Archive for July, 2004

A Trip back to ToorCon 2002

ToorCon, meanwhile, has acquired a reputation of its own. It’s considered to be a con for the serious-minded hacker, a place to learn, exchange information, and party a little, but not on the grand scale of def con. “We’ve heard that ToorCon is the PG version of DefCon,” a La Jolla father of [...]

Trackback Spam

136 Trackback Spams and counting. Maybe I should put a counter in the sidebar. When is MTBlacklist 2 coming out?

Free Speech Zone.

Speechless.

Pak Con

There is now a hacking convention in Pakistan. The 1st Pak Con was announced on multiple SecurityFocus mailing lists (I subscribe to honeypots) today. They are currently calling for volunteers and papers for the event in Karachi, Pakistan on October 2nd & 3rd. Pak Con is an exclusive hacking convention, the first initiative [...]

Congrats Lance

Congratulations to Lance Armstrong for winning his 6th Tour de France. He finished with a time of 83 hours 36 minutes and 2 seconds making it the second fastest tour ever. In 2nd place was Andreas Kloden, behind him by 6 minutes and 19 seconds.

New Books

 

The 9/11 Commission Report

After 2.5 million pages of documents and over 1,200 witnesses, the 10 members of the bipartisan 9/11 commission unanimously concluded that the United States failed on multiple levels of intelligence. The New York Times (registration required) pointed it out so well by saying: The terrorists of Sept. 11, 2001, succeeded because the government of [...]