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Category Archives: Security

Nov
21
2010

Mobile and secure – setting up OpenVPN with DD-WRT and Android

So, with all the hubbub about Firesheep lately, and the fact that I’m becoming more mobile in my computing, I figured that it was time for me to get a VPN set up. I didn’t want to pay for one, and hey, it turns out that I have all the tools I need to manage [...]

By Chris Heald | Also posted in How-To | Comments (0)
Dec
05
2009

System date considered important

I’ve been slamming my head against the wall for the past two hours. I had an OAuth connection to a remote service working just dandy in development, but as soon as I tried to use that exact same code with the exact same config and exact same gems in production…I was getting “401 unauthorized” errors [...]

By Chris Heald | Also posted in Rails | Comments (0)