 | 2010-09-07 ed is not dead |
| 2010-08-26 Installing Perl modules in a non root environment |
| 2010-08-22 Magic self leviation |
| 2010-08-20 Google Chrome does not support offline Gmail |
| 2010-08-19 The number 48 |
| 2010-08-12 Welsh trout mini HOWTO |
| 2010-08-04 Fooling a NetCache proxy into fetching forbidden files |
| 2010-07-30 The world will end on May 21, 2011 |
| 2010-07-28 Hiding or showing a textbox with image animation using JQuery |
| 2010-07-27 Manipulating browser cookies using Javascript |
| 2010-07-25 Survival of the fittest book |
| 2010-07-23 Pastafarians in Spain |
| 2010-07-22 You have two sheep |
| 2010-07-09 Highway bank fire |
| 2010-07-08 Setting up a remote git repository |
| 2010-07-06 Bye bye trusted old Macbook |
| 2010-06-28 John Cleese on Football |
| 2010-06-23 ABN Amro and the Pathetic Customer Service Dept. |
| 2010-06-22 Wally does not like criticism |
| 2010-06-14 Soccermatch Netherlands vs Denmark |
| 2010-06-13 Lazy Cat |
| 2010-06-08 Reading public Buzz using the Google API |
| 2010-06-07 A Personal Letter from Steve Martin |
| 2010-06-05 Sushi Saturday |
| 2010-06-04 Suppressing the Enter key with Javascript |
| 2010-05-31 Temporal spacial anomaly on the Dutch highway |
| 2010-05-23 Greenhost will not log your traffic |
| 2010-05-10 Jarlsberg Webapp Exploits |
| 2010-05-04 A Thought Experiment |
| 2010-05-03 SafeEdit information updated |
| 2010-05-01 Microproxy now supports ftp |
| 2010-04-30 What could get Data angry |
| 2010-04-29 Lego Mindstorm solving the Rubik Cube |
| 2010-04-28 Crossroads 2.65 is out |
| 2010-04-17 Goggomobil in its natural habitat |
| 2010-04-14 Bacon Time |
| 2010-04-11 104 More friends to connect with |
| 2010-04-10 Bacteria infested radio reporter |
| 2010-04-07 The Kubat STAR |
| 2010-03-30 Homework Essay |
| 2010-03-29 C++ mutexes again |
| 2010-03-20 Weird Eyechart |
| 2010-03-15 Microproxy 1.01 |
| 2010-03-05 Microproxy |
| 2010-03-03 Sven Kramer and the wrong lane |
| 2010-02-26 Endearing Babe Magnet |
| 2010-02-17 Speed of light measured using chocolate and a microwave |
| 2010-02-17 Never again expires after 65 years |
| 2010-02-16 encfs on the Mac |
| 2010-02-15 Hyves.nl and sexual predators |
| 2010-02-10 Funny textbook |
| 2010-02-09 DNS failing after sleep wake cycle |
| 2010-02-06 Blast from the past |
| 2010-01-28 Simple and straight Perl HTTP::Proxy |
| 2010-01-15 Avatar the Movie |
| 2010-01-08 Slightly NSFW Linux Ad |
| 2010-01-07 WTF |
| 2010-01-05 Stop Software Patents in the EU |
| 2009-12-05 HammerServer 1.02 |
| 2009-11-28 Perls Automagical Autoloading |
| 2009-10-07 Office Poster |
| 2009-10-06 The nr 1 Nerdjoke |
| 2009-10-04 WoW Startscript for my Mac |
| 2009-09-27 HammerServer section is online |
| 2009-09-26 The BING HQ |
| 2009-09-26 Digging a WOW Tunnel |
| 2009-06-29 Wee Todd |
| 2009-06-23 The On Off Switch Revisited |
| 2009-06-22 Meatspace |
| 2009-05-30 My old houses |
| 2009-05-11 LOLcats are funny |
| 2009-05-11 Civic Duty WIN |
| 2009-05-10 Vote for the baby, Sky Radio promo FAIL |
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2009-05-05 My secure data center |
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This all started as follows. A good customer of mine
needed quickly a terabyte of secure storage, to store some
old files for audit reasons. The storage would be put in a vault, just
incase. The requirements were that the storage media should be very
secure, and should be detachable - so that all could go in a vault.
The inhouse ICT club of course offered a fantastic solution,
secure, redundant and all that - for a truckload of cash, and it would
be ready in a month. I don't even think that the money would've been
an issue, but the storage was needed "yesterday", not in a month.
