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BeagleBone...!

No, all you need is the initialization packet for SSL which I could get on a laptop or android device. A few packets contain that too - so again, pretty easy to get the info from unfortunately. But definitely better protected technically.

If you're in a coffee shop, I could sniff your traffic as you log-in to Facebook, your email, your bank, Amazon, etc. Whether that's me physically being there or me rigging up a cheap rig like a pi to sniff and send me the results. There is no encryption between you and a WAN. This is pretty necessary when…

I am not trying to be a hater, but this isn't really a "beginner's guide to DIYing" it's a beginner's guide to reading the directions already on Raspberry Pi's site.

Looks like one to pass up for now. Just like w8 has been since I updated. Sadly, under the hood it really is great, but it is just unusable without after market tweaks. That's not a release ready system if that's the case.

+1 - That would be awesome if one was available, but I am yet to even see a decent one in the alpha phases :-/

And in the US, the info on your card is stored in an easily readable format (i.e. anyone with a microcontroller and a make-shift magnetic reader could read it). Most other countries have made the switch (both ID and Credit/Debit cards) to have a more advanced protection system (I think it requires that a piece of…

The article ignores the important pieces behind this... Different filesystems (and formattings) handle files differently (i.e. what to write and when to write it), which means that while defragging is useful for many of the common ones out there - it's not always the case and it isn't fully a function of the hard…

There's no question that an always on desktop has a greater draw. Perhaps they are, though the minimal effect on the bill still takes a while to pay-off.

I got rid of apple everything in me tech collection. I got fed up with being told how I am supposed to use what I own and being driven toward a mobile interface on the desktop. Glad it worked for you though.

I had that same phone that looked almost the exact same, but with Duct tape. Love it.

Which is reasonable, and while I agree that it is good to be conscience of our toll on the grid - I still hate the term "being green". Haha!

Unless you want it totally portable, this is mostly useless as the break even on that is around 3 - 5 years at best. The Raspberry Pi's draw equates to somewhere around $11.77 per year (depending on your local energy costs). Just to get that shipped to the states and all is $50+.

Rather than worrying about any IP issues, I just made a python script that gets my public IP every 5 minutes with a CRON. If the IP changes from 5min ago, it emails me (which isn't often). Even houses with dynamic IPs rarely rotate. But if it does, I am only out a max of 5min. And since it's Python and the…

You talk a little bit about security here, but overlook the obvious security hole. Once you are set-up, or even before, have a user that is part of the "wheel" group (or whatever sudo group you want) to ssh to and disable root for ssh. That way, if you need to do sudo-y things while SSH'ed in, you can just do "su"…

Depending on the distance, it would be worth-while to custom build a sensor payload that reports information over a serial connection. Then that serial connection can feed into a pair of 900MHz radios and he can get it fed into the 900 on his side.

Thank you very much for that, I really do appreciate you taking the time!

I love you. Could you please share the tutorial if you have a minute? I work a bit with APRS (by default) and am going to do my HAM license shortly and would love to get this running.

Finally! It's worth it, but you still may have junk from Kaspersky. Sorry for the lack of reply, I rarely check lifehacker anymore.