Collaborate Disseminate
A big, big week with a heap of different things on the boil. Cyber stuff, audio stuff, IoT stuff – it’s all there! Sorry about the camera being a little blue at the start, if anyone knows why it’s prone to do this I’d love to hear from you. But
Two of my favourite things these days are Have I Been Pwned and Home Assistant. The former is an obvious choice, the latter I’ve come to love as I’ve embarked on my home automation journey. So, it was with great pleasure that I saw the two integrated recently:
always something.
Continue reading Home Assistant, Pwned Passwords and Security Misconceptions
Data breaches all over the place this week! Not just data breaches, but noteworthy data breaches; the VPN ones for being pretty shady, Oxfam because it included my data which was posted to a hacking forum, Ticketcounter because of the interactions I had with them during the disclosure process and
I’ve investigated hundreds of data breaches over the years (there are 514 of them in Have I Been Pwned as I write this), and for the most part, the situation with Gab is just another day on the internet. But Gab is also different, having grown dramatically in recent months
I’m pleased to welcome the first new government onto Have I Been Pwned for 2021, Portugal. The Portuguese CSIRT, CERT.PT, now has full and free access to query their government domains across the entire scope of data in HIBP.
This is now the 12th government onboarded to HIBP and
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I honestly don’t know where my time goes. I get up, have great plans for all the things I want to do then next minute, the day is gone. There’s probably some hints in the range of different things I’m speaking about this week and the book is certainly now
I seem to have spread myself across a whole heap of different things this week which is fine (it’s all stuff I love doing), but it has made for rather a “varied” video. I’m talking (somewhat vaguely) about the book I’m working on, how Facebook has nuked all news in
As I progressively make my house smarter and smarter, I find I keep butting against the intersection of where smart stuff meets dump stuff. Take light globes, for example, the simplest circuit you can imagine. Pass a current through it, light goes on. Kill the current, light goes off. We
Continue reading Controlling Smart Lights Using Dumb Switches with Shelly and Home Assistant
This week has seen a lot of my time go on an all-new project. One I’m really excited about and is completely different to everything I’ve done before; I expect I’ll be able to talk about that in the coming weeks and it shouldn’t be too much longer before it’s
This week’s update comes to you amongst the noisy backdrop of the garden being literally chopped up by high pressure hose (which I think my beautiful Rhode Broadcaster mic successfully excluded). As I say in the intro, it appears the horticulture industry is a little like the software one where