Well, that's how things go.
Enter the DYI method of Secure Data Center Installations. For starters,
you need an old HP desktop, converted to Ubuntu, to which two Terabyte
USB disks are attached. The two disks set us back about EUR 160. We of
course encrypted both disks using Truecrypt and hooked them up. One of
the disks is used as write media for whatever files need to be stored,
the other is a back up which is rsynced every so often. Hey, if it
needs to be stored for some time, we'd better have two..
A standard desktop that we cannibalized...
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With a USB drive plugged in...
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Next are of course physical security issues. Encryption is good, but
physical access restrictions aren't bad either. Plus I have to admit,
we didn't want this thingy to be noticed.. as in "Hey, what's that
system doing over there? Who hooked up them USB drives? What version
of Windows is it running? What? No standard Windows build? Li- what?"
So enter the Powertools. We commandeered a desk cabinet that was
previously used for paperwork, and drilled a few holes in the back for
cables.
Powertools make my day.
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They also make holes in the back.
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The slider mechanism in the cabinet, previously used for hanging paper
folders, made a nice support for a flat screen and a keyboard. Hey, a
Secure Cabinet with a retractable screen and keyboard - who would've
thought?
Retractable!
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It even boots.
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Here's the result. You'd never know there's a super-secret 1Tb
storage unit in here, being mirrored onto a redundant second 1Tb.
There was however one victim of all this: My one inch drill that I'd
used for the back of the cabinet. Totally burnt. Well, it'd done its
job, RIP...
Super-secret. It's got a lock.
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The one casualty.
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All in all? It made the office day a lot less boring!
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| 2009-02-15 My Valentine is sending me a dot exe |
| 2009-02-05 MacPorts trash: .mp_123456 savefiles cleaning |
| 2009-02-01 Truecrypt 6 on Linux and the ext3 filesystem |
| 2009-01-28 www versus nl.youtube.com |
| 2009-01-27 Songsmith and The Police |
| 2009-01-25 My own Ministery of Silly Walks |
| 2009-01-09 CoolIris Mini HOWTO |
| 2008-11-04 UDP and DNS balancing |
| 2008-11-02 Life in graphs |
| 2008-11-01 Skeined yet? |
| 2008-10-30 New Crossroads on the horizon |
| 2008-10-28 Thread safe or not |
| 2008-10-15 WOW patch 3 on a case sensitive MacOSX filesystem |
| 2008-10-15 Surprising C++ optimizations |
| 2008-10-14 Weird system message |
| 2008-10-08 Data mining against terrorism does not work |
| 2008-09-16 Crossroads at the top of Freshmeat.net |
| 2008-09-09 Stupid spammers at Computable |
| 2008-09-06 Spam prevention with Postfix and Postgrey |
| 2008-09-03 The Gnomish Flying Machine |
| 2008-08-27 Bank customer data on eBay |
| 2008-08-26 Mutexes in C++ Threads |
| 2008-08-22 4M dataloss in the UK last year |
| 2008-08-21 Dropping spam with Postfix and Spamassassin |
| 2008-08-18 Bayes and the War on Photography |
| 2008-08-13 Good marital advice |
| 2008-08-12 Squid proxy for personal usage |
| 2008-08-11 Posix threads in C++ |
| 2008-08-09 Crossroads mailing list |
| 2008-08-08 Crossroads 2.00 is out |
| 2008-08-01 Fail Pics |
| 2008-07-14 The Fish Dance |
| 2008-07-01 Big Bother and Massive Data Storage |
| 2008-06-30 MMV One of omitted Unix tools |
| 2008-06-08 Even anonymous breadcrumbs can give you away |
| 2008-05-29 Crossroads in Argentina |
| 2008-05-20 The Party at the Company Outing |
