check point FDE: as secure as a brick!

Filed under: security, sys admin by saul | No Comments »

I’m as mad as hell at Check Point.  They’ve managed to turn my MacBookPro into a brick.
This evening I decided to get around to encrypting my MacBook’s harddisk in accordance with our company security standards.  When we bought this first batch of MacBooks we thought hard about how we woud maintain the security standards we [...]

prevent locking yourself out

Filed under: openWRT, sys admin by saulcozens | No Comments »
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I’m playing with openWRT on a La Fonera 2100 and I kept locking myself out of the device by screwing up the netwrok configuration – the only way out of this is to re-flash the root file system – not difficult but a pain in the arse!
Then I found this:
http://www.ecshi.net/cat/linux/site/howtos/howto/fonera-openwrt
which suggests a natty trick [...]