September is less than 30 days away and already shaping up to be one of the most exciting months from an InfoSec perspective that I’ve have signed up to participate in. This industry (artform) has been nothing short of amazing to be involved with. Sitting in a cube and reading about most of these things, vs going out and getting involved should be a huge learning opportunity. If you are within driving distance of Kansas City and are remotely interesting in information security , consider coming to these events!
We live in a regular neighborhood in Anytown, USA and that neighborhood had many wonderful things that make it a wonderful place to live. This includes very neighborly neighbors that are just trying to help.
Beginning Less than a year ago,
In an attempt to a productive member of a technology community, I shifted all my focus from being a complacent Sys Admin to an area I have always been an outsider looking in on. Information Security. I am no stranger to technology, and have had a strong passion for anything related to it for as long as I can remember. I just lacked focus…
LadyAda sells a pretty neat kit to allow you to give your USB gadgets power from 2 AA batteries. To create the “Boost” (save for batteries) The capacitors, IC Socket, schottky diode, etc.. took roughly 10 minutes to solder onto the PCB using these instructions, and another 15 minutes and 2 Altoids gum tins to give it the “Minty” part. Note: I spent the better part of 2 days locating these gum tins in the midwest. Eventually I found them at CVS of all places.
ax0n over at h-i-r.net inspired me to attempt and successfully build this project . His 3 part series (part 1, part 2, part 3) is Awesome (capital A), and he certainly deserves the all the credit for doing the heavy lifting and providing an excellent write up. I used it as my template throughout the entire process.