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I’m not going to mince words, this is going to be a rant and it’s going to get messy. There’s going to be diagrams and everything. The Flipper Zero is amazing. It has an amazing capability set that is growing weekly, and is a great entry-level (Or perhaps not even entry-level depending on how hardcore you get) tool for exploring signals, networks, and computing. Kissing the ring aside, the addition of U2F capabilities feels like a mixed bag for a few key reasons....

I know I don’t get a lot of traffic, and I know I don’t post much, but I figured I’d give a notice to the void that I have left the WordPress platform. Why? Well… 1.) Cost of using WordPress itself for what I used it for has went up. I may as well mess around with a VPS for super cheap and run a microblogging platform instead. Shout out to https://1984....

Hey all, So I got bored and decided to learn some Java. I wrote up a little app to determine whether or not your password has been compromised by testing it against the HIBP (https://haveibeenpwned.com/) database of known-compromised passwords. It’s not particularly complex, but it does ensure your password doesn’t actually leave your system by using the k-Anonymity model provided by HIBP in their APIs. My code’s at https://github.com/Modusmundi/HIBP_Java, take a look!...

So I wrote this a few years ago for Ubuntu and it’s pretty useful, so I ported it over from my old blog. I have performed this configuration for Arch Linux as well and frankly I should write a blog about it, because it was a little fiddly. Anyway here’s the old blog. So one thing I really appreciate about Yubikeys is that they force the issue of security. They are a discrete, physical second factor....

So I’ve ported this article over because it was unironically one of my most popular articles. I guess people really like VNC, which is a mess. Given that Wayland is supposed to be coming back as the “real” default of Ubuntu soon I should revisit this. So in setting up Ubuntu 17.10 on a remote server, you might naturally wish to set up VNC on your box because let’s face it, monitor connectivity is at a premium and command-line wizardry, while amazing, isn’t the best way to go for everyone....