Dan Learns Stuff

So there we were: driving from Portland to San Diego, car full of apartment supplies and heading into the desert south of Eugene, OR on a 95...

A half dozen full spools of PLA was discovered in the garage, and they were all out of sealed packaging. Here in the Pacific Northwest, that...

During the DEF CON 26 DC101 Panel , someone (probably highwiz) asked one of the n00bs they brought on-stage, "What makes you a hacker?...

The Aviary, Pg 249 One part of a tiki flight, I was recommended to try this this based on the raspberries. While the recipe as written r...

Three years ago in July, I completed Dan Boneh's online cryptography course with distinction through Coursera's Cryptography 1 .  Si...

A friend returned from San Diego Comic Con 2018 with an RFID bracelet used to track users in the Amazon Fire TV experience (on Twitter, #Fir...

Above is Dan Kaminsky's keynote at the inaugural DEF CON China.  It was nominally about Spectre and Meltdown, and I thought it was im...

I took Ethan to the event run in parallel with DEF CON, R00tz Asylum .  I think he had a blast as they covered a lot of traditional hack...

This post is part of a series about building electro-mechnical PIN-cracking robots,  R2B2 and C3BO . This is a proof of concept for @Jus...

Note: This is part of the Project Write-up for OFBC: One Fluorescent Beer Coaster Circuit Design I began the search for parts to fit the...

A friend has a few Elo Touchscreens from a past venture, and I have racked my brain trying to figure out a use for them. After giving up on ...

Note: This is part of the Project Write-up for OFBC: One Fluorescent Beer Coaster The Idea As night descended at Toxic Barbecue at DE...

I built a copy of Justin Engler's Delta Bot R2B2 .  Here's how I did it with a revised parts list. Inspiration Justin Engle...

Recently helped a friend modify an Obi Wan Kenobi .45 scale light saber into an e-cig.  The model is similar to the one in this  Ebay listi...

Security The PCI Council is delusional: claims the standard is solid when breach after breach confirms it is not.  Blames the victims for ...

Security Researcher gets hacked and details how he investigated, mitigated, and responded to it.  Enjoyable 'mea culpa.' https://...

NSA and Government Shame on Feinstein: There is a cost to surveillance. http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2013/12/shame_on_f...

Thanks to SYN Shop , the Las Vegas Hackerspace, I completed a bench top power supply.  I took a class that helped me build one from a kit.  ...

Adobe Breach Link Blitz: Root Cause: Cold Fusion http://blog.imperva.com/2013/11/the-rise-and-rise-of-coldfusion-driven-breaches.ht...