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Obviously a Major Malfunction...: May 2013

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Obviously a Major Malfunction. Random musings that would otherwise have no means of escape from my head. Tuesday, 14 May 2013. Back to skule: One Pad, Two Pad, Me Pad, You Pad - Cryptanalysis for beginners. A couple of weeks ago, Kev Sheldrake from Head Hacking. Gave a fascinating talk on NLP and Social Engineering at London's DEFCON group, DC4420. Called "Social Engineering Lies! Afterwards, over drinks, he told me about a free cryptography course. But my curiosity was piqued, so I decided to take a look.

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Obviously a Major Malfunction...: January 2013

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Obviously a Major Malfunction. Random musings that would otherwise have no means of escape from my head. Sunday, 27 January 2013. Fun with Masked ROMs - Atmel MARC4. We have Code Monkeys and Chip Monkeys. Chip Monkeys do the dangerous stuff, while we Code Monkeys sit in our nice safe offices playing with bits and bytes and other things that can't hurt us. Or fiddling with circuits that are directly connected to mains electricity? So when head Chip Monkey Zac Franken. In our case it's a combination of thi...

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Obviously a Major Malfunction...: The Big Bang Theory!

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Obviously a Major Malfunction. Random musings that would otherwise have no means of escape from my head. Monday, 4 February 2013. The Big Bang Theory! When I say "The Big Bang Theory! I mean, of course, these lovable scamps:. Who are always witty (and often hilarious), and not. Which makes my head hurt. Being based in the UK, I am (un)blessed with always being several months behind on TV releases of popular shows, so it's only recently that Season 6 has started being aired over here. No, what I want.

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fabric | another LAN (Local Area Network)

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Another LAN (Local Area Network). What is this about? Python Fabric, find heartbleed openssl and update (ubuntu 12.04 LTS) DIRTY. This is a quick script to add to your fabfile, python fabric arsenal. This will check your server openssl version, and it does not match the current “safe” version, the script can either update or notify you in stdout. UPDATE: This is a quick and dirty hack. REGEX for version check needs to be cleaned up. Continue reading →. Install latest version of fabric. Shopt -oq posix; t...

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email | another LAN (Local Area Network)

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Another LAN (Local Area Network). What is this about? How to install NODE.JS node-uptime MONGODB on UBUNTU 12.04 LTS. I like pingdom, but I also like frugal solutions. node-uptime is neat, and looks and feels very similar to pingdom. This guide will tell you how to install node.js, mongo, supervisord and node-uptime. Continue reading →. Importing .msg emails to zimbra :). Recently I had the fun of researching how to and then importing 150000 .msg emails into zimbra, this is how I did it. Oh mate you were...

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0x10 - Security, sysadmin and stuff: Passphrase generator in bash

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0x10 - Security, sysadmin and stuff. Random little projects etc. Wednesday, 18 January 2012. Passphrase generator in bash. The script below has been improved upon and can be found here: http:/ blog.0x10.co.uk/2013/04/passphrase-generators-part-ii.html. Passwords are dead. Long live passphrases. Or something like that anyway. As perfectly summarized by XKCD here http:/ xkcd.com/936/. Passwords are hard to remember and easy to guess. Passphrases on the other hand are easy to remember and hard to guess.

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0x10 - Security, sysadmin and stuff: Passphrase Generators Part II

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0x10 - Security, sysadmin and stuff. Random little projects etc. Tuesday, 16 April 2013. Passphrase Generators Part II. A while back I wrote a post about using bash as a passphrase generator ( here. While true; do. For i in $(seq $words); do. Word=$(/usr/bin/shuf -n1 - random-source=/dev/urandom /usr/share/dict/words). Echo -n "$word ". Read -p "Accept (y/n) [n]: " answer. If [ "$answer" = "y" ]; then. Right, now onto the other option. In this case we're going to just modify the previous script and f...

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0x10 - Security, sysadmin and stuff: October 2013

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0x10 - Security, sysadmin and stuff. Random little projects etc. Friday, 25 October 2013. How to ask about connectivity issues. So you're trying to connect one system to another using this newfangled TCP/IP stuff the kids are using these days. But what's this? You need to ask someone to look into it. You even know who. But what should you ask and what information should you provide so that they can investigate quickly and effectively? Has it ever worked? Have you changed anything recently?