Hacker Lifestyle
His name appeared among the speakers of this year’s ETech event. As soon as I saw his talk title, I was intrigued: Hackers Built My Motorcycle. Who is Pablos Holman and why I haven’t heard of him? Google?
Pablos describe himself, literally quoted:
His presentations are fun and he seems to know what he is talking about. Also this this Wired story is fairly interesting and quite intriguing. [...]
I bet that you remember the the Mentor’s last words: You may stop me, but you can’t stop us all. Bullshit or not, this is the essence of the hacker community.
His words will forever be remembered and immortalized through the movie Hackers, a cultural tripping point for me and many others.
Alexander Sotirov, a.k.a Solar Eclipse, is a well known security researcher who specializes in buffer overflow exploit development and binary reverse engineering. In the following video, Solar gives a couple of simple advices which may come as a breakthrough for the readers who are new to the fields of binary software hacking.
To summarize his word, buffer overflow exploitation starts and finishes with a crash. [...]
Every year there is at least one presentation that shines among others. This year, I must say, that hdm and valsmith have got it.
Tactical Exploitation was the best because it was the simplest, IMHO. People penetrate network infrastructures not due to exploits. If you consider most of the high profile hacks that have become public in the recent years, you will see that all of them share similar characteristics - the attacker has exploited common problem. [...]
The life has thought me that nothing becomes the way we’ve planned it. For good or bad, the things that we do bend according to our will, time and effort that we put into them. This can be easily compared to the way blacksmiths use their skills to forge a sword from red-hot iron. Too much pressure on the metal can lead to significant deformations on the form of the weapon. In order to fix the glitch, you hammer the other side for a while until it straightens up. [...]