Stuff sent through the blackberry network is encrypted on the device, sent to Canada and then either decrypted and forwarded to the open internet, sent on to a BES at some other company, or forwarded to another blackberry.
Yes, and it also says I have to give them to the COO or the company lawyer. If I give them to some guy working in shipping or even the head of IT, I'm still on the hook for them.
Seriously. I have a vision of somebody with a bumper sticker that triggers other cars' pedestrian avoidance system to slam on the brakes because it sees a "person". That'd be lovely on the highway.
Logo is awesome because, at least for me, it simplifies teaching the concepts of parameters, code reuse, and recursion by making them visual and less abstract.
I tutored CS in Uni and being able to show students how to draw a fractal in a few lines of LOGO helped a lot of English majors pass Intro to Programming Concepts.
If the Andrew Leaver-Fay in this paper is the same one who cowrote "Faster placement of hydrogens in protein structures by dynamic programming" with Jack Scott Snoeyink, then yes. It gives a 4.
Best shot since I missed out on getting a 2 on Ebay.
Actually, you can download ebooks to the Kindle over the web from a variety of sources. For example, go to Gutenberg and click on the.txt or.prc format and it'll ask if you want to save them to your kindle.
Don't know of any that you can purchase from, but free books abound. You can even set up your own book server, if you want on-the-go file conversion and access to more books than you have storage.
They're still going to cover the cost of editing, advertising, and overhead. Retailers are still going to want their 50%+ markup. Just eliminating printing is only going to save a few bucks.
Now, you might say "hey, hardbacks and paperbacks already covered all those costs, that's like charging LP breakage to mp3 sales". True, now. But as ebook sales grow and paper sales shrink, those costs won't be covered by the paper sales.
While "really hard glass of a certain composition and manufacture" is no longer under patent, I wouldn't be surprised if Corning recently patented "... made into screens for devices nobody had 60 years ago".
Hell, it worked for everybody using "... but on the internet".
Another problem is turning. Right now sitting close to the center of gravity, when a plane turns you travel a few feet up or down. If you were sitting 20 or 30 feet from the center of gravity, you would travel much further.
I'd pay extra for a seat further out. Assuming I don't have the flu or something, that would be fun.
After checking out the DEFCON badge, I noticed Kent had single (giant) pixel displays coming out soon, which look awesome. Get it cut to fit your device, laptop/phone/etc, and you can change its color at will. Can't wait until the devkits are available.
Alas, most of the higher pixel count screens are all glass substrate instead of plastic, so no dynamic camo cases.
Each Social Engineer is sent via email a dossier with the name and URL of their target company chosen from the pool of submitted names.
Pre-Defcon you are allowed to gather any type of information you can glean from the WWW, their websites, Google searches and by using other passive information gathering techniques. You are prohibited from calling, emailing or contacting the company in any way before the Defcon event. We will be monitoring this and points will be deducted for "cheating".
The goal is to gather points for the information obtained and plan a realistic and appropriate attack vector. The point system will be revealed during the Defcon event. All information should be stored in a professional looking report. 1 week prior to Defcon you will submit your dossiers for review to the judging panel.
They will be sent their time slot (day/time) to perform their attack vector at Defcon. At Defcon each social engineer will be given 5 minutes to explain to the crowd what they did and what their attack vector is.
They are then given 20 minutes to perform their attack vector and points are awarded for information gathered as well as goals successfully accomplished during the process. A scoreboard will be kept and at the end some excellent prizes will be awarded.
The Flag
The "flag" is custom list of specific bits of information, which you will have to discover during your 20-minute phone call.The judging panel created the list, and points will be awarded for each item present on the list. This list will be presented to you on the day of the event
THE DO NOT LIST:
Underlying idea of this contest is: No one gets victimized in the duration of this contest. Social Engineering skills can be demonstrated without engaging in unethical activities. The contest focuses on the skills of the contestant, not who does the most damage.
Items that are not allowed to be targeted at any point of the contest:
1) No going after very confidential data. (i.e. SS#, Credit Card Numbers, etc). No Illegal Data 2) Nothing that can get Social-Engineer.org, Defcon, or the participants in the contest sued 3) No porn 4) At no point are any techniques allowed to be used that would make a target feel as if they are "at risk" in any manner. (ie. "We have reason to believe that your account has been compromised.") 5) No targeting information such as passwords. 6) No pretexts that would appear to be any manner of government agency, law enforcement, or legally liable entity. 7) The social engineer must only call the target company, not relatives or family of any employee 8) Use common sense, if something seems unethical - don't do it. If you have questions, ask a judge If at any point in the contest it appears that contestants are targeting anything on the "No" list, they will receive one warning. After the one warning they are disqualified from the contest.
Slashdot Mirror
What prevents BB from pushing an OS update that copies all messages sent through BES? They do control the hardware.
Stuff sent through the blackberry network is encrypted on the device, sent to Canada and then either decrypted and forwarded to the open internet, sent on to a BES at some other company, or forwarded to another blackberry.
Yes, and it also says I have to give them to the COO or the company lawyer. If I give them to some guy working in shipping or even the head of IT, I'm still on the hook for them.
Television. One of my local channels will still have the occasional Guru Meditation at 0 dark hundred.
Seriously. I have a vision of somebody with a bumper sticker that triggers other cars' pedestrian avoidance system to slam on the brakes because it sees a "person". That'd be lovely on the highway.
