I’ll be drawing up a diagram either tonight or tomorrow, or when I’m done with the network, but essentially what I am going to do is build a pfSense box out of the old P3 550 box, and run two switches on two separate NICs which will be appropriately designated in the software so there is as little chance as possible of crossover.

If you run a Wordpress blog and haven’t removed the code in footer.php which displays the version of wordpress you’re on, I would suggest doing so.  It’s a little security by obscurity-ish, but it’s one more small barrier against common vulnerabilities you may be passed over on if the attacker doesn’t know what version you’re on.

Yeah the Hakme project isn’t dead, good things take time folks.  The garage is finally networked, and i’ll be getting stuff online this week.  Main priority is figuring out what to use for a firewall box.  I’m going to give a bunch of stuff a try, from pfSense to m0n0wall, and others.  Once I am confident that I can expose a server to be attacked without too much fear of someone breaking into my personal computers, things will start rolling a bit smoother.  Obviously I am not going to be able to protect against the most elite hackers out there, but hopefully they’ll have better fish to fry.

Thursday afternoon I ended up going into the hospital again for more post-tonsillectomy bleeding. It wasn’t as bad as it was on Monday but I still had to go under and they put another stitch in, along with the cauterization. I went from having 0 surgeries in my life to 3, all in the last 2 weeks. Hopefully this last one actually fixed the problem, but from what I am told the bleeding is purely random.

I picked up a couple more flash drives to replace the cheap ones I lost. A Patriot 8GB and a Sandisk 4GB (with U3). I was playing around with the U3 apps on Thursday before I had to abruptly head into the emergency room. I’ll be doing more of that today, and also fooling around with the Windows Server 2008 installation I did on a partition on my T61p. I used the guide at http://www.win2008workstation.com/wordpress/ to convert the install into a workstation with the full Aero experience along with wireless network connectivity. I haven’t created a virtual machine using the Hyper-V beta yet, but I did enable it, and will be doing that today.

I’ve setup a page on the site located here and am actively looking for volunteers.  I think we’re going to setup a separate IRC room and create a mailing list, and figure out what other ways we’ll all need to communicate.

Right now I am in need of the following:

• Trustworthy people to volunteer admin time on the project once it’s up and running.
• Volunteers to provide input and configuration work to get the servers how we want them to be.  We have to figure out the most secure way to allow people to hack them, and also how to restore them back to a baseline within a reasonable amount of time.
• Legal advice concerning our intention to log some of the activity via a snort sensor.
• Hosting ideas, (CHEAP is good unless we magically stumble into some donations)
• Any other thoughts, input, etc.  I’m open to anything.

Thanks!