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Tag Archives: security
Pimping my ride with high pitch painful sounds
I got my car back from the repair shop on Friday following it’s run in with the less pleasant residents of Auckland, with all the ignition and dash repaired. Unfortunately the whole incident costs me at least $500 in excess … Continue reading
Tagged alarm, auckland, car, security
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My apartment, the death trap
I currently live in a modern apartment complex in Auckland, coming with lots of modern features including networked fire alarms, heat sensors and stupid varying sizes of non-energy efficent light bulbs. The apartment alarm system is quite simple – if … Continue reading
Grand Theft Auto
Had a wonderful wake up this morning with a call from my property manager, advising that thieves had attempted to steal my car. Apparently a tenant called in 111 around 7am in the morning, finding my car with the lights … Continue reading
Leave them kids alone!
I’ve been reading a disturbing number of articles lately advocating and promoting software solutions for the monitoring of children’s smartphones and computers. I don’t have too much issue with children having software on their computers for filtering access to the … Continue reading
Tagged freedom, gareth hughes, geek, greens, opinions, privacy, security, spyware, think of the children
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National Bank SSL Cert Fail
Got to wonder about your bank when they manage to upload the wrong SSL certificate to one of their webservers. :-/ Every sysadmin has their bad day, but I would have thought a bank would have had a bit more … Continue reading
Tagged fail, geek, national bank, security, ssl, sysadmin
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Paranoia Justified
It’s human nature to be friendly and trusting, we want to assume people are generally good, and we want to help out others where we can. However this makes us prime for social engineering attacks – from calling up pretending … Continue reading
Tagged apartments, crime, geek, opinions, paranoia, security, social engineering
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Custom CA certificates & Android
With the number of servers I have internally, I have setup my own Certificate Authority and sign all my internal SSL certificates against this private CA. This offers the useful advantage of being able to import the one CA certificate … Continue reading