Open Source Broadcast Software Released
I’ll admit my first ever merge request really knocked the old self confidence. As a plucky young intern beavering away over the summer, I made some changes I thought made sense and hit push....
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The Long Tail of IoT and How We Handle It
There’s the perennial joke that the “S” in IoT stands for “Security”. With cases like the recent spate of WD storage appliances being wiped on mass, which turned out to be an old, but...
Is going wrong a right of passage in technology?
It’s not often you want to air your mistakes or errors in public. An HBO intern recently sent a test e-mail to the production list and Fastly allowed a customer configuration change to disrupt...
Why your WiFi sucks – improve it with some simple tips
Let’s face it, sometimes your WiFi sucks. Ever wondered what simple changes you could make to your wireless network to improve some of the most annoying problems? Find out with this video where we...
Parsing Wave Files in Python
It sounds like a simple task – grab some WAVE audio files and parse them so we can read the metadata and samples in Python. I mean, the WAVE (really, RIFF with WAVE) format...
Redux Sagas – Event Driven Programming is Back!
Let’s go back in time about 15 years. VB6 is the not so much the hotness but a go-to option for Windows desktop applications. Heck, I was at high school finding out the hard...
SDN – Driving Cumulus/Mellanox (Nvidia) Networks from TFS
I’m not going to win any prizes for “catchiest” title but it’s something we’ve been beavering away with at work. A new datacentre network configured through a CI pipeline. At the moment, the initial...
Naively Detecting Pivots with NetFlow
The experiment started with a simple question – can you detect interesting behaviour with only NetFlow data? There are numerous tools on the market that can do this will full network taps but that’s...
Building an AM Transmitter with HackRF One
There’s something quaint and old fashioned about AM radio. The muffled drifting in an out as you drive down the road, the cacophany of noise attacking your ears attempting to listen at night and...
Building a (Very) Low Power FM Transmitter with HackRF One
Software defined radio has been a thing for a few years now but the sheer cost of equipment meant put transmission out of reach. There’s even a post on this very site from a...
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