Reading PCAP Files (Directly) With DuckDB
We generate a ton of PCAP files at $DAYJOB. Since I do not always have to work directly with them, I regularly mix up or forget the various tshark, tcpdump, etc., filters ...
Resolve Bluesky/ATproto Handles To did:plc
Short post just to get the internets to index that I posted a repo with a small Bash script I’ve been using to resolve Bluesky/ATproto handles (like hrbrmstr.dev) to did:plc identifiers. Not ...
Where Do We Go From Here?
Christian nationalists, the GOP, clueless Dems, & SCOTUS have done quite a bit of real, serious damage to the fragile state of democracy & discourse in the U.S. They’ve also set back ...
Disgraced, Twice Impeached, Former President Joins His Long List Of Campaign And Administration Officials And Advisors As A Convicted Felon
Wake the heck up, 🇺🇸. This is the company the dude +40% of you want to give the keys to the country again kept. Crooks hang with crooks. I don’t know about ...
CVE-2024-27322 Should Never Have Been Assigned And R Data Files Are Still Super Risky Even In R 4.4.0
I had not planned to blog this (this is an incredibly time-crunched week for me) but CERT/CC and CISA made a big deal out of a non-vulnerability in R, and it’s making ...
Get A Day’s Schedule From Fantastical On The Command Line With Shortcuts
I use Fantastical as it’s a much cleaner and native interface than Google Calendar, which I’m stuck using. I do like to use the command line more than GUIs and, while I ...
VulnCheck’s Free Community KEV & CVE APIs (Code & Golang CLI Utility)
VulnCheck has some new, free API endpoints for the cybersecurity community. Two extremely useful ones are for their extended version of CISA’s KEV, and an in-situ replacement for NVD’s sad excuse for ...
Three Years After January 6th: The Insurrection’s Impact on U.S. Democracy
Three years ago, on January 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol was stormed by a mob intent on overturning the results of the 2020 Presidential Election. This event — the January 6th insurrection ...
Democracy 2024: Stakes vs. Horses
The 2024 U.S. Presidential election isn’t just another tick on the political timeline. It’s a crucial juncture for — quite literally — the future of American democracy. We’re not just deciding who ...
Welcome To 2024
Hey folks, This is likely our last shot at preserving liberal democracy in the U.S., or at least avoiding 20–40 years of abject horribleness by wannabe bigoted and sociopathic demigods. The year ...
