Sony already has a Senior Executive (that is a hacker) working for them. Interestingly enough, his division actually took security seriously and was not breached. He's Senior Director of Sony PlayStation Worldwide Studios and in his free time runs that DefCon Network.
I'm guessing this would allow me to make people slow down on my street by simply making them "think" there is a speed trap there. Not a terrible idea, if enough people use it. Though how many false positives will it take before confidence in the system is shot?
If you had any sense of grammar then I would be able to respond to your comments; but the fact that it's so atrocious to the point that I don't even understand your entire meaning, I simply can not.
My perspective in writing this comment is a bit biased since I know the authors of the book. That being said, I have a career where my primary responsibilities fall under the umbrella of infosec so it shouldn't be discounted.
First off, if you can't get beyond the title of a book, then perhaps you fall directly into the elistest category. I know for a fact that the skillz portion of the title was infact the publishers (syngress) decision and not the authors.
Secondly I wish slashdot commenters would actually take the time to see what is inside the book before making statements such as "XYZ would be much more benefitial to know then ABC". The lack of research is shown to those of us who have read the book and are well aware that both XYZ and ABC are included in the text.
Third, I think it is a horrible notion when anyone makes the statement "just goto college right our of High School". Some of the top people in the field that I know, actually didn't go straight to college, they started out in the military. It's a great way to get experience, have money for college and aquire a clearence.
Fourth, while I do agree that some parts of the book could have gone more indepth, I think to do so would have lost the focus of the intended audience (which was not the "experience infosec professional").
Fifth: The notion that the authors are in someone attempting to create script kiddies is simply ridiculous. As I stated before, the title word choice was done by the publisher and if you read the text or any information about the authors you will quickly realize that they know what they're talking about.
Sixth: As was stated in the review, the book does have some draw backs. But view as an entire body of work, for the audience of a geek trying to break into the specialized field of Information Security, I believe it's top notch.
Actually, if you took the time the time to read the article and then do a little check on the contest organizers you would see that your theory is flawed:
Lets extrapolate the data (we'll make it easier on you and your limited brain capacity, only looking at two of them):
1) Chris Hurley:
A quick google search with the term, "Chris Hurley", Wardriving turns up many useful results. I'll use his short bio at oreilly to prove my point -
"Chris Hurley is a Principal Information Security Engineer working in Washington DC on vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, forensics, and incident response on both wired and wireless networks. He is the organizer of the WorldWide WarDrive and has been the subject of several interviews and stories regarding the WWWD. Chris is a primary organizer of DefCon and the DefCon WarDriving Contest."
2) Frank Thornton:
We'll use the same method to find information on Frank Thornton, since it has proven to be useful. -
From Oreilly: "Frank Thornton runs his own consulting firm, Blackthorn Systems and as a detective and forensics expert has investigated over 100 homicides and thousands of other crime scenes."
Perhaps it's just me, but from these two gentleman alone, it seems as though they are more than just "computer nerds talking out of their ass".
Apparently sir, you have not seen the dance floor at Defcon.
If you had been present at Defcon 0c, you would have seen the plethora of people crowding the dance floor. Team Jesus* had jesus and 20 or so of his disciple on the dance floor which soon led to about 50 more folks littering the dance area. And we brought more the Six girl ourself!
Contrary to popular belief, women are finding more and more of a home at Defcon. It's a diverse community and the ragabons [like many slashdotters] who feel that women are only used as object of their mastubatorial fantasies are on their way out.
*Team Jesus has no affiliation to any church and we're all probably going to hell for coming up with the idea.
It was infact for the scavenger hunt contest, though the authors of the article had a factual error. I wasn't just wearing a tin-foil speedo, I was also wearing a tinfoil hat. And while this did seem a bit outlandish to many people, it apparently help us since we won the contest.
Just for some added information here was the point total for the first and second place team in the Scavenger Hunt:
The Core of Social Engineers (us): 11554 The second place team: 3065
So as you can tell, we dominated the game. It was also a very enjoyable experience.
Now all the troll can come out and tell us how great they would have done and how much defcon sucks... blah blah blah.
And as an added bonus, two other items that were fun for us were
1) Make a Snow Man (don't forget, we're in vegas).
2) Make a sculpture of goatse out of paper mache.
You sure said Fag a lot. I think someone is a little homosexual repressed. Maybe you should come out of the closet, I think it would make you feel better. By the way, have some guts and don't post Anonymously.
