Chris Monteiroinpirate dot londonAccess AWS-managed InfluxDB with an ALB and Cognito securityDue to AWS recently launching a managed instance of InfluxDB, this is allowing us to move from my janky EC2 InfluxDB instance into their…2 min read·Apr 9, 2024----
Chris Monteiroinpirate dot londonHow to stop display name based phishing easilyEmail standards are hard when your different suppliers don’t properly support them, but work at them long enough, through to helping them…4 min read·Feb 14, 2021----
Chris Monteiroinpirate dot londonOffice365 sign on from Google with an AD syncMy company’s a little unusual in that it’s a Microsoft and .NET development shop, but our main identity provider and document…3 min read·Mar 29, 2020----
Chris Monteiroinpirate dot londonRun an internet-facing WSUS server with a Cloudflare WAF and AWS managed TLSWSUS is one of those old-school Microsoft products like Exchange, which were never really designed to work beyond the trusted corporate…3 min read·Oct 22, 2019--1--1
Chris Monteiroinpirate dot londonMurder-for-hire statisticsThis will grow into the overall statistics page1 min read·Sep 28, 2019----
Chris MonteiroHatpin panic!A friend of mine went viral on Twitter with reports on the early 20th western world’s ‘Hatpin panic’ and the relationship with the…3 min read·May 11, 2019----
Chris Monteiroinpirate dot londonA darknet drug reseller retiresSince the great Reddit crackdown of ’18, open discussion of darknet market drug dealing has been at an all time low. Whilst several…4 min read·Jan 13, 2019----
Chris Monteiroinpirate dot londonWired UK “The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante… and a murder”…A response to this recent article I did with Wired UK. This is the second major media I piece I’ve done about this specific hitman-scam…1 min read·Dec 5, 2018--1--1
Chris Monteiroinpirate dot london“Cam” and “ Nothing to Hide” — techno-horror film reviewsI continue to suckle on the ever-so convenient teat of Netflix, in search of technologically-woke programming, exploring contemporary…3 min read·Nov 25, 2018----