Well, I feel like I need to let off a bit of steam and vent about things I learned in the past week, month, in the regular, stream-of-consciousness fashion.

Intro: A serving of humble pie

First of all, I must admit I have messed up this week. It started small, with an issue in my parents’ PiHole. The fix was not that complicated, but I had to upgrade the Raspberry pi zero to Raspbian Bullseye. After the update, I performed several updates. Autossh, VPN, I set all of that up no problem. During the update, I was pivoting through one of my private servers in the cloud.

Finally bought a Flipper zero! If you’ve seen me on twitter (how else would you find this post), you may have seen me posting some Flipper shenanigans. Now I will try to explain why I bought it and what it has done for me so far.

Unplugged Phone pre-review

This is going to be fun. I have no stake in this, I am going to just yell at the clouds in this one. But I will also try to share what is available about the UP Phone (UnPlugged Phone) and the services underneath it.

What the hell happened?

In short, Roe v Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court.

I know I am late for the show (World Password Day was yesterday), but I had no access to the machine I usually write on, so I’ll get this off my chest now. I will illustrate my complaints about the proposed system, as well as potential solutions.

UPDATE

I moved to the “prepaid” card, and now every month, I get about $13 per month taken from my debit card. Sure, it’s still botnet, but it’s less of a botnet, since a virtual card number won’t lead attackers to everything I am.

To start this off, I have to say this: I have not ordered stuff in my real name for about a year now. I have one or two shops that know my name, but the vast number of e-shops have no idea who the package is for. Where I live, it’s not illegal to put a burner card number in (many banks support this feature nowadays) and a fake name in the order. If you can have your shit sent someplace else entirely, even better, although I cannot say I’ve done this (I do not have a private P.O. box at the time of writing).

In recent times, where most people work on their own (entrepreneurs, contractors, etc.), the field of branding has gone from being a thing corporations and companies do to something everyone should think of. However, in this post, I would like to explain the polar opposite I am striving for: Being a ghost (and leveraging that as branding).

Now, this is just gonna be a quick venting on what I heard today. It is for all the folks just starting in cybersecurity, and seems to be endemic to the US. The thing I’m talking about is bootcamps.