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Chris Gerling

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  1. Whistle blowing.

    I'm sure microsoft makes them sign something

    I am sure some of these former employees are part of the fuel to this as well though. How else would they get these emails released to the public. Someone who is or was on the inside dimed them out. There is a term I am lookign for but cant think of it right now. Where employees go to the media anonymously to leak info about business practices, but the term escapes me right now.

  2. The problem with new gadgets all the time is that it costs money.

    If I had a few hundred bucks to blow on gadgets/toys each month you'd get 2 or 3 good "watch what we can do with this!" segments a month.

    :)

    I have a couple things brewing, but they take time..

  3. Anyone know of any cheap inventory systems for home use?  Something like a bar code creator/scanner and software?  Kinda looking for cheap but will entertain any ideas.

  4. I enjoyed the reverse engineering portion of the episode and I can appreciate your expose on on the tool ( Reflector. exe).  However, I would have started with the "strings" command tool.  Thanks

    wbjorken,

    It was sort of tough to decide how to go about doing this without making it into a 25 minute long snoozefest.  I'm going to update the show notes to include some more links.  I would definitely like to get in touch with you though if you have a lot of background in this as I want to learn a lot more.

  5. All,

    I know some of you have probably heard about this little project from the grapevine in the last couple of weeks, and have seen my postings on my blog about it from the front page of this site.  I figure it's about time to let the cat out of the bag and actually get the thing out on the table.

    There are three main parts to the project (I love making everything fit into a list of 3.. *grin*):

    1.) A server to be made available for "rootthisbox" type competition.  Users attempt to gain root on the machine through exploiting vulnerabilities on it.  The intention is to make it very hard for the script kiddie types to be successful, or to ensure that even if they are, there is a component such as answering a critical thinking question which anyone savvy in network security would know.

    2.) A server to be made available for "capture the flag" competition.  This server will only be available during the competitions scheduled and organized by staff.  There will be goals and reports to be submitted by teams participating.

    3.) Logistics and support behind the scenes, and auditing of activity on the servers.  This is an opportunity to analyze and share information about what is going on during these events to help people better understand network security concepts, primarily defense.

    I will have a mailing list setup by tomorrow and already have some email addresses of those who wish to be involved.  There will be plenty more information in the coming weeks.

    For now, anyone interested in assisting with this project, feel free.  I will be updating the project page on my site tomorrow as well.

  6. The hard part about these types of shows is that without a significant R&D budget (I'm talking about actual big media shows, not mere hundreds or even low thousands of dollars) it is very hard to stay on the leading edge of what's out there.  I've felt a little weird about covering some of the stuff I have in the live shows and now the monthly shows because it's all been done before.

    The interesting thing though, is that those of us who do stay current with all the new toys/tricks/whatever are THE minority.  So I have come to enjoy bringing up odd things that many of us know about, but our friends and n00bs don't.  I definitely want to try to bring something very leading edge into a show from time to time.

  7. One way is with an external USB CDROM.  The other way I can think of offhand is copying the windows files to the drive and using a boot loader on the CDFS partition to start the setup program.  I forget how Darren said he did it.

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