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[Apr. 22nd, 2008|07:59 am] |
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Toorcon Seattle was awesome but, I got sick on friday so.. that sucked. |
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[Apr. 7th, 2008|10:39 pm] |
I am:
- Going to Toorcon Seattle (http://seattle.toorcon.org)
- Working on a couple projects
- a horrible procrastinator.
- Living in a new physical location (I like my new place with my two roommates)
I've been:
- making beer
- writing more python
- learning more x86 assembly (mainly for the purpose of reverse engineering) |
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| moving(aaron); |
[Oct. 3rd, 2007|09:53 pm] |
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Tomorrow I am signing papers for renting a large house in Windsor! Other than the fact that I fixed the starter on my car recently.. things have taken a positive turn. While I still miss my father deeply and I tend to get depressed very easily.. I've done a decent job of staying positive and keeping it together. I've been learning to deal with it the best I can but I can tell its going to be affecting me for a long time. Just got done moving all my dads stuff and getting rid of things.. now I'm moving this weekend... sigh..I'm very excited though. Toorcon in a few weeks too, should be nice vacation. |
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[Sep. 11th, 2007|12:05 am] |
I'm very busy and somewhat depressed.
My dad passed away last month.
But, hopefully I'm moving out this month.
Gladly, I'm going to toorcon next month. |
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[Jul. 2nd, 2007|10:53 pm] |
- I got a new (89) 5 speed mustang recently. I'm enjoying making it faster and fixing things I find wrong with it.
- Work is going well, I've been doing some reverse engineering that is somewhat necessary to complete a difficult project for which no source code exists.
- I am moving out within the next month or so hopefully.
- Defcon starts aug. 1st and I'm registered up for the aCTF 3.
Things are pretty good right about now. |
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[May. 13th, 2007|11:53 am] |
28 weeks later was very cool.
I don't think I like it as much as the first one, but it was well done besides a few minor things.
Its not your typical zombie slasher movie, which I normally dislike for their lack of ANY plot/thought.
Go see it... then get infected, everyones doing it. |
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[May. 2nd, 2007|12:14 am] |
The whole thing is pretty funny, this was one of my favorites.
But, it just goes to show how DRM is bullshit...kinda like the war on drugs (or terrorism for that matter).
Hack on. |
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| i saw this and I like it |
[Apr. 26th, 2007|10:26 pm] |
On how to live:
Stability without boredom; passion without recklessness; happiness without naïveté.
Plan for sunshine but bring an umbrella.
A little paranoia never hurt anyone.
Work as if you don't need the money; love as if you've never been hurt; dance as if nobody's watching. |
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[Mar. 21st, 2007|10:01 pm] |
I fly to DC for Shoocon tomorrow... I'm very excited. Shmoo guys rock, and from what I've hard of their con... I'm sure its going to be a great trip. Plus I get to spend some time with Ashley.
My mom broke her digital camera.. which sucks because Its the one I always used. *shrug*. |
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[Feb. 28th, 2007|11:18 pm] |
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Markov processes are those in which the future is conditionally independent of the past given the present. |
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| ++days |
[Jan. 29th, 2007|09:12 pm] |
Wendsday night im getting some dinner with my family to celebrate turning 22. Should be nice. Friday im hoping to have a buncha friends out for dinner and drinks. Saturday and Sunday im going snowboarding. It'll be nice to have this weekend to relax and have some fun.
With school and work, I'm lucky if my days are under 12 hours. In some ways it feels overwhelming, but at the same time.. its going by fast enough that I'm having trouble noticing. I need to find some better ways to unwind becides movies, reading or wine (hopefully some(one) in the form of a smiley tall brunette, where-ever she is)
Calculus is going to be tough, but.. its cool at the same time. Physics is pretty cool even if my teacher sucks.
Work is going well, it's kinda hard switching from full to part time because I feel like im kinda 'shortchanging' my co-worker, and my boss. But, I put in almost 30 hours a week still.
Shmoocon is coming up in a couple months, I'm very excited. Looks like my friend crash might not be able to go, which is too bad because we have some good converstions and fun heh. On the bright side, there's a slight chance I may get to see another friend... which, if she ends up going.. would make the trip just that much more awesome ;-P
I need to get a python book and start writing some real stuff with it. I was a little standoffish at first because of the whole "whitespace" deal, and the lack of similarity to C/C++, but.. im liking it for scripting stuff.
This.. is just is just plain stupid
This, is a pretty good quote from Matt blaze:
We often say that researchers break poor security systems and that feats of cryptanalysis involve cracking codes. As natural and dramatic as this shorthand may be, it propagates a subtle and insidious fallacy that confuses discovery with causation. Unsound security systems are "broken" from the start, whether we happen to know about it yet or not. But we talk (and write) as if the people who investigate and warn us of flaws are responsible for having put them there in the first place.
