Haroon Meer
HITB08 – Marcus Ranum Keynote on CyberWar..
I just managed to pull the HackintheBox torrents for their [2008 talks]. (SensePosters can grab a local copy [here]). I watched Marcus Ranums “Cyberwar is Bullshit” talk. A talk that was truly wince-worthy! While the talk will make you scream at the screen a few times, it is worth watching just to see the Q&A section after the talk.. It’s quite clear that Ranum gets owned more thoroughly than his online gallery did.
Joe Grand (Kingpin) gets famouser!
This is probably really old news (to some), but was in the company of sattelite TV this weekend and saw that Joe Grand now has a TV Slot all of his own. “Prototype This” looks like it will be awesome..
I spent the rest of the day trying hard to catch the adverts at just the right time to get a pic of Joe, while excitedly saying “i cant believe joe is on TV” to deels to try to convince her that it was a better alternative than going out..
On Hiring Staff – The T-Shirt Method..
Anyone who has honestly reflected on what they know about hiring, will tell you that no matter how locked-down you think you have it, you dont. There is still way too much left to chance and way too much that you just dont know. To avoid this, companies that care about preserving their culture will sometimes adopt a “default deny” approach. It’s ok to miss a potentially good hire rather than to take on a bad one. This isn’t silly geek risk aversion.. It’s because one bad hire can do amazing damage to a culture (an area bad hires can be amazingly productive in).
EDoS is the new DDoS ?
Over at [Rational Survivability] beaker as coined the term EDoS. To describe how “the utility and agility of the cloud computing models such as Amazon AWS (EC2/S3) and the pricing models that go along with them can actually pose a very nasty risk to those who use the cloud to provide service”
Of course, this has kicked off the flurry of responses from “How is this different to soaking up the bandwidth of people who pay per gig” to “OMG! thats the new thing.. Cloud Computing is bad”.
RFP Spotting..
Not the boring pile of papers kind.. the shiny pants and sunglasses kind:
Turns out you can find him blogging these days at [http://research.zscaler.com/]
PS. if you dont know who RFP is, you are too young, and probably think w00w00 is leetspeak for a siren..
When missing a good hire works out well..
A few years ago, Mohamed Nanabhay was considering joining SensePost and i was trying hard to convince him it was the way and the light. He had been a KPMG auditor in a past life (but i promised not to hold that against him).
We were not sure what he would do at SP, since he was kinda moving away from hardcore tech, but we always said that we would take quality people, even if we didnt have a niche for them, cause quality people will make a new niche.
So so senseless…
haroon :(
Headhunter: Employers Hate World Of Warcraft Players
This is an old post, regurgitated because it yielded some spirited discussion.
Apparantly headhunters are being told to avoid World of Warcraft players:
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/headhunter-employers-hate-world-of-warcraft-players
It’s an interesting twist, because a little while back i also recall hearing an itconversations interview on in-game leadership skills..
My own views on this are mixed.. i find the amount of time spent on gaming to be staggering (at least with gamers ive spoken to) but ive also heard some pretty hard core hax0rs talking about gaming.. hmm….
Dont look now, but it seems they broke the Interwebs again..
Those pesky hackers!
Alex Sotirov (of heap feng shui fame, famous for breaking everything from Vista, to web browsers, to facebook) and Jacob Applebaum (of cold-boot attack fame, and more importantly of “knuth is my homeboy” fame) will be talking in a few hours at the 25c3 conference in Germany and by all accounts its going to be an “Internet Breaker”.
There is a fair bit of speculation on the nature of the bug (though most people some confident that its routing protocol related) and HD Moore has blogged that the pair have sought legal advice pre-publishing.
We going to sue and make Squillions…..
or maybe not…
The twitters informed me that Singe uncovered a case of brand plagiarism!!!1!
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So lets review..
the logo looks shockingly the same they no doubt, behind closed doors refer to themselves as SP too just based on their staff numbers, they probably have 16 good looking people there too! i had the lawyers lined up but decided to dig more info. on them first..