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July 2, 2010: 9:11 am: George StarcherGeneral

Warning: This is aimed at securitytwits for humor purposes.  You might not get it.

An anonymous source that is not approved to speak on behalf of #hoffcon shared @Beaker‘s keynote speech. Of course it could have just been a spy chipmunk disguised as a squirrel.

Securitytwits know @Beaker to be Chris Hoff our beloved Cloud Security Guru.  In his preparations last night for the upcoming #hoffcon @Beaker was testing Mojito recipes.  We have evidence from his own twitter feed:

Now’d be a particularly unfortunate time to write a blog. I’ve been testing Mojito recipes all night long. It’d be a frankenpost of a blog

about 9 hours ago via Tweetie for Mac

Our anonymous source suspects a strange reaction of Mojito recipes on the scale of accidents that give birth to heroes in comic books caused @Beaker to want to watch Independence Day during the early morning hours. Or maybe it’s just because it’s July 4th weekend. This lead to his inspiration for his speech.  There is also a rumored super secret ninja squirrel badge for 4Square checkins at #hoffcon.

Good morning. We are joined by our security ninja squirrel brothers and sisters from around the cloud. And you will be launching the largest hoffcon ever.

cloud — that word should have new meaning for all of us today.

It’s not just the smoke from over the grill. Its the way things are going on the Intertubes.

We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore.

We will be united in public to private cloud relationships.  We need well developed options for all sides.

Perhaps its fate that hoffcon is on the 4th of July weekend, or maybe its just a great time to party.  And oh yes, my birthday!

You will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution — but from annihilation.

We’re fighting for our right to have Private Cloud not just AWS Public Cloud only.

And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:

“We will not go quietly into the night!

We will not vanish without a fight!

We’re going to properly design our cloud!

Our systems will survive!”

Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!

Now PaaS the Pork!

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June 26, 2010: 3:06 pm: George StarcherTraining

I am thrilled that an increasing number of the magazines I read for continuing professional education are providing PDF versions.  This provides many benefits to the Information Security and IT professional.

  1. Less paper to handle, store or dispose of.
  2. iBooks and Good Reader save your place in the PDF.
  3. Easy to store back issues for future reference.
  4. Easy to search and make notes using your iPad.

The sources of the PDFs I read vary in their easy of access to the PDF and if you need to have an account to reach them. I download them from the source as they become available then I put them in my Dropbox.com account and open from my iPad using Good Reader a $0.99 application. Alternatively you can drop PDFs onto iTunes now and  they will sync to your iPad using the iBooks app.

Here are the magazine sources I am frequently reading.

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May 25, 2010: 8:13 pm: George StarcherNetwork Tricks, Videocasts

These are targeted more at home users.  I made them for educational purposes for http://www.typicalmacuser.com/

Several folks have asked about the both OpenDNS and SSH to Macs lately.  So I thought I would toss the links together here in one spot.

OpenDNS:

SSH Remote Access for Mac

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May 15, 2010: 7:10 am: George StarcherGeneral

I make no secret I enjoy Apple products. I got into Apple products after my experience with my first iPod and deciding that I was tired of feeling like I was still at work when I was home.  All the maintenance and effort to keep Windows based products working efficiently was too much like my day job. Most of the time Apple products just work for how I use them. Sure like any product made by humans Apple can have design issues.  Like any electronic device it will fail at some point in time.  With that said I am an information security professional.  I spent several years out of college in loss prevention.  I am not a lawyer but clearly I have strong feelings on this whole situation.  And here they are.

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February 13, 2010: 10:56 pm: George StarcherForensics

There are times when showing the time relationship between photos recovered in a digital forensics case can help your understanding of things.  Here is one way to get a visual timeline of photos using iPhoto and BeeDocs Timeline 3D for Mac.

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