66.3 bits of entropy and grackles
No relation to each other, aside from happening on the same day: My daughter gave me a note with a password on it: I was then to speak the password […]
2015
Let’s Encrypt TLS & A+ on SSL Labs
As you may recall, around here we like our TLS, and we like it rare! I have no idea what “rare” means in the context of web encryption, but you […]
6 Vegas Sunsets, 1 ride
And one Bay Area one while flying out of OAK ;) #6 was taken on this evenings quickie MTB ride to my fave local spot. Here’s what it looked like […]
1 year running a Tor middle relay
Yay! I’m proud to announce that plip has been running a Tor middle relay for exactly a year. I believe in on-line privacy and anonymity and when I had some […]
Bootstrapping with secure passwords
I recently fat fingered the partitions on my 5k iMac when installing Ubuntu (more on Ubuntu on a 5k later!), so I was stuck doing a double clean install of […]
Using Git on Ubuntu with SSH Tunnels to Mac OS X Host
Intro & Prerequisites Are you using Linux but cannot get your LT2P-IPSEC VPN hosted on your Mac OS X server working? Do you write code on your Ubuntu client and […]
Leaves, Slugs, Spiders, Water, Figs, Jellyfish (photos)
Your mom just got her first smart phone: what should she learn first?
My mom just got her first smart phone, an iPhone 5S. What should she learn to do on it first? Fortunately, she has an iPad already so the iOS as […]
Defcon 2015
Another year, another Defcon! This was my third year attending. The biggest change this year was that the conference changed locations moving from the Rio to Paris/Ballys. Given I’m some […]
How to test PHPs memory_limit setting
So, we all know that in PHP, you configure it with a php.ini file. And in there, you can set the amount of RAM a script can use with the […]