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It has been a while since I have posted here so I wanted to share something that was surprisingly difficult for me to figure out.  I have a Thinkpad T440p that I have flashed with Coreboot 4.11 with some special … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →