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Welcome to C2 Canada!

Welcome to Catalyst Cybersecurity Canada, a small-time educational project to teach myself about hosting, security, and the basic ins and outs of running a website and infrastructure.

This website serves as an ongoing project which I use for my own study in hosting and systems administration and in general anything I need a small webserver for. Since Catalyst-Cybersecure-Canada is a bit of a mouthful, I sometimes refer to this site as C2CA or C2 Canada.

This website is mostly for my own study and my own use as I experiment with and teach myself about security, hosting, and more. I expected it to go down after a couple months or be offline for a majority of the time. Surprisingly, it's stayed online almost constantly since I started it around mid 2021, although I don't publish new content often.

News

2023 April 9: My review of the IBM Model M is now posted!
2023 April 2: I've added a new section on keyboards to my site, which includes a section with some of my typing tests complete with sound and video, and updated the review on the Happy Hacking Professional Classic with images and sound.
2023 March 27: I reviewed the Redragon S117 Keyboard, and was quite impressed!
2023 March 4: I decided I would review the Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional Classic.
2022 November 21: My blog has just been started. You can read my first entry on why I like to say Patching Matters.

Utilities on C2.CA

Please read about what work has gone into this site on our features page!

Mumble is available on this server. To join up, point your Mumble client (Outgoing Link) to mumble.catalyst-cybersecure.ca on port 64738 to chat with your fellow C2.CA members!

Planned Projects at C2.CA

I'm planning out a roadmap for this website, with some of the following items on my wishlist for what I'd like to do, as my free time permits.

Weblog for recording my thoughts and musings and document some of my learning process.
Chat using either Mattermost or Rocket.Chat, once I have some time to experiment with hosting either one. Any chat hosted here will likely be private and not open to the general public.
Gitea for hosting my notes and projects.
Mail with my own domain. This is something for the far future, since I've found mail a tricky business in the past. Setting it up and installing it is easy. Doing it in a safe, sane, secure way and staying off and dealing with spam blacklists is another! Mail will be for my own use and possibly a few people I trust.
Games! Who says that cybersecurity should be all work and no play? Cybersecurity should be seen as the enabler of the wonderful things that computers can do and what allows us to have confidence in them, not as the downer or as an obstacle to having fun or enjoying what computers have to offer. What better way to show that than with some great computer games? In the far future I may host a dedicated server for games.

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Last Update: April 9th, 2023