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Sony already has a Senior Executive (that is a hacker) working for them. Interestingly enough, his division actually took security seriously and was not breached. He's Senior Director of Sony PlayStation Worldwide Studios and in his free time runs that DefCon Network.
Single socket (1P), Dual socket (2P).
I'm guessing this would allow me to make people slow down on my street by simply making them "think" there is a speed trap there. Not a terrible idea, if enough people use it. Though how many false positives will it take before confidence in the system is shot?
If you had any sense of grammar then I would be able to respond to your comments; but the fact that it's so atrocious to the point that I don't even understand your entire meaning, I simply can not.
My perspective in writing this comment is a bit biased since I know the authors of the book. That being said, I have a career where my primary responsibilities fall under the umbrella of infosec so it shouldn't be discounted.
First off, if you can't get beyond the title of a book, then perhaps you fall directly into the elistest category. I know for a fact that the skillz portion of the title was infact the publishers (syngress) decision and not the authors.
Secondly I wish slashdot commenters would actually take the time to see what is inside the book before making statements such as "XYZ would be much more benefitial to know then ABC". The lack of research is shown to those of us who have read the book and are well aware that both XYZ and ABC are included in the text.
Third, I think it is a horrible notion when anyone makes the statement "just goto college right our of High School". Some of the top people in the field that I know, actually didn't go straight to college, they started out in the military. It's a great way to get experience, have money for college and aquire a clearence.
Fourth, while I do agree that some parts of the book could have gone more indepth, I think to do so would have lost the focus of the intended audience (which was not the "experience infosec professional").
Fifth: The notion that the authors are in someone attempting to create script kiddies is simply ridiculous. As I stated before, the title word choice was done by the publisher and if you read the text or any information about the authors you will quickly realize that they know what they're talking about.
Sixth: As was stated in the review, the book does have some draw backs. But view as an entire body of work, for the audience of a geek trying to break into the specialized field of Information Security, I believe it's top notch.
Actually, if you took the time the time to read the article and then do a little check on the contest organizers you would see that your theory is flawed:
Lets extrapolate the data (we'll make it easier on you and your limited brain capacity, only looking at two of them):
1) Chris Hurley:
A quick google search with the term, "Chris Hurley", Wardriving turns up many useful results. I'll use his short bio at oreilly to prove my point - "Chris Hurley is a Principal Information Security Engineer working in Washington DC on vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, forensics, and incident response on both wired and wireless networks. He is the organizer of the WorldWide WarDrive and has been the subject of several interviews and stories regarding the WWWD. Chris is a primary organizer of DefCon and the DefCon WarDriving Contest."
2) Frank Thornton:
We'll use the same method to find information on Frank Thornton, since it has proven to be useful. - From Oreilly: "Frank Thornton runs his own consulting firm, Blackthorn Systems and as a detective and forensics expert has investigated over 100 homicides and thousands of other crime scenes."
Perhaps it's just me, but from these two gentleman alone, it seems as though they are more than just "computer nerds talking out of their ass".
Apparently sir, you have not seen the dance floor at Defcon.
If you had been present at Defcon 0c, you would have seen the plethora of people crowding the dance floor. Team Jesus* had jesus and 20 or so of his disciple on the dance floor which soon led to about 50 more folks littering the dance area. And we brought more the Six girl ourself!
Contrary to popular belief, women are finding more and more of a home at Defcon. It's a diverse community and the ragabons [like many slashdotters] who feel that women are only used as object of their mastubatorial fantasies are on their way out.
*Team Jesus has no affiliation to any church and we're all probably going to hell for coming up with the idea.
It was infact for the scavenger hunt contest, though the authors of the article had a factual error. I wasn't just wearing a tin-foil speedo, I was also wearing a tinfoil hat. And while this did seem a bit outlandish to many people, it apparently help us since we won the contest.
Just for some added information here was the point total for the first and second place team in the Scavenger Hunt:
The Core of Social Engineers (us): 11554
The second place team: 3065
So as you can tell, we dominated the game. It was also a very enjoyable experience.
Now all the troll can come out and tell us how great they would have done and how much defcon sucks... blah blah blah.
And as an added bonus, two other items that were fun for us were
1) Make a Snow Man (don't forget, we're in vegas).
2) Make a sculpture of goatse out of paper mache.
You sure said Fag a lot. I think someone is a little homosexual repressed. Maybe you should come out of the closet, I think it would make you feel better. By the way, have some guts and don't post Anonymously.