I’m 18. What’s up?

According to Google Images this is what “being 18″ is all about.

I can hardly wait.

Get it while it’s hot.

God bless this man.

They’re all over the earth, unfortunately some of them manage to figure out how to do, excuse me, try to do some pretty nasty things. Take the following for example.


72.240.*.48 - - [04/Apr/2008:13:11:00 -0400] “SEARCH
/\x90\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9…etc

72.240.*.48 - - [04/Apr/2008:13:11:11 -0400] “POST/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/fp30reg.dll HTTP/1.1″ 404 291

Here, one of those idiots runs an exploit against my web server, attempting to gain illicit access to it. Sadly, his puny brain couldn’t figure out how to use the -sV option in Nmap, for if he had, he would have seen that it’s an Apache server, and that running a FRONT PAGE IIS exploit against it wouldn’t have yielded him any results. I’ve been kind and obscured his IP address to some degree, but you have a 1/255 shot of finding the little brat.

‘Nuff said.

Now I’m all for saving the environment and all that hoopla, but when it’s the colder times of the year, say late March, and I want to warm my hands up, compact fluorescent light bulbs just don’t cut it.

Upon seeing the preceding image I thought to myself “Are we as a society so hellbent on changing our image into something else; something that we think we would like, that marketing agencies can actually use that want to appeal to us?”

Then I realized 11:00PM is way past the allowed philosophical thinking time of the day, and that even if it did appeal to us, who the heck would want to go to Texas?

To put into words what Shmoocon was, to me at least, would be doing it a disservice.

So I’ll just give you the highlights.

I didn’t attend that many talks, maybe six or seven, but all the ones I did go to were very interesting. The best being between Simple Nomad’s “Hacker Crypto” and Joshua Wright’s “PEAP” talk. Not to say that the other talks weren’t interesting, but those two were the ones I enjoyed the most.

While not attending talks I was usually wandering around and talking to various people. I met a bunch of people from the Remote Exploit team, Larry from Pauldotcom, Renderman, Joshua Wright, Mike Kershaw, Robin Wood, and quite a few others. Everybody was very nice, and although I doubt I made much of an impact on them, they definitely affected me.

Other than that I just really enjoyed hanging out and enjoying the atmosphere, and I will definitely attempt to make it next year!

Pictures: Courtesy of Mister_X

http://photos.aircrack-ng.org/

“Shmoocon” towards bottom.

About to leave for the airport.

Updates + pics in a few days.

Enjoy the long weekend. Peace.