Unstable Path

Always take the road less traveled.

PKI Best Practices – xdot509.blog

This blog posting is just a list of PKI best practices and common practices. If you are implementing your own PKI or simply assessing your own PKI you can use this list to determine if your design or implementation is…

The rest of August

I’ve been busy during work hours and relaxing off-hours, meaning this post covers three weeks instead of the 1 week that I intended. Home Automation: Simple steps to offload some maintenance work this week. I am setting up unattended-upgrades to…

First weeks of August

I feel really positive about how I’ve ended the last couple of weeks post-vacation. I’ve gotten to enjoy late Upstate summers spending loads of time in our backyard outdoor oasis with my wife watching the fur-kids play.  I’m finishing this…

July Notables

I’ve taken my sweet time on this one. Multiple work projects, holidays, and a vacation. The Final Frontier Asteroid mining startup AstroForge will test its metal refinery tech in space this year – Finally, we are looking at the resources…

Microsoft Sharepoint outage caused by use of wrong TLS certificate

Microsoft Sharepoint and OneDrive for Business were briefly interrupted today after a German TLS certificate was mistakenly added to the main .com domains for the Microsoft 365 services. — Read on www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-sharepoint-outage-caused-by-use-of-wrong-tls-certificate/

On Sleep

Many of us face some level an anxiety over our sleep, or perceived lack of it. I’ve recently gone down a rabbit hole of sleep-related podcasts and articles. I thought I would share some of what I learned here on…

Mac HotKeys

General⌘ ~ cycles through windows of the same app⌘ + Shift + [ or ] will scroll through your tabs in most apps Finder⌘-T – New Tab⌘-K – Connect To Server Symbols

Notes from Rich Dad, Poor Dad

I just finished my first re-read of Rich Dad, Poor Dad after I originally purchased the hardcover book. The new edition has updated facts and figures but closely follows the hardcover I originally read.

Synthetic Identity

We’ve heard a lot about synthetic identity fraud from a FI’s point of view. But synthetic identity can also be used to steal money from anyone. Here’s a short episode of Darknet Diaries discussing how Facebook and Google lost millions…