
• 18-10-02 Gadgets! my new travel buddy: the Xioami usb-c active-node-cancel headphones
• 18-10-02 My upcoming webinar on security surprises in cloud migration
• 18-10-02 Casual rental transportation devices
• 18-10-01 Bike helmets work. And some surprised ducks
• 18-09-30 Debugging in the container: http when you don’t have curl
• 18-09-30 Debugging in the container: how to resolve a host when you don’t have the tools
• 18-09-29 Laser bike lights!
• 18-09-28 Scroll-wheel zoom for KDE and bad eyesight
• 18-09-28 CIRA voting has begun. And bad SSL ensues
• 18-09-25 Cloud 101, for free: Microsoft Learn
• 18-09-24 Cloudflare DNS and purge item
• 18-09-23 Sarcasm as an education tool: how to micro-service
• 18-09-23 How a computer predicted an election, and was ignored
• 18-09-22 When an electric bike isn’t. Some sort of re-settable fuse?
• 18-09-21 Burn down the world (figuratively) get probation. The enforcement side of cyber-security
• 18-09-20 CIRA campaign forum is open
• 18-09-19 When your security tools cost more than the thing they protect
• 18-09-19 Why ranked voting doesn’t work: Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
• 18-09-19 Upcoming CIRA election, my thoughts on policy directions
• 18-09-17 If you can’t clean ’em, cook em’. Glass cleaner goes turbo
• 18-09-17 More bike thievery
• 18-09-17 They got in via the logging! remote exploits and ddos using the security logs
• 18-09-17 The infinite uncertainty engine: what cloud can learn from telecom
• 18-09-16 Of Twitter Cards and SSL Ciphers and Mismatches
• 18-09-14 The spirit of optimism is alive in uptown waterloo
• 18-09-13 Increasing the usefulness of your Kubernetes Ingress logging
• 18-09-13 How to avoid being logged, Kubernetes-style
• 18-09-13 How cloud storage services can be like an airline sandwich: complex pricing and purchase
• 18-09-10 lte+: amazing in high noise
• 18-09-10 Randomise your mac address to deter wifi tracking
• 18-09-10 Private dns is the tastiest part of (android) pie
• 18-09-08 Minnesota love
• 18-09-06 Accessing a service in a different namespace from a single ingress in Kubernetes
• 18-09-05 Automatically ssh to virtual machine with private IP without a jump box, as if it were public
• 18-09-05 Lessons from the cloud: it’s not fast: it’s wide
• 18-09-04 I’m picturing a museum with 4 billion exhibits
• 18-09-03 Using Azure Container Instances to expand CI?
• 18-09-03 Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): batteries not included
• 18-09-03 Navigating the restrictions of CI and Bazel
• 18-09-03 DNS over HTTPS on OpenWRT 18.06
• 18-08-30 Tales from the road: the one with the taco and the shoe-shine.
• 18-08-30 Should I use my CI pipeline to do continuous delivery? A controversy!
• 18-08-29 Tales from the road: of Russia, Google, Trump, search results, and opening a new front
• 18-08-29 Insecure web sites. #tlswallofshame
• 18-08-29 Endoscope: snoop around inside your Kubernetes pods
• 18-08-29 She drives me crazy (passwords)
• 18-08-28 Bike v3 has arrived. Should we bait-bike the old one?
• 18-08-28 Docker + Fluentd + Elasticsearch logging
• 18-08-27 Tales from the road: the one with the rich cowboy and my trust in fellow humanity
• 18-08-27 If you don’t stop doing that you’ll go blind: subtract the noise to increase the signal
• 18-08-26 Tales from the road: the one with the couples massage
• 18-08-24 Your cloud firewall is sleeping on the job: the (new) Apache struts vulnerability
• 18-08-24 T-mobile data breach: it continues to be what you don’t expect
• 18-08-23 Use vim to open the line from gdb (or gcc err output)
• 18-08-23 Tales from the road: bait? really? Is that the correct translation? kräftskiva!
• 18-08-22 DIY 2nd (4th?) monitor
• 18-08-22 Olestra and Information leakage
• 18-08-22 A fruity voice talks about pig-iron? Foreshadow makes all your secrets belong to us!
• 18-08-21 Its time for progress to get off my lawn!
