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Everything I have published here since 2017. Architecture, gliding, lab experiments, and the occasional side note. Filter by pillar or scroll through the lot.
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2017
First post
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An IT architect perspective on GDPR – part I
Being the architect who drew the short straw and got assigned to the GDPR project, I collected some thoughts from large-enterprise practice: what the regulation means in day-to-day work with private individuals’ data.
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Can Apple read your iMessages?
About a year ago Matthew Green wrote a short post urging Apple to publish the technical details of iMessage encryption. Notes on what’s public, what’s inferred, and where the trust boundary really sits.
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Beyond TOGAF certification
Achieving the TOGAF certification is a milestone, but it’s only the start. Notes on what enterprise architects actually need beyond the framework itself.
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The Kubernetes Book
A short review and recommendation of Nigel Poulton’s The Kubernetes Book: a practical, hands-on introduction to Kubernetes concepts and cluster operations.
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2017 Gliding season is over
End of the 2017 gliding season with 7 hours of flying logged, roughly half of the 15 hours required for the license. Training continues next year.
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Low pass
Cockpit video of a glider low pass at LRCN Clinceni, a high-speed run down the runway before the pull-up and circuit for landing.
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Landing a glider
Cockpit view of a glider landing at LRCN Clinceni in August 2017, from downwind through final to touchdown.
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Winch launch
In-flight video of a glider winch launch at LRCN Clinceni, filmed from the cockpit as the cable pulls the aircraft to release altitude.
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Crazy Danish Hacker – GSM Sniffing 16 – Cracking SMS w/ Kraken
Final episode: end-to-end SMS cracking. Feeding captured GSM bursts into Kraken, recovering the A5/1 session key from the rainbow tables, and decrypting the target SMS in plaintext.
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Crazy Danish Hacker – GSM Sniffing 15 – Kraken install and test
Episode 15: installing Kraken on the Linux server and running the first sanity-check queries against the A5/1 rainbow tables. Confirming the cracker is operational before pointing it at captured traffic.
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Crazy Danish Hacker – GSM Sniffing 14 – Getting the A5/1 Tables
Episode 14: obtaining the A5/1 rainbow tables used by Kraken to break the GSM stream cipher. Where they come from, storage size, and how they map ciphertext bits to key candidates.
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Crazy Danish Hacker – GSM Sniffing 13 – Server config install
Episode 13: installing and configuring the Linux server that will host Kraken. Storage layout, network setup, and preparing the environment for the A5/1 rainbow tables.