This page is the closest I'll ever come to having a blog... Here you'll find pictures, experiments, results, and other interesting items that aren't suitable for publication anywhere else. New things are added once in a while, but don't hold your breath.

July/August 2007: Wow. Has it been a year already? I've accepted the fact that I'll probably only update this page every 365 days or so. There's better sites out there to keep up to date with what I'm doing. Anyway, lots of excitement during The Black Hat Briefings and DEFCON 15. The DEFCON 15 badge hacking contest was also a ton of fun. Schematics, pictures, videos, contest entries, source code, etc. are available here.

July/August 2006: Lots of excitement this month. The Black Hat Briefings and DEFCON 14, Las Vegas kept us busy. The most fun was the badge hacking contest at DEFCON 14 - mainly because I designed the badge and got to spend the weekend watching it get hacked :). Besides this Flickr page, be sure to also check here for more details, pictures, videos, schematics, and source code.

September 18, 2005: A few pictures from ToorCon 7 in San Diego, a very cool computer security conference wtih lots of smart people and interesting talks.

July 31, 2005: It's that time of year again. More fun and games at The Black Hat Briefings and DEFCON 13, Las Vegas

April 3, 2005: Pictures from The Black Hat Briefings Europe 2005 in Amsterdam. Also included in here are a few pictures from my new hardware hacking training course.

September 24, 2004: The $10 MSP430 Development Board: Inside the Kensington WiFi Finder - I was given this WiFi "hot spot" detector from a friend of mine who had absolutely no clue what to do with it. Figuring that Netstumbler is typically more useful than three blinking lights, I immediately cracked the unit open. Lo and behold, the device is running on a TI MSP430 (MSP430F1101A, to be exact) - a popular, low-cost, and even lower-power general purpose microprocessor. The designers of the board have graciously left the MSP430 JTAG interface header easily accessible to anyone who wants it (me). Using an Olimex JTAG interface (or other standard JTAG interface) and your favorite MSP430 development tool, you can instantly have an MSP430 development board without the hassles of dealing with pesky sales people. Pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

July 31, 2004: Fun and games at The Black Hat Briefings and DEFCON 12, Las Vegas (Also, see Grifter get dunked by Andrew Williams of Syngress Publishing)

May 21, 2004: Joe, Keely, and friends at The Black Hat Briefings, Amsterdam

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