August 2010
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Chris Paget, Part 97, Part 15, and RF Research →
It has finally happened. I can finally write a blog post about my two favorite subjects: Information Security and Ham Radio.
Chris Paget made some news this weekend at yearly DEFCON hacker…
July 2010
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Presenting at The Next HOPE →
A bit late notice, but I will be presenting not one, but two talks at The Next HOPE next week at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.
Locational Privacy and Wholesale Surveillance via Photo…
June 2010
3 posts
Unearthing Ancient Artifacts in Beverly Hills →
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Wow. Awesome piece of equipment and a great story too.
The Acme Visible Strat-O-Matic, image by Jeff Gates
My trips back home to Los Angeles are always frenetic and filled…
May 2010
2 posts
Where the hell have I been? →
Been quiet over here recently, but I’ve been busy in other areas, so let’s do a quick update of what the hell has been going on:
First off, QuahogCon was a blast. My presentation went rather…
April 2010
28 posts
My comments on the proposed changes to FCC Part... →
Since I already did my civic duty and submitted my comments on the NPRM for 97.113 and my all official-looking Word file was just sitting there, I went ahead and submitted my comments on the…
A Smart Girl's Guide to Cultivating... →
idiosyncratic-routine:
via GeekFeminism:
It seems like a certain amount of “irrational” self-confidence is necessary for success in geeky fields. While you’re failing repeatedly, you have to keep believing you can do it and you’re smart enough to figure it out. Have you experienced this? What do you do about it?
Remember you’re not alone Imposter syndrome refers to the fact that many...
That the great statistician Nate Silver helped... →
idiosyncratic-routine:
via jasmined via inothernews:
We don’t need elitist snobs with another marketing tool to tell us why Park Slope, Brooklyn - where rich people spend time fighting about where to park their fucking baby strollers - is any better than Harlem, Parkchester or anywhere else in New York City, for fuck’s sake.
Keep on hatin’ while I chill in my beautiful ‘Slope brownstone a...
Aw, Nuts →
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I’m simultaneously horrified and impressed.
Office Prank - Making an Office Disappear. →
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The maintenance team wins.
I favorited a YouTube video: http://www.LiquidWeb.com Before Infrastructure Director Chris Strandt went on vacation he played a prank on the…
Brand spanking new DNS cache scraping tool →
I mentioned in a previous post that the ZeuS scraper was more or less going to be kept in it’s then-current form while I work on a new and improved version, and I’m happy to say that it’s just…
Alleged Massholes to assemble on the Cape →
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Oh FFS…
Gawker makes it official: The producers of “Jersey Shore” are putting together a Masshole version, to be filmed on the Cape.
The Cape? Massholes don’t do the Cape! They…
Why time stands still at 9:42 on iPhone/iPad ads →
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My comments on the proposed change to FCC Part... →
The FCC has submitted a notice of proposed rule making (NPRM) to attempt to create an exception in the Part 97 rules to allow hams to participate in disaster drills on behalf of their employer….
GRANDMApped →
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Oh man, that’s just COLD.
lemonparty.org is NSFW! We warned you. If you haven’t been tricked into visiting this site before reading this post, we do not recommend it.
Bacon Fail Or Win? →
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DAMMIT! Brady has /just finished/ formula and I find out about this?!
View This Poll online surveys Want more awesome bacon fails? Click here!
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Hello Kitty Coloring Pages →
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Bwhahahaha
My wife decided to download a bunch of Hello Kitty coloring pages the other day (I’m still debating whether this is better or worse than her buying a Hello Kitty coloring…
Internal April Fools joke... →
Yes, it’s April Fools day today (see coverage from our Safe and Savvy blog). Labdev is the team within F-Secure Labs that developes and maintains our internal systems that (among other things)…
Big career changes ahead — Goodbye InfoSec. →
As some of you know, Brady has recently celebrated his 1st birthday. It’s been a long year and as it’s worn on, my commute (two hours each way end to end) has often left me frustrated due to the…
March 2010
34 posts
Taxes per Person →
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Binge Drinking Doesn't Hurt Test Scores →
Getting drunk the night before a test might not be all that bad for a college students’ grades, research suggests.
More Malware DNS Cache Scraping →
There has been some impressive hoopla over the ZeuS DNS scraper I posted last week. There’s been even more chatter then I expected. I’ve received nothing but good feedback and have even gotten…
Women’s Studies, Not Studying Women →
I think this is more herestothefuture’s old job but it still made me chuckle:
Me: “What degree would you like to enroll in?”
Customer: “I don’t know.”
Me: “Well, what are you interested in?”
Customer: “Hot girls.”
Me: “You mean ‘Women’s Studies’?”
Customer: “Does that have lots of girls in it?”
Me: “Pretty much all girls.”
Customer: “Awesome, I’ll do that.”
A Tale of Two Skiddies… →
… or, how selective prosecution of computer crimes is causing more problems then it’s solving.
Allow me to introduce you to two script kiddies: David Kernell and Michael Mooney. One of which is…
Twitter is weird.
insertname:
I can see the point, sort of. My issue is with the individual timelines, when I see an @someonesomeone often it is without any way of finding out what its in reference to, like only hearing half of a conversation, a solution (maybe) would be to have the @link point to a specific place in that users time line..
just saying….
If you click the “in reply to X” down below...
Finding Malware on your network via cached DNS... →
As some of you may know, I wear an Incident Response hat within my organization. As I like to be proactive and actively search for issues rather then just be an IDS alert monkey, I love pages like…