Fairy Dust

It is Sunday, so that makes seven days of writing .

Reading: Babylon's Ashes

Walking

Thought we had hit all of the peaks on Bennachie , but looking at stuff later it seems there are about 7 'summits' to hit. That's annoying, living in Aberdeen I have done the Mither Tap walk loads of times. Today was my first time taking the trek over to Oxencraig.

That was most of today, I poked some wireless driver stuff, but it is all initial steps.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes

Spooky Friday

It is Friday the 13th, wooooo spooky!!!!

Rudy_Giuliani was nominated Cyber Tzar or something yesterday, the hacker community suddenly became very interested in this credentials. This morning twitter was filled with the results of int gathering exercises.

The domain now points to localhost, someone clearly got a late night phone call. It is strange that only now is noise being made about this, Ruddy isn't exactly a popular figure in America. He made a lot of mistakes in high profile positions. The big scary guys in the Int agencies will have pursued all these leads a long time ago.

Of course, that is assuming the site wasn't a honeypot.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes

33c3 Wireshark Workshop

I use Wireshark quite all the time. I was lucky to get a copy of Hacking: The Art of Exploitation when I was a teenager, the book gave me an excellent introduction to using tcpdump to perform network analysis. tcpdump is the first tool I reach for when I wonder where the packets are going, but for anything higher level (breaking down http, checking wlan flags) I use wireshark , I am always impressed.

At 33c3 there was a wireshark introductory self organised session run by kirils . I did not go to this session, but the slides I found look to be an excellent introduction to using wireshark .

Reading: Babylon's Ashes

William Binney

My head is pretty full writing slides for FOSDEM. Here is an interview with William Binney , if you don't know of Binney this interview is a great introduction. Binney is credited by Snowden as one of the motivators behind his set of leaks.

Binney also gave the keynote at Hope 9, which is a great watch.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes

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