A large part of phone automation uses DTMF signaling. DTMF stands for Dual Tone Multi Frequency and has been in place since the 1960s. Dialing a phone number before the advent of DTMF involved using a rotor. The spinning dial would generate a number of pulses that the phone company would interpret as a number. The phone company then placed each number in order and after a set number was reached, the phone company would place the call. We still…
Over the years I’ve used a variety of sensor tracking programs that ran on smart phones. These programs will read the sensors built in the phone and log them. I like this because it uses hardware that is already available. There are many apps that I have used to do this. The latest one I used is called SensorLog authored by Bernd Thomas. As of this writing it is at version 1.9.2, dated June 2nd, 2017. I’ll be covering some…
Internet facing services are under constant attack. They are a coveted resource that provide footing when exploited. It’s prudent to not loose control of your services to abuse. One way to do this is to enable two factor authentication, commonly known as 2FA. Traditional authentication is based on what you know, a user name and a password. With 2FA, the second factor of authentication is what you have, a number token. In this post I’ll be covering how to setup…