As a Christmas special we  have scheduled an additional training course, Hacking By Numbers - Extended Edition  (Bootcamp)  in  Pretoria, South Africa on November 24-28th. The course runs for a full 5 days. This course will be offered at a never-to-be-repeated discount price of ZAR 10,999-00 (15% discount on the usual training price). Each trainee will be given a t-shirt and a Christmas hat!

For more on our training please visit http://www.sensepost.com/training.html.

Anyone who was around for Defcon-10 will have an opinion on the infamous Gobbles-Silvio-UnixTerrorist talk in which mail spools where published and everyone was slammed [1]

According to mumble on the Interwebs (and a comment from RiskyBusiness) it appears as if the Stephen Watt who allegedly "modified and provided a “sniffer” program used by the conspirators to monitor and capture the data crossing corporate computer networks" == Unix Terrorist..

It's not clear the extent of Watts involvment with the breakin, but it does send a cold shiver down the spine of anyone who puts out tools / software..

/mh

[1.] for me it just hurt seeing Silvio trying to make a real point while UT was trying to make a few jokes..

For those writing apps for the iPhone, you have a good chance of bumping into the highly annoying preflighting application error:

Ralf Rottmann of [24100.net] has a [pretty comprehensive post on how to fix this] (the problem resides in xcode not corerctly tagging the applications BundleID)

Slides from the latest Hack in the Box conference [are available] [SensePost slides are listed as owing / not there yet]

SensePosters can grab a local copy [here]

When you blog a link to poetry:

[The man watching] is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, that i picked up from a talk by Tim Oreilly during his [recent talk] where he chided the audience for focusing on trivial banalities while leaving bigger problems un challenged. A subsequent speaker picked up the theme, and likened it to abandoning NASA to work on DisneyLand.

I think the sentiment is grand, and the poem is inspiring.. and in particular the following lines, are probably going to keep me up nights for a while:

What we choose to fight is so tiny! What fights us is so great!

When we win it's with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small.

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

/mh