Hacking the Blue Team Village Badge (DC27) Hello! This year at Def Con 27 (2019), a friend of mine reserved me a Blue Team Village badge. Commas go where your heart desires. It is, in my opinion, the coolest of
Other DEF CON 27 (2019) Travel Debrief Hi there! It has been a while since I made a post on my blog, and I figured what better than to do a wrap-up of my very successful DEFCON 27 trip. It
Guides Windows Reference Images for Rapid Virtual Machine Deployment This article was last updated 2018-12-07.Hello! When I was learning system and network administration, building test environments and virtual labs was a vital skill. When working with Windows administration having solid, up-to-date
Technology Python Image Crawler, Part 2 Alright, so I wanted to work on my last crawler that did a couple new things. Here are the goals for this one. Use lxml's etree html parser over bs4 Separate into functions
Technology Hotkeys/Shortcuts/Commands Just collecting the hotkeys, shortcuts, and commands that I use frequently (and some I use infrequently but often have to go looking for). Windows General Use Win + L: Lock computer (very useful) Win
Technology Data Security While Traveling Ohai. I was thinking about how I would secure sensitive data while traveling without inconveniencing myself, of course. I figured it would be an interesting thought to share, to see if anyone wanted
Technology Installing and Troubleshooting Netbox There's a story to this. Short version is a friend posted about netbox, an IP address management and data center infrastructure tool. Later I wanted to redo my virutal lab environment from scratch
Technology Basic Python Web Crawler (Image Search) I wanted to build a web crawler in python to dive into pages and look for images. So of course the first thing I did was google it. After looking through several pages,
Other College/University Guide Since I know several young people heading to college or university soon, I thought that I'd write a quick guide for things to do to manage things. This is based on my own
Technology Fixing Ghost on a DigitalOcean Droplet Hello! I recently moved my blog (you're reading it!) from the official Ghost hosting to DigitalOcean. I can spend a moment talking about why I made the transition: It's hella fucking cheaper and
Other Conference Advice This is an update to my DEF CON travel advice from 2017. I have made some major changes and separated DEF CON and InfoSec specific advice from general conference advice. Also check out:
Local Git using Gogs Hey there. I have been working on getting an installation of Gogs running. I want to get a git instance up that I control so that I can dig into how it works
Technology Online Presence on a Budget I have been thinking about this for a bit now, so I thought I would share. A year ago when I set up my blog and professional email address, tools were a bit
Games Shadowrun System Analysis: Part Two In the last post I talked about the core resolution mechanics in Shadowrun Fifth Edition. At the end of that post I talked about three questions that are useful for designing games. What
Games Shadowrun System Analysis: Part One Shadowrun has a long history in the information security community. I cannot count the number of people with fond memories of Shadowrun and who love to share stories of their previous adventures. The
Technology Strava Heatmap Implications Update (2018-01-29): Whitequark on twitter made a tool to scrape the Strava data.[1] Strava, a company that operates a fitness tracking application compatible with the Fitbit, has released a heatmap tool to
Other DEF CON Travel Advice I was lucky enough to go to BlackHatUSA and DEFCON in 2017. After I returned I wrote about my experiences here. I also wrote a blog post with point-form travel and conference advice.
Guides Building Public Key Infrastructure in Windows The internet relies on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for SSL/TLS certificates for HTTPS operation, code signing, email certificates, and more. While you can read about PKI, I have found that getting your
Technology Engineering Journals At the start of college I was told to keep an engineering journal. I was told to write down problems I encountered and how I solved them in detail. The idea is that
Other Why I Hate Mathematicians I was given a question: 1234567891011121314151617181920 / 3 Is the remainder 0 or not 0? I did some classic long division to solve this question: 1234567891011121314151617181920 / 3 = 41522630337040438050539060640 R = 0 I thought I did
Technology Lessons Learned: October, 2017 Lessons Learned is a collection of issues and failures that I encounter each month. Each entry explains the problem that I encountered, the solution I reached, and what I learned from it. This
Technology Password Managers Over the past couple years I spent time with several password managers. Each password manager I tested addresses different problems. As with all technology, understanding what problems a technology addresses allows you to