Security

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Greenhouse Update 4 - September

I managed to get the `greenhouse-daemon` (called `greenhouse-background-service` on windows 😇) installing as a windows service via the NSIS installer, ...…
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Greenhouse development update 1

I have been striving to work on greenhouse every day. Of course, I can't always meet that standard, but I believe I've gotten more done than my activity heatmap might indicate, as I have a bad habit of working on elements and features for more than a day before I commit them.…
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Creating a Simple but Effective Outbound "Firewall" using Vanilla Docker-Compose

This is great for inbound connections, but it does nothing to control outbound connections. ...I would much rather find a way to control outbound connections using the vanilla docker and docker-compose features. So that's what I set out to do, and that's where the internal networks come into play.…
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Server & Website Updates

I just finished migrating sequentialread.com to an ODROID HC1, plus tons of updates to my infrastructure & apps!…
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The "Pragmatic Path" 4-Year Update: Introducing Greenhouse!

See the next post in this series: Greenhouse development update 1 When I started this blog in 2015, I was just playing around. I published a few small technical guides, cross-posted a couple articles…
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Understanding the Secure Shell Protocol (SSH)

This post was written as a how-to guide for the capsul cloud compute provider by cyberia.club! SSH is a very old tool, created back when the internet was a different place, with different use cases…
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Capsul Rollin' Onwards with a Web Application

This is a cross-post with the cyberia computer club blog. Next post in this series: Capsul - Rumors of my Demise have been Greatly Exaggerated What is Capsul? Some friends from cyberia.club started…
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Register a Namecoin .bit Domain easily, using Electrum-NMC

Namecoin is an old crypto-currency, one of the original forks of Bitcoin. It still exists today and has good security, primarily because it can be merge-mined with Bitcoin. This means that Namecoin…
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Password Manager 1.1.0

https://pwm.sequentialread.com/ A simple, fault-tolerant, and easy-to-audit password manager. https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/sequentialread-password-manager Mobile Device Support Better beh…
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ServiceWorker + WebRTC... The p2p web solution I have been looking for!?

In my previous post Pragmatic Path Towards Non-technical Users Owning Their Own Data I talked about how hard it is to host web applications on your own hardware, at home, or on a mobile device such as…
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Wrote a Libre Password Manager this weekend

I've always been a paranoid person around computers, and I've wanted to start using a password manager for a while, but the only cloud-based one which seemed trustworthy (1Password) costs money and is…
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Docker API Security Gateway Proof Of Concept

EDIT May 2021: I am now using this thing in production. The Docker API is very useful, but it also presents a security issue. Access to the docker socket or Docker API essentially represents root acc…