2. September 2010 by admin.

I figure I would post here (since I’m spamming all other mediums anyways) that the Call For Paper for NOTACON 8 is officially open. For those of you who don’t know, it’s an amazing con that I have the pleasure of attending for the past three years (and honor of speaking at the last two). Even if you don’t speak, though, I *highly* recommend pre-registering for the convention. Unlike most of the other “hacker” cons (I use quotes because it really is much more than that), NOTACON is generally small and always a fun experience for both the veteran con-goer and the n00b.

Now that I’m done (temporarily) with my not-so-poetic waxing, I’ll give a brief update on the talk that Rain and I are working on. As I explained in a previous post, Rain and I are working on a follow-up talk to last year’s Neurohacking 101 talk. For those of you who weren’t there last year, fear not! We’re also planning on reviving and revising the talk soon to present at other cons (post on that later). Projects being discussed in the (hopefully) upcoming 102 talk include:

-Mint tin lie detector
-DIY EKG
-Open EEG
-Brain machine
-Stroboscopic glasses
-And more!

That’s enough update for you now. Go. Pre-register early and often. If you can’t make it, remember that they are transferable after you bought them. Go. Now!

xoxo,

Tottie

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19. August 2010 by admin.

I don’t know how many of you recall, but back in Apil ne0nra1n and I gave a presentation on Newbie Neurohacking. During which, we brought up kind of a new aspect of neurohacking: BioMining. The idea behind it is simple: Record as much data about you and your system’s processes as you possibly can, extract useful/important data, and then use it any way that you choose.

I’ve been keeping a notebook for a while now of a few of these things as well as trying to find new/more efficient ways of taking and recording the data. And it’s gone for long enough that I think I’m going to announce that I’m working on doing a BioMining lab in my dwelling space and hack apart various devices so that they all play nicely with my computer.

I have already found two apps for my phone (a Droid Incredible) that help me track things such as caloric intake, steps taken, etc. and am currently looking at different ways to hack an electronic scale so that I can get it to transfer data wirelessly to my computer or make it so that I can put it on a USB stick. I’ll keep you all posted on this as the adventures continue.

<3,

Tottie

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12. August 2010 by admin.

As promised in my last post, I have an announcement that’s a little bit more happy-making.

Rain and I are working diligently to create a logo for the Neuronumerous Group (and, subsequently, the neuronumerous site) so that we can get the ball rolling on publicizing the Group. We are thinking of making stickers to give away for free at future cons as well as shirts or other miscellaneous goods that we  can sell in order to help us fund Neuronumerous-related projects.

On a more project-y note (in regards to neurohacking), I’m quite the busy little bee. Rain and I are about to start work on a Neurohacking 102 talk for NOTACON 8 as well as revise and submit the Neurohacking 101 talk to next year’s DEFCON. I am also doing further research for a smart drug talk for next year’s DEFCON and a “sooper seekrit” project that will be announced at a later date, but not presented until 2012.

One last thing, I’ll be doing a presentation soon at the local GSLUG meeting about the role of Linux and open source technologies in neurohacking. So, if you’re in the area you should definitely hit it up.

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2. August 2010 by admin.

Due to personal time and monetary restraints, I will be unable to continue doing the project a day for the remainder of the year. I am working on the plans for projects and saving so that I can pick it up at the first of 2011. This was something that I was really looking forward to doing, but have to give up in order to preserve my sanity. My sincerest apologies to those who were waiting for these updates. I do promise that they will be continued and that I will be spending the rest of this year preparing for the next so that it can be accomplished without any major setbacks, as this is something that is near and dear to me.

I do promise that the next post will be a lot more happy-making.

-Tottie

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2. August 2010 by admin.

Lots of fun and interesting stuff happened this year. Got to hang out with the ever-lovely Rain for the majority of the con. Thursday was mostly a relax and get used to being back in the Riv/LAS. Wasn’t able to get to the Summit, unfortunately, and that started a theme of missing Dual Core play every where that they were this year (read as: sad panda).

