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Compassion by Virtue
I was at the usual mamak joint, having dinner with my family when a homeless guy came in and sat. If this was one of those fancy mamak (read: Pelita, D’Kayu and etc), he would have been chased out of the joint in an instance. Not at this joint. He was treated just like everybody else, with a warm smile and a pat at the back. He looked frail, scared and intimidated by others who stared at him.
Then something strucked me; everywhere we see right now, every single media channel on earth, pledges the mass to donate for certain event or tragedy. Often would people feel compassionate to these people albeit they live thousands of miles away; which is great actually; shows that we have heart. But that’s certainly not the issue now.
What we failed to see are those local homeless people barely surviving. I’ve seen people who wouldn’t mind paying RM1 for a single curry puff but would turn their heads away when was asked RM1 by the needy. I’ve seen people who brags and preach to their friends about donating to a certain organizations but would never donate to disables begging for help by the pavement. I’ve had people who questions me as to why did I gave some change to homeless, beggers or little kids who sells tissue? Apparently, such spontaneous act triggers their ‘wtf’ mind. Why are we being so judgemental as soon as we saw these people?
Even if some of them are controlled by syndicates, but who would really want to beg for a living in actuality? Most of them are either tricked, forced or kidnapped from their love ones. Why must we be so anally selective as to where or whom should get our RM1 donation?
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HITB Ezine ‘Reloaded’ – Issue #001
Welcome to 2010! We are proud to announce the immediate availability of
our newly ‘reborn’ HITB ezine! You can grab your digital copies here:
https://www.hackinthebox.org/misc/HITB-Ezine-Issue-001.pdf
As some of you may know, we’ve previously had an ezine that
used to be published monthly, however the birth of the HIT-
BSecConf conference series has kept us too busy to continue
working on it. Until now that is…
As with our conference series, the main purpose of this new
format ezine is to provide security researchers a technical
outlet for them to share their knowledge with the security
community. We want these researchers to gain further recog-
nition for their hard work and we have no doubt the security
community will find the material beneficial to them.
We have decided to make the ezine available for free in the
continued spirit of HITB in “Keeping Knowledge Free”. In addi-
tion to the freely available PDF downloads, combined editions
of the magazine will be printed in limited quantities for distri-
bution at the various HITBSecConf’s around the world – Dubai,
Amsterdam and Malaysia. We aim to only print somewhere
between 100 or 200 copies (maybe less) per conference so be
sure to grab a copy when they come out!
Happy New Year once again and we hope you enjoy the zine!
Zarul Shahrin – zarulshahrin@hackinthebox.org
Editor, HITB Ezine
Bleeping Radar
The time has come, once again!
Masters from all over the world will convene,
Battles will be fought, empowered by deep knowledge,
Hardwares will become the new Software! (-ish)
when Robin Hood embraces the modern day lifestyle.
This will be the day to cherish, the moment of truth!
Interoperability will be attacked, and Software Protection will be defeated via Metasm,
Blackberries will be crushed, making software dumber.
Physical locks give way to the inevitable, HAM Radio rises to seize the day.
The bad guys are winning… so what?
Retaliation to own the world begins — One desktop at a time.
Tempest will be called upon from within mobile command centres.
PDF origami strikes back, having fun with ATMs and HSMs.
There will be NO TURNING BACK!
This, is the way its supposed to be.
This is, Hack In The Box!
Call for Volunteers > HITBSecConf2009 – Malaysia
We need people from the 4th till the 9th of October (event is on 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Oct).
Activities that we need assistance with:
- Network setup for training
- Network setup during conference
- Security (ensuring people have their tags)
- Airport / Speaker pick up
- Network management during event (to manage the various networks
[speaker, secretariat, exhibitor and public])
- Training track technical assistants
- Conference track technical assistants
- General schtuff
In total we require between 20 and 25 CAPABLE volunteers MAX. You will need to know how to crimp/lay/label cat5 cables, trustworthy, willing to go the extra mile to make the event successful. We will filter and evaluate EVERYONE. HITB is NOT a glamorous event for you to join in as volunteers but do nothing. Email / IM / Tweet me if you’re interested.
