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Linux Home theater PC with AMD E-450 and XBMC

Since some years I tinker with the perfect Home theater PC (HTPC) and finally I am pretty happy with my setup. I use a Zotac AD11 PLUS with an additional external HDD Raid1. For the actual sound I use the combination of a Denon AVR-X1000 with Teufel Consono 35 Mk3 5.1 speakers. I use Ubuntu […]

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personal security

Life as a post-doc

Since I defended my PhD thesis in November 2013 I kept myself busy with writing grant proposals and also started to collaborate with the brilliant PhD students at SBA Research. One of our project proposals, on the practical usage of the TLS protocol (TLSip), has been accepted by FFG. I also started to as a […]

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research security

ACM COSN at Northeastern

The last two days I attended the first conference on online social network. I was really amazed by how the well the conference was organized and the interesting crowd of researchers it attracted. Our paper on social networking apps, was among 3-4 papers related to security and privacy issues in online social networks. As of […]