• 18-08-21 Tales from the road: the longest daytrip with the zebra
• 18-08-21 Git, fork, use: how do I?
• 18-08-20 Changing the size of a persistent volume in Kubernetes 1.10 on GKE
• 18-08-20 Tales from the road: Paris airports and scooter cabs
• 18-08-19 Tales from the road: homesick in china? We’ll fix that for you!
• 18-08-18 The intimidator: meet the new bike chain
• 18-08-18 Tales from the road: the jamaican hotel switcheroo
• 18-08-17 Changing the WiFi / Bluetooth in Asus x470-I motherboard
• 18-08-16 LoraWeb of bike trust ‘lojack’
• 18-08-16 Tales from the road: the shit-shoe scam
• 18-08-15 Bike 2: the sequel
• 18-08-15 Shipping roulette: sometimes its 00
• 18-08-14 I gave my debugger a std
• 18-08-14 What a wicked NAT we weave: detangling the cloud
• 18-08-13 The great e-bike heist. And then there was none
• 18-08-12 Disco mornings
• 18-08-11 Tales from the road: going through security, immigration, boarding flight, without checking in
• 18-08-10 Tales from the road: the cuisine of Taipei
• 18-08-10 Taming the chatty firewall log
• 18-08-09 Am I me? Are you you? The existential crisis of containers, not of Camus, and SPIFFE
• 18-08-09 Tales from the road: the (non hello-kitty) Shinkansen
• 18-08-08 Fighting the pen-test with regex and sweat
• 18-08-08 Crypto crash means graphics upgrades!
• 18-08-08 This pie needs more raisins!
• 18-08-08 Tales from the road: rabbits and cats
• 18-08-08 Tales from the road: great expectations and the cheese sandwich that wasn’t
• 18-08-07 My build is slow: understanding resource limits and steal time in the cloudy world of cloud
• 18-08-07 Tales from the road: the pantless seat-mate
• 18-08-05 History in photos: my new office
• 18-08-05 Ceph in the city: introducing my local Kubernetes to my ‘big’ Ceph cluster
• 18-08-05 Downward scaling the cloud
• 18-08-05 You ever wanted a fast convenient SSH but sometimes only had a browser?
• 18-08-03 Got domain? Its only $1
• 18-08-03 Of meetups and chautauqua and topics
• 18-08-02 My first election campaign! CIRA
• 18-08-01 A free yubikey w/ a cheap subscription to wired? What’s the catch?
• 18-08-01 Capture the traffic of a process (and nothing more)
• 18-07-31 Less is more
• 18-07-31 Attack of the rack: the killer was in the house!
• 18-07-30 The agony of NFS: the knife twists a bit more
• 18-07-25 Spam sushi in a vending machine? People feeding trash pandas at underpasses? Must be in California!
• 18-07-22 Got Intel? Got security hole
• 18-07-20 Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Nodejs (with Gitlab CI)
• 18-07-20 Kubernetes and private registries and names: your registry credentials everywhere
• 18-07-19 One line remote shell on the sly
• 18-07-18 The most obvious things are the hardest to spot: RF interference and the bluetooth keyboard
• 18-07-18 I can’t A4rd to not read the fine print on this scam
• 18-07-18 In the waterloo(ish) area? like to discuss the technology of getting great products/companies going?
• 18-07-17 Ontario health breach and cyber defence strategies: its not just the choke (perimeter)
• 18-07-17 Completely Complex Cloud Cluster Capacity Crisis: Cool as a Cucumber in Kubernetes
• 18-07-17 Commuting to the cloud: traffic in the information superhighway onramp
• 18-07-10 Cloud simplicity: NOT!
• 18-07-10 Upstream risk: the vanishing
• 18-07-09 The mysterious life of outdoor cats, solved, sadly
• 18-07-05 Suffering sisyphean security solutions: make your chrome part of the solution
• 18-07-04 Can’t beat em? join em! Brick and mortar and online
• 18-07-02 systemd versus chrome: fight!
• 18-07-01 The port of the devil: the nanny state browser protects me!
• 18-06-29 My early co-op career comes back again
• 18-06-29 Outdoor cats and air conditioners: just say no
• 18-06-29 Trust thy neighbour: the windows equivalent of curl | sudo bash
• 18-06-28 Blocking sketchy sites by default
• 18-06-27 The bleeding cloud: new exploit based on hyperthread leaking
