Mjölnir: nethammers arrive a few years later than rowhammers
OK, I just liked all the dots in the Mjölnir 🙂 So, a few years ago we first heard of Row Hammer. It exploits the fact that memory is laid out as a grid, and, that adjacent bits can be influenced to flip using capacitance. And this is a disaster, e.g. you can change the ‘privilege’ bit…
DDoS my wallet: more on cloud pricing
So I now have my massive IT infrastructure (rev 1.0) online and ready to rock and or roll. And i’m looking at the ‘logging’ and ‘analytics’ that are included. Interesting, good to know its there if I ever want to debug something. But wait, I’m paying extra for this? And its not even obvious how…
Running magnum (Kubernetes orchestration) on OpenStack Queens: lxd to the rescue
So the home OpenStack system is running Queens on Ubuntu 18.04, courtesy of Kolla. Great. The all-NVME Ceph I talked about in the previous post is kicking ass and taking names for glance/nova/cinder. Now, lets try some container orchestration and install Kubernetes via Magnum. Make sure to use Fedora-Atomic and not coreos because of this. But also…
Chrome & G-Suite: profile madness to enable multiple identities
Like many of you I have used ‘incognito mode’ in Chrome when you need to be logged in as another user simultaneously to some service. And it has worked great lo these many years. A few years ago, Chrome introduced ‘users’. It was kind of meant for the family PC and flipping back and forth,…
Hack or genuis: cloud backup, you vote!
OK, you read from my previous post that I’ve tooled up some things in public cloud (specifically Google GCP & GKE). Now, I’m sure they have a strong track record of backup/restore/disaster recovery. But what if… something goes wrong. Maybe I make a mistake and delete the project, my credit card gets stolen and they…
Long Strange Trip
