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  • Kirin van der Veer

    Kirin van der Veer

    Kirin van der Veer has built and Sysadmin'd networks for a diverse array of organizations, from mission based not-for-profits to very-profit-focused multinational corporations. He occasionally files bug reports for Samba and other open source projects. Currently he is trying to find time to keep www.riscvnews.com updated. In his spare time he once commissioned a developer to create a fork of Gnome terminal, simulating an accurate recreation of 1995 era VGA text modes in order to play ADOM the exact way he remembered.

Abstract

Would you like to unlock your front door (securely) with your mobile phone? That's easy! Here are 5 different options you can buy at your local hardware store. Oh, wait - you don't want to be reliant on a cloud service that could go down at any time? And you don't want to pay a monthly fee to send an occasional packet over the public internet? Or have a nameless faceless corporation with dubious profit motives store information about your comings and goings forever in a database that is poorly secured? Sorry we don't have anything for you. I guess we'll just have to roll this ourselves! Kirin will take you through the trails, tribulations and eventual triumph of DIY IOT. Along the way you'll learn about hardware relays, client authentication certificates, installing and customizing OpenWRT and locksmiths that don't want to install something even _slightly_ outside their normal set of products.