• 18-06-27 Screen scraping vnc? docker meets windows meets vagrant meets packer
• 18-06-27 Google adds filestore. But what about the Kubernetes unmount issue?
• 18-06-26 avx the saga continues
• 18-06-25 The race to do nothing: how disruptors become dominant
• 18-06-21 Back to the avx2 bug in my skylake
• 18-06-21 Got a host directory? Wish it were seamlessly mounted in your VM? Want to avoid NFS? 9p!
• 18-06-21 IPv6 tunnel brokers: They’re Back!
• 18-06-17 The case of the inconsistent SSL: AES-NI broken? Bad CPU?
• 18-06-10 Cloud billing and bugs: log ingestion
• 18-06-10 DTS-HA MA and devices that don’t support
• 18-06-09 Blockchain vs GDPR: fight?
• 18-06-08 Moving into a new (cloud) neighbourhood? Check its reputation!
• 18-06-08 Oh Snap! Fonts in Roman Times
• 18-06-07 Security of the upstream code, and, the importance of the egress firewall
• 18-06-05 Outdoor kitty update: he’s back
• 18-06-04 Of electric bikes and cargo: 3D printers and thermos
• 18-06-04 For $35 how could I go wrong? drone takes flight!
• 18-06-02 More on the ‘now I know its not secure dilemma’
• 18-06-02 To know and do nothing, or to not know: which is worse
• 18-06-02 Dual identity git
• 18-05-28 Scared? Or Bored? Terrorists and the power grid, a real page turner
• 18-05-27 The agony of NFS for 25+ years of my life! Then and now. ClearCase and Kubernetes
• 18-05-27 Gitlab cookie transparency: GDPR in action
• 18-05-26 Hack or Genius: cloud backup revisited
• 18-05-25 Gadgets w/ wheels and batteries arrive: electric assist bike
• 18-05-22 Deep state idle
• 18-05-22 Today’s post brought to you by the letter ‘k’: quickly re-pull an image in kubernetes
• 18-05-15 Mjölnir: nethammers arrive a few years later than rowhammers
• 18-05-15 DDoS my wallet: more on cloud pricing
• 18-05-11 Running magnum (Kubernetes orchestration) on OpenStack Queens: lxd to the rescue
• 18-05-10 Chrome & G-Suite: profile madness to enable multiple identities
• 18-05-09 Hack or genuis: cloud backup, you vote!
• 18-05-08 Upstream risks and vulnerability assessment
• 18-05-08 Cloud Lessons: Of gits and ci’s and pipelines and k8s and charts
• 18-05-07 API keys, clouds, tokens, security
• 18-05-06 grep using icmpv6 and ptrace?
• 18-05-04 The docker reach-around: hacking containers for fun and profit
• 18-05-03 xkcd expresses the enlightenment that comes from the onion peeling of containers
• 18-05-02 Peeling the stinky onion that expresses the beautiful simplicity of cloud
• 18-05-02 Cloud billing ~= Telco billing?
• 18-04-23 Science, Cats, and Japanese Game Shows: Together at Last
• 18-04-19 More tradeshow shenanigans: a donut wall
• 18-04-19 The Bay area’s finest Internet
• 18-04-17 A tradeshow giveaway that eats a bit of your soul and ego
• 18-04-16 Carnot efficiency and high tech. And a PSA: update your home router
• 18-04-11 The LimeWire of today? Software hubs and caring what you share
• 18-04-10 The naked cloud: elasticsearch is stretch but doesn’t cover security
• 18-04-10 The naked cloud: insecure by design (or, how you can’t push a rope)
• 18-04-09 UFO Landing!
• 18-04-08 Like network neutrality? Like John Oliver? Then you want to try this URL!
• 18-04-08 Containers, ttys and curses
• 18-04-06 Pragmatism and safety:
• 18-04-03 Radon season?
• 18-04-02 DNS over HTTPS: enabling, padding, live. Great success!
• 18-04-02 DNS over HTTPS with Cloudflare, an experiment, some timings, lots of promise!
• 18-04-02 DNS over HTTPS, Internet vanity-plate IP addresses
• 18-04-01 Running a GPU-accelerated application in an LXD container
• 18-04-01 The case of the missing pyrex stopper: 3D printing to the rescue
• 18-03-29 The invisible pimp hand of the FCC keeping Huawei out
• 18-03-28 How’s your dnssec?
• 18-03-28 What, another new DNS record to add? The CAA record and your SSL certificate
• 18-03-28 Its happening: the distrust of Symantec certificates, and e-commerce
