Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
Fa-la-la-la-laaa lala get some.
It’s a Christmas wreath, obscuring the licence plate.
Jokes aside, scammers love this time of year. People’s hearts are more giving and trusting than usual, because tis the season, and that makes is easier to prey on them.
Stay wary during the holidays… careful what you click, because phishing emails and social media scams; people canvasing for “charity” on the street, and on the phone; you get what I mean.
SSID – service set identifier
Big mystery solved eh, eye roll.
It’s like, a snobby way of asking the WiFi network name… “oh Clarence, what’s your SSID dahling?” *tea cup pinky*
When securing your WiFi network use WPA2 (never WEP). Then hide the name, don’t broadcast it, “cloak your network”, practice security through obscurity.
How to do that, here: How to Change your Router Password
Wanting to make it easy for guests, a hotel lobby WiFi network is usually left open and unsecured, no password required.
A lobby is a target rich environment – the people using hotel WiFi are often booking travel plans, making reservations, using their credit card. Plus, it’s easy to blend into a lobby, and not look out of place sitting for a long time with a laptop.
Spotted at this year’s SecTor online security conference. It was part of the capture-the-flag game, and a good example of why to never buy or use a strip cut shredder.
This is what I own.
It’s not as secure as you think though, because look: this is me digging for only a few minutes.
See how I made it seem like I’m up to something nefarious? Information is a weapon guys, dispose of it accordingly.
AKA “confetti cut”. I should’ve spent the extra few bucks and bought one of these.
It just annihilates the document.
Don’t make the mistake I did, and buy a micro shreder.
