Henry Rollins

Ok, First off I just wanna say, I've been listening to a lot of Henry Rollins recently and I have to say....GENIUS!!! This guy is not only cool, but he's intense, intellegent, well spoken, and articulate. I suggest anyone to listen to this guy's spoken word stuff or read some of his books. His music is ok, I'm a big fan of him so of course I'm gonna have a bias opinion, but his poetry and spoken word stuff is amazing. Plus, I emailed him and he actually responded the next day, how cool is that.

Secondly - THE WONDERS OF A GUMMI BEAR!!!!!!

The Bomb: Taking molten potassium chlorate and adding a gummi bear (which is mostly sucrose) and the molecules rearrange drasticly fast in a product favored reaction. Don't just do this at home, it's dangerous.

The Fingerprint Bypass: Just go Here. It explains it all

Sealant: Melting a gummi bear and dripping it on just about anything can be used as a sealing tool. My friend has done this for his water cooled processor in his pc so I trust it as he has about $5000 worth in hardware in his pc.

Thats it, I know, kind of a MacGyver post, but hey, I work with what I have.

Any students in the Albany College of Pharmacy out there?
If so, Email me at Akiratima@gmail.com
Trust me on this one

AK

Possible Computer Idea? and some social engineering on the side

First, I jsut wanna toss this out there...it's my idea for a nice little computer. First you start off with the pc itself which would be from gumstix. Gumstix is a company that specialized in making working computers that are about the size of a pack of gum. Granted, they aren't fast, or big on space, but they're small so I can deal. Plus they have really cheap adapters for them. The pc I'd get would be the 400MHz with bluetooth ($214). Then I'd buy one of their extremely cheap extentions so that I could hook up a seperate hard drive to it. Thus raising the memory from like 4 mb to 120gb. This would be very helpful. Finally I'd head over to MP3Car.com for my monitor. I know what you're saying, why would I get a monitor from there? Well, cause they have cheap, small touchscreens. Now, some of these are really nice, but I'm cheap so I'd go for the liliput 7". This thing is a beauty. It can be detached from it's holding rack and carried about. From here you have the full pc and monitor, and since the monitor is a touchscreen, it has an added keyboard program built in. But thats not good enough, I'm gonna spring for the psp keyboard. It's small, pretty, and easy to use. It won't fit on the monitor, but with a few minor adjustments you can make it happen. It would also need a decent power supply and I was thinking you could take some random battery cell and convert it to use in this case. In the end I envision my portable pc to have the full pc, keyboard, and power supply on the back of the monitor and almost completely concealed. Using spare pieces of plastic you can make a custom back to hold all of it and cut holes for the power supply to rechard, an area for the keyboard to come out, and a place to get to turn the pc on and off. All in all I figure you could have about $600-700 and have a good little pc.

Just a little input, Litestep, it's a wonderful shell for your os. I think it only works for windows based systems but not sure. I say it's wonderful because you can modify it if you know how to code even in the slightest, good stuff.

Now for the social engineering:
Ok, I've looked around the net for a lot of random social engineering information and I gotta tell ya, if these people who claim to be "hackers" and put things like that out, we're in trouble people. They talk about all kinds of random crap. They say that dumpster diving is part of social engineering. No, it's not part of social engineering, it's part of hacking, and HACKING ISN'T A BAD THING!!! Cracking is when it's used violently/maliciously. Hacking is simply using reverse engineering or a series of attempts to check the security of something. If the company is throwing out passwords or the people are stupid enough to make their password something relateable to themselves and not just a random string, then the person dumpster diving is HACKING, not social engineering. Social engineering involves wit. A moron can jump into a trash bin, However, a moron cannot talk his way past security at an AT&T. Upon looking for a definition from an actual definition based website I found this

Social Engineering
Term used among crackers and samurai for cracking
techniques that rely on weaknesses in wetware rather than
software; the aim is to trick people into revealing passwords
or other information that compromises a target system's
security. Classic scams include phoning up a mark who has the
required information and posing as a field service tech or a
fellow employee with an urgent access problem. See also the
tiger team story in the patch entry.
Taken for www.dictionary.com

Wow, thats the stupidest crap I've ever seen. The hell does samurai have to do with the field we here at the firewall reside in?
I will now try to give the most accurate definition of Social Engineering EVER GIVEN!!!

