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Introducing the Hitchcock

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Some trucks have testicles, mine has a Hitchcock.

The Hitchcock on the truck.

The Hitchcock on the truck.

Yes, that’s supposed to be the outline of Alfred Hitchcock.  It looks a lot like Harambe though…

Hitchcock in profile

If you want to make one, check out the Thingiverse thing here.  Download all files, open the zip up, and under “files” you’ll find an “stl” file.  Hop on over to https://www.hubs.com/, click “start manufacturing”, and upload that “stl” file.  I used regular PLA plastic and printed in white to try to avoid any discoloration due to sunlight inevitably breaking this thing down.  If you want a recommendation for a specific hub to use over there, these guys printed this Hitchcock, and I’m sure they’ll do a great job for you too.

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Confidentiality and Integrity vs Availability

In computer security, there are three main axes for consideration - confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA).  These are commonly thought of as things you desire out of a secure system.  You want your communications to only be available to the intended agents, you want them to remain unchanged except when you intend them to change, and you want them to be available when you need them.  Preferably, you want your communications to have all of those properties.

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Early Virus Total Catch

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When you aren’t quite first into Virus Total, but not far off, and the malware author who hard-coded an IP address is still using that IP :-)

Virus Total says:

First Submission  2018-04-03 00:00:53

Last Submission  2018-04-03 22:07:38

Last Analysis  2018-04-03 22:07:38

Hopefully the IP address owner got a dozen emails already, they’re a cloud provider.

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UK 2017 Odds and Ends

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Sarah and I are in line to get on our Norwegian Air flight home. I guess it’s time to wrap these posts up.

Some things to mention.

There’s lots of free WiFi. Still, having data access over the air is amazing. Google Project Fi gave me data access everywhere for the same price I pay at home. Phone calls are a bit expensive, but who makes those? WiFi calling is normal and texts are free.

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Cork and the Cliffs

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We took some side trips from Dublin - one to Cork/Blarney castle/Midleton, and one to the Cliffs of Moher with a few extra stops in there…

It’s easy to take the train from Dublin to Cork, be and from there you take the Cork bus to Blarney castle and Midleton (Jameson’s major distillery). The train leaves from Dublin Heuston station (pronounced like the Houston in Texas), and takes a couple hours. Buy tickets online, print them on the machine at the station, and hop on!  Electric outlets and wifi are provided.

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Dubsteppin Dublin

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A sign at Dublin airport showing a man being blown away, and instructing pilots to use minimum power

Watch Yourself at Dublin Airport

Land at Dublin airport, take a trip through passport control, buy a Leap card at the tourist desk inside, put €20 on it, step outside to the bus stop, hop on the Airlink 757 bus, get a tour of downtown from the top of a double decker bus, step off 30 minutes later in downtown Dublin.

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Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland

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I pushed the accelerator of the Peugeot 3008 to the floor, as I slammed it from fifth into third to accelerate up the hill and around the corner while the rock wall on the passenger side caused the proximity sensor to light and the lorry passed within inches on the driver’s side.  Lock one, lock two, Loch Lomond on the right and an ancient wall on the left.

Just the bathroom - a really nice, cottage-y bathroom, at Loch Lomond

Bathrooms at Loch Lomond

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Leaving London and Going to Scotland

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On the morning of 7 Oct Sarah and I headed to the Stansted airport to fly to Glasgow.  It’s fairly easy to get to the airport, there’s a train out of the Liverpool Street station that takes you right there.  I got tickets in advance, and they’ll take them right from your phone screen.  We cashed in the remaining funds on our Oyster cards before heading out - the normal Oyster machines at the station will give your remaining money back.

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