| 2008-05-19 Crossroads 1.80 is out |
| 2008-05-18 Where does technical innovation really come from |
| 2008-05-16 Corporate bs generator |
| 2008-05-15 Even the Vatican has to adapt |
| 2008-05-12 Big Brother is watching your dog |
| 2008-05-09 666 all over the place |
| 2008-04-17 Security and privacy are incompatible |
| 2008-04-16 The Hallmark E Card |
| 2008-04-15 Crosroads Solaris port is out |
| 2008-04-04 Identity theft can cost you dearly |
| 2008-04-03 Crossroads can already do that |
| 2008-03-31 A dagerous safari |
| 2008-03-28 Why some Java J2EE projects are inefficient |
| 2008-03-26 The Hummingbird |
| 2008-03-25 The Easter delusion |
| 2008-03-18 McAfee detects mass hack of 200.000 webpages |
| 2008-03-17 More predictive statistics |
| 2008-03-10 Backwards conclusions even on Slashdot |
| 2008-02-18 A fractal photograph |
| 2008-02-15 Kaprekar revisited |
| 2008-02-14 Kaprekar numbers |
| 2008-02-12 A tale of the criminal ineptitude |
| 2008-02-10 Irritating Selfregistered users in PHPBB |
| 2008-02-08 B2B Spam in the Netherlands |
| 2008-02-06 Surprising iSight Capture |
| 2008-02-05 Breadcrumbs at WickedLasers.com |
| 2008-01-29 iSight Capture Utility |
| 2008-01-28 The Male Brain |
| 2008-01-26 Searching for the next Uri Geller |
| 2008-01-24 Opt in for b2b spam |
| 2008-01-14 Bokito Revisited |
| 2008-01-13 Top Crossroads User |
| 2008-01-12 World of Warcraft Dancing |
| 2008-01-12 Justice dispensed better late than never |
| 2008-01-11 Jeremy Clarkson and Identity Theft |
| 2008-01-10 Terrorism in the Netherlands |
| 2007-12-07 The mind and bodysnatchers are among us |
| 2007-12-05 Bruce Schneier and Hildo |
| 2007-12-04 Bye bye, good Christian soul |
| 2007-12-03 Confusing mail message |
| 2007-11-30 Medion MD 85276 reviewed |
| 2007-11-29 Recent cases of data exposure |
| 2007-11-20 Bayes bites |
| 2007-11-19 Japan starts fingerprinting foreigners |
| 2007-11-14 Privacy, Yahoo and the Strange World |
| 2007-11-14 Privacy, Fall through algorithms, and Securing data |
| 2007-11-07 European airlines to retain data |
| 2007-11-03 BloggEd |
| 2007-10-30 Wilders and Marktplaats.nl |
| 2007-10-28 The goldplated Mac |
| 2007-10-26 More morons |
| 2007-10-26 Dilbert nails it again |
| 2007-10-23 Rough yet funny |
| 2007-10-05 Another silly Trojan mail |
| 2007-10-01 So ugly it is beautiful |
| 2007-09-28 Here is a nickel kid |
| 2007-09-23 Spy Shredder |
| 2007-08-29 Web svn view 1.08 |
| 2007-08-24 Caught in THE Process |
| 2007-08-21 Stupid Trojan attack |
| 2007-08-21 Back in 1994 |
| 2007-08-20 A girly iPod |
| 2007-08-17 Crossroads for RDP connections |
| 2007-08-15 Firewall art |
| 2007-08-14 jpeginfo |
| 2007-08-13 Good People |
| 2007-08-07 The Real Crossroads |
| 2007-07-30 BBC Documentaries in the Netherlands |
| 2007-07-12 No problems with Crossroads so far |
| 2007-07-11 Politically correct ad nauseam |
| 2007-07-02 Waka Waka Poem |
| 2007-07-02 Voyage of the rubber ducks |
| 2007-06-28 The On Off Switch |
| 2007-06-27 No free lunch |
| 2007-06-25 Crossroads web interface |
| 2007-06-25 Blinkenlights |
| 2007-06-21 There is no silver bullet |
| 2007-06-18 Motto of the week |
| 2007-06-18 Do not feed the troll |
| 2007-06-17 Which programming language are you |
| 2007-06-13 Crossroads support request |
| 2007-06-12 Bokito glasses |
| 2007-06-07 Apache mod_proxy balancer description |
| 2007-06-05 A ticketnumber is not support |
| 2007-06-05 403 Hammertime |
| 2007-06-04 Playground Fun |
| 2007-05-24 Ascii man |
| 2007-05-07 Cannot find the damn server |
| 2007-05-02 The BFG200 |
| 2007-04-27 Crossroads Top User |
| 2007-03-30 Crossroads Usage |
| 2007-03-25 The guy with the dark motorhelmet |
| 2007-03-22 The Process and The Result |
| 2007-03-21 Quotes attributed to Jos |
| 2007-03-20 A really nice comment about Crossroads |
| 2007-03-18 Kubat in the air |
