Random acts of hackery, geekery and skullduggery
Well we made it back to the UK in one piece, I’m still laggy as anything, but I’ll post round ups of the trip at a later date. In a Toronto shopping mall I spotted this in a toy shop window:
So I decided to look into Anti-monopoly, and it seems that truth is stranger than fiction after all (fiction being the official description of Hasbro’s Monopoly game history).
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Posted in Gaming, Links, Retro.
– April 14, 2006
Ok, so we were out at Vancouver Aquarium today (which had some really sweet exhibits by the way such as the dolphins and the beluga whales) and something strange happened whilst we were queueing to get in. Part of the queueing process involves standing in front of a backdrop of Vancouver aquarium and having your photo taken by a photographer. We were told this was a ‘bit of fun’ and that we could view the photo and buy it if we wanted on the way out.
Of course, I declined. I had my own camera, was capable of taking my own pictures and I’m sure we could find people in the aquarium who’d be more than willing to take our picture together for free. The response was one of pure bewilderment.
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Posted in Events, News, Security.
– April 9, 2006
Well, CanSecWest Core 06 is over and you can get my SAP powerpoint from here. I ended up severely diluting it in the end for a number of reasons and think I could’ve got away with it being more detailed, but it’s up there anyway.
I had a really great time and met some fantastic people, a lot of really nice people, and a few idiots. Talks of note (for my money, anyhow) included Christopher Abad’s Advancements in Anonymous eAnnoyance, Josh Ryder’s Real Time Threat Mitigation Techniques, Crispin Cowan’s Stunt Profiling: Securing a System While You Wait, Dennis Cox’s Insiders View: Network Security Devices, Major Mal’s Magstripe Madness and Fred Arbogast & Sascha Rommelfangen’s excellent Zen and the art of collecting and analyzing Malware.
I really feel I’ve learned something at CanSec, met some really nice people and hope to be back next year. But aside from the techie bits, I’ve learnt that:
Anyway, we’re off to Vancouver aquarium today, then flying out to Toronto tomorrow. Apparently we have wireless at the hotel there so I might do a photo dump of things so far.
Posted in Events, Links, News, Security.
– April 8, 2006
So my talk’s on at 14:00 Vancouver time, which is about 4 hours from now. CanSecWest 06 is looking good: the hotel is full of geeks, last night we filled out the mill pub on the waterfront. I’m really looking forward to Van Hauser’s, Nico Fischbach’s and HD Moore’s talks. Looks like I’ve got an early slot but it’s just before coffee. Needless to say I’m petrified. Heck, it’s not like any of the other speakers are opening up with rap music!
Posted in Events, News, Security.
– April 5, 2006
Many years ago I discovered a fantastic utility for encrypting MSN conversations called SIMP. Simp-Lite is fantastic stuff that essentially works as a personal proxy. It’s completely transparent to the end user after initial set up and it passes WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) tests with flying colours. After my Windows desktop died a death the other week, I decided to rebuild with Ubuntu Linux and try out Dapper Drake. Of course, when I went to try and find a plugin for GAIM I couldn’t find one other than Gaim-Encrypt which, after telling people for years to use SIMP just wasn’t compatible. I can’t exactly use MSN without SIMP, as most of my contacts won’t speak to me, except to rib me about not using crypto.
Enter Wine…
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Posted in Guides, OpenSource, Security.
– March 23, 2006
