Curiosity in Practice
Can you name 5 people who are better at your job than you are? I was asked this question earlier today and after trying to convince myself that “no one is better than I am” I took 5 minutes and wrote out a list of people who are better at my job than I am. … Read more
Would you believe someone if they told you that they had four simple words that if asked honestly can make you successful? I have those four words. My grandpa gave them to me when I started my first job at 13 and came home complaining of being bored. He asked me if I had asked … Read more
Today is the 250th anniversary of the founding of St.Louis. I called St.Louis home for most of my youth and still think of it as my hometown. I figured I would celebrate by sharing a few of my favorite things about the city. This view: Ted Drewes Frozen Custard: The Zoo: Toasted Ravioli: Baseball (of … Read more
First off I must admit one of my all time favorite movies is bloodsport. I was watching it recently and it struck me that I have seen this Dim Mak scene play out at countless infosec cons: No, I haven’t seen anyone break a brick with a secret move at an underground martial arts tournament … Read more
KOMU is the local NBC affiliate out of Columbia. To be honest I really love their news broadcasts and their website and rely on them for the majority of my news. Sorry KRCG and KMIZ. Yesterday I got a couple of calls from people who were getting this when they visited the website: After looking … Read more
Last night I wrote a post about 5 things I am bad at and promised I would follow up with 5 things (appropriate to share on the internet) I am good at. So here they are: Technical Intuition My job is not hard because I have a natural understanding of how technology and security should … Read more
I am reading a book and one of the questions in it was “What are 5 things you do poorly?”. I thought it was a very interesting and thought provoking question. If the question was “What are 5 things you are super awesome at?” I could whip up at list without hesitation in about 5 … Read more
Today I got a bunch of questions from people who were woke up at 2330 last night because of an Amber Alert on their iPhone wondering what they could do about it. Sadly there’s no way to customize the alerts, they are either off or on. If you want to turn them off you need … Read more
I wanted to do a year end blog post and couldn’t come up with a good topic so I figured I would just list all the federal felonies people asked me to commit for them this past year by hacking the following: Bosses Gmail account Blog of a business rival Multiple wireless networks Twitter account … Read more
I have been asking my son for the last month what he wants Santa to bring him for Christmas. After many discussions and a huge list I had to tell him Santa only takes list of 5 items or less and that he would have to figure out what he really wanted. It got me … Read more