Kicking off the 2023 University year I continue my journey into the Cybersecurity Masters program with unit Infomation Assurance and Security run by Michael McGarity and Huadong Mo. Provides students with a deep understanding of the technical, management and organisational aspects of Information Assurance within a holistic legal and social framework. The course is essentially modelled off the CISSP certification, which dives into the following subjects: make a realistic assessment of the needs for information security in an organisation discuss the implications of security decisions on the organisation’s information systems understand the principles of writing secure code show an understanding of database and network security issues demonstrate an understanding of encryption techniques understand foundations of the tools and techniques in computer forensics show an appreciation of the commercial, legal and social context in which IT security is implemented apply knowledge gained to business and technical IA scenarios Intro Not a one size fits all approach. Too many factors and seemingling chaotic variables, such as risk appetites, country legislation, the business vertical (mining vs banking vs government), acceditation frameworks that apply to certain industries, tolerances, technology limitations, and so on. ...

A bunch of (scattered) tips and resources as I experiment with Vue. Basics: General wisdom Anatomy Eventhandling Watchers Computed props Components: Components Props Lifecycle hooks Emitting events Slots Fetching Data: Calling APIs in hooks Unique identifiers Styling Components: Global vs scoped styles CSS modules CSS v-bind Composition API: Composition API Reactive references script setup Composables Routing and Deployment: Vue Router History Dynamic routes Deployment Advanced: Pre-processors Pinia State Management Overview What is Vue? an open-source model–view–viewmodel front end JavaScript framework for building user interfaces and single-page applications, created by Evan You Helpful resouces: Read the offical docs Examples Vue cheat sheet Awesome Vue Vue.js devtools Volar VSCode extension Built-in Directives General wisdom It’s best to stick to conventions of the web and use camelCase in your script and kebab-case in your template Don’t pass functions as props, instead emit events props couples components to each other, for broad or deep cross cutting state, level up to state management Test data sources: JSON Placeholder PokeAPI Anatomy Here is a bare bones vue app. There are literally 3 blocks for script, template (markup) and style: ...

Kinesis is a company based near Seattle that offers computer keyboards with ergonomic designs as alternatives to the traditional keyboard design. Most widely known among these are the contoured Advantage line, which features recessed keys in two bucket-like hollows to allow the user’s fingers to reach keys with less effort The Advantage 360 line was released in 2022 and is still insanely popular and challenging to get hold of. The pro edition allows you to customise the firmware, which is ZMK based. Kinesis have outsourced the actual job of compiling the firmware to GitHub Actions. ...

2023 To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee, Harper Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimised practices for waking, working, learning, eating, training, playing, sleeping and sex by Marcus, Aubrey 2022 The Dream Machine by Waldrop, M. Mitchell Absolute FreeBSD by Lucas, Michael W. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Newport, Cal 2021 Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made by Hertzfeld, Andy Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Poulsen, Kevin The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Lewis, Michael Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Mitnick, Kevin D. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Metaxas, Eric * 1984 by Orwell, George Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by Clear, James * Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Potts, Rolf American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind behind the Silk Road Drugs Empire by Bilton, Nick * The God Delusion by Dawkins, Richard 2020 Into the Wild (Ebook) by Krakauer, Jon * The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5) by Sapkowski, Andrzej Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Dick, Philip K. Alan Turing: The Enigma by Hodges, Andrew 2019 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by Rowling, J.K. Ultralight Backpackin’ Tips: 153 Amazing & Inexpensive Tips for Extremely Lightweight Camping by Clelland, Mike * Turn The Ship Around! by Marquet, L. David 2018 Microserfs by Coupland, Douglas * Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Gandhi, Mahatma Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Cialdini, Robert B. * The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Brooks Jr., Frederick P. 2017 The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Stoll, Clifford Savaged by Systemd: an Erotic Unix Encounter by Lucas, Michael Warren

Categorises the gym workout by these kinetic systems: Power (3 mins) Strength (5 mins) Endurance (8 mins) Cardio (10 mins) Durability (15 mins) Every 50 minute workout includes each of them. This is really just a catalogue of kettlebell and/or body weight exercises. Basic program 1 Cardio (10 mins) of choice run, bike, row, stair mill, jump jop Mobility (10 mins) circuit of: Kettlebell windmills (5 reps each side) Kettlebell halos (5 reps each side) variation options include lunges or squats Power (3 mins) Kettlebell sumo squat 6 sets of 10 secs on, 20 secs rest ...

