“Gentlemen, I am now about to send a signal from this laptop through our local ISP, racing down fiber-optic cable at the speed of light to San Francisco, bouncing off a satellite in geosynchronous orbit to Lisbon, Portugal, where the data packets will be handed off to submerged transatlantic cables terminating in Halifax, Nova Scotia, […]
“It’s against my programming to impersonate a deity.” – C-3PO. This post is part of a 3 part series, starting with part 1. Now that I had determined the protocol used to communicate with the air conditioner, the remaining activity was to create a new web service to impersonate the ninja blocks one being used by […]
“Security isn’t a dirty word, Blackadder!” – General Melchett. This post is part of a 3 part series, starting with part 1 and finishing with part 3. After finding that the new wireless air conditioner control module I bought couldn’t be directly controlled, I needed to reverse engineer how the system worked to determine if it was […]
“What a piece of junk!” – Luke Skywalker. A case could be made that I’ve chosen that specific quote because I just really like Star Wars. On an unrelated topic to that quote, I recently purchased a piece of equipment that supplements the air conditioner in my house allowing me to control the air conditioner […]