Logo is awesome because, at least for me, it simplifies teaching the concepts of parameters, code reuse, and recursion by making them visual and less abstract.
I tutored CS in Uni and being able to show students how to draw a fractal in a few lines of LOGO helped a lot of English majors pass Intro to Programming Concepts.
Because otherwise a lot of artists would get shot after they peaked. Or maybe after their first contract renewal.
If the Andrew Leaver-Fay in this paper is the same one who cowrote "Faster placement of hydrogens in protein structures by dynamic programming" with Jack Scott Snoeyink, then yes. It gives a 4.
Best shot since I missed out on getting a 2 on Ebay.
Actually, you can download ebooks to the Kindle over the web from a variety of sources. For example, go to Gutenberg and click on the .txt or .prc format and it'll ask if you want to save them to your kindle.
Don't know of any that you can purchase from, but free books abound. You can even set up your own book server, if you want on-the-go file conversion and access to more books than you have storage.
While I don't have the GP hate for the Nook, I'd like to point out that:
A) Kindles run linux and has a SDK(rooted as well), so it could have an independent twitter client, if just going to twitter.com doesn't work for you.
Also, v2.5 firmware actually has a crappy twitter client for quoting passages from books directly.
B) Kindles can't read epub(sadly), but can read mobi, prc, PDF, txt, html and a variety of other formats natively. Several epub converters exist.
HOA golems are awesome.
They're still going to cover the cost of editing, advertising, and overhead. Retailers are still going to want their 50%+ markup. Just eliminating printing is only going to save a few bucks.
Now, you might say "hey, hardbacks and paperbacks already covered all those costs, that's like charging LP breakage to mp3 sales". True, now. But as ebook sales grow and paper sales shrink, those costs won't be covered by the paper sales.
Plus, the customer will lose the first disc anyway, so why send it in the first place?
While "really hard glass of a certain composition and manufacture" is no longer under patent, I wouldn't be surprised if Corning recently patented "... made into screens for devices nobody had 60 years ago".
Hell, it worked for everybody using "... but on the internet".
I'd pay extra for a seat further out. Assuming I don't have the flu or something, that would be fun.
Alas, my wife would insist on the CoG rows.
Do you know how long it takes to pack up all that stuff?
After checking out the DEFCON badge, I noticed Kent had single (giant) pixel displays coming out soon, which look awesome. Get it cut to fit your device, laptop/phone/etc, and you can change its color at will. Can't wait until the devkits are available.
Alas, most of the higher pixel count screens are all glass substrate instead of plastic, so no dynamic camo cases.
The CTF Rules
Each Social Engineer is sent via email a dossier with the name and URL of their target company chosen from the pool of submitted names.
Pre-Defcon you are allowed to gather any type of information you can glean from the WWW, their websites, Google searches and by using other passive information gathering techniques. You are prohibited from calling, emailing or contacting the company in any way before the Defcon event. We will be monitoring this and points will be deducted for "cheating".
The goal is to gather points for the information obtained and plan a realistic and appropriate attack vector. The point system will be revealed during the Defcon event. All information should be stored in a professional looking report. 1 week prior to Defcon you will submit your dossiers for review to the judging panel.
They will be sent their time slot (day/time) to perform their attack vector at Defcon. At Defcon each social engineer will be given 5 minutes to explain to the crowd what they did and what their attack vector is.
They are then given 20 minutes to perform their attack vector and points are awarded for information gathered as well as goals successfully accomplished during the process.
A scoreboard will be kept and at the end some excellent prizes will be awarded.
The Flag
The "flag" is custom list of specific bits of information, which you will have to discover during your 20-minute phone call.The judging panel created the list, and points will be awarded for each item present on the list. This list will be presented to you on the day of the event
THE DO NOT LIST:
Underlying idea of this contest is: No one gets victimized in the duration of this contest. Social Engineering skills can be demonstrated without engaging in unethical activities. The contest focuses on the skills of the contestant, not who does the most damage.
Items that are not allowed to be targeted at any point of the contest:
1) No going after very confidential data. (i.e. SS#, Credit Card Numbers, etc). No Illegal Data
2) Nothing that can get Social-Engineer.org, Defcon, or the participants in the contest sued
3) No porn
4) At no point are any techniques allowed to be used that would make a target feel as if they are "at risk" in any manner. (ie. "We have reason to believe that your account has been compromised.")
5) No targeting information such as passwords.
6) No pretexts that would appear to be any manner of government agency, law enforcement, or legally liable entity.
7) The social engineer must only call the target company, not relatives or family of any employee
8) Use common sense, if something seems unethical - don't do it. If you have questions, ask a judge
If at any point in the contest it appears that contestants are targeting anything on the "No" list, they will receive one warning. After the one warning they are disqualified from the contest.
Seriously. This is supposed to be a contest, a challenge of information security.
No point in fighting a war of wits with the unarmed.
Really? My voluntary cessation of breathing suggests you are wron
+++ATH
NO CARRIER
Go in wearing a non-resusc bracelet with a living will taped to your chest and just open a vein.
Out of consideration for the janitorial staff, I suggest bringing a bucket.
AV on machines that shouldn't need them? yay...
Relevant xkcd
And works in the budgeting dept of a company I'm glad I'm no longer at.
If he was renting the building, isn't it the landlord's responsibility to to install the ramp?
That's even better. That way, sighted users can use the clean, easy-to-use blind version as well!