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nelop

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About nelop

I’ve spent 25 years working in enterprise technology, solving complex problems and building systems that just work.

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    Comment #46551502

    This is entirely hypothetical. It is not advice. It is not a recommendation. It is a thought experiment that assumes a slightly paranoid mindset and a background in locking down sy…

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    Comment #46517726

    Ohhh that's a good point, you can set the Rx pin to Tx, then it still has to get through the opto isolator, and then it's talking to a port that's set to Tx.

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    Comment #46517150

    Pretty confident, if the recieving machine is compromised, it is only connected to the opto coupler, that ensures only one way traffic, on one pin. Somehow you would have to get a …

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    Comment #46517086

    Ohhh that's a cool idea. I love any project that uses audio.

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    Comment #46517068

    Two separate networks, completely isolated, the only bit connecting the two is the opto coupler. Was all audited by their internal sec department. They are happy, it was an interes…

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    Comment #46516855

    Yep they are pretty simple, on one end you have a python script that listens to syslog messages, when get gets an interesting one it converts into a binary string and sends out ove…

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    Comment #46516782

    There are lots of ways to solve this problem. In the past I have worked in defence, for highly sensitive stuff they wouldn't even allow a common ground between two networks. That's…

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    Comment #46516737

    The problems was all my fault :-) I was trying to use a port that was not designed for serial data. When data was sent across it was getting mashed. I think it's because both ports…

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    Comment #46516642

    The final product is in a pi enclosure that is stackable, the two pi's live inside with the opto coupler installed inside. It does the job, but the enclosures are plastic, they are…

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    Comment #46516606

    Yep that would work, there's a whole heap of ways to solve the problem, have heard of people using fiber connections and curring one side. But I just wanted something simple for me…

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    Comment #46516217

    I just let them use my ubuntu machine, they 50% of what they do is through a browser, so have setup their own profile, and the other 50% is gaming.

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    Comment #46516118

    I wrote this to share my experience building a secure one-way data transfer solution for air-gapped systems. Happy to answer technical questions about why we chose this architectur…

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