This is dedicated to all the hackers and the crackers, to the hackers and the crackers.
I see in binary, I speak source code, step on my toes, I'll post a million jpegs of you
in a fag pose, in your digital stance, getting firewalls hoes, cause I'm riding the net in
my six foes, I was a dick with my 56, now with my cable I'm able to get that stable,
on the out, my name is Ace and I'm a Leo, on the digital highway, my name is Neo and
I'm a hero, in a flash, I'll screw you on burning dreamcast, you need some ISO, let me through
my hard drive rifle, our exchange you could never stifle, and a digital hug, you just caught
the love bug, I bootlegged your CD, I caused the fight between Un and Jay-Z, cause CG, it's
all gonna be free, whether we take it by force or we take it nicely, you feel that rattle
in your bones, when I tell you we just hacked out Jones, and NASDAQ leaves your fight on
your back, cause I am he who loves to hack and crack, cause I am he who loves to hack and
crack, this is dedicated to the hackers and the criminals, they're real phones, source codes,
ISO, RAM, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this,
Hello, and welcome to Binary Revolution Radio, episode 115.
Wow, I think that's like 10, you've been doing this 115 times?
No, no, no, I think I've only been doing it 10 times though, which is impressive in
its own right, anyway, today's date is September 27th, 2005, and I'm Black Ratchet, Strom isn't
here right now, he's gone, whatever, and we have Doug with us, Doug, hello, Doug the man,
Doug, hello, of Default Radio fame, Default Radio fame, what's up, not a lot, what's going
on with you, man? Nothing much, just co-hosting the show Binary Revolution Radio with Black
Ratchet. Yeah, that guy's a noob, shouldn't do that. Yeah, with a stank dog, I mean, Ratchet,
stank Ratchet. Stank Ratchet, actually, that should be my new handle, Black Dog. Black Dog,
oh, Black Dog actually sounds pretty good, someone wanted a cool handle, and I called him like
Black Ratchet Jr., and he was seriously considering it for some reason. Your name should be Black Dog,
there we go, and you can spell it with the A-W on there, so you can be leet like stank.
Black Dog at the Digital Dog Town.
Make like a fun, like, saying, like, you know, once I bite into something, I never let go, or
something leet like Cowboy Bebop.
Oh, God.
The Black Rabbit Dog.
Black Rabbit.
Black Rabbit, there we go.
Black Rabbit.
Wow, see, Doug, just getting on the show, it gets the creative juices flowing.
There's too many handles already with black and white in it.
Yeah, that's, I gotta say, that's the one complaint about my handles, that now I look
back at it and say, boy, what was I thinking when I picked this name?
Yeah, but you're one of the originals, though, like, white, so it's one of the original
names. There's a lot of names today that people are coming up with that have white and black
in it.
I hardly count those names as original. It's only been around for about a, a little more than a
year now.
More than a year? How long?
So, it's May, May? Well, maybe April, I think. I don't even know when I registered the domain,
to be honest with you. I think it was April, maybe May.
Well, wait a minute. How long have you been in the scene? You've got to have been in it
more than a year, haven't you?
June.
Really?
Slightly more than a year.
I thought you'd been around for a long-ass time.
Well, I've been around, I mean, I've been around, but I haven't been part of the scene,
as it were.
Well, I mean, I figured he'd be on other forms and stuff, but I just figured he always went by
Black Ratchet and he came across BINRIP like a lot of other people.
No, I actually had a previous handle, but it was, I started hanging out on BINRIP. Never
registered the name, though, so I don't even bother go looking. And I learned about the
wonderful techniques of owning people. And I was going, oh, perhaps I shouldn't have
this easily traceable nickname back to myself that has been my nickname for about, oh, at
that point I think about five or six years. And it was thoroughly entwined with my real
name. So I said, okay, let's go, let's go pick out something cool sounding. And all of
a sudden I ended up with Black Ratchet. What was I thinking?
Black Ratchet. Well, it's a clever one. I'll give you that.
Yeah, well, it was really, see, I wanted to have like something like one of those really
cool sounding security lab type things or something where people release leet exploits
and stuff. So I was going to call myself Black Ratchet Labs. So.
Well, at least you don't have numbers and.
Yeah, well, that was, yeah.
They have like uppercase and lowercase letters everywhere. Replace S's with Z's.
