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In a Slashdot thread on young jailed computer criminals user sm62704 coined the term cyberglar. Oh my God, that is horrible. On the upside the feds might like it. Cyber, cyber, cyber, cyber.

If you were as bummed as I was that Tacoma Dorkbot won’t be meeting again until late winter / early spring you should know there are other outlets for your geeky attributes in this, America’s Most Wired City.

Every third Saturday the Tacoma Linux Users Group, Taclug, meets at the University of Washington, Tacoma. This meeting should be an interesting one. With the Cyber Defense Workshop kicking things off, open source network monitoring geekery, WiFi hacking and virtualization shenanigans it is one not to miss.

Francois Caen (RHCE, CCNA), long time member and former president of Taclug, will be lecturing on open source network management tools. Folks, it gets geekier than SNMP but not much. Francois is also the president of Turbosphere, a provider of turn-key proactively managed dedicated servers for your business applications and soon to be published author.

In addition to Francios’ presentation there will be a hack session on creating WiFi captive portals. What is a captive portal? When you open your laptop in Starbucks or Firehouse Coffee (sorry, Origin 23 Degrees) you are redirected to a page before being given access to the Internet. This hands on session will be centered around creating a captive portal for everybody’s favorite local watering hole, Doyle’s Public House. Several people are bringing a variety of computer hardware to experiment with different WiFi captive portal solutions.

Finally, in addition to the WiFi captive portal hack session there will be a hack session on Linux virtualization technologies. These technologies include Xen, OpenVZ, LKVM, QEMU and more.

More information is available at the Taclug website.

A Cyber Defense workshop will be held at the University of Washington, Tacoma this Saturday, November 17, from 10:00 to 1:00. Anyone is welcome to attend–students, faculty, staff, friends, relatives, anyone interested in the technical aspects of network security. This workshop will be a Network Mapping Challenge with an expected focus on Nessus and Nmap. It will start in the Embedded lab, Cherry Parkes 206D. Linux experience helpful, but not required. Participants who already have network mapping software on their laptops, will be able to use their own machine.

Immediately following the Cyber Defense workshop the Tacoma Linux Users Group, Taclug, will be meeting in Cherry Parkes 105.

I lived a year in Charleston, SC. It was during my first year of service with the Americorps National Civilian Community Corps. I loved swimming at Folly Beach, eating at Jestine’s Kitchen, concerts at the Music Farm, the isolation of living on the decommissioned Charleston Naval Base and soul food restaurants run by Chinese immigrants. I still have a friend on Wadmalaw Island. I need to go back there, soon. Too bad all of the employment in in travel and tourism or healthcare.

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