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Technical Setup for Long Distance Desert Hikes

Introduction One of the bad habits of the 21st century is to drag electronic devices wherever we go - I’m not different here and I would hardly go to the desert without any technical device. Some o...

Infosec Reading List - October 2017

On a monthly basis I will publish my reading recommendations which mainly focus on Information Security (InfoSec) and Outdoor Sports. All InfoSec Reading Lists can be found here. Quotes from the T...

Hiking the Ostkustleden

A couple of years ago I hiked parts of the Ostkustleden with some friends around Eastern. It’s a beautiful, easy and very relaxed trail leading you through the nature of southern Sweden. The lengt...

May all the Winds be with you - Heading back to the Puna de Atacama

There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Frida...

New Zealand - 3 Weeks on the Te Araroa Trail

Back in 2013, I joined for one month a couple of friends hiking the Te Araroa Trail southbound. We met close to the trail head of the Whanganui River where you basically need to rent canoes in orde...

On the Risk of Connecting and Collecting it All

The past has shown and the present demonstrates in an impressive way that protecting sensitive assets is hard - if not even impossible. Too many companies fail to protect their customer’s informati...

Infosec Reading List - September 2017

On a monthly basis I will publish my reading recommendations which mainly focus on Information Security (InfoSec) and Outdoor Sports. All InfoSec Reading Lists can be found here. Quotes from the T...

Hiking to the Top of Crete - Psiloritis (2456m)

Early September 2017, I went to Greece and also found some time to hike up the highest mountain of Crete - the Psiloritis (2456m). Below you can find some short information around this easy hike. ...

Infosec Reading List - August 2017

On a monthly basis I will publish my reading recommendations which mainly focus on Information Security (InfoSec) and Outdoor Sports. All InfoSec Reading Lists can be found here. Quotes from the T...

Accessing a usb-sys blocked and encrypted Qubes OS Partition

Qubes OS does offer a blocking instance to shield your Dom0 from attacks via USB called sys-usb. In case you have set up such a qube, you need to specifically dedidate a USB device to another qube ...