Daily Archives: July 23, 2008

Twitter, Defcon, Geotaging

So I caved and succumbed to the lameness of Twitter mostly for the purposes of attending and coordinating things at large events. It’ll be hard to flow of people and places at events like Defcon without it.
Mostly I view twitter as a noise application. It posts “microblogging,” a term which people with near zero attention [...]

Downtown for Linux

I had the pleasure of attending one of the GSLUG [Greater Seattle Linux Users Group] on the 12th.
I was really surprised at the quality of the event. Allow me to explain.
I’m used to these type of occasions being hosted in a filthy classroom or basement of a university or community college and attended by unwashed [...]

The DNS Drama

Dan’s Seattle Toorcon 0day keeps going and going and going and going.
If you’re looking for details, the details that were leaked, confirmed, retracted, and denied, here’s a description and a mirror.
So if you run your own DNS, upgrade already as you should have some time ago when you were first told to do so.
Perhaps I [...]