Social Engineering - An attack, relying on the weaknesses of human based security and the attacker's use of the art of deception, which uses wit as a form of intrusion in an attempt to gain knowledge or service(s) from another that is/are not normally allowed to the attacker.

AK

Ok, social Engineer your way through a traffic Jam.

Ok, first, you have to be stuck in traffic...like I was...second, it has to be caused by a car wreck.
This is so immoral....
Anyway, big traffic jam, just started a little bit ago...call a cop over and be like...

"My sister said my best friend was in a car wreck, could you tell me who was involved?"
"A girl named Teressa and a drunk driver"
"OH GOD TERESSA!!"
"You knew her?"
*Act hysterical*"YES SHE"S MY BEST FRIEND!!!" *breathe heavy*"IS SHE OK?!?!"
"the ambulance is about to leave"
"Can I follow the ambulance to the hospital?"
"yea, let me clear you a path" *Officer then instructs people to move and let me through the traffic jam*

Now, since I live near a hospital, this worked for me...followed the ambulance through all the lights and barely abused the other person's misfortune. Got home faster and legally. :-D

AK

Ode to the Transfer!

This is specifically designed for p2p programs and their uses. A friend of mine asked me what a good downloading program would be to use while you're on a college campus. Since most campuses block you from installing K++ on your pc and you'd ppossibly get sued for using it anyway. Plus it's just a pyramid scheme to get your info by the riaa now so don't sign up for it. If you insist on Kazaa then use the light version I supply here.

It's a decent program, but not the one I suggest, the one I suggest is Emule (download) or Emule plus (download).

Someone I know likes DC++ (download) because if you get a good server with good people then you can get just about anything. I have played with it in the past, but I just didn't like it all too much, but some people swear by it. You might wanna check it out.

The most covented p2p is Bittorrent. It's also become the most targeted source of hate by the riaa and mpaa.(Downloads: Windows Linux OSX Source)

Some people use IRC to transfer files or, if you just know people who have these things, MSN messenger or AIM. I believe it's not worth the searching for it.

Thats all I got this time.
AK

LineInterference?

Ladies and Gentlemen, How could this be? Someone who actually paid attention to our blog is actually really good.
I just went over to Line Interference to check out what all was going on and I gotta tell ya. I was impressed. They have mp3 downloads of their episodes and they have 3 different shows, but one only has one episode. Each one is unique and good in it's own rights. Thats all I wanted to say on this post, I highly suggest listening to their show.

GOOD STUFF GUYS, Keep it up.

AK.

Social Engineering?

Ok, got the pc back up and thought I'd post on Social Engineering, one of my favorite topics. A site recently popped up which is suppose to be an open forum to talk about social engineering. Personally, I don't like it, I think it could be much better. If this is the best we got out there to converse about Social Engineering then we are hurting.

A section of Lineman which is a much better place to find info that you might be looking for has so much more info. I suggest this more than the other place.

This place I just happened accross and it's kinda odd at first, but it has some decent links.



OK, now off the topic of Social Engineering The Glitch have a new video out. I didn't really like the first video because as with a few others, they simply re-stated the things that Kevin Rose and Dan Huard did in The Broken. You can Download the first and second videos Here!

Another really good series of videos to watch is The Scene. This video series is wonderfly done and entails the trials and tribulations of a movie pirating group. Good insight as well as underlying and shifty meaning all around. Episode 5 just came out so I say go grab em.


Sorry it took so long for another post, PC went down and a day went by before I thought...Hmmm, I can audio post. Hopefully NADA will post sometime soon. Peace Easily.

AK