Hello again! 

Today, I started the Carnage Room Challenge. In this challenge, the infection begins when a victim downloads a zip file containing a document with a macro. Once the machine is infected, it communicates with the domain with an encrypted. I am still halfway through.

Next, I reviewed the cryptography theory, and now I am looking at the practical part, which involves John the Ripper. I learned a lot about symmetric and asymmetric encryption and HMACs.

Then, I configured Obsidian to use Ollama. Since local models aren't powerful, I found a solid use case for them. I'm using them with Obsidian for proofreading technical articles. This boosts my productivity while keeping my data private. I'm using Harper for spell checking and Local GPT for model usage.

I finished the remaining lectures and started working on the SQL Week song problem set.

#Day63 #100DaysOfCybersecurity #Cybersecurity

It is good to be lazy, in the sense of not being incessantly active like an ant or monkey, everlastingly doing something. Most of our minds are everlastingly occupied with words, with problems, with ideas and issues – always chattering to itself, never lazy, never quiet, always under a tension. A mind that is not indolent but has quietude, in its very gentleness, perceives in a flash what is true. That laziness, that indolence, that sense of infinite leisure is not to be confused with comfort. A mind that has leisure is an extraordinary mind, because then it is not caught up in the net of action, it is not everlastingly chattering with itself or about something.

From Collected Works, Vol. 13

#Krishnamurti
#Meditation
#phylosophy
#mind
#day63
#life

#Day63 of #100HappyDays / #365HappyDays is a tough one, given I found out this morning that the airport I’m meant to be flying to tomorrow is closed (#Catania), and I have had absolutely zero communication from #Jet2 about it. Given they’ve not notified me of a #cancellation or #delay, I’m heading to bed now to be up at 5am to drive to the airport as planned.

My #view as I closed my curtains will have to suffice.