Words matter, and I think this sloppy language has had a small, but very real, corrosive effect on progress in the field. It implicitly taints even the most mainstream security research with a vaguely disreputable, suspect tinge. How to best disclose newly found vulnerabilities raises enough difficult questions by itself; let's try to avoid phrasing that inadvertently blames the messenger before we even learn the message.
<a href="http://www.crypto.com/blog/cryptolinguistics/>find it here</a>
More soon. Hopefully pictures of this weekend. |
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[Jan. 7th, 2007|05:15 pm] |
School starts in 10 days.... Calc and Physics... couldn't get piano.
Schmoocon is in 10 weeks... Got the flight, still need hotel.
I should have enough money for my new car AND going on all my trips I'd like to do this year.
Job is going great... Finishing up our new mail and webserver this coming week.
I look forward to starting school... I'll be really busy but I should be able to manage. Hopefully there will be some nice girls in my classes. I'll be hanging out in the library a lot, so its possible to meet somebody there as well. (worked for ian haha).
Its weird, I havn't taken almost any pictures the whole last year... I need to change that for this year. |
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[Dec. 23rd, 2006|03:27 pm] |
I've been quite busy with stuff, new job, travel.. and I plan to do it all again, plus school next year :).
Snowboarding next week hopefully, school on Jan 17th. New car in a couple months, Shmoocon in march, and hopefully Europe at the end of the summer with Ian and another couple guys. We'll see how all the money issues work out.
Hope everyone has a good christmas and fun new years party. |
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| democracy? |
[Nov. 7th, 2006|11:48 am] |
"I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here.
I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding both puppets!' 'Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control.'" -The late and great, Bill hicks |
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[Oct. 4th, 2006|04:34 pm] |
Toorcon rocked.
My new job is cool.
I have too much to read.
I want to leave the country. |
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| Aarrrrrr |
[Sep. 18th, 2006|07:28 pm] |
I need to learn another language fast, then move to another country or ....Anyone down to go to Canada/Vancouver?
There's too many unmotivated, illogical, lazy and misinformed people in the US. Plus the government is just fuckin nuts. This isn't a democracy anymore... its one giant.. reality-TV watching, god blinded fuckin mess. Lets get drunk and argue sometime.
VoIP is cool, been reading about it quite a bit. I'll be speaking at NBlug about Asterisk/VoIP in a few months.
Finished reading Snow crash in 3 days... pretty good book. Some very cool parts, and some kinda stupid parts.
I got a new Job :). Working at microvu in windsor, ca. I'll be doing system and network administration... with prettymuch 100% open source systems. Get to work with a couple of other guys my age, its gonna be badass.
Silly Microsoft! Security conference to debut Windows firewire crack
"The new attack, which unlocks Windows workstations in 20 seconds by manipulating firewire ports, will be demonstrated at Sydney's Ruxcon security conference on September 30." (see the part about OpenBSD :-P)
This isn't limited to windows, nor is it limited to bypassing authentication. Thats just for show. You could drop in a rootkit/trojan/etc...
Toorcon is in a few weeks.. I'm excited.
Ps. its talk like a pirate day matey. Now where's that rum. |
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[Sep. 1st, 2006|09:40 pm] |
So.. I've been working quite a bit lately, helping move the business to our new downtown location. I've also been partying quite a bit lately.
Working alot is kinda draining, but the checks are nice. Probably because I was broke for a few weeks, it feels even better.
I've been chuging along on my VoIP stuff, installed CentOS 4.3, asterisk, few other things.
A very funny and yet various serious attack was just found ...not by me though :(. How this got by developers and testers I'm not sure... its quite 'elementary'.
This vulnerability can be leveraged to cause a small number of valid SIP requests to generate an extremely large number of proxy-to-proxy messages. A version of this attack demonstrates fewer than ten messages stimulating potentially 2^70 messages.
(btw: thats 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 messages or a if it was bytes, a zettabyte)
Read the RFC about it here.
I'm almost done reading a 100 page NIST VoIP security white paper which, is excellent if I might add. If your intrested, find it here.
All of their publications can be found here: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/
While im on the subject of security, this infamous book called "Security Engineering" just got release online for free.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
To download all the pdf's in a quick run and glory at the wonderfullness(yes thats a word) of the bash shell/unix, just run this: http://dyn.neg9.org/pub/getbook.sh
I started to play around with steghide. Its fun...
For a simple exercise, find the answer from this picture.
More soon. |
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| Education only leads to more intelligent crimes |
[Aug. 9th, 2006|11:09 pm] |
So.. I survived defcon one more year. While an incident involving a few friends really sucked... It could've been much worse. They (minus the asshole who caused the problem) will be back next year.
Some excellent talks, some shitty talks.
Some good converstations, some needed humiliations.
I wanted to go to blackhat.. but.. someday I'll have a job i can convince to pay for it.
My current project is setting up a VoIP box, then trying to take advantage of unseen POTS vulnerabilities and other developing ideas. I'm also going to allow other people to work on stuff, if you need VoIP for a cool enough reason, i'll give you an account. email me or post contact info here.
