Shortly before I left for Europe, I added the Hack-a-day RSS feed to my Thunderbird aggregator, the 3rd post made reference to the PaulDotCom Security Weekly podcast (RSS.) So I added it to iTunes and grabbed a bunch of back episodes, it wasn’t until two and half-weeks later, while skiing that I finally got around to listening to it. Since then, I’ve been hooked. I’ve learned so much from listening to this bunch of guys then any other RSS feed has taught me. I think one of my favourite episodes has to be the interview with Josh Wright… when he explained what Karma and airpwn were, I almost cried. Makes me want to move a next to a coffee shop and do evil things, with the only motivation being to have done them and fun.
There are many of my clients I’d love to force them to listen to this podcast.
– It doesn’t matter that you don’t think you’re a target for attacks, everyone is
– “… the bad guys are only 150ms away; just ping China”
– As Paul says “Defense in Depth”: secure everything – not just the high-risk areas
I sent this email to ’em recently:
From: Mike Geiger
To: psw@pauldotcom
Subject: Improv Everywhere Mission: Best Buy
So what’s the security/threat model for this situation? http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=57
Myke
(aka MyQuil from #PAULDOTCOM)
Then, just the other night on IRC, Sean pointed it out…
Jun 27 21:02:12 <Devnull> did you write in to PDC?
Jun 27 21:02:36 <Devnull> and did you send them your improvanywhere link?
Jun 27 21:02:48 <Myke> I’m mentioned? Crap – I’d better listen.
Jun 27 21:02:56 <Devnull> heh
Jun 27 21:02:57 <Devnull> Yeah
Jun 27 21:03:02 <Devnull> Aparently you wrote in, eh?
Jun 27 21:03:05 <Myke> heh, yeah
Jun 27 21:03:08 <Myke> don’t spoil it 🙂
Jun 27 21:03:10 <Devnull> that’s funny
Jun 27 21:07:23 <Myke> haha, love the album art.
Jun 27 21:07:29 <Devnull> yeah 😀
And here’s the clip:
I had to edit it some because the recording was not very normalized at all, Twitchy was about 3X the volume as Larry and Kevin, and overall it’s a little quiet.
Anyway, there’s my 15 seconds of fame. Go subscribe… oh – and read the article… it’s not like I didn’t tell you, the loyal reader about it before.