I’ve been having a long-running conversation with various folks in the Ubiquiti Forums here [https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Routing-Switching/UniFi-USG-local-DNS-not-resolving-local-hostname-correctly/m-p/2031489#M54558] and here [https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Routing-Switching/

One of the greatest advances towards securing the Internet happened on April 12, 2016 when the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) launched the “Let’s Encrypt” X.509 Transport Layer Security (TLS) (you

I recently installed Fail2Ban on my personal mail/web host as the number of "bad actors" has climbed a lot in recent years and I no longer felt comfortable just allowing

It's spring here in Silicon Valley and that means it's time for the Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). This year did not disappoint with Apple making not 1,

I recently decided to run Kali Linux on my MacBook. I originally thought I'd just build it into a Virtual Machine (using Parallels), but was concerned that I might not have

I recently listened to Triangulation episode #278 with Tim Wu, author of The Attention Merchants (which I'm currently reading). Tim, and Leo, both stated in the podcast that getting people to

I'm a big fan of the Ubiquiti UniFi networking gear, I wrote about how I was able to use their gear to provide micro-segmentation [https://robpickering.com/ubiquiti-configure-micro-segmentation-for-iot-devices/] of my IoT

I recently read the following blog post post by Matthew Sag, "One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay is for Suckers [http://matthewsag.com/?p=1642]". It compelled me to tell

Time flies when you're having fun! I'm really happy to be back in Silicon Valley after returning from Calgary (and Edmonton). Nothing like being back, getting up in the

This review is a long-time in coming. Back at the end of 2013 I wrote an article on Enabling a USB to Serial Port Adapter in OSX [https://robpickering.com/enabling-a-usb-to-serial-port-adapter-under-os-x-10-9-mavericks/] . The issue

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