Open Unlocks the World’s Potential
An article was published in the Financial Times that was headlined “Log4j hack exposes problems with open-source software” which was
Category: security
all about security issues
Tech tip: using mutt to access mailfence.com
tl;dr: make sure smtp_url definition starts as smtps. I needed to set up access to a paid-for email provider, mailfence.com
An interesting justification for use of TT data – the case for a Digital Bill of Rights.
[image from https://www.searchquotes.com/quotes/about/Broken_Trust/%5D I was pointed to an opinion piece in a local paper about a reason for the justification
Of trust, transparency and privacy – TraceTogether
It was announced in parliament on 4th January 2021 (first time the proceedings were livestreamed which means item 7 in
Let’s Encrypt and self hosting at home
I have a NextCloud instance running at home and I need to make sure that the SSL certificate on it
Of trust and obfuscation
[image above from http://chloescheffe.github.io/trust.html%5D Last Friday, 19th June 2020, I was part of a group of four from the local
Seriously? NRIC for TraceTogether?
[Image from https://www.solarwindsmsp.com/blog/what-pii-and-phi-and-how-do-you-secure-them and added NO to it using gimp.] I wrote earlier that asking for a phone number when
Looking forward to a recyclable, open sourced, wearable, contact tracing device
So, the other shoe is about to drop. Gov is planning on providing everyone a wearable contacting tracing device to
A flawed idea. Zoom does not get it (or maybe they are pretending).
Earlier this week, a report came out that the video conferencing provider, Zoom, would be providing End-to-End-Encryption (E2EE) but only
Jit.si if you care and Zoom if you don’t.
So, last week, from 8th April onwards, the Singapore Government imposed a partial lockdown (PL) – or as they say
BuildTogether – data, code, people for the world
The Singapore Government Technology Agency released, at the end of last week (Friday 20 March 2020) a mobile phone app,
Of NUCs and Bastions
[image above from https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/ssh-proxy-bastion-proxyjump%5D Just documenting the systems I have on my home network so that I know what to
The Enormous Empowering of Free and Open Source Software Ecosystem
It is quite disappointing to see the escalation of bad behaviour on the part of some of the partners in
Electronic voting and trust
There was s series of letters published in one of the daily papers here in Singapore about the apparent anomaly
Simple life hack
Turn your mobile data to the OFF as a default when out and about. Why? Read on. Since about October
Working around censorship
The Internet is a wonderful and absolutely essential resource that needs to be looked after, managed well and secured so
Not allowed to code? Really?
[image from: http://cdn.blog.safe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/no-coding.png%5D Lots of interesting, but not surprising, information is being made public about the Singhealth data breach. The
A healthcare IT foundation built on gooey clay
Today, there was a report from the Solicitor General of Singapore about the data breach of the SingHealth systems that
What I’ve learned in 15 years at Red Hat
[image credit: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Spock-shades.jpg%5D In September 2003, I was asked by Gus Robertson to consider joining Red Hat – essentially to
You gotta love the UNIX way of doing things
A colleague was asking for some help in a demo he was planning on that would involve him editing a
My updated GPG keys: 0x61AFA27B
I have just updated my GPG keys. The fingerprint is: 0x61AFA27B And my public key is: —–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY
SingHealth, PDPA, Smart Nation, sigh!
Looks like I am clear from the data breach at SingHealth. My Mom’s data, however, is not. This is the
About that data breach at SingHealth
PSA Notice Please go to https://datacheck.singhealth.com.sg/ and click on the log in button to check if your data was exposed
UEFI and Fedora/RHEL – trivially working.
My older son just enrolled into my alma mater, Singapore Polytechnic, to do Electrical Engineering. It is really nice to
I know more than you do
I cannot help but continue to be baffled by the way the G responds to some of the continuing challenges
A helper note for family and friends about your connectivity to the Internet from July 9 2012
This is a note targeted at family and friends who might find that they are not able to connect to
Exposing localhost via a tunnel
I came across this tool, localtunnel, that offers a way to expose a localhost based webserver (for example) to the
Public consultation on proposed Data Protection
I am really glad to see that call for public consultation for the proposed Data Protection act in Singapore. The
Is Vietnam blocking Facebook?
I am sitting at a lounge in Ho Chi Minh City’s international airport and connected to the wifi. Interestingly, I
Managing open source skepticism
I had an opportunity to speak to a few people from a government tender drafting committee on Wednesday. They are
Glad to have participated in the Cloud Workshop in Penang
I am pleased to have spent two days at the National Cloud Computing Workshop 2011 held in Penang, Malaysia April 11-12
Cloud for Academics
I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak from both a Red Hat and an open source presective about
SMS spam
Am always tickled to receive spam via SMS. The first one this year came on January 8th and reads as:
Unfiltered feed from Al Jazeera
If you are running Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can watch the raw feed from Al Jazeera using
Security breach of addons.mozilla.org
Thanks to Mozilla for this pro-active reporting of the security breach. If any of you reading this blog have an
How to buy a Dell WITHOUT windows
I was asked by a friend to get a Fedora CD to her and her friend so that their children
Participate in this info-comm survey
I think this survey, being run by the Nanyang Technology University and the Singapore Computer Society could use responses from
GPG Keysigning at FOSS.in 2010
I will be attending the FOSS.in event from December 15-17 in Bangalore, India. As part of the Fedora participation at
Automatically connecting to the Wireless@SG hotspots
Thanks to a caustic comment some years ago to Lee Kuan Yew by some visitors to Singapore, we have a