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Dave Kempe

@sol1.com.au

Network Automation, Monitoring, Icinga, Netbox, Ansible, Open Source stuff. I also spun out a new startup - knocknoc.io

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GitHub - sol1/rustguac: Lightweight Rust replacement for Apache Guacamole — browser-based SSH, RDP, and web sessions via guacd Lightweight Rust replacement for Apache Guacamole — browser-based SSH, RDP, and web sessions via guacd - sol1/rustguac

I always wanted to improve Gaucamole (the apache not avocado kind). I don't know if I have - I managed to vibe code something substantial with Claude code though. It was a fun experience, so now I guess I maintain a new open source project: github.com/sol1/rustguac

07.02.2026 05:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
10 years of mgmt - https://purpleidea.com/ I can't believe it's been 10 years

Big News:

Ten years of #mgmtconfig

Version 1.0.0 now released

I've started a company called "m9rx"

We have a crazy deal on our website right now, so please share the news and sign-up today!

purpleidea.com/blog/2025/09...

github.com/purpleidea/m...

m9rx.com/news/10-year...

25.09.2025 05:42 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Risky Business Weekly (807): Shai-Hulud npm worm wreaks old-school havoc
Risky Business Weekly (807): Shai-Hulud npm worm wreaks old-school havoc YouTube video by Risky Business Media

This week's show is up!

We talk about the Shai-Hulud npm worm, the Great Firewall of China leak, Trump's TikTok TACO, Land Rover's cyberpocalypse and a US senator crashing out over Kerberoasting (?!)

AUDIO: risky.biz/RB807/
VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzCR...

17.09.2025 04:18 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Hrmm I got a 404. Can you edit it so the link works?

11.08.2025 06:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Product Demo: The Knocknoc Secure Access Control Platform
Product Demo: The Knocknoc Secure Access Control Platform YouTube video by Risky Business Media

As a lot of you know I've been doing a lot of work with Knocknoc... we published a demo of their tech to our YouTube channel yesterday. It's a simple overview that also shows off the new (very simple) identity aware reverse proxy feature... it's very cool

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnNX...

08.07.2025 01:08 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I love this. I have been using 'meatware' in my architecture diagrams for when we want a puny human to do a thing.

26.06.2025 07:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*slaps roof* you can fit so many automations in this bad boy, you could never tell we made it needlessly hard in the first place!

31.05.2025 21:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Despite all the bleating, the VP visits the old pope who dies, then a new US pope is installed in a famously secret process. Smells like regime change.

09.05.2025 21:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it lacks a certain musk?

18.04.2025 22:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah probably true too

11.04.2025 01:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

isn't this how you let the facists win?

11.04.2025 00:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

oh damn

11.04.2025 00:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is dosai

29.03.2025 07:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks so much! I was trying out 'edge orchestration' at conference recently. My followup question was 'do you have an edge?'. I did get a few blank looks though, but they could have been from the risk type of cyber people.

27.03.2025 21:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

As a founder of a security product wrestling with this exact problem, I will tell you it ain't easy. Apple has shown that you get results selling the sizzle and not the steak. Technical people want the steak. We are trying both to see what sticks I guess.

27.03.2025 20:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Soap Box: Knocknoc glues your SSO to your firewalls for Just-in-Time network access
Soap Box: Knocknoc glues your SSO to your firewalls for Just-in-Time network access YouTube video by Risky Business Media

I published a Soap Box episode today featuring my good friend Adam Pointon, CEO of Knocknoc.

You’ve all heard me talking a lot about this company, so here’s a decent breakdown of what it is they actually do

Audio: risky.biz/soapbox94/
Video: youtu.be/kPd85kW09oE?...

27.03.2025 06:50 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Well it is simple maths, if you remove negatives its bound to be a net positive. 😃

26.02.2025 09:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah but can it do non-blocking multicast and PTP so we can run a SMPTE 2110 network on it?

25.02.2025 20:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Topological Superconductivity in Superconductor- Semiconductor Hybrids
Topological Superconductivity in Superconductor- Semiconductor Hybrids YouTube video by Microsoft Azure

Oh man, this quantum computing stuff if wildly different to anything else. This video is hectic.
youtu.be/PTWppMH3zMQ?...

21.02.2025 19:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Podcasts are very time efficient for me

18.02.2025 18:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Risky Business Weekly (779): DOGE staffer linked to The Com
Risky Business Weekly (779): DOGE staffer linked to The Com YouTube video by Risky Business Media

This week's show is up!

We talk about a DOGE staffer's links to The Com, Paragon firing Italy as a spyware customer and Thailand cutting power to scam compounds.

Then we do a deep dive on a terrific threat/DFIR report from CyberCX.

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bzL...

Audio: risky.biz/RB779/

12.02.2025 03:34 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1

If Microsoft had purchased discord, and pissed off teams, it would be a different story.

07.02.2025 21:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm with you.

29.01.2025 20:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Automating Network Configurations with NetBox and AI Agents
Automating Network Configurations with NetBox and AI Agents YouTube video by John Capobianco

Automating networking configurations with NetBox source of truth and AI Agents
youtu.be/ypK3l6pWm90?...

20.01.2025 19:25 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Amazing stuff. I look forward to your long form video.

18.01.2025 20:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The customers are often completely unforgiving and unsympathetic and the pay is awful.

17.01.2025 20:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Omg yes. My health fund stopped using password, so logins are only otp via email. Totally crap.

15.01.2025 19:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This makes sense now. Make sure your vault is nicely HA I spose!

15.01.2025 09:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh I'm interested in where you would use transit encryption. I only recently saw that and wondered what it was really for.

14.01.2025 23:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not to mention changes to the login screens not being communicated. Users get phished much easier if the app looks different regularly.

07.01.2025 18:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0