Yeah, well, that was one of my key things. Well, basically I registered a domain first and
I wanted something without, it didn't sound too stupid and didn't require like leet speak
or something crazy like that. And lo and behold, blackratchet.org was not taken. So
I was very lucky.
So I registered.
I don't have the, I don't have the talent to come up with a handle. I never really had
any handle. The only thing I ever had once was just CB, which was my name initials that
I always went by on IRC by. And that was all I ever really used was my name. I never had
any creative handle.
See, and when you were always talking about cbzone.com and I never actually, when I was
going through the archives of default radio, I always assumed you were really into citizens
band radio.
Well, actually, ironically I was. That's why it worked. But I never used, I never used CB
Zone as a website affiliated with that though. It was just, but it's kind of funny that you
bring that up. That, because a lot of people did think that and that was true. That's what
I usually told people for a while. Because in the bin rev scene, I never did give people
my name. I always went by just Doug, because I just didn't know these people well enough.
Come on, Doug's a cool name. So like I was saying, it's cool, it's one syllable. Doug.
Well, actually, I go by, I go by Charlie Douglas now, but people can still call me Doug. I went
around changing it so I could use the, someone came to me once and said that you really should
start going, like when you make videos and any kind of publicity thing, you really should
use the name Charlie, because a lot of girls, I guess, seem to dig Charlie more than
Doug. A lot of people still consider Doug as the old cartoon Doug.
I didn't even think of that.
Yeah, that's what a lot of people think of. And I talked to a couple of people, like
Gray Area was like, you should always go by Doug Bruckner, because it sounds cool, like
Late Night with Doug Bruckner. And Charlie's more of a, he's all, Charlie's more of a construction
worker name. And then I'm getting all these mixed reviews, and I'm like, you know what?
I go by Charlie in real life, so I'm just going to go by Charlie. If people still want to call
me Doug, I don't give a fuck. So, you know, either one.
I personally, I'm voting for Doug. I like Doug. But I like him. I'll call you whatever
you want.
I like him both. Mondays, I'll go by Charlie. Tuesdays, I'll go by Doug. You know, so today
it's Tuesday, I'm going by Doug.
Wednesday, I'll go by Leapmaster, K-Rad 3000.
But yeah, anytime I make videos or anything, I'm just going to use Charlie Douglas. And instead
of using, like, my last name, Bruckner, because it's just long and, you know, annoying, I'll
just, Charlie Douglas sounds more of a professional. He even sounds like a radio name, too.
That was actually one of my dad's disc jockey names years ago. When he used to be a disc
jockey, he used to go by Charlie Douglas, because it was the name of my two uncles. And that's
the way they combined those names for when I was born. That's the way he named me. So
it's just, I think, it'd be a lot easier to go by Charlie Douglas.
All right. A fascinating look in Doug's handles, or Charlie Douglas.
In the history of Charlie Douglas.
And C.B.'s own Doug.
A.K.A. Doug.
Let's go head into the housekeeping, because people are probably turning off their radios
already.
Yeah, be like the old Doug guy in Black Ratchet, anyways.
Oh, hopefully people know me by now. If they haven't figured it out by now, dear God. You're
slow people. Sorry.
Does that sound like Spang Dog?
I'm pretty sure there has to be at least one or two people. I would say on the outside
of ten, of people that completely miss the fact that Stank stopped doing the show, and
they tune in after we introduced ourselves, and they're like, who the hell is this? Where's
Stank? And I wonder how many episodes they might have listened to until they figured out
that, oh my God, this guy's here forever.
Yeah, do they still send you emails saying, hey, Stank, love the show. I just listened
to episode 105.
Actually, funny you mentioned that. I got one of those last week. I'm up to episode, like,
80-something, and I was like, oh, you got a surprise, don't you? I didn't actually reply
to them. I let them discover it on their own. I'm a firm believer in learning for yourself.
Anyway. Actually, Strom has an announcement for us, beyond the grave, that he says the
BINREV voicemail is back up at 213-415-1047. Apparently there was some jitter buffer problem,
which I'm not exactly sure what that means, but I don't know. He did some technical jiggly
jiggly pokelory with our asterisk server, and he got it working. I'll actually need
to ask him what the hell was going on.
213, so BINREV is based on an L.A. or what?
Yes, BINREV. BINREV is an L.A. based show, I guess. I don't know.
Move from Florida to L.A.?
Well, like I said on one of my episodes, it went from the night that it premiered and
transferred from Florida to Boston, as it were. I was in Fenway Park watching the Red
Sox beat the Florida Marlins or the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I don't know, one of the teams
from Florida. I think it was probably Tampa Bay. I found it quite humorous with the, I don't
know what you would call it, the resonance or one of those literary terms. I don't know.
I don't know. I guess I could say this is housekeeping. I found a humorous story today
on the news. I was sitting there and I was watching it, and I really wasn't paying much
attention to it until I saw the familiar Verizon logo. And I was like, oh, that's Verizon.
They're on the news. I wonder what the hell's going on. And apparently, Verizon, in their
infinite planning wisdom, one of their air conditioning ducts, let go, and their Manchester
long-distance switching system. Now, this wouldn't be a minor problem. However, this
particular one that let go was right over their main telephone switch for the long-distance
network inbound and outbound of Manchester, New Hampshire. Manchester 040, I believe it
is.
So, now, for those of you who don't know, telephone switches are large computers. And
large computers and air conditioning ducts full of water don't mix. So, if you called in
or out of Manchester today and you had Verizon as your long-distance provider, actually, well,
Verizon as your local exchange carrier, you were hosed.
And, yeah. So, I found that quite humorous. And they show all these little, like, Verizon
techs going in and out of the building with, like, wet-dry vacs.
Oh, man.
Yeah. That sucked.
Actually, and the humorous part, for phone freaks, you'll probably get this. People who are
familiar with AT&T and whatnot. The error message that they played to show you, well, anyway,
the error message that the TV station was getting was actually the error message from AT&T telling
about telephone facility trouble. And they were appealing it as a Verizon announcement. And
I found that quite humorous.
Yeah. That's something to laugh at, especially when you're in the phones.
Well, you can always laugh at Verizon because it's just so easy.
Hey, Verizon's still cool, okay?
No. I don't know. Verizon Bell Atlantic is cool. I've always heard interesting things
about your Verizon out on the West Coast.
You know what? I don't care what Strom says. Verizon GTE, well, a lot of their stuff's on
B-fall, I'll give you that. But they're reliable.
Well, I'm sure. I always say I'm sure they're reliable.
You know, I've had the best Verizon phone service out in the GTE, mostly, probably specifically
my area. There's a lot in Southern California, a lot of GTE areas in Southern California that Strom's
probably familiar with that I'm not familiar with, which might suck, you know. But as far
as my central office at my old house, I've never had a problem.
So, I've never had any problem with GTE. There's a little things here and there that, you know,
Strom makes fun of as far as the switch goes, and that's fine. But I've never had GTE, even
when GTE was our telephone company before Verizon bought them out, we never had any problem
with them.
A ringing endorsement from Doug or Charlie. Actually, I'll tell you what, we can use both
names, and we can say two people like GTE.
Oh, God.
Anyway, well, that's pretty much it for housekeeping.
Let's go into the email.
Our first email tonight is from Alex. It says,
Hi, insert current name of Coast here. Just finished listening to episode 113. Yeah, I
know, I'm a week behind. And especially like the part on cell phones. Yes, next cell speaker
phone is irritating, but the most annoying cell phone thing, in my opinion, is people who
like to put their entire songs on their ringtone, like the person who's got theirs set to Stairway
to Heaven, and decides to listen to the entire song before answering it. Also, you mentioned
that the highest data speed you can get over a cell phone in the States is something like
48 kilobits per second. This doesn't seem to be true. Recently, a friend told me about
Verizon's data service, which claims to give you 144 kilobit burst transfer rate and a constant
rate around 60 to 80 kilobits per second. My friend claims to get constant speed around
120K, but not having a USB cable for my cell phone, I can't test this. Here's the length
of Verizon's description of the service, and it's tinyyearold.com slash alpha delta x-ray
for papa. If the transfer rate is good, as my friend said, and the latency isn't too
bad, 64 kilobit ULAW wouldn't be out of the question. This would make VoIP over your cell
phone quite usable. Once again, keep up the good work, and I look forward to the live show
you guys claim are coming up.
Well, I think we mentioned this in the show. I can't really remember, and I really didn't
want to listen to the whole show to find out. Yes, Verizon's uberfast service will, well,
you can't use VoIP over it. It is fast. I believe the actual top speed they bill it
out is 144 kilobits, but as always, your mileage may vary. Also, I think it's quite
expensive, like $100 a month. You don't actually get this on every cell phone, as far as I
remember. It's something you have to subscribe specifically to. Also, actually, I had a couple
of friends who had this a few years ago, and they told me, and what I observed is coverage
was very spotty, at least in Boston, and they told me other major cities, but I wasn't there.
