The Los Angeles Auto Show 2011

Aug 15 2012

I had a great time at the LA Auto Show last November! Ford brought me along with them, was a gracious host and I had an amazing time, thanks again guys!

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A 6.7L engine woah, that pickup dream of mine is old, it’s too bad tinting that dark is illegal, those Mitsubishi concept cars are cute, I stand by my cycling team comment :|, and cool about the Mustang Pantone yellow like a school bus, eh.

Click here for a full list of debuts at the show. Also, the show does something nice each Thursday night before it opens, they throw a charity event benefitting a program to give healthcare to the homeless in LA.

But wait, November was so long ago, why is this video posted now? I’d moved the week before, moved to a new laptop, switched to the new Final Cut X, then left the country for 4 months weeks after getting home. Still good footage, still sorry about the delay Ford :)

Inside DefCon19

Aug 7 2011

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.

Get Ready for Some Amazing Interviews

Aug 7 2011

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 ; )

700 MHz Is All The Rage

Jun 5 2011

Tuesday I attended the Canadian Telecom Summitt 2011 #CTS11… Canada’s leading and largest telecommunications industry event.

Media sits at the back.

There were big-name keynote speeches all day, heads of Telus, HP, Rogers, Microsoft, Bell and CRTC people.

This is how I learned we got a new Minister of Industry two weeks ago, Christian Paradis.

Congratulations on your new job! Please protect Canada.

Made some new friends both IRL and online during it, hi guys! Keep in touch.

The most interesting topic of today was the 700 MHz Spectrum.

You can’t just go around blasting signals haphazardly, where and whenever you wish. Depending on what you’re doing, depends on which frequency you transmit/broadcast/communicate on.

Below shows (some) of the MHz spectrum and its allocations. See the band where I added the text, flanked by ‘mobile’ and ‘broadcasting’?

That’s the 700 MHz band, and it’s soon up for sale.

(See the full diagram here)

It was once owned by the broadcasters, and was used to broadcast analog TV.

Now the government owns it, and is about to sell it.

The auction will take place late 2012. The gentleman above is in charge of said auction.

It’s a powerful spectrum which can penetrate walls. This makes it ideal for broadband communication. It also has a great range and can travel long distances; one tower broadcasting 700 MHz can cover 20 miles.

Think of it like… it’s the Ferrari of spectrums.

Tweets and fun facts from today.

Many of the talks re-inforced my theory about how the future internet will be designed, I talk about it in my video, About UBB – Usage Based Billing, fast-forward to 0:31.

Then I invited myself to the stage.