fighting the lack of good ideas
You may have heard of the recently-discovered/-published TLStorm vulnerability that affects – at least – APC SmartUPS devices. One of the prime issues highlighted is the embedded nanoSSL library that APC has used on these systems. If you want to find out if your system is affected, the following nmap except should start you towards…
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We raise chickens. For the last few years, we’ve only had layers – and they’ve all been full-grown by the time they arrived at our home. This year, we decided to buy some chicks because our layers are starting to age-out of being able to lay, and we’re interested in trying our hand at raising…
I’ve recently been asked by several people to investigate websites (especially e-commerce ones) for reliability/legitimateness. Thought someone else may find my process useful, and/or have some ideas on how to improve it ? So here goes: Pop a terminal window (I’m on a Mac, so I open Terminal – feel free to use your terminal…
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Via the rands-leadership Slack (in the #i-wrote-something channel), I found an article written on ChealseaTroy.com that was [the last?] in her series on course design. While I found part 9 interesting, I was bummed there were no internal links to the other parts of the series (at least to previous parts (even if there may…
I found out about sshuttle from a random tweet that happened to catch my eye. Here’s the skinny (from the readme): Your client machine (or router) is Linux, FreeBSD, or MacOS. You have access to a remote network via ssh. You don’t necessarily have admin access on the remote network. The remote network has no…
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After a friend of mine told me he wanted to deploy Jitsi on my main webserver, and me saying “sure”, I decided I wanted to get it up and running on a new server both so I knew how to do it, and to avoid the latency issues of videoconferencing from central North America to…
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After combing through the docs and several how–tos on deploying the Squid proxy server – none of which really did everything I wanted, of course – I’ve finally gotten to the format below. Installing Squid is easy-peasy – it’s in the standard package repos for the major platforms (CentOS/Fedora/RHEL, Ubuntu/Debian, etc) – so just run…
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