Dead Mouse
Posted by FirmWarez on 9 Aug 2012 in Blog | 1 comment
<deadmouse> Dead Mouse. Not to be confused with deadmau5. Dead mouse. Ex mouse. ” It’s dead, that’s what’s wrong with it.” So I took a job with a firm that said all the right things. They needed my skills to grow. Good with words, poor with actions. This dead mouse is representative of the entire experience. The mouse has...
Read Moredc501 at the Tinkerfest
Posted by FirmWarez on 7 Aug 2012 in Blog | 2 comments
Wow! What a day! The Museum of Discovery invited us at dc501 to participate in their first “Tinkerfest” — described as a mini MakerFaire. We were invited to teach lockpicking and soldering. Unfortunately most of the preparation time available after the invite was during DEFCON 20, meaning key dc501 members would not be around, however we all...
Read MoreQuite Unusual
Posted by FirmWarez on 12 Apr 2012 in Blog | 0 comments
Front 242 as Prototype Hackers From their appearance and joy of exploring their art, to the themes in their music and videos, Front 242’s early 1980s line-up is a prototype of hacker and cyberpunk. An example of this is the video for the song “Quite Unusual”. The song’s lyrics are an interesting take on 1980s apocalypse music. The lyrics seem to be...
Read MoreDefcon 18 Badge Hack
Posted by FirmWarez on 6 Apr 2012 in Blog | 0 comments
So, once again at Defcon 18 I joined up with my friends from Optimized Tomfoolery to hack the badge. And hack we did! Kingpin has a (not so safe for work) video of our demonstration at the official judging in the Hardware Hacking Village. You can see my Defcon forum avatar badge, my ever present Toughbook, and I’m wearing a t-shirt from the unofficial...
Read MoreGood Day
Posted by FirmWarez on 27 Mar 2012 in Blog | 0 comments
You know it’s going to be a good day when you’re parked next to the hack bus.
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