• 18-03-27 WiFi and the bible, a puzzle for you
• 18-03-27 DNS for authentication of ownership, and orphanage
• 18-03-25 Speedtest & BBR, consistency
• 18-03-23 Et tu Redis? Another spear in the ‘trusted environment’ ideal
• 18-03-23 That’s the kind of password an idiot uses on his luggage: cloud security
• 18-03-22 The unbelievable weakness of identification/authentication, bank edition
• 18-03-21 The smarts inside the smart switch
• 18-03-21 Smarten-up you wall switch! The Ecobee Switch+ (with various assistants)
• 18-03-20 Advertisement traffic is >=40% of bandwidth
• 18-03-20 The curious case of the door latch, or, is there anything a rotary tool won’t solve?
• 18-03-16 Shodan adds Canada page!
• 18-03-15 I yaml’d my network: netplan and the new world order
• 18-03-15 Using shodan to assess a country’s risk: revisited
• 18-03-15 Credit checks as a way to assess risk
• 18-03-14 More LoRaWAN RF madness. The Tektelic Kona Pico Gateway
• 18-03-13 Authoritarianism, Globalism, and my gadget shipments
• 18-03-10 What, more Radon in the Waterloo Ontario region?
• 18-03-08 2018 upcoming CVE’s, sneak peak, courtesy xkcd
• 18-03-07 Wireguard: simple VPN/tunnels
• 18-03-06 My laptop got insomnia: Secureboot and the mobile machine. Hibernate is the collateral damage
• 18-03-05 The case that could rock the cloud world
• 18-03-05 A feral cat IoT army for misdirection: the invisible hand and national defence
• 18-03-05 Radon & You. Yes, you.
• 18-03-04 Recognising popunder advertisements with machine learning: an implementation
• 18-02-27 Cryptokitty: collectable, breedable, adorable. This is meow life now
• 18-02-27 Machine Learning as a way to block ads (that carry malware? specifically crypto-miners)
• 18-02-24 vermut: first time in 10 years w/o
• 18-02-24 Is my password known? A problem
• 18-02-22 Security liability for software vendors, open source on end of support? Great ideas France!
• 18-02-22 Self-signed secure boot, the why, the how, the what to look out for
• 18-02-22 Let’s Encrypt: huge impact to society, to me, and wildcards coming soon!
• 18-02-18 Bitcoin crypto mining hashing spectrum, breaking mobiles, endangering first responders
• 18-02-16 The LoRaWAN dragon comes to roost at my house
• 18-02-15 Still doubting you should check your radon?
• 18-02-14 Success smells like burning hair? Sticking it to big butane.
• 18-02-13 From the ‘shut up and take my money’ category: true security for voice
• 18-02-11 Once upon a time, a story of how a few believable facts can augment a total lie
• 18-02-08 Falcon Heavy launch: what we saw
• 18-02-07 Roaming mobile data usage during high congestion
• 18-02-06 great success and a skid of champale
• 18-02-06 liquid oxygen clouds
• 18-02-06 t minus 1 hr and starting liquid fuel
• 18-02-06 5 minutes to fueling falcon heavy
• 18-02-06 2:30 to go, winds, bring on bill nye to entertain the crowd
• 18-02-06 Feel the heat: 3hr to go!
• 18-02-03 Laser pointer no longer best method to entertain a cat?
• 18-02-01 Radon update: my basement is (currently) safe from this scourge
• 18-01-30 More hacking to secure the gadget army: The KanKun SP3
• 18-01-29 8-bit memories and covert exfiltration
• 18-01-24 Data breaches: its the risk you don’t expect that gets you
• 18-01-23 The power of (your) invisible hands: could we create a security and efficiency incentive that works?
• 18-01-23 The WyzeCam / Xiaomi Fang
• 18-01-19 Hacking the hikvision: part 2
• 18-01-18 Hacking the Hikvision: part 1
• 18-01-18 Crypto on the keychain: the Ledger nano s
• 18-01-18 What is the temperature of a feral cat’s butt?
• 18-01-09 Upgrading the Insecure Army of Internet Things… onwards to the cameras
• 18-01-09 Is your meltdown fix working?
• 18-01-08 OK, I’m diving in, the garage NAS shall run Debian
• 18-01-08 Ignorance is(?) bliss: the agony and ecstasy of home sysadmin
• 18-01-03 Cold weather and stray cats
• 18-01-02 Decoding the Airthings Wave Radon output

