Category: Networking
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Qatar WiFi
I flew from Doha to Brussels on a brand new (0.4 year old) Dreamliner. There is on board WiFi, and it’s unlike those I’ve seen before on Lufthansa. The WiFi is provided by OnAir (owned by SITA, ex Airbus), a Swiss-Merican company using what cell towers (that’s what their landing page said — but their website…
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The End of Privacy
(Source).
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Proximus Innovation: D-Link DCS-2132L
Proximus Innovation team handed me a D-Link DCS-2132L (ver. B1) to play with. I have some experience with, what is considered, a professional (~€120 + tax) PoE surveillance camera: the Unifi Video Camera (basic version). Amazon retails this D-Link for around €120 (including tax). So it’s worth noting it’s almost the same price as a metal, semi…
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Stibbe – Cybercrime
Short presentation about the ease of finding and getting into unprotected systems. PDF can be downloaded here. Presentation given at Stibbe on 5 May 2015.
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CIFS: mount error(13): Permission denied
You’ve just updated your Raspberry Pi (or whatever Linux) and you’re noticing your CIFS (smb) mounts aren’t getting auto mounted anymore. You curse and start noticing this error: # mount -t cifs //192.168.1.100/public -o username=public,password=public sam/ mount error(13): Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) The solution is to add after…
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WiFi by night
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T-EBBR55 antenna (@Flightradar24)
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: As…
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Belgian banks & SSL — part 4
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 The previous (1, 2, 3) blog posts are outdated!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:…
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Belgian banks & SSL — part 3
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…