Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
Come along for a tour inside DefCon19 at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas.
Quite proud of this video.
I’m 98% sure this is the only footage in the *world* of inside this year’s DefCon19 – the world’s largest hacker conference.
Which happened all together far too fast for my liking. I realize it’s trite to say it, but…. did that just actually happen? That’s how I’m feeling.
Here’s the full video of the snippet you see at the end. This was looped on a giant screen in the rotunda.
You’ll likely recognize these guys!
For those not living full time in nerd-land: these are some of the rock stars of the online security world.
(listed in no particular order, to be clear)
Dave Kennedy aka ReL1K – Founder of DerbyCon, author of ‘Metasploit: A Penetration Testers Guide’, and hugger.
Johnny Long – founder of Hackers For Charity, one of the world’s best Social Engineers, and likely does more good than you.
Paul Asadoorian – co-host of the popular PaulDotCom Security Weekly podcast series, and happy recipient of a t-shirt.
Larry Pesce – co-host of the popular PaulDotCom Security Weekly podcast series, and only person I’ve ever met with an RFID implant.
Babak Javadi – US head of Toool – The Open Organisation of Lockpickers, and good human (missing is Barry, who really shoulda been in this ; )
I’m Keri, nice to meet you.
I’m here with my newly founded (and 3rd!) internet show, Keri On Security.
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.
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.
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,
I’ve had a Mac for 25+ years, online since ’96, and in business since ’98.
Mid-90s I was “that girl”, printing t-shirt transfers that read “you can take my Mac when you peel my cold…….” .
– how I intend to beat facial recognition software
– about the 700 MHz spectrum
– that time I saw a UAV off my balcony [VIDEO]
– flirting with SkyNet
– my 2012 prediction [VIDEO]
– my microphone is a screwdriver
– the meek shall inherit the earth [VIDEO]
– that time I turned into Butters from SouthPark
– Trash Couture at AIRCOM [VIDEO]
– I used to work as a security guard
– thoughts on User Based Billing [VIDEO]
– I like to conduct little SEO experiments
– I hid an easter egg video somewhere out there
– let’s have a staring contest [VIDEO]
– my 13 year cel collection
– me laughing really hard [VIDEO]
– my 2008 advent calendar
– I declared a manifesto and read it to you [VIDEO]
– I built a green screen studio in my apartment
Lastly, one of my favourite episodes, Exploring the Canadian Navy, because:
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.
