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In case you thought cybersecurity was the death of IoT.

Over the past 2 years I have run an open IRC server. I purposely set it up to see who would discover it, connect, and chat. So far, only one Mandarin speaking person has done…

A mobile hotspot is a more reliable provider of IPv6 than the hardwired gigabit connection to my flat. ICMP is generally relegated to lowest class of service by ISPs, if not dropped during congestion. However,…

A recent trip to Prague gave me first hand experience with the full power of the GDPR when on the Internet. I've used a VPN to fake a presence in Europe in the past, however…

Genesis Invited to attend a seminar on cybersecurity investing, by a friend in the industry, I took it as a chance to listen to what is happening in my own industry. At the seminar, there…

Fun project purposely playing around the conspiracy theories of HAARP. https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ghosts-in-the-air-glow-haarp-art-project-transmitting-until-march-28/ "The famous HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) antenna array will be transmitting again from March 25 - March 28, 2019. HAARP is an…

After whining about "useless google takeout", I decided to do something about it. Initially, I contacted Wordpress to see if they were planning to do anything and/or if they already had a plugin or script.

The darknet's smaller than we thought: The life cycle of Tor Hidden Services Abstract The Tor Darknet is a pseudo-anonymous place to host content online frequently used by criminals to sell narcotics and to distribute…

I started looking at various HomeKit-compatible power strips. There appear to be two on the market: And one more announced, Eve Power Strip, https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/30/eve-announces-new-light-strip-power-strip/ A few things caught my attention: I bought the Koogeek, because…

Many, many years ago I owned and ran asciifun.com. Mostly it was created as a way to paste figlet output into code comments and other random stupidity happening on irc networks. Back in 1999, this…