Security Saturday!
For those who remember, I set up a survival backpack for dual-use. On the one hand I am a volunteer at cubscouts, so it comes in really handy when we're camping out and some cub gets themselves in a picle. On the other hand it is good to be prepared securely.
So the new backpack is 6 liters bigger, but since I am a strong believer in travelling light, that only means it is 18 liters. Within those 18 liters I will have to fit:
- A pan (which I also ordered new)
- A first-aid kit, with added betadine
- A hand-axe
- A survival kit (with fishing line, mirrors, thread-saw etc...)
- A slew of other tiny knick-knacks (amongst which my lockpicking set :P)
But that is for the physical survival. It also contains (and here is the digital part) a USB stick with a secure RAM-disk booting linux (which means it bypasses the harddrive, it just loads whatever is on the USB stick into memory and runs everything from there). For those who are interested, it is specifically running Slax linux.
Another thing I did was acquire an Apple iPad air, which fits in the bag. Of course I got this for multiple reasons (as I posted before) but having atleast some device that can do computations and communications is nice.
It is a good mental excercise to think about: What would you put in a survival bag? I live in the Netherlands, so I am not allowed to carry guns, which would otherwise be on my list for in the bag. In the bag because if I get a license here... That is still not one for carrying a live gun. Neither conceled nor open.
The one thing I have been thinking about that I would like to have is a form of EMP. This is because of the worrying domestic use of robots (have you seen the boston robotics dogs warning people to anti-socially distance?). So in the coming months I will slowly be trying to get some knowledge to create a good EMP. Not a plaything that will buzz out your phone, but one that will be seriously annoying at a distance... To knock drones out of the sky, atleast commercial models...
So this security saturday has less to do with direct digital security, but more about me musing about what I would do against the robocalypse. It is not clear to me that the robots will be sentient, but if some doofus sets too strict of a kill command, I would like to have an answer ready anyways!
Stay safe out there!
There is so much more to this one chapter, but it is so good already!
I had to cut it short because guests arrived, but this should get you started on your own study :)
@calvinrempel Thank you once again for the Theology Tuesday you did, I refer back to it in this one :)
@JamesDerian Congratulations with your Marriage :)
Next time there might (almost certainly) not be a Theology Tuesday, so the official next one will be February 22nd! I have a marriage to attend. As the groom. Our home is still half a project.
Fun times!
Alc and I talk about my book that is now officially finished. This is part 1 of 2. Parts have not been neatly cut. Part two will air 5 minutes after part 1 for coninuity!
Hope you enjoy :)
This is the third corner to have persistent discussions and talks in. I love tech, but especially once it transcends hardware a little. I have two degrees; a bachelor's in Software Engineering and a master's in Information Security Technology. My graduation thesis focused on assembly-level optimizations (that is, one level above the hardware level) and my free subjects were in formal verification. This is why I love programming in the security corner, or maybe it is the other way around.
I started going down the Security path because I early on saw that the world around us would become a dangerous cesspool of badly-implemented and hostile tech. Now I am one of the people that understands the field around that mess :)
So in here you can discuss secure phones, weird programming languages, sad truths about internet-connected fridges. Also about malware, adblockers, and so on and so fort!
A lot of tech talk I do over at the @Lunduke community, where a lot of nerds hang out and it is ...
Much like the reading corner, let's have a music corner! A few rules for this one, since some music can be provocative. I don't mind much but let's keep youtube links with risque thumbnails out of here.
Other music I might also mind. "Do you find that offensive?" might someone ask. Yes, there is some music I choose not to listen on principle, and I walk a thin line there sometimes. But do not worry, I have a wide taste otherwise so feel free to share almost anything :)
Either way, here is the music corner!
Many times when we talk about security, we mean to say "Digital security". In essence we mean to say that our hardware and software that we use stays safe no matter what we do. And even though the ISO27001 standard (and by extension, for example, the NEN7510 standard) make it abundantly clear that security is a people-domain problem, we usually take that as a process-like truth. Meaning, we think that being secure is a matter of regulating people.
The truth is very different. For example, while writing this I am pretty shot. I slept five hours and I an under influence of a bunch of painkillers and some alcohol. Before you ask what I was thinking, let me mention that I have a genetic defect in my spine that I am dealing with right now by taking measured doses of all three (and yes, to get the Bible into this conversation, there is even a biblical ground for the inebriation with alcohol - see proverbs and the letters to Timothy - , although I did not use red wine. But hey, I am still on top of ...
