Systemd enable services to run with a whole suite of hardening and sandboxing features from the Linux kernel. Here’s how to get a quick security review of the services running on your system and how to go about hardening their security. Read more…
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1Password has raised $620 million (USD)
I’m delighted to announce that 1Password has raised $620 million in our latest investment round that values our company at $6.8 billion. This moment represents a lot of hard work by a lot of amazing people. Read more…
CodeCaptcha: Hide your web link behind a mini-coding challenge
Sometimes you want to share a link (like job postings, google forms, your project, a secret sub-page etc) to programmers only. This service let’s you do that while also preventing abuse and spam. Read more…
Security engineering course
This week sees the start of a course on security engineering that Sam Ainsworth and I are teaching. It’s based on the third edition of my Security Engineering book, and is a first cut at a ‘film of the book’. Read more…
I automated my job over a year ago and haven’t told anyone
I work for a mid-size lawfirm that hired me as an IT specialist to handle all of their digital evidence for trials. The law-firm was in the process of changing their evidence managing system to Cloud based and wanted me to to be the only person with admin access to the Cloud, everyone else wouldContinue reading “I automated my job over a year ago and haven’t told anyone”
Why Static Languages Suffer From Complexity
People in the programming language design community strive to make their languages more expressive, with a strong type system, mainly to increase ergonomics by avoiding code duplication in final software; however, the more expressive their languages become, the more abruptly duplication penetrates the language itself. Read more…
Skyrim’s myth of the treasure fox finally explained
One of the most enduring myths about Skyrim is it contains treasure foxes. Ever since Bethesda’s open-world fantasy game came out in 2011, players have wondered whether the foxes lead players to treasure. Read more…
Open Infrastructure Map
Is a view of the world’s infrastructure mapped in the OpenStreetMap database. Read more…
The Zen of Drinking Alone
I do wanna talk about it. Not about what my friend wrongly assumed was the dark motivation that would drive me to drink alone, but the very act of drinking alone. Read more…
Street Fighter II, Sound System Internals
If you are interested in video-games hardware, the arcades of the 80’s are the source of endless entertainment. During that decade each game was designed from scratch with a new motherboard featuring various combinations of processors. Read more…
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