2017 (68)

• 17-12-31 Slaac’ing off on ipv6 privacy
• 17-12-30 What are we buying? A wifi baby camera. Will it be secure?
• 17-12-22 The Internet of Radon Things
• 17-12-22 Update on tire repair adventure: Great Success!
• 17-12-17 The brave new world of car charger virus: my prediction for 2018
• 17-12-14 Blockchain and supply-chain management: its not just me!
• 17-12-13 The environmental disaster that is bitcoin: get some efficiency or GTFO
• 17-12-12 3-way switch replacement: puzzlement
• 17-12-10 Edison, Elephants, Subscription light switches, and Automation to reduce power usage
• 17-12-09 Tis the season for 3D cookie hackery
• 17-12-07 Assessing a country’s risk: Mirai/Satori, Argentina
• 17-12-07 What are we leaking? Maritime dangerous goods, korea, iot and mqtt
• 17-12-05 Using shodan to fingerprint…. shodan
• 17-12-03 Shodan to assess a country’s risk
• 17-12-03 More shodan shenanigans: VNC with no authentication?
• 17-12-02 Exposing SCADA to the Internet: Nobody expects the shodan inquisition!
• 17-12-02 Spear-Phishing defence, the US census, punycode, and certstream
• 17-11-29 New product idea: add wire adapter
• 17-11-28 Controlling the sonos + receiver with voice
• 17-11-27 Universal inventory management
• 17-11-26 The new Corsair supply and Netdata
• 17-11-26 A Confluence of Crap: the odds were poor, but balanced
• 17-11-25 Zigbee relay: Success! Sort of.
• 17-11-25 Today’s adventure: adding a Zigbee Home Automation dimmer + relay
• 17-11-24 Discovering what you are using in the cloud
• 17-11-24 Today’s adventure: tire repair the way they never taught you in shop!
• 17-11-23 Its humidifier season here, and boy did these ones get crusty
• 17-11-23 Laugh at my self-inflicted misfortune, hack edition
• 17-11-22 Project thermostat: got some time to work on it this afternoon, and its starting to come alive
• 17-11-20 Update on the Outdoor Kitty (aka the mooch): contact!
• 17-11-18 Epic rock
• 17-11-15 The mystery of the home DNS blackhole
• 17-11-15 Stinky Cat Syndrome: Why no robot for this?
• 17-11-11 US district court of marshall texas
• 17-11-11 A gas station as a destination?
• 17-11-02 Today’s adventure: inflating a balloon to increase water pressure
• 17-11-01 Today’s adventure: lightbulb festoonery!
• 17-10-24 surfing the crimson tide: cellular data coverage @ high density
• 17-10-16 Fire + IP == good
• 17-10-12 Ceiling fan update: capacitor fixed the motor, working on zigbee for lights
• 17-10-10 I’m a big fan of IP, but my big fans have no IP
• 17-10-06 At what stage does ‘that stray cat’ become ‘your cat’?
• 17-10-06 PCI-e bifurcation explained
• 17-10-06 The NVME now goes to 11: Asus m.2 x16 installed
• 17-10-01 The curious case of the Vorke Z1, Plex, and the status bar
• 17-10-01 The home hacking arsenal gets a new tool
• 17-09-29 Old School Surveillance?
• 17-09-27 Immunising for security? How to create herd immunity for spear-phishing
• 17-09-26 USB-C portable monitor and Linux play (mostly) nice
• 17-09-26 Identity theft and safety in numbers. Poe’s purloined letter applications.
• 17-09-26 Storage expansion: method chosen, input discarded
• 17-09-18 The beast of the basement gets more storage
• 17-09-16 After 25 years, my old friend is gone
• 17-09-10 An automatic hallway light the complex way: zigbee + wifi + python + google translate
• 17-09-09 How to securely run multiple external services in your single public IP home
• 17-09-04 Automating a garage door
• 17-09-03 Flashlight repair
• 17-08-26 Enabling TLS1.3
• 17-08-25 Robot vacuums: maps, security
• 17-08-25 The internet of things: the enemy is me!
• 17-08-25 API’s: is there anything they can’t do?
• 17-08-18 IoT vacuum update: it didn’t kill me in my sleep!
• 17-08-17 IOT madness: will it suck?
• 17-05-14 IoT madness: Xiaomi gateway
• 17-03-26 I’m still the enemy in the Internet of Things security, but I now have more reasons
• 17-01-27 Harden a home: how hard!
• 17-01-08 Do you remember when electricity was a little less smart?
• 17-01-04 I’ve found the 1 Internet of Things wifi-enabled gadget even I won’t buy!

