[Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter

I wrote a script some time ago, that basically parsed the auth logs on my web server looking for IP addresses that try, and fail, to log in, multiple times.  Over the years, I've continued to expand what it does, and what it could do. At first, it would note something, and send me an e-mail, and I'd get to it, and it would continue to e-mail me once every hour until I did....

17 Sep 2011 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Google+ or Not

Thanks for the invites.  I have a small collection now. I can't use Google+, and here's why. I use Google Apps for Domains.  This allows me to do all sorts of things with vollink.com.  However, Google hasn't opened Google+ up for domains accounts yet. I /could/ use a Google account that isn't already associated with my domains account.  However, with a domains account, Google tracks my login across the browser, which means to use a different Google account, I either have to use a different browser for the other account, or I would have to log out of all Google services first....

23 Jul 2011 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Facebook 101

Collected from recent FaceBook 101 updates of a friend of mine. Keep your personal drama problems off of Facebook. Do not write an ambiguous post just so the first commenter will have to ask, "What do you mean?" Learn how to use the privacy features of Facebook and DO NOT leave your profile open to the public. Do not post or comment if it will get you in trouble with your significant other; Offending others is OK, if you are really prepared for the backlash....

22 Dec 2010 · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink

What Crime Was Committed?

It appears that the politicians who are supposed to represent me are trying to convince me that a website, WikiLeaks, run primarily by a group of Australian citizens has, itself, done something illegal. I'm usually not one to go out of my way to question things my representatives are saying, but in this case, I feel I have to. Let me explore this a little bit (with the help of The Telegraph Timeline Reference)....

9 Dec 2010 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink