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Evan Kirstel #TechFluencer on Twitter: “😆 Your new job is to fix this. Where you do start? #DataCenter #avtweeps… “

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/16

Via: [Archive] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “This is what happens in every enterprise. Understaff and underpay Infrastructure people, hiring with peanuts gets you monkeys, then this, and next up an AWS cloud migration. The AWS is much more expensive, because you no longer get to cheat on infra cost.… “

[Archive] Evan Kirstel #TechFluencer on Twitter: “😆 Your new job is to fix this. Where you do start? #DataCenter #avtweeps… “

–jeroen

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Isotopp’s home sensor network

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/25

For my link archive an interesting blog post by isotopp (Kristian Köhntopp)

[Wayback] My home sensor network

I have been asked to document my home sensor network. Being married to a person with a background in web security sets boundary conditions:

  1. No cloud. We are running all services locally.
  2. No control, only metrics.

I am collecting data from a number of plugs with power meters over Wifi, using the MQTT protocol. I am also collecting data from a number of temperature sensors over Zigbee, and convert to MQTT. The MQTT data is ingested into Influx, and then read and plotted in Grafana. All of this is dockered and runs locally on an Ubuntu server.

Via [Archive] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “For @sluongng …”

–jeroen

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SMLIGHT SLZB-06 – A Zigbee 3.0 to Ethernet, USB, and WiFi adapter with PoE support – CNX Software

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/01

Want: [Wayback/Archive] SMLIGHT SLZB-06 – A Zigbee 3.0 to Ethernet, USB, and WiFi adapter with PoE support – CNX Software

Startup SMLIGHT has launched the SLZB-06 Zigbee 3.0 to Ethernet, USB, and WiFi adapter with PoE support that works out of the box with open-source software such as Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT.

The device combines Texas Instruments’ СС2652Р microcontroller for Zigbee with ESP32 for WiFi, data transfer to Ethernet or USB, and peripheral functions such as LEDs and a button.The design is complemented with Microchip LAN8720 for Ethernet.

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Posted in Development, ESP32, Ethernet, Hardware, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, IoT Internet of Things, Matter, MQ Message Queueing/Queuing, MQTT, Network-and-equipment, PoE - Power over Ethernet, Power User, Software Development, USB, WiFi, Z-Wave, Zigbee | Leave a Comment »

I had some Windows ATOM issues before, but this beats them easily

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/10/19

I’ve had some issues with Windows ATOM tables filling up, but nothing like this security bypass:

A new Windows code injection technique, atombombing, which bypasses current security solutions.

Source: AtomBombing: Brand New Code Injection for Windows – Breaking Malware [WayBack] with source code at BreakingMalwareResearch/atom-bombing: Brand New Code Injection for Windows

Note that since writing the first draft, the above AtomBombing article moved via Wayback: blog.ensilo.com to [Wayback/Archive.is] AtomBombing – A Brand New Code Injection Technique for Windows | FortiGuard Labs.

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Posted in Development, FortiGate/FortiClient, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Security, Software Development, VPN, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Development, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

The Hardware Hacking Handbook | No Starch Press

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/27

Want: [Wayback] The Hardware Hacking Handbook | No Starch Press

The Hardware Hacking Handbook

Breaking Embedded Security with Hardware Attacks
by Colin O’Flynn and Jasper van Woudenberg
November 2021, 512 pp.
ISBN-13:
9781593278748
Print Book (PREORDER) and FREE Ebook, $49.99
Ebook (PDF, Mobi, and ePub), $39.99
Hardware Hacking Handbook Cover

Via:

Some topics in the book are listed in [Archive.is] Colin O’Flynn on Twitter: “A random thread about a few things that @jzvw and I packed into The Hardware Hacking Handbook (note – this twitter thread is an advertisement, don’t be tricked into thinking this will be some nice useful stand-alone content). Roughly following book order:”.

–jeroen

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Since about 5 months now, there has been a new Chocolatey package maintainer for OpenVPN

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/26

Last winter, I discovered that the OpenVPN version on Chocolatey was really old: it had not been updated since 2019.

Most  Chocolatey maintainers are volunteers and sometimes the burden can become too large. Back then the maintainer was [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | wget, but luckily [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | dgalbraith has stepped in and in March 2022 bumped the version from [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | OpenVPN 2.4.7 to [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | OpenVPN – Open Source SSL VPN Solution 2.5.4 and kept maintaining (currently there is [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | OpenVPN – Open Source SSL VPN Solution 2.5.7).

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Chocolatey, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, OpenVPN, Power User, ssh/sshd, VPN, Windows | Leave a Comment »

FRITZ!Box 7490/7390 comparisions (via: Vergleich AVM FRITZ!Box 7490 und FRITZ!Box 7390 – YouTube)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/12

Not sure why WordPress.com failed to post this on 20140525, so I put it in the scheduler again. In the end I got a Fritz!Box 7490 and though the 

In 2013, [Wayback] Fritz!Box replaced the 7390 top model with the 7490 and I [Wayback] might get get soon when ADSL (which still has a Fritz!Box 7240 attached) is upgraded to fiber.

So here are some differences partially from the English FRITZ!Box and German FRITZ!Box Wikipedia page between the [Wayback] Fritz!Box 7390 and [Wayback] Fritz!Box 7490, partially from the below video:

About cooling: according to the video both run the same temperature, either because the air cooling of the 7490 is better. I’m wondering if that is the same when running inside a closet.

[Wayback/Archive.is] HardwareInfo.nl has a Fritz!Box 7490 review that indicates 802.11ac and USB3 might not be as fast as you’d hope.

Reading the [Wayback/Archive.is] Amazon.de 7490 reviews, I might just ask xs4all to get me a 7390, not a 7490.

–jeroen

via: Vergleich AVM FRITZ!Box 7490 und FRITZ!Box 7390 – YouTube.

PS: I need to research [WaybackUSB over LAN in more detail, especially the [Waybackopen source project USB IP.

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In some countries @archiveis redirect their domains using http-302 which can have trouble with multi-WAN

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/12

From [Wayback Archive.is blog — Why has the URL “archive-li” changed to…:

Why has the URL “archive-li” changed to “archive-ph”, and will this affect saved bookmarks at any time in the future?

Anonymous

This is temporary and only for some countries. All 7 domains work, so you do not need to change the bookmarks.

In The Netherlands all Archive Today domains redirect to archive.ph using a HTTP 302 redirect.

This caused trouble at my home location, but not at my brother, so I searched for local issues.

In the end, it was because I have dual WAN as network load balancing at home.

TL;DR

Modifying the routing table so traffic for 54.37.18.234 goes to WAN1 was my solution.

Finding the destination address

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Fritzbox 7490 ISDN landline and intenral ISDN S0 bus links

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/08

Somehow WordPress.com failed to post it on the scheduled date 20150331, not sure why.

Though ISDN has been phased out in The Netherlands as and almost phased out in Germany, you can still use end user Terminal Equipment on the internal S-bus.

Since scheduling the post for 2015, the same information as the original diagram below appeared in text form on Wikipedia and there it also adds TAE connector information: Fritz!Box: Belegung der kombinierten DSL-Telefon-Buchse – Wikipedia

Die Anschlussbelegung der Kombibuchse ist wie folgt:[44]

  • Pin 1: ISDN 1a
  • Pin 2: ISDN 1b
  • Pin 3: analog La
  • Pin 4: DSL
  • Pin 5: DSL
  • Pin 6: analog Lb
  • Pin 7: ISDN 2a
  • Pin 8: ISDN 2b

Der RJ-45-Stecker am grauen DSL-Zweig des Y-Kombikabels zeigt folgende Belegung:[44]

  • Pin 4: DSL
  • Pin 5: DSL

Die übrigen Pins sind unbenutzt.

Am schwarzen Telefonzweig ist der RJ-45-Stecker folgendermaßen belegt:

  • Pin 1: analog La
  • Pin 2: frei
  • Pin 3: ISDN 2a
  • Pin 4: ISDN 1a
  • Pin 5: ISDN 1b
  • Pin 6: ISDN 2b
  • Pin 7: frei
  • Pin 8: analog Lb

Somit ist ein direkter Anschluss an ISDN möglich, für analoge Anschlüsse liegt für Deutschland ein Adapter auf TAE bei:

  • Pin 1 RJ-Buchse auf Pin 1 TAE
  • Pin 8 RJ-Buchse auf Pin 2 TAE

Ein normales Kabel mit TAE-Stecker und sechspoligem RJ-Stecker, wie es für den Anschluss analoger Telefone an eine TAE-Dose verwendet wird, funktioniert nicht.

Bei entbündelten Anschlüssen (ohne analoges oder ISDN-Telefon) kann ein direktes Kabel verwendet werden.

Das Kabel für deutsche Anschlüsse:

  • Pin 4 RJ-Stecker auf Pin 1 TAE
  • Pin 5 RJ-Stecker auf Pin 2 TAE

Original article

Some links:

–jeroen

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Posted in DECT, Fritz!, Fritz!Box, Hardware, ISDN, Network-and-equipment, Power User, PSTN, Telephony | Leave a Comment »

Fritz!box 7590 interface extremely slow : fritzbox

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/05

I tried the solution in [Wayback/Archive.is] Fritz!box 7590 interface extremely slow : fritzbox (remove the some 30-40 unused machines from the network overview), but it didn’t matter: since Fritz!OS 7.x, the Fritz!Box 7490 UI is just very very slow: each page takes 10+ seconds to load.

Hopefully I can get rid of these and move to pfSense based hardware eventually.

–jeroen

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