• personal

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal While attending DefCon, a hacking conference in Las Vegas, Three18 staff members learned of Ciscogate. Ciscogate revolves around the plight of Mike Lynn. He was a researcher for Internet Security Systems Inc (ISS) until he resigned last week after giving a speech at Black Hat, an Information Technology security conference in Las Vegas. Due to the presentation and the speech Lynn gave a suit was filed against him by ISS and Cisco. Cisco hired people to go through the CDs given out by Black Hat containing all of the presentations and replace them with CDs absent the presentation. The first appearances of the case…

  • On the Road

    On the Road: Waco

    Where are all the damn religious nuts?  I expected them but they aren’t here.  The first time I was in Waco was in college when we passed through on a road trip.  But this is different.  I’m here for business this time.  The last time there was no cold water (although there was more than enough hot water).  This time there’s air conditioning, cold and hot water and even little mini-bar that’s way overpriced.  Funny how your travel changes over time.

  • Football

    Boise State vs Georgia

    The Bronco’s look pretty good.  Watched this one from Portland.  48-13 win over the Bronco’s although the score doesn’t represent how well they played really…