Today I Learned

Everyone knows what passwords are, and how they work. Right? The basic concept is simple enough, and has been around for quite a long...

Bullshido ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bullshido ) is a term referring to exaggerated or fraudulent claims around martial arts. The...

Every field has basic concepts that are essential to real understanding of the field. In the context of Information Security, “hashing”...

First, a disclaimer: While I was a developer (many years ago), I worked mainly on back-end database applications (first with Oracle...

We’re actually getting to the origins of this blog - not exactly full-circle, but near enough. As I have mentioned, COVID-19 led me down...

So I have a Raspberry Pi. Now what? My initial plan (as it was the reason for getting it in the first place) was to set up a Pi-hole (...

Traditionally, I have done most of my typing on my company-issued laptop. In the office, I have a docking station with a monitor and a...

When the COVID-19 lockdown began, we were initially focused on ensuring that we were able to work from home, had enough supplies to stay...

Continued from https://www.til-technology.com/post/adventures-in-networking-ii Everything has arrived, so it’s time to start unboxing. ...

So, one thing to decide to set up a home network, but quite another to actually do it. To start with, we didn’t have Ethernet wiring,...

These days, people say that every story is a COVID-19 story, and my recent adventures have been no exception. Right around the time we...

The term “hacker” has an interesting history (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker for an overview). The term originally referred...