Forked from 101t/python-cheatsheet.md RTFM The Python Standard Library Built-in Functions Python Enhancement Propsoals (PEPs) The Zen of Python never far away in the REPL import this Contents Getting started: CPython, Easter eggs, Import paths, venv Collections: List, Dictionary, Set, Tuple, Range, Enumerate, Iterator, Generator Functions: Functions, Modules Types: Type, String, Regular_Exp, Format, Numbers, Combinatorics, Datetime Syntax: Args, Splat, Inline, Closure, Decorator, Class, Duck_Type, Enum, Exception System: Exit, Print, Input, Command_Line_Arguments, Open, Path, OS_Commands Data: JSON, Pickle, CSV, SQLite, Bytes, Struct, Array, Memory_View, Deque Advanced: Threading, Operator, Introspection, Metaprograming, Eval, Coroutines Libraries: Progress_Bar, Plot, Table, Curses, Logging, Scraping, Web, Profile, NumPy Packaging and Tools: Real app, Bytecode disassembler, Poetry, Gems, Resources CPython Most distros lag behind the latest releases of python. Its quite a pleasant experience to just build CPython from source, as per the docs: sudo apt update sudo apt install build-essential gdb lcov pkg-config \ libbz2-dev libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libgdbm-compat-dev liblzma-dev \ libncurses5-dev libreadline6-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev \ lzma lzma-dev tk-dev uuid-dev zlib1g-dev ./configure sudo make sudo make install sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel Easter eggs import this import antigravity from __future__ import braces Import paths When importing modules, Python relies on a list of paths to know where to look for the module. This list is stored in the sys.path variable. ...

Help and context Execution policy Operators Regex Flow Control Variables Functions Modules Module Management Good modules to run Filesystem Hashtables (Dictionary) Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Async Filesystem events Timers PowerShell drives Data (CRUD) management Damn handy A work in progress. Credits: https://gitlab.com/JamesHedges/notes/-/wikis/Powershell/PowerShell-Cheat-Sheet https://gist.github.com/pcgeek86/336e08d1a09e3dd1a8f0a30a9fe61c8a Help and context $PSVersionTable.PSVersion # what version Get-Command # list commands available Get-Command -Module Microsoft* # list commands exported from modules named Microsoft* Get-Command -Name *item # wildcard search commands Get-Help Get-Help -Name about_Variables Get-Help -Name Get-Command Get-Help -Name Get-Command -Parameter Module Execution policy Levels = {Restricted,Remote Signed,All Signed,Unrestricted} ...

Why Handy resources Talks Factoids Things that feel different Software management and ports Ports patching init system coreutils Scheduling Block devices My setup NFS xorg dwm st powerd++ ntp fonts Why Mostly curiosity. I’ve been a GNU/Linux and free software enthuiatist since the late 90’s and that’s not about to change. More concrete reasons: GNU/Linux won the war. However… The Berkeley Software Distributions are family of open UNIX-like operating systems with lineage back to AT&T UNIX They come as complete and cohesive systems, not a distribution of disparate pieces The BSD license is wonderfully permissive Bill Joy (the father of Sun, BSD, vi, RISC) Marshall Kirk McKusick ZFS, DTrace and Clang It feels so damn neat, tidy and robust It wont be my daily driver, however it’s nice to be aware of what {Free,Open,Net}BSD each bring to the table Handy resources FreeBSD Handbook FreeBSD Porters Handbook FreeBSD Wiki Freshports the place for ports and most recent commits bsd-hardware.info papers.freebsd.org the collected works of the FreeBSD community as presented at various conferences and summits Talks Using boot environments at scale - by Allan Jude The ZFS Filesystem workshop - by Philip Paeps Factoids The term daemon comes from Greek mythology and represents an entity that is neither good nor evil, and which invisibly performs useful tasks. This is why the BSD mascot is the cheerful-looking daemon with sneakers and a pitchfork. Things that feel different My Linux biases are deep rooted. It’s so fascinating to learn how the BSD’s have gone about things differently. ...

This is an amazing piece of hacker folklore was created on January 8, 1986 by The Mentor. Source: http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The following was written shortly after my arrest... \/\The Conscience of a Hacker/\/ by +++The Mentor+++ Written on January 8, 1986 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"... Damn kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me... Damn underachiever. They're all alike. I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike. I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me... Or thinks I'm a smart ass... Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike. And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike... You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us will- ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert. This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike. +++The Mentor+++

Oliver Powell put this amazing original list together in 2016. While I didn’t appreciate the gravity of the list at the time, the talks have actually changed how I think about programming. Each of the presenters is not only incredibly intelligent but they have some serious credentials and achievements behind them. They in essence have much wisdom to impart. For example Rich Hickey, the creator of Closure, is brilliantly articulate and thought provoking. ...