David Penfold 

@davep@infosec.exchange
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Does IT stuff. Vegan and anarchism curious.

Likes permaculture, infosec, Tranmere Rovers. But mainly bad jokes stolen from https://www.justthetalk.co.uk/thehaven/17468/urgent-i-need-a-good-joke-right-now

Also unreasonably fond of BPMN.

Officially not right in the noggin #ʘ‿ʘ

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It's nearly 3am.

I'm in a hot Travelodge room and I just said, out loud to myself, "Laa Dee Dah!" , when I discovered the USB sockets.

Fancy.

Pinging @RuthMalan

The decline of osprey populations in the Chesapeake Bay is attributed to overfishing of menhaden, a key food source for the birds. But capitalists dispute that this is the cause, because menhaden is commercially valuable for fish oil, fish meal, agricultural feed, and as bait.

https://apnews.com/article/osprey-fish-climate-fishing-chesapeake-5ae89afbbac47630180c1784a38c185f

Osprey are declining and environmentalists blame fishing industry's take of menhaden

The osprey is in decline in one of its key territories and some scientists blame overfishing of menhaden, an important food for the birds. The osprey is a fish-eating raptor known for gymnastic dives and whistle-like chirps. And it's an American conservation success story: The hawk-like bird rebounded after DDT was banned, and now numbers in the thousands across the U.S. But biologist Bryan Watts has documented an alarming trend: The birds are failing to successfully fledge enough chicks around their key population center, the Chesapeake Bay. Members of the menhaden fishing industry say it's unfair to pin the blame solely on them.

AP News

@davep Uh oh.

I don't mean to interfere with your work processes, but might I humbly suggest that this is an excellent point in time to put away those tools, see a doc about that bicep, and call in a professional to take care of the tree?

Does anyone have any good resources for applying business-focused solution architecture (in the broader "Why/Motivation" sense) to gap analysis with TOGAF for a client's core business? I'm kind of going back to first principles but would prefer having existing case studies etc.
Saw a couple of these polyhedral fungi out on my mtb ride. Is #fungiverse a thing?
Nope, my bicep is too knackered. Ho hum, probably for the best.
I'm going to strap myself in well. The problem with that though is that I can't get out of the way should a branch do something unexpected (a basic tenet of chainsawing). However, we're not talking about full trunks here. I'm also not sure if I can hold the chainsaw properly with my buggered bicep...
Right, sod this. Time for the nucular option. I'm going to attach the big ladder to the tree, wear my harness, and attach that higher up so I can attack the main branches with the chainsaw. What could possibly go wrong?
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Still one of my most unnecessary projects. My apartment complex wouldn't let people have more than 1 garage fob per resident. So, I reverse engineered mine, bought some cheap fobs on Amazon, then wrote custom firmware for them that imitates my apartment fob.
@malwaretech Flipper Zero would have been too easy? :)
@Lee_Holmes @malwaretech That's a very expensive keyfob.
@Lee_Holmes @malwaretech there's also a problem where some have rolling codes, and flippers don't deal with those well.
@vandorb12 @malwaretech in addition to the built ins, Flipper lets you write apps that do anything you want with the radios
@malwaretech sounds fine/sane/proportional.... which bit was "unnecessary"?
@malwaretech I don't suppose you wrote a blog post about it? Given that it was probably just a simple thing you did for yourself?
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Exact same issue here, do you have some programmable fobs (and programmer if that's something proprietary) to recommend? Using a SDR get's a bit long in the tooth
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Also w1s the original fob PIC based? No hassle dumping the firmware (any read protections?)
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Also I wonder it that's a physical issue (antenna size) but no really compact (CR2032-sized, maybe a bit thicker) garage fob on the market. If there isn't a physical issue with having really compact programmeable fobs it could be a nice FOSS project

@malwaretech what RFID chip are they using? I tried that once for a friend’s appt complex, but was not competent enough to pull it off.

IIRC theirs was a Mifare

@malwaretech Sounds like deep hack mode.
@malwaretech any chance of a blog post explaining how you did this project?
@malwaretech "I'm constantly giving away my keys"

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Sounds like they really want to track everyone.

@malwaretech sounds like you should return both the fob they gave you and a couple of cloned ones when you move out as a power move! Or better yet only cloned ones that differ from the apartment's official fob

@malwaretech nice

At one of the developments I lived at this was significantly easier as they had not cut the link (which I could have resoldered anyway) which prevented the fob they gave me from being used as a source for cloning a new one.

By the time they replaced the system with something marginally more secure, I was chummy enough with the security guards that they just gave me a second one when I asked.

@malwaretech I would have approached this a bit differently, but it probably wouldn't have been as much fun. Leave the original key fob home and wire up a WiFi smart switch to it, so you can open/close the garage from any smart phone.