2015

Going through old stuff in the cellar, I found the packaging of my very first Apple product, an iPod (2nd gen) 40Gb. Bought it at the Fnac (Brussels) during Christmas period a good 11ish years ago.

Alas, its battery died after 3-4 years (lasting only about 10-20 minutes)… :(

I still have that iPod, but it hasn’t been used. I’ve tried using it as a portable external disk, but that didn’t really work.

Flightradar24 (T-EBBR55) antenna being installed right next to BRU airport.

Due to interference (GSM? WiFi (very very unlikely)? High voltage power lines?) we moved it to the side, as seen below.

While it is blind from half a side, it can see all the way up to London and beyond.

This is the result:

First tests at Glaverbel (circle or “O” shaped building) in Watermael-Boisfort with 12 lifts (about a year ago). Internet wiring makes a whole circle from the internet connection at the technical room (near entrance hall). In this design from the 1960s the lift machine rooms had one shared/common room where we installed switches (to avoid having to pull too much cable and to overcome cable length issues). High quality shielded cable was used to avoid signal loss over the distances we did.

Because of the mediastorm it’s time for an update. The previous (1, 2, 3) blog posts are outdated!

I’ll do my usual slashdot-effect post in a couple of days (it’s already at 10k views today).

Banks that changed rank since last post (all for the better):

• 16/02/2015:
  • Keytrade: B to A
  • Hello Bank!: C to A
  • ING: F to A-
  • Record Bank: F to A-
• 17/02/2015:
  • ABK: F to B
  • Bank Van Breda: C to B
• 18/02/2015:
  • MeDirect: F to A
  • Added 6 new (small) banks
• 27/02/2015
  • Ogone: C to A-
• 02/03/2015
  • Fortuneo: C to B
• 03/03/2015
  • Crelan: B to A

I cannot test Europabank using SSL Labs. I can only speculate they requested SSL Labs to not scan them. I have also added a couple new banks (Delta Lloyd, Deutsche Bank, Moneyou, Fortuneo, BKCP, Binck, and Isabel as bank tool).

More at FlatTurtle’s blog.

EDIT: ING is now A- (not reflected in this blog post). EDIT 2: Keytrade & Hello Bank also went to A. I’ll post a new blog post later tonight. EDIT 3: Updated post here.

Part three, or how I single-handedly “fixed” SSL at the Belgian banks. ;)

Part one and two are available here. Not related but useful nonetheless NY Times article about bank hackers.

Argenta promised to fix their SSL, so it’s the time to check everything again.