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The Governor is going to sign HB 1549 today allowing Missourians to add their cell phone numbers to the Missouri No Call List. This will stop telemarketers from calling texting your phone.

So take a few minutes and add your cell phone number to the No Call List today.

Welcome To Baseball Heaven…

My son playing catch at a softball game.

Everyone wants to own the result; nobody wants to own the process.

The process is the hard part. It is where the work gets done and none of the credit is given.  No one has ever stopped me in the middle of a project before any tangible results were visible and told me what a great job I am doing.

A guy I go to church with has an Idiom that I love. 

No one wants to hear about the labor they just want to see the baby.

I spent the last week in Moscow speaking at PHDays that was organized by Positive Technologies.

Let me just start this review off by saying I don’t think I have ever been to a conference with as good of lineup, organization, or venue as PHDays had.

The venue was Digital October in Moscow and I don’t think there is anything comparable to it in America. They had huge monitors (40 feet x 15 feet), great technical staff, instant translation, HD online streaming and awesome speaker support.

It has to easily  be one of the 5 best security conferences in the world based solely on the talks that were done in English.  It had the developers of SQLMAP, W3AF and Mimikatz all speaking about their projects. It had Travis Goodspeed and Sylvain Munaut talking about physical hardware manipulation. Those were just the English talks, the Russian talks were just as good.

The CTF was also pretty awesome to watch. They had a dumpster diving challenge where the teams had to try to find an MD5 hash. I hadn’t seen that before in a CTF and thought it was genius.

They also gave away two A.R. Drones during the CTF to any team that could hack them. Along with a ATM hacking contest that I missed but would have loved to have seen.

When you see the CFP for PHDays 2013 open up you really should submit. You will be treated great and given an opportunity to meet a whole group of people who are really passionate about computer security. I made a great deal of new friends from Russia, The independent nation of Appalachia and Europe over the last week and will never forget this trip.

An hilarious group of guys from a CTF team decided to stop by my PHDays talk and have a little fun.

I will have to say that this was one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. After the talk I meet up with the guys and I now have a signed anonymous mask for my office.

1. If you ever heard a rapper talk about a car in a rap song I have seen it, and possible almost been hit by it, in the last three days.

2. There used to be a pool where this church stands.

3. In old Russian video games Americans are the bad guys.

4. Moscow has the best Sherbert I have ever ate.

5. They have rooms full of beanbags.

1. There is a McDonalds no more than 100 feet from the Kremlin. Why cant we be this efficient in America? 

2. Rollerblading is still a thing here, a very big thing.

3. They are just as excited about Madagascar 3 as I am.

4. Throwing a coin over your shoulder at Kilmetere Zero is good luck…

for these ladies who stand around and pick up all the coins people throw on the ground…

5. The Tsar likes big bells and can not lie.

1.  Just because you don’t speak Russian and your driver doesn’t speak English doesn’t mean you both cant belt out “Walking in Memphis” when it comes on the radio in the middle of a traffic jam. I think we bonded.

2.  Cheeseburgers in Moscow come with an egg on top (Why was I eating a cheeseburger? Because they were out of salads and it was the next thing on the menu I pointed at).

3.  If it fits, its a parking space.

4. If your $70K SUV doesnt stand out enough you cant always have it covered in snake skin.

5. Moscow has 13th Floors and -1 Floors.

We parody and poke holes in what they do.