2016 (11)

• 16-12-21 Anova sous-vide: its worse
• 16-12-21 Guess this stream burn my house down
• 16-11-11 Home servers: free can be expensive, TSC scaling
• 16-11-06 bad passwords and skype spam: a simple risk reduction technique
• 16-11-06 IoT: Its like Maximum Overdrive without the AC/DC
• 16-10-24 The Sisyphean Circus of Security Sux: rowhammer and drammer
• 16-10-02 WiFi: going from good to great is very hard
• 16-07-01 Guess a MAC, change a light switch
• 16-06-12 Goodbye tunnel broker, hello dual stack ipv6
• 16-06-10 Red carpet blackhole network impairments
• 16-06-05 Home (network) security: it’s hard

2015 (6)

• 15-11-08 Stealing a CPU: how to tell how oversubscribed your cloud is
• 15-08-19 Snakes on a plane?
• 15-08-19 TIL there’s a popular drink in Turkey that is near poison
• 15-07-15 SamKnows weather report
• 15-07-07 SamKnows, latency test
• 15-05-06 How fast & bad is your internet connection: redux

2014 (1)

• 14-05-17 Enabling VT-X virtualizaton on Dell, the ‘fun’ way

2013 (41)

• 13-11-20 Matryoshka and kvm: simplifying development with nested VM
• 13-10-17 There is a campaign to get Timur to update rom for N7 2013
• 13-09-01 More notes on USB OTG charging Nexus 7 (2013)
• 13-08-31 more battery charging
• 13-08-29 Even more OTG charging
• 13-08-28 More on the charging USB OTG Nexus 7
• 13-08-26 USB OTG charging Nexus 7 (2013) flo: some success!
• 13-08-26 USB OTG power, take 2
• 13-08-05 Graphing bandwidth of a pcap file on arbitrary granularity
• 13-08-04 Wiring for dash
• 13-08-03 USB OTG Charging, Nexus 7 Flo (2013)
• 13-08-02 Starting on the Nexus 7 build etc
• 13-08-01 Switched horses, working on nexus 7 in dash
• 13-03-31 more on builtin bluetooth
• 13-03-31 NAND layout
• 13-03-31 microphone routing: off by default
• 13-03-31 Google Play Music and the tiny internal sdcard: move the cache
• 13-03-31 Television tuner
• 13-03-31 SL-8268 bluetooth tether to phone
• 13-03-31 More bluetooth…
• 13-03-31 Image to root SL-8268
• 13-03-31 Alsa defaults SL-8268
• 13-03-30 Inserting bluetooth usb is not reliable
• 13-03-30 more on bluetooth
• 13-03-30 ok rooted, now having some bluetooth issues
• 13-03-30 Default mounts
• 13-03-30 processor is TCC8801
• 13-03-30 SL-8268 stock kernel config
• 13-03-30 SL-8268 mtd information
• 13-03-30 SL-8268 IO information
• 13-03-30 SL-8268 meminfo
• 13-03-30 loaded modules
• 13-03-30 Information on /proc/yaffs and /proc/yaffs_stats
• 13-03-29 Hmm, so its not freescale, its telechips
• 13-03-29 Display is AT070TN93 by Innolux
• 13-03-29 dmesg output of stock
• 13-03-29 More versions
• 13-03-29 TV Versions etc
• 13-03-27 Preparing to build the kernel
• 13-03-25 Disassembling to find the radio
• 13-03-25 Adventures with a 2-din android

2012 (1)

• 12-05-03 more latency than a telegraph: your mobile network @ work

2011 (1)

• 11-10-26 2d bar codes: mobile takes to the tabletop

2010 (3)

• 10-08-24 p2p == philadendron to philadendron?
• 10-04-18 World finger derby
• 10-02-08 the internet’s asymptote and shannon

2009 (1)

• 09-12-16 Everybody drop your pencils at 10am

2008 (1)

• 08-12-01 The speed of light and human (great) expectations