September 24, 2012 1:14 PM
Posted by: Eric Hansen
securityThere's a few solutions out there for handling credit card payments without dealing with the burden of PCI compliance. When you think about it, there's Square, PayPal, Google Checkout, etc... While these solutions are fine, typically they either don't offer an API so you can integrate with them...
August 31, 2012 5:50 PM
Posted by: Eric Hansen
securityLinuxBSDos.com recently posted an article talking about Skype and it's usage for law enforcement. While the article as a whole is interesting to read and adds a non-biased approach to...
August 31, 2012 5:14 PM
Posted by: Eric Hansen
securityAnother Python tip for you. In using the "Requests' module, it allows you to iterate through content n bytes at a time. This is quite useful when you're dealing with large amounts of data per request (such as downloading 2GB files), as if you just call request.content it will store all...
August 30, 2012 1:43 PM
Posted by: Eric Hansen
securityThere are two versions of SSL that Python can use, v2 and v3, and it just depends on what OpenSSL supports when Python is built. The latest builds of OpenSSL remove support for SSLv2 unless you explicitly tell it to keep such a thing, but with the security risks involved in SSLv2 it's usually...
August 29, 2012 10:45 AM
Posted by: Eric Hansen
securityPython is an ever increasing popular language that is gaining a lot of ground in server management and such. I've even really started using it in writing tools and scripts due to it's shear power you have with it compared to Bash, Perl and PHP. However, one issue I've had with Python, at least...
August 8, 2012 7:25 PM
Posted by: Eric Hansen
securityFor the past almost 2 months now I've been working almost from sunrise to sunset, every day, trying to get a new service for my business up and running. With about 95% of the entire project finished, I set out on trying to get billing to work on a non-consistent basis.
When it comes to...
July 26, 2012 1:25 PM
Posted by: Eric Hansen
securitySo, long story short I've been busy working on a new service for my business. I've gotten it close enough to the end now I'm happy to talk about it, and thought a blog post about one of the features would be a nice way to start things off.
I've been learning a lot of Python over the past week...
June 30, 2012 1:28 PM
Posted by: Eric Hansen
securityFor years upon years now people have been using passwords to authenticate themselves. However, the time has come for there to be a new contender. While I do not have the magic answer as to how to solve this issue, I do have my reasons for researching this topic.
Take for example password...
June 29, 2012 3:39 PM
Posted by: Eric Hansen
securityLong time no post, hah. But this post is about something involving SSH and the glorious ssh-keygen (keypair generator). This won't be beneficial to a lot of people, but for me it has posed to be quite a wonderful asset to my scripts.
Idea Behind This
Why would anyone want...