Friday was more or less a neuronumerous day.  Rain’s talk (Build a Lie Detector/Beat a Lie Detector) was very interesting and a joy to listen to. Unfortunately, she got cut off with 20 minutes worth of speech left unread because they ended up starting late due to technical difficulties. I will have to make sure to read the rest of her slides from the CD. Speaking of which, this year I have resolved to actually read the contents of the DEF CON cd as well as make it through all of the speeches that are posted online to date. After her speech, I wandered over to the vending area and picked up a copy of Jayson Street’s book and got it signed. My speech was at 1600. I was knocked off balance because the room that I was speaking in was changed at the last minute and I experienced some technical difficulties as well. Luckily, we ended up only eating a minute of speech time dealing with the issue and was able to get it working. I went through the speech rather quickly, but was able to a little Q&A done at the end (even though there is a Q&A room for that, I much prefer it this way). Managed to get trolled on camera by a fellow speaker, but dealt with it. She’ll get hers in the end [evil laugh]. Fast forward to later in the evening for Nikita and Heidi’s baby shower, where we played some games, gave well-wishes to the mamas-to-be, and ate cake pops in the forms of Hello Kitty (vanilla flavored) and Shmooballs (carrot cake flavored). Then on to when Rain, DeadAddict, Hypatia, 3ric, and myself met up and headed to Bill’s for the No Startch Press hang out. Fast forward to me ptfo’ing and then onwards to Saturday.

Saturday I spent all morning tooling around with Rain. We visited with LoSt (who gave us a spiffy mystery challenge shirt), got cough drops for poor -80 (who was rapping his voice hoarse), and got to meet Space Rogue of HNN (*fangirl squee*). Saw Jayson Street’s talk and watched him do a hacker striptease (not nearly as scarring as it sounds) and will be watching the video again when it’s posted, since I was exhausted by the time his speech started. Rounded the talks off with Jason Scott’s talk on 30 years of software pirating, who unfortunately also ran out of time while speaking.

Went to Hacker Pyramid. Became a contestant. Was going to originally partner up with Jayson Street, as per earlier coniving on both of our parts. But our plan was thwarted. It was for the best. I ended up being partnered up with Nikita (BFF) to which myrcurial responded “This should be interesting…”. The first round we didn’t do so hot (even though we had a category on her, which I did well on except guessing my handle. Major fail on my part.), but redeemed ourselves in the second round where we took the lead. Made it to the third round and got beat by Dan Kaminsky and his partner by one point. One. Freaking. Point. But, again, it worked out for the best. The consolation prize was a ninja badge (*insert another fangirl squee*). Went to the ninja party with my shiny new (bricked) badge, had a blast meeting up with people, headed back to the hotel and then ptfo’d so I could catch my ass-early flight home.

I will have (the few) pictures that I took up online soon as well as pictures from prior cons. I have a few announcements that I will be making later on as the day progresses, so keep an eye out.

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14. July 2010 by admin.

As promised, here is the second post that deals entirely with DEFCON 18 plans. I don’t know if I’ll be following them closely or not. As stated in the last post, I kind of suck at keeping schedules at DEFCON. There’s so much stuff to do and I either get ADD and try to do everything or I follow Rain around for most of the con and will keep Twitter (@tottenkoph) updated no matter what. But this is what I’m planning so far…

I should be touching down in LAS around 1400 PDT. If there is anyone who is getting in around the same time, my friends and I would be more than happy to share a taxi or (if there are enough people) get a limo. I have no plans whatsoever between then and the Summit. I highly recommend people attend. For those of you who don’t know what the Summit is, it’s an opportunity to raise money for the EFF. The Mini Bosses and Dual Core will both be performing there this year (for more information click here) . After that? Probably mass consumption of beverages.

Friday, I would like to go to the 1000 talk on “How to Get Your FBI File…” by Marcia Hoffman, but getting up that early would be really ambitious of me and I don’t think it will happen. What’s most likely going to happen is that I’ll procure bacon and caffeine and generally kill time with Rain until her talk at 1200 on “Build a Lie Detector/Beat a Lie Detector”. Probably attend her Q&A and generally tool around/try not to throw up between then and 1600. I’ll be MIA from 1500-1600 because the speaker goons (and possibly Nikita) will deal unspeakable bodily harm to me if I am not in the green room during that time. My talk is at 1600, followed by the Q&A session (during which I will try my hardest not to rant about how much I hate a certain evil telecommunications company and love the Graffiti Research Lab). But I may be drunk. So there will be no promises…. Kill time until 1930 when Zoz is talking about “Pwned By the Owner: What Happens When You Steal a Hacker’s Computer”.

I will be attending random events Friday night as well as getting Jayson Street (@jaysonstreet on Twitter) to sign my copy of his book. Repeat mass consumption of beverages.

