[clug] SSL Man-in-the-Middle attack - by "Law Enforcement"?

[Peter Barker]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Andrew Janke wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:14, Alex Satrapa <grail at goldweb.com.au> wrote:
>> I'm preparing for the coming apocalypse by learning how to grow my own vegetables, in the guise of becoming a domesticated/house-broken male human.
>
> Does a Linux based controller for my home hydroponics setup (for
> _VEGETABLES_! I might stress) count?  So far I have just used a heap
> of cheap mechanical timers to turn pumps on and off but have always
> thought this would be a great project for some arduino/controller type
> of thing.

I don't like watering things by hand, so one of the first things done when 
we bought this house was to run a lot of irrigation pipe...  The control 
system is currently based on an old USB-connected GPIO device thingy, but 
I've been considering using the nearby arduino (currently used for flow 
monitoring) instead.

milligan:~# crontab -l | grep VEGE
00 08 1-31/2 1-2 * /root/water.sh VEGE 15
00 08 1-31/2 3-7 * /root/water.sh VEGE 15
00 19 1-31/2 3-7 * /root/water.sh VEGE 15
00 08 1-31/2 8-10 * /root/water.sh VEGE 5
00 08 1-31/2 8-10 * /root/water.sh VEGE 15
00 08 1-31/2 11-12 * /root/water.sh VEGE 15
milligan:~#

http://e0.net.au/~pb/home/wateringsystem.html

It's kind of embarassing, that whole spaghetti-pile up there.  OTOH, it's 
in place, and has worked for many years....  must... not... needlessly.... 
"improve"...

>   http://picasaweb.google.com.au/a.janke/HomeHydroponics#

Nice.  Defintely something I'll have a play with at some stage!

> I _need_ to get to a CLUG meeting and learn about these little control
> devices one day...

Meh.  Buy one, play.  Not an expensive toy, really :-)  And there's *lots* 
of easy-to-follow tutorials out there.

> Andrew Janke

Yours,
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