A couple of family members have had warnings this week from the exceedingly awesome site Have I Been Pwned, that their details have been found in the wild. So, this is my attempt at making something easy to read and understand for my parents, siblings, and anyone else who may…

It’s the oddest thing. I spent many years walking into your home, with you asleep on your chair. Most times, you’d quickly wake up — sometimes not. Every now and then, I’d get spooked as I’d not see any evidence of your breathing, and be unable to trigger your awakening. …

Quick enumeration of the machine with nmap revealed the following information:

Quick enumeration of the machine with nmap revealed the following information:

Quick enumeration of the machine with nmap revealed the following information:

Quick enumeration of the machine with nmap revealed the following information:

With my fairly average graphics card — Radeon RX-590 (https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+RX+590&id=4025), for a given keyspace. More recent cards will be quicker. Next year, more recent cards will be quicker still! 7 characters, uppercase, lowercase, and numeric — around 8 minutes: 7 truly random characters, under 3 hours: