This is a lightly edited transcript of my presentation today at the ACCSS/NCSC/Surf seminar ‘Cyber Security and Society’. I want to thank the organizers for inviting me to their conference & giving me a great opportunity to talk about something I worry about a lot. Here are the original slides with notes, which may...

Durante el primer fin de semana de este mes se celebró la Libre Planet 20241, el evento de referencia sobre Software Libre organizado por la FSF2. Este evento se realiza tanto de forma presencial como virtual por lo que no es necesario viajar para participar y disfrutarlo. Yo no suelo participar más allá de ver la...

En mi escritorio tengo un segundo monitor, más pequeño que los que utilizo habitualmente, y una Raspberry Pi 5 que me compré en preventa en el momento en el que se anunció. Mi intención para esa Raspberry Pi era utilizarla como un ordenador de bajo consumo y así trastear con Linux (mi sistema operativo habitual es...

The due-diligence meetings with Ziff Davis Enterprise would start at midday on Monday. But first, I had arranged to meet Bernard Lunn, a freelance ReadWriteWeb writer and now my business advisor, who was based somewhere in greater New York. Around 9:00 a.m. I finally put a face to the name, when Bernard met me in...

impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols, and it’s a popular toolset among penetration testers and security professionals for tasks such as creating and sending packets, transferring files, and executing commands remotely. First, ensure that impacket is installed: sudo apt-get...

Originally, I planned to go to Hamburg to catch a Beluga. But I really didn't feel like I was up to it, and I cancelled the trip. Instead, I decided to go for a day trip — surprise, surprise! — to FRA. I didn't have any specific objective. But the weather was nice, and RWY 07C was used for departures (which doesn't...

Sometimes the database keeps growing and you want to figure out which table(s) are causing the issue. It happens sometimes for me on Craft CMS projects. I then find it useful to be able to isolate the largest table(s) within the database to see where the issue is at. I've found the simplest solution being to run the...