updates @ m.blog

When most people come to my apartment for the first time, they are a bit surprised. Seeing as how I’m a pretty big geek to begin with, not to mention that I do research in the field of information theory, they expect to find something that resembles NASA’s Mission Control–a workspace littered with multiple […]

Boingboing’s Cory Doctorow published a short story in Salon today titled “0wnz0red.” Everyone in the blogsphere has linked to it already, but I thought I’d add on my own recommendation because, FWIW, it reminded me how much I loved reading those cyberpunk novels as a teenager. It’s too short (I wish it was […]

Speaking of port-scanning, if you recently upgraded to MacOSX 10.2 (”Jaguar”) you may have noticed that port 631/tcp (”ipp”) is now open by default. This is for CUPS, the new print-sharing software. If you’re not on a unix-based network this is probably useless for you, so if you are paranoid like me and […]

For the l33t hax0rs among us, I recently released a new version of NmapFE for OSX. NmapFE is a Cocoa frontend for the popular Nmap port-scanning software. Try not to get into too much trouble with it.

Nothing like the good olde 11:00pm LAX -> JFK red-eye, arriving at 7:15a.m. That is, unless, you are like me, and cannot sleep on an airplane no matter how tired you are. Nonetheless, I am back in New York City, just in time to catch the sweltering heat wave!

This past weekend I was at Defcon X, a hacker conference in Las Vegas. A few highlights come to mind:

Phenoelit.de gave a very humorous presentation on exploiting embedded systems.
We were told that when taking over a HP laser printer, its fun to change the
status panel to […]

Today is my birthday. Therefore, you may all now offer me extravagant gifts that go bling bling. (So far it hasn’t been working: last night at midnight I couldn’t even score a free beer from the hotel bar.)