Self hosting a modern password manager with MFA, backups, DDNS, a certificate, and enhanced security Why Would You Do This? Password managers are a good idea. I’ve used a password manager for over ten years. But not all password managers are equal. I started using browser based password managers, then quickly migrated to KeePass. Ten…

You can configure PiHole many ways, this guide focuses on privacy and performance. Requirements PiHole is a popular DNS level ad block that can also protect against tracking and telemetry. It’s fairly light weight, so any Raspberry Pi with an Ethernet port will support it. I would not recommend a Pi…

Another Pi Zero W Hacking Gadget for Physical Penetration Testing Requirements This project requires a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a USB-A Addon Board, and a Micro SD Card. You’ll also need a computer to configure the SD Card and Pi. …

Fun and adventure with the $10 Raspberry Pi Why Are We Revisiting This? The Raspberry Pi Zero is very flexible and can provide a lot of capabilities for the low end of the Raspberry Pi range. We’re going to look at adding more capabilities and what you actually get with them. …

Visibility in your environment is usually a big gap Why are Logging and Monitoring Important? It depends on your home lab use case. If your home lab is strictly a lab environment, and doesn’t touch your production (i.e., the stuff you need to make your network run), then logging and monitoring isn’t that important. If your…

A good VPN is useful, but there aren’t may good VPNs — What Are We Talking About? A VPN is a Virtual Private Network that encapsulates your traffic in an encrypted tunnel between the source (usually your device) and the destination (a VPN server connected to a network, like a LAN or the internet). VPNs can be useful for online privacy to an extent; traffic between your…

In a world run by Apple and Google, where does Linux fit in? — What Did I Do? I found a good deal on an excellent used Google Pixel 3a XL on eBay and made an impulse buy. That being said, this is my third phone; I own a nice flagship Samsung Galaxy, and work has given me an iPhone 11 (which I solely use for work). The…

Helping bypass censorship and foster a free and open internet Why Would You Do This? Tor is a distributed network that adds a degree of anonymity to your traffic by sending it through a distributed network of relays. These relays are well known, there is a public directory, and can be blocked by ISPs and…

Using Prometheus and Grafana to visualize your environment Why Would You Do This? If you have a few Raspberry Pis doing this and that, having a centralized location to monitor them is a nice thing to have. I have a Pihole and Jellyfin, as well as a file server and a utility server that I…