Head on over to http://www.securabit.com to listen to episode 4. We had a few audio hiccups, but overall I think it came out great.
We have forums/IRC up as well, and hope the community starts building up.
Head on over to http://www.securabit.com to check out episode 2 of our show. It should be quite the riot, and far more entertaining than the first.
Please leave feedback if you have any.
We’re recording Ep 2 tonight, slight possiblity of live streaming, and we’ll get that out to everyone if we do. We have some interesting topics lined up, and if we’ve figured out our audio like I think we have, Chris Mills will be able to join us.
There’s also a contest we have going on to come up with a good slogan for which we’re giving away a yubikey. Head over to http://www.securabit.com!
Head on over to http://www.securabit.com to download the first episode of our security podcast. We recorded Friday night, and I am having a little trouble getting it to show up in iTunes right now. It might be an additional 24-48 hours since I have to change the RSS I submitted to them to the feedburner one, once they activate it to begin with.
Jay, Anthony, and I will be doing the pilot episode of our security show tonight. There isn’t a live stream setup, but probably will be for the 2nd show. We’re going to use this one to hash things out as to the show format and what not. Should be interesting!
I’m going to be meeting up with my friend Anthony this week to do a pilot show for the security oriented “podcast” I want to fool around with. We’re still trying to nail down a format that will be unique enough for me to be satisfied, as well as the length, but I think that will all come together soon. He has some hosting for the site I want to put together for it, but there are some issues to iron out with that before we can go public with the site/show. Regardless of whether or not that gets figured out there will be a site/forums to go along with the show when we launch it.
This past weekend I did the visiting Christine routine up in MD. We did the 105 degree variant of Yoga on Friday, and that was sure something. 90 minutes of sweating, stretching, and slurping down water so you don’t pass out. I probably wasn’t the best candidate for it because I am a bit out of shape, but I did feel pretty damn good afterwards. The teacher could’ve been a little nicer, as we had a totalitarian dominatrix it felt like. You can find a yoga mat/towel for under 40 bucks combined in most places. It was $8 per person for the actual session where we went. A gym membership is still a better deal for general workouts.
While I was up there we went to the Orioles vs Yankees game on Saturday, where Baltimore triumphed 6-0. There was nearly a fight in front of us where about 25-30 people got ejected from the game after at least 5 cops showed up. It would’ve been 5 vs 20ish though, which would not have been very pretty. I guess it’s quite a rivalry, although I wouldn’t know as I don’t really follow baseball.
If there’s filming this coming weekend for Hak5 3×10 I will most likely be doing some more reverse engineering type stuff. I’m going to see if I can’t get what I have in mind working.
I just got done doing a podcast with the guys at secthis.com, whom I met at Shmoocon this past weekend (although there were so many faces and once you have a few drinks it’s a little hard to remember that many faces) which ran about an hour. I had a lot of fun discussing a variety of issues with them. I’m glad they let me connect up and throw in my 2 cents.
Once it’s all edited up you’ll find it at http://www.secthis.com.
The past week included one CISSP study group session, installing Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty” on my spare hard drive, and the usual weekend partying/cooking out.
I’ve been using the latest Ubuntu release since early Saturday morning, and I have to say I am impressed. If my parents lived closer than a 10 hour drive from me I might actually consider switching them over to this, although I think we’re at least a few releases away from it being a smooth enough experience for them.
I had never really run a Linux desktop for more than a week or two as my primary desktop OS before, and I believe this one is going to stay for quite a long time. Beryl/Compiz makes things look nice and shiny, as well as providing functionality.
StumbleUpon has come through once again with an interesting tutorial on how to get started with picking locks. I now have something to keep me entertained at work tonight, as the entire site is chock full of good information on lockpicking. I might as well add a new skill or two to myself eh?
Work on the possible podcast progresses. I am working on a little project that I think might provide for an interesting commentary.
More later!
Okay so I didn’t quite make it on the once per week promise.
Over the last 9 days I managed to (with the help of friends) troubleshoot and send parts to my Mom so she could have a guy at work fix her computer without me having to fly up there, which just wasn’t going to happen right now given how busy I am. Somehow she shorted the motherboard out.
Linux+ is looming ahead, next week, and I haven’t done a lot of studying. The certification itself is meaningless to me, but it was a command voucher I used in order to take it so I have to keep my end of the deal up. It’s going to have to basically be a weekend cram session in order to prepare for it, because I have my CISSP study group on both Tuesday and Thursday this week.
On the technology front, I am exploring a few options to organize some of the experience and knowledge I and some friends of mine have into something possibly presentable to the general public. Whether this will be some sort of podcast, or new blog, or just a forum has yet to be determined. The key factor is how quickly we can bundle everything together into something a layman can understand, and push it out. I’m really into the whole podcast idea right now, but that might just be because I have only owned an iPod for 6 weeks.
Ironically, I found myself reccomending AOL’s antivirus software yesterday, because it is free and based on Kaspersky’s engine. The only real issue is that of anonymous data collection and privacy, so wear your tinfoil hat if you choose to install it like I did.
Obviously I’ve neglected to mention much about what happened outside of Shmoocon this past weekend, mainly because I wanted the Shmoocon posts to be about Shmoocon, and not much else.
So here we go:
DC Sleeps Alone Tonight
I had never really partied in DC before, and it makes VA Beach look like an elementary school playground. There are so many places to go, it’s a bit overwhelming. I should’ve paid more attention to the actual names of the places we went, but I know The Reef, Bourbon, and Adams Mills were pretty decent.
Friday night involved roughly 50 people from the podcaster meetup at the Chipotle near the Marriott Wardman. It was basically a train of geeks bar hopping, and while we didn’t cause any damage or get into any trouble (c’mon, geeks!) it was very entertaining.
Saturday night was even bigger, with the entire Adams Mill bar being taken over by Shmoocon people. Picture well over a hundred geeks talking about linux or hacking or whatever with a billion attractive women walking around, and those women finding themselves lacking attention. Well okay i’m fibbing a little, but hey this is semi-professional right? 
