For a few years now, I’ve been stating my plans for the rest of the year, and reviewing how the previous year went. Here’s the review: Last Year Major Con Presentation One of my goals was to be accepted into a “Major Con” for some definition of that word. This year I presented at Derbycon, GRRCon, Defcon Skytalks, BSides Detroit, and the Rochester Security Summit. I will say that my moon shot was to be accepted into 30C3 but I was aptly turned down.

Last night at Interlock Rochester, someone did a lightning talk on Liberte Linux — one of those anonymity Linux distros similar to TAILS and the like. Everything seemed pretty standard for an anonymity machine, all traffic was tunneled over Tor using iptables, only certain software was able to be installed, full disk encryption, memory wiping — But one thing stuck out, this service called “Cables.” Cables Communication: Cables (or Cable I really don’t know) is designed by a person that goes by the name, Maxim Kammerer.

Halloween time again. Last year I tried to do a simple little hardware project to make my emoticon pumpkins glow. That’s cute and all but not very difficult. This year, I decided to work on this idea I’ve had for more than a year and a half. The Brain – a silicone based brain with controllable LEDs inside. I have some ideas of what to do next with it, but this first iteration is just to be a fun decoration for Halloween.

These links are meant to go along with my recent OSINT presentation. They’re provided to get you started if you wanted to start learning the craft. Meta Giant list of OSINT tools and methodology Iron Geek’s OSINT class Tools Maltego – relationship mapper FOCA – fast metadata extraction and analysis Recon-ng – OSINT framework Geostalker – fun geo-tracking tool Sites: Shodan – computer search engine CheckUsernames.