KeriBlog

Cars, Security & a Peek into my Life

Archives for August 2011

Hi Defcon

I’m Keri, nice to meet you.

I’m here with my newly founded (and 3rd!) internet show, Keri On Security.

First, a Brief History

In was a sunny day in the summer of 2007, it was a different time, a different internet…

JK!

I gave myself the summer to try making videos. I bought FinalCut Budget, taught myself how to edit, invented a show I called The Canadian Explorer, produced episodes, and uploaded.

I’ll sum up the premise here in 18 seconds, of song:

Turns out everyone also loves exploring, and I love having an internet show!

Fast forward to 2010 and 80 epodes later: I’ve been an accredited journalist for Sun Media, threw what was maybe the first ever ‘Blog Party’, covered the Van2010 Olympics, and was CBC’s inaugural made-for-web show, and more.

But that’s as far as one girl can on her own, so I shut it down on a high note last year.

Then I started KeriBlog. This show is scattered, no cohesive theme, I just throw up videos as I wish (like how I worded that?) By now, you can sit down and watch me for 7 edited hours.

All the meanwhile, I am plotting.

[insert dreamy audio effect] There has to be a way to single-handedly produce a profitable online video show… there just has to be…

And I can see it now! How to package and produce it, where the money and traffic will come from, it’s coming together like Tetris in my head.

 

Okay, but how’d you go from Canada and KeriBlog to… Infosec?

When so much of your life is online, the weirdos, you know… so I started having to investigate my computer.

Turns out infosec is highly addictive, and I have a knack for it.

What I love about it… that it’s all on you, it’s only as good as _you_ make it…. the quiet meditativeness of it, like video editing… that it’s a bit like a game… the strategy… the figuring it out and ways around and over… the thirst for more knowledge you all seem to have… and, in a way, infosec made me excited about the internet again,.

But looking around, and boy is there ever a gaping hole where an educational show should be.

I live in the centre of the techiest bubble in my country, and they are still looking at me with blank eyes in response to ‘change your pas?”. This is wrong.

 

Allow me to be real clear here for a sec…

I am a script kiddie at BEST. I don’t have your skills, and likely never will.

But I’m definitely better than the average user.

And where I excel is acting as a translator for the average internet user.

 

It’s all so beautiful.

Please click above ‘About this Show’ to see what happens from here.

If you see me say hi, and here’s to a terrific DefCon for all!

Thanks for taking the time,

 

Introducing My New Show…

KeriOnSecurity.com – Smarten Up, Internet

I arrived in Vegas yesterday to attend DefCon – the world’s largest hacker conference.

So sorry in advance if I seem MIA for the next several days, I’m here filming for said show.  But you can’t just take photos anywhere (not really anywhere actually), and I am not taking my laptop anywhere near that place ;)

I’ll do my best from my phone, the fastest place to find me is Twitter, @KeriBlog, I haven’t been this excited about anything in a while, TTYS!!!

Party Time is August 13 #downtown

You me and 600 people!

Right downtown in a giant tent, and Stella is known to only throw classy affairs.

How to Get In

There’s 2 ways.

1 – Win ticketes here on my blog.  I have 10 pairs give away, and the winner will also receive a beautful Stella Tshirt designed by Dave Murray * in the mail, w00t!

2 – RSVP to the guest list at Facebook.  Note: a ticket gets you into the party, this way gets you onto the guest list, no guarantee of admission

(obviously you must be of legal drinking age)

How Do You Win?

It’s so simple.

Send me an email to Keri AT KeriBlog DOT com, subject line: Stella party YES.

I’ll draw the winners one week from today, the 9th of August, and let you know by email you won.

Here are the party details to cut & paste into your calendar.

DATE: Saturday, August 13, 2011
TIME: 8pm-midnight
LOCATION: 525 King Street West (West side of Starbucks, South side of King street)

The party will be for 600 people, entrance is subject to capacity

Can’t wait to see you there, it’s gonna be great!

 

 

 

 

 

(for more on how this came to be, click here and here)

* if you haven’t seen Dave Murray’s word maps of Toronto, you must

Spent the Weekend Rebuilding Things

Regularily, my stuff gets so melted, I have to wipe and start fresh.

That’s what I did this weekend.

(that should say ’10 oops)

That was a good one, that crash. See my hard-drive in intensive care under the arrow, separated from its casing bottom left?

Above:

– that’s what your laptop hard drive looks like

– that’s an anti-static bag, to protect the drive from electric discharges

– top right photo sums up my luck – that’s 15 minutes into having booted the new machine for the first time.  Looks like the ribbon needs tightening, shows up on the camera too.

That’s better than this alternative though.

Did the same thing to my phone, too.

When was the last time you cleaned yours? Organized your files, delete or update applications, you’d be shocked at how it feels after, how it reacts (like new).

Bottom right – see that?  Allow Facebook to go in and take copies of my Contact list, and then let them send stuff back?  Give Facebook editing power over my Calendar :|.  I hope you don’t do this.

Here’s the old desktop, for those of you who switched to Lion and miss it.

I uploaded it at best quality, click on through.

Some of my tools.

I have a burn in my shoulder from mousing so much, and I got into the zone a couple times during this where I was typing like 75 wpm with 95% accuracy BOOM.

Then I went for ice cream.