Chutney is a tool designed to let you build your own private Tor network instance in minutes. It does so by using configuration templates of directory authorities, bridges, relays, clients, and a variety of combinations in between. It comes with a few examples to get you started. Executing this command, for example ./chutney configure networks/basic will build a ten client network made up of three directory authorities, five relays, and two clients.

BSidesROC is over. I thought it might be interesting to give a behind-the-scenes look at some of the stuff that makes BSidesROC run. OPs We have “Ops”. A few years ago we decided to try to organize BSides like an IRC network where each channel has an Op and an Op controls what happens in that channel. So for us Ops are trusted volunteers, and the channels are facets of BSidesROC such as the website, Hacker Battleship, or T-shirts.

Rochester’s version of a Security B-Sides is coming up next week. There’s a rush to finalize everything and there might be a question about this new event I’ve referenced as “Privacy Workshop”, “OPSEC Training”, or just AntiTree talks for 3 hours. The Privacy Workshop Track is something that came out of an ad-hoc event that @CJP has been doing for the last couple of BSidesROC’s. He would walk in and say “I want to do a key signing party” and we’d go “Awesome!

Last year, I was bit by the idea of intel as a research project. I presented at BSidesDetroit on the topic of corporate espionage and the contrast between HUMINT and TECHINT. My Defcon Skytalk was titled “Bringin Intelligence Back To The Hacker Community” and I did a GRRConCon talk on the capabilities and structure of a normal private intelligence campaign. The research had a side-affect of replacing a generally apathetic outlook on the topic, with a more specific abhorrence toward the intelligence community as a whole — specifically private intelligence groups working under the auspices of the U.