George Starcher

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.

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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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:

• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three

SSH Remote Access for Mac

• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three
• Part Four
• Part Five
• Part Six
• Part Seven
• Part Eight
• Bonus: SSH + Rsync

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.