On hackers, maturity, and the international market
There has been several published works on the what the media calls hackers, the hacker underground, the information security industry, and the technorati class in general lately. Here are a […]
Category Archives: Technology
Toorcamp: Hacking HR
Toorcamp was many things this year. It was fun. It was uncomfortable. Dustdevils ate things occasionally. It was turbulent due to the trouble with Levitate to get hackers to help […]
Bored on a plane: Gogo wireless on Virgin America
I was looking forward to trying out some in-flight wifi on my flight to E3 today. Sadly, I have personal reservations about paying $10 for an hour worth of internet. […]
Big Tech Wins: Calendars
So that covers how I have made my contacts sane and available. What about calendars? I have a bit of a complicated life, so I have a few different types […]
Nero support calls their competition “a rootkit”
Someone came to me recently because Nero, a company that makes DVD burning and imaging software, said that the reason their software was not functioning well was because a rootkit […]
Snort resources
Sourcefire has some great free webcasts available for people to become familiar or freshen up on their knowledge of Snort. This is particularly valuable for a few reasons. First is […]
Big Tech Wins: Addressbooks
I find that the best and most immediate use of personal technology for most people is in personal communications. For example, I did not have an organized and comprehensive set […]
The vacation laptop: ASUS EEE PC 901
So I went and picked up a 0day piece of hardware. The ASUS EEE PC 901. Since it’s so new, it’s not very well supported. Even the new chipset ethernet […]
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 […]
Amazon downtime
There was recent news about how Amazon was down for two hours. Speculation runs rampant on cnet about the cause: “It doesn’t seem to be the result of a network-initiated […]
Bad Penny 