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Book Review: Surveillance Valley

Tue 01 October 2024 By Andrew McConachie

When Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine was published in 2018 I took a rather perfunctory look at it and figured I wasn’t that interested in reading it. The little bit I could read on Amazon didn’t impress me and so I ignored it. Since then I’ve encountered …
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Wire Transfer Security at Lafayette Federal Credit Union

Fri 01 December 2017 By Andrew McConachie

This post will highlight the lax security of Lafayette Federal Credit Union's wire transfers. The author of this post is not responsible for head injuries due to repeatedly slapping one's forehead. The author also recommends to not hold any sharp objects in your hand while reading this and cannot be …
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Adventures in DANE

Fri 28 August 2015 By Andrew McConachie

This post will reflect on the relatively new DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities(DANE) protocol from the Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF). We will first explain how DANE works, talk about what DANE can and cannot do, then briefly discuss the future of Internet encryption standards in general before wrapping …
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Metafarce Update -> systemd, man pages, and TLS

Tue 04 August 2015 By Andrew McConachie

I've recently had time to update the guts of metafarce.com. This post is about the updates to those guts, including what I tried that didn't work out so well. The first section is full of personal opinion about the state of free UNIX OS's.¹ The second section concerns …
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DANE Related bug in OS X Yosemite

Tue 28 July 2015 By Andrew McConachie

This post is meant to document a software bug I believe I've found in Apple's Mac OS X. In short, OS X 10.10.3 fails to flush DNS TLSA records when flushing other DNS records. TLSA records can only time out based on their TTL, they will otherwise never …
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