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SSH Notes
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July 21, 2023
Brief notes about SSH
Year Nine
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January 1, 2023
Things I’ve always wanted to do, but …

In the movie WarGames, the programmer of the WOPR computer left a backdoor login. When the main character guesses it, all Hell breaks loose.

Somewhere between 1995 and 2000, I was sent to teach a pSOS+ class to Westinghouse engineers in Savannah, Georgia.

There are two versions of this document. Both contain the same technical descriptions.

On the web, we use the names of computers or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Even when you’re using Facebook’s app, it is also using a computer’s name. This is because we remember names much better than numbers.

Something Broke
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April 28, 2021

A week of intermittent attempts at JT-8 on my ham radio failed to make any contacts. Not a single one.

It’s called a “Denial of Service” attack and it comes from a virus, affectionately named as you can see in the snippet above, “Smurf”.

Why Mac?
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October 26, 2015

For one thing, if you do many different things throughout the day, it’s extremely easy to switch focus because the Mac can have all things going at once.

Hillary’s private email system is not subject to the FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act).

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