🔗 Japanese government plans to hack into citizens’ IoT devices

Many have argued that this is an unnecessary step, as the same results could be achieved by just sending a security alert to all users, as there’s no guarantee that the users found to be using default or easy-to-guess passwords would change their passwords after being notified in private.

Look, there is a certain merit to what the Japanese Government has proposed, however, it’s not a huge leap to suggest that this “audit” will end up in the wrong hands at some point in time, nor that it will actually lead to people fixing their security flawed passwords.

Mark my words, this will not end well…and nor should it

🔗 Apple in 2018: The Six Colors report card – Six Colors

Hard to disagree with those results.

⚽️ First training session for the year done and dusted! Here’s @travispacker making a strong save.

Watching: Runaways: Refraction (S1.E7) 📺

At Atlas’ Open House, the parents and kids are thrown together following the revelations of tha gala. But for one family, the school event is only the beginning of the drama.

Watching: Runaways: Metamorphosis (S1.E6) 📺

At the PRIDE gala, the kids set in motion a plan to expose their parents for good. As the evening progresses, everyone’s personal drama threatens to drive the plan off course.

🔗 No More Google via Adactio

Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don’t track you

Gmail is pretty much the only Google application that I still use regularly, and whilst I’ve got my own domain, hosting, etc. I don’t know if I want to host my own mail server…

⚽️ Diego Castro stars as Glory beat Jets 2-0

Disappointing performance by Newcastle last night in Perth. The current central midfield pairing is not working, we’re not turning defense into attack nearly fast enough, and our forwards aren’t getting good opportunities on goal.

Current home screen, January 2019. 📱

Random insult/sledge from my 9yo Son, @travispacker, just now, “go sniff a fish” 😂

In hindsight, I wish I had of registered my matpacker.blog domain with Hover, instead of with my webhost, as apparently it will take 7-10 days for my webhost to transfer it to Hover, which is a total pain now that I want to make some DNS changes.