The Secret Life of Cardboard

Life of a wi-fi security researcher.
The only security presenter  at a wi-fi conference.



In smaller news, 125 new flaws were found in routers and NAS devices from popular brands.  Read em and weep.



Google is getting even more exciting than Faceyspaces these days, if only for sheer amount of time in the news, being evil. This time it's calendars, specifically thousands of them, possibly leaking private information online... there are over 8,000 of them, searchable via Google search.

Long ago, coworkers and friends wanted to use Google calendars because they were convenient. I made that 'you want me to kill babies?' face and they laughed at me because I was a tin foil loon. Besides - Google was huge - they'd protect your data. I told them that people who are serious about privacy don't post their personal information online. They laughed again. And again, I was right. Why doesn't anyone ever call me to tell me I was right, again?




Qualcomm chipsets, largely in android phones and tablets, are vulnerable to potentially serious flaws. The flaws could allow an attacker to steal sensitive information stored where they normally cannot get at it.  YOU KIDS GET OUT OF MY QUALCOMM SECURE WORLD!




First Microsoft put a linux subsystem in Windows. Now there's a PowerShell for linux.  We are living in the end times.



InfoTrax Systems was hacked more than 20 times from 2014 to 2016.
They failed to detect this (even though every display in the place said YOU'RE HACKED upon login). Finally, their very sophisticated detection system kicked in. And when I say sophisticated detection system, I mean the hack caused them to run out of disk space.

These ne'er do wells have been sued by the FTC for losing full names, social security numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, usernames and passwords. And some payment card information.  I can't even begin to tell you...this is a technology company!



A security breach at Hostinger might have affected 14 million customers. Cuz if you're a big hosting company, you want to make big mistakes.

I guess it's a pipe dream to ask people to take their business elsewhere, when a breach is discovered. They won't even read the news. Let the market decide.




With the PineBook and PinePhone becoming available, you'll be thrilled to get a Pocket P.C.  This guy is the electronics of a phone, with a linux OS, 1080p display and longer battery life. It ships with Debian 10. The display is 4.95" 1080p with touch. there are 2 models, $199 and $299, the latter which you can use for developing LoRa apps. They are powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 cpu.  Target is May 2020.




There's a new app comin' around the mountain (and over it). If you have a smart phone, you can monitor drones in the area.  All sorts of information is available, surprisingly.  Although we're the target market, I can see this being very popular in the middle east.




Last, an actual helpful link: how to find temperature and fan speed in linux for CPU and GPU.
Some of the instructions are a bit funky. I like the xfce panel plugin.