Yes, Q-Day is coming. Granted, that day when quantum computers can crack older cryptography is a few years off, but it is in fact coming. Better to start preparing now rather than later, and there is plenty you can do that is fairly easy right now. Plus I released a simple script for checking your systems.
You have a running joke with friends and you’re a nerd, so you buy a domain involving the joke. Hilarious. But what if you decide to actually use it for something halfway useful?
The pursuit of green energy solutions is fun for me, but it never ends. That’s fine, I’m still enjoying myself.
Is AI good or bad? It doesn’t matter. What matters is that it is up to the infosec community to fix it, whether we want to or not.
Since I now am using one brand of inverters instead of two for my solar panels, I can now monitor things down to the individual panel. With limits…
This wasn’t an encounter with Taylor Swift. It was more of an encounter with her limo and police escort, while she was inside it. Strange that it happened more than once.
Instead of simply discarding incoming phishing emails from APT actors, I decided to make sure it was loud and clear in mail logs that I discarded them - with attribution.
Everything on the network is finally done. Oh who am I kidding? Things change constantly between software and hardware updates and upgrades. This just documents a small part of it.
A seemingly small project turned into an 11 month journey with so many weird turns and gotchas that it was at times maddening. But new panels are in place and functioning.
It was a backup, drive wipe, reload, and restore the backup. I expected the worse, but what happened surprised me.
In early 2025 I started fiddling around with minor bash prompt tweaks, then slowly developed themes, until it got out of hand….
I wrote the ultimate encryption implementation, wow it is so good! However as far as usability for the average person (or even ultra nerd) leaves a lot to be desired. A WHOLE lot.
I wanted to use AI but in a way that was responsible, didn’t dig into my privacy, and helped me to get what I want. One might say I am “hacking” AI. Maybe I am. I’m trying to get it to do what I want it to do on my own terms - the essence of hacking. But first, I had to devise a test. Granted, this test is for my needs, but maybe you might find it interesting as well.
I’ve noticed ports scans. A lot of them. However these are different, these are all scans from a seemingly distributed scanning network spread out over multiple IP addresses.
Wow, when things go sideways, they go sideways. Back to square one with my solar panel expansion plans.
Mail server admins always notice when spammers try to use an AUTH command to try to relay spam through a mail server. But when they start hammering away with a much more sophisticated botnet, things start to get serious - especially for the paranoid.
I was asked by a friend why I was a supporter of the gay community. I didn’t realize I was, I thought I was just being accepting to everyone.
You make long term plans. Then an election happens, and you find yourself making changes to those plans - basically turning them into short term plans. My latest solar addition is in the works.
Perspective is everything. Looking at anything, tech-related or not, from a different perspective can be eye opening. I give a few really weird scenarios I’ve tried, and some are extreme.
I did a bit of an experiment with several LLMs and code generation, and one of them actually seemed to perform slightly better from a security perspective.