My perl <-> internet stuff is going to be put on hold, as much as I need to write the tools and such, I need to focus on just one thing at a time.
I'll be going to LinuxWorld this tuesday. If anyone else is going, let me know.
On the registration page there is a hidden IFRAME which can be downloaded easily with curl/etc (or stop your browser from redirecting) and has the array of valid MD5'd promotional codes. Does anyone have a valid one that I could work off to maybe enumerate? Because it tells you (with javascript) almost instantly that your code is wrong, you know the lookup is fast (hash) and local (javascript)... its just a matter of finding it. If anyone has rainbow tables handy... lemme know.
Toorcon 8 is in late september, mark your cal. boys and girls. I'll enjoy the small con, as well as san diego.
I'll update soon with pictures from defcon and more... |
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[Jul. 29th, 2006|01:32 pm] |
Soo.. lets see.
Recently I discoverd that I won't be attending school this fall. Due to some stupid shit from a few semesters ago that brought my overall GPA way down, because I've
only had a 2.0 for 3 semesters in a row, I was put on academic probation. The SRJC sent me a letter in mid-july becase I didn't take a counsiling class right away (because i misplaced the letter) I am now forced to wait until january until I can take classes again.
On the bright side, its probably for the better because
1) I can hopefully go to costa rica with some friends in the fall
2) work more and buy a newer car... (anybody selling a 92' 5.0, 5psd mustang?)
3) work more on projects and learn stuff
4) recharge my "I enjoy school" batteries
Defcon/Vegas is in 6 days and I'm getting really excited. It should be intresting this year because all the talks should have lots of room, its at a completely different hotel this year, and just tons of stuff will be different.
I'm also looking forward to vegas because i'll be 21 this year, which is gonna be way cool. We're leaving midnight wendsday.
I've been trying to teach myself more perl, as well as work on some web-robot ideas I have. Its slow going, but im making progress. WWW::Mechanize fuckin rocks.
Check it out: here.
Here are some examples
Here is a PDF with info about automated web testing
I'd really like to get his book:
(I just noticed that oreilly has a few of the hacks, and most of the code online! oreilly rocks!)
will update soon. |
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| skynet |
[Jun. 26th, 2006|10:23 pm] |
-Stuff
Summer is going well. I've been quite busy with lots of stuff, unfortunately, not much of it is productive, but more 'in the molment'. So in other words, I've been drinking and going out a whole lot more than sitting at my computer learning about stuff.
This isn't a bad thing at all, but I do have a lot I'd like to accomplish this summer.
This picture is just so fuckin cool....
if only it was a robot instead of a doll.
-In the news
I've been trying to keep up with the world cup, and wish i had a friend to watch it and talk about it with :-/
Brazil vs Japan was hilarious, some of the shots by brazil's forwards were downright beautiful. Some of the recent volley shots were also stunning.
NSA wiretaps, FBI-WahMu allies are becoming more and more common as we're sailing straight for dystopia it seems. Publicly disclosed terror investigations have yet to come up with anything concrete. The recent stuff in miami is a joke,
this is a pretty good paragraph from Terror Alert: Severe Risk of Hype:
"About a year ago, for instance, President Bush (with Gonzales at his side) asserted that "federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of those charged have been convicted." The Post looked into that and found that the total number of (broadly defined) "terrorism" convictions was 39.
This compulsion to exaggerate and lie is so much a part of the Bush administration's DNA that it persists even though it has become counterproductive. For instance, the arrest of the seven suspects in Miami essentially coincided with the revelation by the New York Times that the government has "gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans." Almost instantly, the administration did two things: It confirmed the story and complained about it. The Times account only helped terrorists, Cheney said.
Is he right? I wonder. This is a serious matter. After all, Americans are being asked to surrender a measure of privacy and civil liberties in the fight against terrorism -- essentially the argument Cheney has been making. I for one am willing to make some compromises, but I feel downright foolish doing so if the fruit of the enterprise turns out to be seven hapless idiots who would blow up the Sears Tower, if only they could get to Chicago."
Also see: Miami "terror" busts: conspiracy or thoughtcrime?
-I recently found some cool new(old) music stuff.
A band called "coil" is pretty cool.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_(band) and http://www.thresholdhouse.com/
"Coil (1982 - 2005) were a cross-genre, experimental music group who worked in such forms as industrial, noise, ambient and dark ambient, neo-folk, spoken word, drone music, and minimalism."
Plus this other group in .au called "Simulus". http://www.simulus.org
They make all their music with eletro-audio stuff on 2 Mac's and a winblows box. They also are working on a really cool project...developing interface systems for musical performance using the P5 virtual reality glove! Its normally an xbox video game mod.. checkout some more stuff here: http://www.noisybox.net/computers/p5glove/ (there's a video here: http://www.noisybox.net/computers/p5glove/p5glove_demo.avi)
This guy also seems really cool, has some neat code and projects: http://www.noisybox.net
As well as some cool sounds: http://www.noisybox.net/art |
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