Paranoia

The morning after I made this post: http://foxgrrl.livejournal.com/50642.html I walked into work — that afternoon actually — and was making random chit-chat with a coworker — flint_otter actually — and he said that he was reading this article on C|Net about how there was some new super-exploit already for the recent Windows vulnerability, and I'm like: Yeah, the MS06-070 one, I just wrote an exploit for it last night. And he's like, No it's something really new as of Tuesday. And I'm like, Yeah, that was MS06-070, unless one of the other ones was horribly exploitable. And he's like, Well, someone just wrote an exploit for it, and it's on the front page of C|Net. And I'm like, Um, I just wrote an exploit for it… And made a mention of it in my blog… Having been around C|Net reporters before, I know that they print a lot of hearsay and rumors from questionable sources. [And as I write this, Nyah keeps trying to tickle me → Just you wait until I write about this in my LJ! I exclaim. It's making it a bit hard to concentrate…]

So, I looked the article up…

http://news.com.com/Experts+raise+Windows+security+alarm/2100-1002_3-6136310.html

Paranoia mounting… Right now, I really don't need nameless cyclopean institutions investigating me… again. Especially, if there's suddenly a huge MS06-070 exploiting-worm outbreak. You know, it looks kinda suspicious, since I told a bunch of people that I write 0-day exploits and internet worms for a living; I might be viewed as a suspect. But I quickly figured out that they were referring to this: http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2789 (I still haven't published my MSF3 module anywhere.)

There was a period of time when I wasn't oppressively paranoid all the time, when I wasn't incredibly uptight and stressed out… when I wasn't pretending to be normal. It was right after I transitioned (the first time). In a way, I was really going from one box to another by going stealth - But there was a time in between, when I was outside of the rigid boxes.
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What I do instead of sleeping...

On the drive back from the Security Opus conference in San Francisco, I found myself driving along the edge of the Pacific Ocean on what becomes Skyline Blvd. There was a break in the clouds, which allowed the full moon to shine off of the waves. I couldn't stop to take pictures of it, but I swore that if the clouds/fog parted again, that I would stop and take some pictures. So these are photos of the Crystal Springs Reservoir. If you wanted to contaminate the water supply of San Francisco with LSD, this would be the place to dump it.

My camera battery was still dead from earlier in the night. So I was charging the battery for five minutes, off my car, and then taking one or two photos before needing to recharge again.

I accidentally took a photo of the Orion Nebula, see if you can find it in here. The weird looking lens flare stuff… is lens flare. This was the day before I broke my UV filter, so it was still causing flare problems.

( Sonata No. 14 )