Curiosity in Practice
jgamblin I got a call from a friend who was sure his PC was hacked because his CD-ROM drive kept randomly opening and closing. After looking at the machine I found a .vbs file in his appdata folder named RandomlyOpenCD.VBS (surprisingly It randomly opens and closes the CD drive) and nothing else that looked like an … Read more
Last night I sent an email to a good friend and his boss passing on an amazing career opportunity that paid an ungodly amount of money. It was basically Scrooge McDuck build a money bin money. So why didn’t I take it? After a lot of thinking and discussion with my wife it boiled down … Read more
This afternoon a “hacker” decided to text bomb my phone with about 1000 text messages asking me to paypal him $100 to stop. A couple of things: I don’t negotiate with terrorists. (I always wanted to say that.). Part of the text bomb gave me information on how it was happening. After getting a couple … Read more
Meet the Capello Sleep & Charge Dual Alarm Clock with Night Light sold exclusively by Target. It works fairly adequate as a: USB Charging Station Alarm Clock Radio Night Light(?) Why I hate it is this button right here: This “DST” button is .25" away from the snooze button, .2" away from the source and … Read more
I was having a conversation about security today with a good friend and the subject came up of what is the most difficult question in security to answer? After a few minutes of back and we fourth we settled on the following question: Who would want to hack us? This question is nearly always asked … Read more
I am going to whack the ball the over the fence. That was my four year olds response when I reminded him that his first T-Ball game was later that day as I woke him up. I love my son but he spent 80% of his first and only T-Ball practice trying to make the … Read more
This morning I was out running some errands and NPR had an interview with a David Sklansky a poker player who wrote a book called “The Theory Of Poker” and he said the most important thing to remember about poker is that: Poker Is Fundamentally A Battle Of Mistakes That quote stuck with me all day … Read more
I have a mentor who sends me a motivational quote a couple of times a week and today he dropped this on me: If you’re the smartest person in the room, then you need to find another room. I have heard that quote before and actually used it in an opening slide of a talk … Read more
Earlier today I was reading this article on Rollingstone.com about how FXX plans to show all 552 episodes of The Simpson’s this August and noticed when I copied anything from the website it appends a link and copyright notice. That got me thinking about what else could be appended to copied text and how bad … Read more
So you want to be a Twitter security expert? I have come up with an easy to follow list to make sure you are: All Cons, All The Time!If you are not tweeting about flying to, attending, partying at, or flying home from a con at least once a month you cant be a security … Read more