Weekly Update 516: Live From Vietnam

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A little wind noise, a little connectivity flakiness, and a little lip-sync issues from YouTube, but look at that view! 🤩 Back to business, it’s the Brinks Home FAQ I found most interesting this week. I mean, how do you write your own FAQ then fail to

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Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

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Today, we welcome the 47th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Nepal. Their National Cyber Security Centre now has access to monitor Nepalese government domains against the data in HIBP. This gives the NCSC the ability to identify exposure across government email addresses and

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Weekly Update 515

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Apparently, Aussies are so obsessed with coffee that it’s referred to as the coffee capital of the world down here (some bits, at least). “But what about Italy?” people ask. Having spent a lot of time in a lot of Italy, no, it’s just

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Weekly Update 514: This Week in Data Breaches

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The Origin Energy breach down here in Aus is all over the news this week, and as with many breaches, it’s multi-faceted. You’ve got them leading with “don’t worry, your credit card is fine”, the hacker leading with “they didn&

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Weekly Update 513: Clauding The Home Network

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I reckon this week’s video on how Claude is tying together info from UniFi, Home Assistant and the Pi-Hole is an absolute ripper. Or at least the concept is – if ever there was an actual value proposition for AI it’s taking lots of noise and

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Weekly Update 512: IoT Lockout Fail

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“Build a smart home”, they said. “It’ll make life so much better”, they said. Well, life wasn’t very bloody good at 23:00 the other night after travelling 33 hours from Paris only to find the IoT doorlock batteries dead and the

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Weekly Update 511: Live from my Riad in Marrakech

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How’s this for a location?! I mean, last week was nice with Scott in Mallorca, but Marrakech is, well, wow 😮 Anyway, about those data breaches… This week I’m talking about the futility of attempting to remove piss from a pool, yet here we are, with

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Swimming Pools, Pee, and Trying to Delete Your Data From the Internet

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I can’t recall if someone else originally came up with this saying or if I said it in some off-the-cuff comment and it just propagated, but since it’s often attributed back to me, I’ll relay it here regardless:

Trying to delete yourself

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Weekly Update 510: Live From Mallorca with Scott Helme

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How’s the view?! Back to business, it’s now 8 years ago that Scott and I thought it would be a cool idea to build Why no HTTPS? We used the site to shame companies for not implementing their transport later security property, and to make it

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Weekly Update 509

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I know enough about home cinema audiovisual to know there’s a lot I don’t know. It’s conscious incompetence, if you like, which is different to the unconscious incompetence most people have on the topic. That’s not to sound derogatory (it’s

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