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February 16, 2005
Kevin Mitnick Speaks at Hacker Conference
I found an amazing collection of audio files from The Fifth Hope hacker's conference sponsored by 2600 Magazine. Kevin Mitnick is the first keynote speaker, a hacker legend. He tells his amazing story to the crowd that includes running from the FBI to multiple cities with several fake identities. At one point they're tracking his cellphone and a military helicopter is on his tail. When he turns the phone off, the helicopter hovers in one place. When he turns it back on, it moves directly towards him! Eventually he is caught, thrown in jail for 10 years, and his case set many precedents. Go listen to his story here, and if that floats your boat there are dozens of other speakers' audio files from that conference, including Steve Wozniak and Jello Biafra as keynote speakers for the following days.
Keynotes:
http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/2085
All Audio Files:
http://www.the-fifth-hope.org/hoop/5hope_speakers.khtml
Posted by Steve Warren at 5:12 PM | Comments (0)
WebTalk Radio - Blinkx Interview
I just listened to a very interesting interview with Suranga Chandratillake of Blinkx. They're doing a audio/video search engine that's different from what Google, Yahoo and MSN are doing at the moment. Download the February 5, 2005 show from WebTalk Radio here:
http://www.webtalkradio.com/DATEARCHIVE.shtml
And check out Blinkx here - there are two different sites. The .TV site is the video search engine. The .COM site is the company website that offers a downloadable Desktop Search tool that will search the web, your desktop, and even some P2P filesharing networks! Available for Mac and PC!
http://www.blinkx.com
http://www.blinkx.tv
It sounds almost too good to be true, but when you listen to the guy speak in the interview it's clear he's one bad-ass-muthafugga!
-steve
Posted by Steve Warren at 11:38 AM | Comments (0)
February 11, 2005
Google Picasa - Free Photo Program
Google just bought this photo management software, and is releasing it for free! It looks a lot like Adobe Photoshop Album/Elements in it's capabilities. You can organize your pictures by creating Tags, and output slideshow files and web pages. Looks great... gotta try it soon!
Posted by Steve Warren at 3:40 PM | Comments (0)
February 2, 2005
Kevin Mitnick Speaks at Hacker Conference
It's February already, and my blog page is blank again... I hate it when that happens! I guess it's encouragement to post something at least once per month. Okay now, let me think... what's interesting this month?
I found an amazing collection of audio files from The Fifth Hope hacker's conference sponsored by 2600 Magazine. Kevin Mitnick is the first keynote speaker, a hacker legend. He tells his amazing story to the crowd that includes running from the FBI to multiple cities with several fake identities. At one point they're tracking his cellphone and a military helicopter is on his tail. When he turns the phone off, the helicopter hovers in one place. When he turns it back on, it moves directly towards him! Eventually he is caught, thrown in jail for 10 years, and his case set many precedents. Go listen to his story here, and if that floats your boat there are dozens of other speakers' audio files from that conference, including Steve Wozniak and Jello Biafra as keynote speakers for the following days.
Keynotes:
http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/2085
All Audio Files:
http://www.the-fifth-hope.org/hoop/5hope_speakers.khtml
Posted by Steve Warren at 10:11 AM | Comments (0)