Sometimes I collect material for a blog post in a file but then forget to publish it. Thankfully WordPress lets you backdate posts. I found three old blog posts that I wrote for the static blog which I never published. Since they fit nicely with the topics here I published them under the date when […]
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Releasing to Maven Central
While we already published releases on JCenter, we are now in the process of getting OpenFastTrace published on Maven Central. The goal is of course to make using OFT as convenient as possible for everyone. I am happy to see that the people from Maven Central take security seriously and do not just let anyone […]
Samsung Printer “security”
Not much time today, so just a list of “features” I’ve discovered on my shiny new Samsung M2825 printer: HTTP but no HTTPS (admittedly most devices do that since there is the problem of how to start the certificate chain) Default user / password: “admin” / “sec00000” No mention of open HTTP server in installation […]
Intrusive Sharing
Good software tries not to surprise the user. Today I was surprised that four of the integration tests in OpenFastTrace (OFT) failed although I did not touch the code. The failure reason given was a character encoding problem. Since I was quite sure that the problem did not occur last time I ran the test […]