It’s been 6 month’s since I started running a Tor bridge node on an Amazon EC2 instance. Back then, Tor had just announced an initiative to get people setting up cloud images to run as bridge nodes. This was during the then recent upheaval in the Middle East where connections to the Internet were either disabled completely, or they were extremely restricted as to what sites they were allowed to see.

Here is a brain dump of what happened this weekend at ISTS 9, SPARSA’s Information Security and Talent Search. A bunch of the people from 2600, Raphael Mudge, Punkrokk, Joe, Gerry, and others were part of the Red Team. Define:ISTS The event worked like so: There were 13 Blue Teams, groups competing in the event. Their job was to take the 5 servers that they were given, run specific services in order to get points, and, something a little different than other competitions, hack into other groups for points.

I think it was less than a week after I announced my little Android Manifest auditor tool, Manitree, that Anthony Desnos, the developer of Androguard, sent me a message in the tone of “hey, why didn’t you use Androguard for that?” If nothing else, why didn’t I use Andoguard’s native AXML converter? Andoguard is this immense Android app analysis project. If you take a look at the first page, you may get overwhelmed pretty quickly.

Every month we do the 2600 meetings. Lately I send out this ridiculous email to my circles and social networks explaining a theme of the meeting. It looks something like the one I did for January: Only 12 months away from the end of days where the Earth’s polarity will completely flip causing server faults to erupt with hot Java and spew volcanic bash. Sudonomies will destroy cities and cause packet storms.