Saturday is completely up in there air, expect 1400 is Shawn Moyer’s (@shawnmoyer) talk on “Wardriving the Smart Grid: Practical Approaches to Attacking Utility Packet Radios”. At 1500, is James Arlen’s (@myrcurial) talk on “SCADA and ICS for Security Experts: How to Avoid Cyberdouchery”. 1600 is Jayson E. Street’s talk “Deceiving the Heavens to Cross the Sea: Using the 36 stratagems for Social Engineering”.

Repeat consumption of beverages as well as going to 10,000 Cent Pyramid at 2200 on Saturday night.

Flight leaves at 1100 on Sunday for some god awful reason and the taxi/limo share is open to anyone who needs a ride to LAS.

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14. July 2010 by admin.

So, the past month or two has been crazy. Just wanted to hop on over here while I still had a minute or two of free time while drinking some coffee to let you know what is going on.We’ll start off with the projects. The daily projects have still been going on (some of them are even starting earlier than others so that they’ll be ready by the completion date that I set for them). Due to some technical difficulties (my desktop and laptop both needed to be reformatted) as well as time constraints from work, I have been unable to find the time to sit down and edit/upload all the pictures of the projects. I have been working on getting them done and the blog posts for each week should be up before (if not shortly after) DEFCON.

Speaking of DEFCON, I leave for DEFCON 18 in about fifteen days. For those of you who haven’t heard, my talk on “VirGraf101: Introduction to Virtual Graffiti” got accepted this year and I’ll be speaking on Friday at 1600. I’ll post a second blog with my best-guess itinerary for the show this year. Chances are that I won’t follow my own schedule, but I will try my best and you can always follow me on Twitter (@tottenkoph). I will have the slides that I’m using during the presentation up on tottenkoph.com Thursday night/Friday morning so that those of you unable to attend can see them and those who are attending can see them beforehand and prepare to throw your best questions at me (well, your second-best questions. Don’t be an over-achiever).

Another reason why the blog hasn’t been updated recently is that Rain and I just became the owners of neuronumerous.com It is completely empty right now, but we are working on making a place for neurohackers that not only has a collection of neurohacking presentations, but also a list of links and various other bits for the budding neurophyte (think of something similar to BoingBoing or Mind Hacks).

That’s all for now, kids. I need to go get more coffee and stare at the screen for another 6.5 hours.

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3. May 2010 by admin.

This week was paper crafts!  I started out on a relatively easy one and then worked my way to a harder one each day. I also thought that it would be better for you all if I did just one post so you don’t get a post every day last week about paper. I didn’t make any of the patterns, but they were still a lot of fun to do. I put the link for each pattern next to the description.

Group shot!

Monday: Companion Cube. From the game Portal. As soon as I find the pattern I used, I’ll post it here.

Tuesday: NES with two controllers. Pattern can be downloaded: HERE

Wednesday: Lon Lon Cow. From the Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. It lives on Lon Lon Ranch where you can get milk from it to replenish your health! Also, did I mention that his head (kinda?) bobbles… Download pattern: HERE

Thursday: Okokok. I know I have a thing for The Legend of Zelda. I can’t help it. This is the treasure chest you see after beating a boss. Download pattern: HERE (NOTE: The link contains all three different types of chests that you can find in Ocarina of Time/Majora’s Mask).

Friday: Blast Mask from Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Made it super easy to kill/destroy stuff without having to make sure you’re carrying enough bombs. Download pattern: HERE

Saturday: Power star from Mario. Would have eyes, but I lost them. So now it’s a blind power star. Download pattern: HERE

Sunday: Grindel and Spindel are two types of Thwomps that first appeared in Super Mario 64. Download Pattern: HERE

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2. May 2010 by admin.

I know you all have heard me whine since last week about last Saturday’s project. Well, here it is…

Materials:
Pink Buttons
White Buttons
Black Buttons
T-Shirt
Thread/Needle
Image you want on shirt

Trace the image on to the shirt

Start sewing the buttons Just keep sewing…
And many buttons and swear words later, you’ll be done.

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29. April 2010 by admin.

Hey all,

While planning hte next… oh, 7 weeks worth of projects, I realized that this will greatly increse the amount of crap I have around. So, unless something is marked “Wanted” or “Promised”, I’m giving away everything I make. If you see something you want, email/dm/message me and let me know and if no one has asked before you, then it’s yours.

Everything from Week 1 (clothes/accessories) is spoken for and this week is papercraft, so (unless you *really* want paper) this will all start this upcoming Monday.  I will send it to you absolutely free, but if you want to show your appreciation I will accept a donation or (even better) a picture of you enjoying the hell out of your shiny new free thing.

xoxo,

Tottie

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