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My article on PacketFence was published today in the last issue of (IN)SECURE Magazine.

It’s quite technical and it is all new material.

Go ahead, read it and give me feedback!

Direct link to issue 32.

Cheers!

I originally posted this late at night to a local security group. Then I thought it was funny and worth translating and sharing on my blog.

I released Tomdroid 0.5.0 earlier this week and I’ve heard no big complains that it ruined someone’s life. Here’s the announcement.

I’ll spare you the details but as you can see, it sports a new icon.

Just a quick post to say that I had a blast at the last Hackus. The whole competition was organized top-notch and the challenges gave us more to do than we had time for.

I have no formal functional programming training but being curious I’ve always paid attention to it.

Lately I was designing an API for a Perl module I’m about to release. I wanted to share how elegant the functional approach is compared to an iterative one.

The context: I’m building a module that implements a very weak cipher where each character of a string is rotated according to a formula that I wanted the user to control.

A naive approach would look like:

Its been a while since I wanted to try github being faced by the facts: it seems like it’s going to stick around, floss people like it and some of my own contributors to Tomdroid seems to push for it instead of bazaar/launchpad.

I just bought a scanner thinking that if it’s not supported I would return it (but hoping that I wouldn’t have to).

I should have checked the sane website on supported hardware...

Turns out that support for the LiDE 210 was added into sane’s git a few days ago. This is so recent that there’s no ubuntu package for it yet. So I decided to add an updated one to my PPA.

My talk at HackFest went well and had good reception. I’m pretty glad with it.

Here are the slides for you to enjoy. Unfortunately in french..

Hey, I even filled the Q&A room! With a quite corporate-ish topic.

I upgraded to Lucid today. Process went smoothly. First impressions, even though I kinda liked the brown / orange, I think I’ll get used to a dark theme and the aubergine presence pretty quickly.

Last Thursday I gave a presentation titled Android SDK’s Traceview tool – Why should you care? at android-montreal.

Here are the slides. However, I suggest you click to load the fullscreen version because without the animation you’ll be missing some content.