https://icanteven.io/ Recent content on icanteven https://icanteven.io/images/papermod-cover.png https://icanteven.io/images/papermod-cover.png Hugo -- 0.131.0 en Derek Ardolf 2024 Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2024-08-05-fresh-new-site/ Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2024-08-05-fresh-new-site/ icanteven is currently under construction for a facelift. To be kept updated on the website, new posts, and other things: subscribe to my newsletter! https://icanteven.io/posts/2022-06-17-when-schools-spy-on-kids-and-families/ Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2022-06-17-when-schools-spy-on-kids-and-families/ The Story Imagine this: a school accuses a 15-year-old of taking illegal drugs, but that isn’t the most concerning part for the student. The evidence is strange. The school shows photos of him at home. In his bedroom! The pills? A photo featuring him…eating “Mike and Ike” candies. The school has been taking photos of him through his student-issued laptop webcam. How long were they watching him? Were there photos of him changing clothes? https://icanteven.io/posts/2020-08-09-wtd-virtual/ Sun, 09 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2020-08-09-wtd-virtual/ Intro The Good Docs Project (TGD) had a session table on Writing Day during the Write The Docs 2020 - Portland virtual conference. I wanted to write up a debrief on all the cool links and topics that were shared during the session. The table started as discussions around TGD templates repository on GitHub. If any of these ideas excite you, then consider [joining us at The Good Docs Project!] (https://thegooddocsproject. https://icanteven.io/posts/2020-03-15-fathome/ Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2020-03-15-fathome/ UPDATE 2020-03-26: Folding@Home has lept into exascale computing! .@foldingathome has surpassed an exaFLOP, making it the first to reach the exascale! You can read more athttps://t.co/qpZEfahRj0 — Greg Bowman (@drGregBowman) March 26, 2020 UPDATE 2020-03-23: Folding@Home has done an AMA, with the full thread available here. Intro Coronavirus (COVID-19) is officially a pandemic, as stated by the World Health Organization (WHO). Though, did you know that you can have the unused resources of your computers join multiple universities in actively hunting for therapeutic solutions? https://icanteven.io/posts/2020-01-13-python2eol/ Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2020-01-13-python2eol/ 04/20/2020 UPDATE: Python 2.7.18 has been released, and Python 2 has come to an end. Read more here: [RELEASE] Python 2.7.18, the end of an era Sunsetting Python 2 Intro I just wanted to drop a little post into the universe that support for Python 2.7.x has officially stopped, and is at End of Life (EOL). The last update, 2.7.18 will be released in April 2020, of which all code updates are frozen right now. https://icanteven.io/posts/2020-01-10-k8s-cka/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2020-01-10-k8s-cka/ UPDATED 05/05/2020: Updated a handful of links based on the April 2020 changes to both exams, having moved to Kubernetes v1.18.x UPDATED 02/03/2020: Updated a handful of links based on the January 2020 changes to both exams, having moved to Kubernetes v1.17.x Intro I’ve been wanting to learn Kubernetes for a while now. Thanks to Linux Academy, I’ve been able to get two Kubernetes certifications provided by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation: https://icanteven.io/posts/2020-01-04-aws-cfn-specs/ Sat, 04 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2020-01-04-aws-cfn-specs/ UPDATE 2023-05-02: The repository I created for this is archived, but others are free to fork and maintain a version if they’d like. I haven’t used CloudFormation for a long time now, and this repository was for the most part automatically able to just run by itself up until recently. It may still be able to continue running automatically if spun-up, as-is, with tokens that had the proper permissions to open PRs and automatically merge them. https://icanteven.io/posts/2019-11-08-openvpn-cfn/ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2019-11-08-openvpn-cfn/ Intro Want to automatically deploy an OpenVPN EC2 instance, running on Amazon Linux 2, to AWS? One that auto-produces an OVPN configuration file that is compatible with OpenVPN Connect, on both Android and iOS? This article is a breakdown of the following CloudFormation template repo: ScriptAutomate/openvpn-cfn: Deploy OpenVPN to AWS via CloudFormation and Amazon Linux 2 Feel free to fork it, star it, test it, and comment on it! Want an in-depth look at how it works? https://icanteven.io/posts/2019-11-07-nodejs-810-eol/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2019-11-07-nodejs-810-eol/ Node.js v8.10 EOL I just wanted to drop a little post into the DEV universe that Node.js 8.10 is soon to reach End of Life (EOL). With the Node.js 12.x now available on AWS Lambda, people should evaluate how they can tweak and migrate their code to work with it. Version 12.x is considered one of the Long-Term Support editions according the the Node.js Release schedule. What’s This Mean? Name Identifier End of Life Deprecation (Create) Deprecation (Update) Node. https://icanteven.io/posts/2019-10-18-aws-cfn-auditing/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2019-10-18-aws-cfn-auditing/ UPDATE 2023-05-02: The repository I created for this is archived, but others are free to fork and maintain a version if they’d like. I haven’t used CloudFormation for a long time now, and this repository was for the most part automatically able to just run by itself up until recently. It may still be able to continue running automatically if spun-up, as-is, with tokens that had the proper permissions to open PRs and automatically merge them. https://icanteven.io/posts/2019-10-05-hackerrant/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2019-10-05-hackerrant/ HackerRank is an excellent website to create code based on prompt challenges, prepare for coding interviews, search for jobs, and to see how the community has approached the solutions over time. The author wanted to dive into the Python focused solutions, and is in no way affiliated with HackerRank itself. The Challenge: Mean, Median, Mode From 10 Days of Statistics Day 0: Mean, Median, and Mode: Output Format Print lines of output in the following order: https://icanteven.io/posts/2019-10-02-vaporshell-docs/ Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2019-10-02-vaporshell-docs/ Recently, I became interested in what code repositories were automatically generated from the AWS CloudFormation Resource Specification files. These act as schema in how CloudFormation templates must be built. Tools that came to mind as already likely doing so were the ones meant to help with CFN template development by abstracting it away from raw JSON/YAML and into a particular language like SparkleFormation, Troposphere, and probably the AWS Cloud Development Kit. https://icanteven.io/posts/2019-07-04-s3nakedinpublic/ Thu, 04 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2019-07-04-s3nakedinpublic/ UPDATE 2019-11-18: Added some additional notes to include mention of AWS Config, Zelkova, and some info about tools by Rhino Security Labs like Pacu (thanks to input by @andrewbrown!) Again and Again Companies continue to make the news. Two, in particular, led to this post. One was a dating app, where private photos were publicly available for a year. 1 They’re being fined $240,000. The second company? An IT firm: https://icanteven.io/posts/2015-08-15-baby-harvesting/ Sat, 15 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2015-08-15-baby-harvesting/ Premise: Death and birth certificates can be filed online, with practically no oversight. DefCon Response: Let’s show the world how easy it is to kill anyone, and/or profit from the birthing/killing of virtual…babies? This is one of my DefCon 23 Debriefs, from the blog archives back in 2015! If you ever have the opportunity to get your work to ship you to Defcon, take it. If you ever get the opportunity to ship yourself, don’t think: just go. https://icanteven.io/posts/2015-08-13-iot-linux-rifle/ Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanteven.io/posts/2015-08-13-iot-linux-rifle/ Premise: Let’s place a computer on a gun, and give it WiFi. DefCon Response: Let’s hijack it, and install our own malicious updates. This is one of my DefCon 23 Debriefs, from the blog archives back in 2015! If you ever have the opportunity to get your work to ship you to Defcon, take it. If you ever get the opportunity to ship yourself, don’t think: just go. Another DefCon 23 debrief from 2015: