Port Knocking and Beyond
by Patrick Roy on Feb.15, 2012, under English, Knocking, Security
I’m really happy to announce that I will be giving a talk (in French) titled “Port Knocking and Beyond” on the next HackerSpace on February 23 in Quebec city. If you want more information or to assist to the presentation, please visit the HackerSpace site : http://www.hackfest.ca/hackfest-community/hackerspace
Review : QNAP TS-439 Pro II+ Turbo NAS Appliance
by Patrick Roy on Feb.02, 2012, under English, Hardware, Rant
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been toying with a QNAP TS-439 Pro II+ Turbo NAS appliance. I wont be reviewing thoroughly this device as others already did it. I’ll just sum up my feeling for this unit by stating that it is a great product with two big (in my opinion) drawback. First, it is a software based raid solution so you are bound by (continue reading…)
My EVE Online Fan Page
by Patrick Roy on Sep.05, 2011, under English, French, Uncategorized
I’ve just posted my new EVE Online fan page. I’ve also added a dozen high quality in-game screenshots. go ahead and take a look: patrickroy.ca/eve-online
Short complex password are worst than long easy one’s
by Patrick Roy on Aug.15, 2011, under English, Security
xkcd.org has done it again:
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It’s a theoretical security risk to use short password because there are many counter measures someone can enabled to thwart remote cracking attempt. What’s more of a real risk to some organization is having a limit on the length of their passwords while enabling remote access to their systems using only the weak credentials and for counter measure against denial of service attack they don’t lock account after a small number of failed login attempt. For all 3 of you concerned : short complex password without proper counter measures are history. I think you should go fix your system’s. Now!
Opening and closing locked LuggageOpening and closing locked Luggage
by Patrick Roy on Aug.11, 2011, under English, Security
At first I didn’t believe it…
Now I’m going to pay special attention to my luggage while traveling!
A little news…
by Patrick Roy on Aug.03, 2011, under English
It’s been a long time since I’ve added content : I needed time to prepare for passing the CISSP exam. I officially received my CISSP titled about a month ago while I was on vacation.
Since then, I’ve been busy moving the site to a new provider with greater capacity. Now that it’s done I’ll (continue reading…)
Sound Blaster Doesn’t Support 5.1 under Windows 7
by Patrick Roy on Nov.28, 2010, under English, Hardware, Rant
The bass redirection feature isn’t working under Windows 7 64bit. You can translate it by saying that the .1 in 5.1 doesn’t work.
I recently upgraded my home theater PC with a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Titanium sound card. I diligently send Creative Labs an email before buying it asking if it does what I wanted it to do. (continue reading…)
Hackfest 2010
by Patrick Roy on Nov.09, 2010, under English, Security
I really appreciated my two days at Hackfest 2010.
In my opinion, two speakers stood out of the crowd: (continue reading…)
- RT @mattbraga: In San Francisco, some bars are going live with face detection cameras tonight to track gender/capacity: http://t.co/t75K ... - posted on 18/05/2012 18:47:43
- RT @adschina: 2012 DoD report (2/3) Chinese actors are the world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage - posted on 18/05/2012 16:45:54
- RT @Antagoniste_net: N'oublions pas que les étudiants manifestent pour réclamer un gel pour les familles avec un revenu de + de 100 000$ ... - posted on 18/05/2012 08:33:55
- RT @OpenFileMTL: Bill 78: special law to deal with student strikes. Read the bill in full: http://t.co/6XQhOlG0 #ggi - posted on 18/05/2012 08:31:32
- RT @arstechnica: 330Mbps fiber-to-the-home coming to UK this summer http://t.co/szaG9DHK by @cfarivar - posted on 18/05/2012 07:54:58
