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From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:51:54 -0500
How to be offensive without being offensive. There's no class in this, and I have to say that I'm not that great at it and maybe never will be. I spent all last week with my grandfather who's 92, and lived through WWII. I'd say "fought in WWII", since he was in the Air Force and really wanted to be, of all things, a navigator, but the way he puts it is that the best place to be in a world war is "far away from it". There's a lot of parts of him now that are the not the same, but the engineer in him is stronger than ever, weirdly emphasized by a long time away, seeing details of the environment - every bolt in the pavement in high relief. He lives on a big block of land in Herndon, which now has CACI and Mantech buildings roaming the land that used to be pig farms like a herd of brachiosaruses. None of that impresses him - not the inch thick stacks of badges at Red Hot and Blue, and not the magic technology, each gadget more shiny than the last. Part of that is because 92 year olds are hard to impress, and part of that is because he worked at RCA fifty years back building machines under an SAP with vacuum tubes in the building that became the NSA. That said, twice now I've been told off in Herndon restaurants for cursing too loudly during dinner. Everyone in these restaurants whispers to each other all night. I can just imagine the amazingly boring sex they have after dates like that. And as part of the plan of "not being embarrassingly bad at man-wrestling during INFILTRATE-BJJ" this year, I paid the mat fee and trained at Fairfax JJ, just a short drive from where I grew up. In between choking me out the asberger's kid pointed out that I was too tentative. Some part of me just wanted to avoid that particular war, I guess. So to sum up, it's been a weird week. Next week is RSA, and Tuesday and Wednesday in the Expo Gateway from 12-1 I'm going to be doing my best to avoid cursing or being offensive in any way while at the exact same time, trying not to be too tentative. Frankly, those of you who know me, or who have ever eaten dinner in a restaurant near me, know I'm going to err on the side of offensive. So come by and heckle if you're there! -dave -- INFILTRATE - the world's best offensive information security conference. April 2013 in Miami Beach www.infiltratecon.com
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