Roberto Live!

Yesterday there was a full moon eclipse visible here in Australia (and other parts of the world). I went to the observatory of the Uni to see the reddish moon on the telescopes and it was awesome. I took some pictures.

If you want to do some good cardio, well an easy and cheaper way is to just go to Watson’s Bay and climb the rocks in there. Remember that the Macquarie lighthouse is on the right of the wharf, not the left, so you don’t have to climb the Gap park and then realise of your mistake. Not that that happened to me of course.

If you want to go to La Cita, a Latinamerican restaurant/bar/dance floor in Sydney I’ll recommend you to book in advance at least one week. Finally we got a reservation last Friday and we could enjoy Latin food. Funny enough they call the chicken in mole sauce, chocolate’s chicken!
In the picture from left to right: Jerin, Sophie, Mariela and me.

Just a picture that I took the other day while waiting for some friends at QVB.

For those of you who asked, yeah a category 5 hurricane hit Mexico yesterday. Fortunatley it seems to be going pretty fast so fortunately it wasn’t anything nearly as Wilma. The eye is passing somewhat close to my home city but it is only heavy raining over there (it’s category 1 now). So apparently everything is going to be fine, thanks for asking (and for those who didn’t ask, hey stop using the facebook and read a bloody newspaper!).

As some of you know I should be finishing my master’s degree by the end of November, and this semester I’m only taking the final project which is a good idea to focus on it and make it more interesting. So since I’m studying security but after many years I still enjoy fiddling with programming I decided to combine the two approaches and in the way give a solution to a problem in the job.

My project is going to be to develop an online software to store passwords, yeah I know I’m creating a weak point of the system but the interesting part is to research how to make it damn secure. I know it can be done, you only need to know what to use when and why, but all the technology is in there. Ideally I will do a Firefox extension but a nice web interface will suffice. So if you have some ideas or papers or something that can help, please let me know. Very likely I’ll be working on LAMP.
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Time really flies I went to the City2Surf last year to Hyde Park and last Sunday I went again but to Bondi beach. The weather is getting better in Sydney, still like 10C in the morning but that Sunday we reached like 22C. So I start appreciating warm weathers.

This year not too many pictures of funny people since most of the runners in costume don’t reach the final line, but anyway we saw interesting people around there. Arriving to Bondi wasn’t the problem going out of Bondi was!! Thousands of people in there, it was a bit difficult. Some pictures below!

The DEF CON 15 is taking place in Las Vegas as every year. For those who don’t know it, that is the largest hacker convention and interesting new security information along with exotic exploits appear every year. The funny stuff happened last Saturday when instead of playing the game of Spot the Fed (in which attendees try to spot government agents in the convention who everybody knows attend the event every year), they start playing Spot the Reporter.

It happened that NBC infiltrated a reporter, but this time the cover blow up spectacularly, when this reporter was discovered in front of everybody. Well at least Miss Madigan now know how it feels to be harassed by a horde of reporters. What was NBC exactly expecting when tried to use a cover in the middle of hundreds of security experts which hobby is, well, precisely discover things.

And in the age of social media, the YouTube video could not be missed.