Tag Archives: hacking

Latest revelations concerning the NSA

Posted on November 25, 2013 by

BREAKING NEWS! It was revealed today in secret documents leaked to this reporter that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is actually a division of Claus Industries, LLC, a company synonymous with its eponymous founder and CEO, Santa Claus. We … Continue reading →

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How to make the Internet fun!

Posted on August 26, 2013 by

Sure the Internet is fun already, but do you want it to be funner?  No problem!  Just follow these steps: Log into all the social networks in which you participate, each in its own browser tab.  This especially includes Facebook … Continue reading →

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Feline security researcher discovers new 0-Day vulnerability

Posted on July 12, 2013 by

We have three cats and one of them has a bad habit of leaving a little something outside the litter box.  It’s my wife’s biggest complaint about the cats.  Her second biggest complaint is the scratching.  No matter what kind … Continue reading →

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Tresor-not

Posted on April 13, 2013 by

Over at the Personal Clouds list, the topic of Tresorit came up.  The service provides “completely secure cloud storage” and offers USD$10k to anyone who can hack the client-side encryption.  The word Tresor is either an encryption method designed to … Continue reading →

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Spam origin experiment

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

One of the first things I did when I registered t-rob.net was to set up my new email address.  The second thing I did was to delete the spam email that arrived a moment later. Spam is the scourge of … Continue reading →

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IoT Device on-boarding for real people

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

Did your grandmother walk 5 miles to school?  Uphill?  Both ways? Each generation has their hardship stories.  I remember telling my kids “When I was your age, I had to walk all the way across the living room to change … Continue reading →

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Waking up my inner hacker

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

Recently I bought some Arduinos, a bunch of sensors, some LED bulbs, a few basic soldering kits and started hacking together some primitive sensor systems.  My first soldering kit failed to work at all, probably because I burned out the … Continue reading →

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