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Superconference Interview: Ben Krasnow

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Ben Krasnow is a consummate prototyper. He’s built a machine that makes the perfect chocolate chip cookie, he has a ruby laser, and he produces his own liquid nitrogen in-house because simply filling up a dewar is too easy. If you need a prototype, Ben is the guy to talk to.

Ben gave a talk at last year’s Hackaday Superconference on prototyping quickly and verifying technical hypotheses. The philosophy can be summed up simply as, ‘Build First, and Ask Questions Later’. This philosophy served him well when he wanted to see if backscatter x-ray machines were actually more effective than …read more

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Superconference Interview: Akiba

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Akiba sits at a very interesting intersection of technology and culture. He is well known for his experience with manufacturing in Shenzhen — but he has a few other unique dimension I’ll get to in a minute. His experience manufacturing in China goes far beyond the electronics you might expect and covers, well, everything that could possibly be made. His talk, Shenzhen in 30 Minutes, at last year’s Hackaday Superconference is a crash course in the area, the culture, and the business side of things.

After his talk Sophi Kravtiz caught up with Akiba for an interview and it …read more

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Superconference Interview: SpriteTM

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SpriteTM, or [Jeroen Domburg], has a bit of a following around these parts. He’s installed Linux on a hard drive the hard way. He can play Snake on his keyboard. He’s cared for several generations of Tamagotchis. In short, there are very few people who have both the technical ability and sense of humor to pull off what [Sprite] does.

At last year’s Supercon, we pulled Sprite aside to talk about his work and his latest hack, the tiniest Game Boy ever. He talked about his Supercon keynote, and how to hack the crypto challenge in last year’s Superconference badge …read more

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Superconference Interview: Samy Kamkar

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Samy Kamkar has an incredible arsenal of self-taught skills that have grown into a remarkable career as a security researcher. He dropped out of high school to found a company based on Open Source Software and became infamous for releasing the Samy worm on the MySpace platform. But in our minds Samy has far outpaced that notoriety with the hardware-based security exploits he’s uncovered over the last decade. And he’s got a great gift for explaining these hacks — from his credit card magstripe spoofing experiments to hacking keyless entry systems and garage door opener remotes — in great depth …read more

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Graham Cluley – Paul’s Security Weekly #517

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Graham Cluley is an award-winning security blogger, researcher and public speaker. In this interview, we discuss ransomware, stealing content, the motivations of attackers, IoT and more! Graham has been a well-known figure in the computer security industry since the early 1990s when he worked as a programmer, writing the first ever version of Dr. Solomon’s Continue reading Graham Cluley – Paul’s Security Weekly #517→

Mini Delta 3D Printer in Action at the Monoprice Booth

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When I was at Bay Area Maker Faire a few weekends ago I stopped by the Monoprice booth to chat with [Chris Apaland], their head of 3D Printing. Earlier in the week, the company had just announced preorders for their new $169 delta-style 3D printer called the MP Mini Delta.

[Brian Benchoff] covered that launch and I don’t have a lot of details about the machine itself to add. I saw it in action, printing tiny waving cat models. The stock printer can use ABS or PLA and has a build volume of 110mm in diameter and 120mm tall and …read more

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Security For Small Business – Paul’s Security Weekly #516

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Don Pezet from ITPro.TV joins us on the show to help us identify security challenges and solutions for small business/mid-market. Backups are key, as are ease of use and support. The most important thing? Awareness and education! Tune in for the full d… Continue reading Security For Small Business – Paul’s Security Weekly #516→

Interview: Francesco de Comité Makes Math Visually Awesome

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Francesco de Comité is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Sciences in Lille, France, where he researches the 2D and 3D representation of mathematical concepts and objects. He’s presented papers on a variety of topics including anamorphoses, experiments in circle packing, and Dupin cyclides. His current project involves modeling and 3D printing sea shells. He’ll be presenting a paper on the topic at Bridges Conference in July. You can find his projects on Flickr as well as on Shapeways.

Hackaday: One of your recent projects involves creating fractal patterns and warping them into biologically-correct sea shell …read more

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Branden Williams – Paul’s Security Weekly #515

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Dr. Branden R. Williams has twenty years of experience in business, technology, and information security as a consultant, leader, and an executive. Branden has world for well known Information Security companies as well as founded two. He’s an author, blogger, pilot, and lover of bourbon. Full Show Notes http://traffic.libsyn.com/pauldotcom/Branden_Williams_-_Pauls_Security_Weekly_515_converted.mp3 Continue reading Branden Williams – Paul’s Security Weekly #515→

Joel Scambray, NCC Group – Paul’s Security Weekly #514

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Widely recognized as Co-Author of the Hacking Exposed book series, Joel has worked/consulted for companies like Foundstone (co-founder), Microsoft, Amazon, Costco, Softcard, and Ernst & Young. Joel came on the show to talk about how he got started in security, the changes in vulnerability management, cloud security and IoT. Joel currently is a Technical Director Continue reading Joel Scambray, NCC Group – Paul’s Security Weekly #514→