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The Key to the Kingdom!

Hi everyone.  It’s been a few months since I last posted and I wanted to let everyone (who probably already knows about this wonderful tool) know about something I’ve just started using full-time.  If you aren’t familiar with it, there … Continue reading

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Installing Snort on OpenBSD 6.4

As you may recall from previous posts, I am running an OpenBSD server on an APU2 air-cooled 3 Intel NIC box as my router/firewall for my secure home network.  Given that all of my Internet traffic flows through this box, … Continue reading

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Well, it’s been a while – falling in love with OpenBSD again

I was checking the other day and was appalled at how long it has been since I posted here.  I had been working a job during 2018 that had me traveling 3,600 miles by air every week so that is … Continue reading

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The $25 “FREEDOM Laptop!”

Time to get back to the original intent of this blog – talking about my paranoid obsession with information security!  So break out your tinfoil hats my friends because this will be a fun ride.  I’m looking for the most … Continue reading

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DragonFlyBSD Desktop!

If you read my last post, you know that I set up a machine (Thinkpad x230) with UEFI and four operating systems on it.  One, I had no experience with – DragonFlyBSD (other than using Matthew Dillon’s C compiler for … Continue reading

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Boot All The Things!

Frequent readers of this blog probably know I’m a big fan of free and open source software and also that I have a warm spot in my heart for the BSDs – especially OpenBSD.  Unfortunately, some of the tools I … Continue reading

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Congress just sold your online privacy, now what?

The United States Congress just voted on and passed a bill that allows Internet Service Providers to sell your data.  I thought I’d take a moment and first explain why this is “A Bad Thing(TM)”, then tell you what you … Continue reading

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OpenBSD on Thinkpad X1 Carbon 4th Generation

In previous posts, I’ve detailed my movement away from all things Apple and my configuration of how to get OpenBSD installed on this laptop.  Now that I’ve been using it as my daily driver for a few months, I thought … Continue reading

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Say my Blog’s name!

Given that the title of this site is “functionally paranoid”, I noticed it had been a while since I had written anything focused on information security.  I thought about what would be a good topic and it hit me – … Continue reading

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Where the rubber meets the road (part two)

So in my last post, I detailed what it took to get Arch Linux running on my brand spanking new Thinkpad X1 Carbon (4th Generation) and was getting ready to install OpenBSD on the same disk.  In the intervening time, … Continue reading

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