However, I guess you could say this is a very real alternative, and I hope that soon I will
be getting an uberfast connection down to my cell phone, much like they have in Japan.
I think Japan's actually starting to shoot for 1.5 megabits down to your cell phone, which
is insane. Currently, I have, I think, a 33.6K modem on my wireless internet. I actually
got that recently. I have a T-Mobile phone. For an extra $20, you get unlimited internet.
I've been using Bluetooth with my PDA, my Dell Axiom, for months now, and it's awesome.
I mean, it's the speed of dial-up, but for instant messaging, email, and web surfing, it
does the job.
Do you, I mean, you like it and everything?
Oh, yeah. I don't have any complaint at all. I've been using, I've been using pop email
with it, instant messaging with AIM, a couple other things, too. IRC I use with it. I also
remote SSH to my box once in a while, and just for basic web surfing, it's about the speed
of dial-up, but for being able to surf the internet wherever the hell you are, pretty much,
it's a good deal.
Hmm.
T-Mobile's always had the best, I think, data plans out of any cell carriers, real cheap prices.
Yeah, T-Mobile is pretty good, but what T-Mobile does not have is a fast internet connection.
Well, I'm sorry, I'm not, God, what was I saying? Not a wide coverage area. They're
pretty good, but if you get anywhere out of populated areas, your cell phone drops off
like next to nothing.
Yeah, T-Mobile probably has the third best compared to Verizon and Signal. Verizon and Signal
are going to be, they're expensive, but they do have the most coverage.
Yeah. I've got to say, I'm a big fan of T-Mobile. Well, for the most part, I have certain
complaints with them, but none of them about their coverage or their rates. They're very
good as long as you don't go out, but I went up to northern New Hampshire. That's actually
where I went a couple of weeks ago when I wasn't on the show, and it's way out in the
boonies, and my cell phone, nor my fiance's cell phone, could not get coverage. However, if
my sister leaned out deep on the porch, pointing in a certain direction, she could get a moderately
usable cell phone signal from Verizon. So judge that as you will. However, I actually did have in
my bag one of those old-school Motorola flip phones, and just out of curiosity, I decided to fire it up
and listen to the signal strength meter, and it received like two or three bars out of six.
Oh, wow.
And I was just like, yeah, old-school, kicking it.
That's awesome.
Anyway, our next thing.
That was one of the things I was going to do with Verizon Wireless. When I had Verizon Wireless, I was going to get a brick phone off eBay.
And you can still, I think to this day, you can still do this, but they will legally activate your ESN with any old analog phone, as long as you don't have a roaming plan.
You can't use, like, America's Choice. You can use a digital basic plan, and you can still legally have a brick phone and have phone service with it.
Actually, listening to Off the Hook, I'm not sure if it was this week or last, that apparently that Verizon, if you have an old-school flip phone, which I do have,
if we have a few friends from Boston 2600, we inherited a cache, and my prized possession, which is the one I used in New Hampshire, is a 9X mobile phone.
So that's pretty old-school, and I was just like, I want that one. Give me it.
But anyway, so the thing was that apparently Verizon will not activate your phone anymore, or at least I wasn't going to be able to confirm this is what I heard from Off the Hook.
They will not activate your phone if you do not have that E911 GPS thing in your phone.
Yeah, all of their new phones, they do have that E911.
I would assume that you can still use phones that, if you've had them, what's the right word?
If they've already been activated with Verizon, I would assume you would still be able to use those,
but I think for new activation purposes, they probably can't do it legally.
Thank you.
Or is the one simply a clone of the other?
Can you use the two interchangeably, i.e., can a message be encrypted with a public GPG key with the PGP program?
Keep up the good work, guys, and see everyone at Freaknik.
I'm not sure.
Do you use either of these, Doug?
No, not at all.
I know what PGP is, but I don't know what GPG was.
GPG is GNU Privacy Yard.
It's an open-source clone of PGP.
Just enter GNU PG into Google, and you'll find it in case you didn't know what it was.
Who comes up with these words?
GPG, G-U-N, Google?
Well, I don't know.
Market droids get paid a lot of money to do this, and you can now see what happens when they don't get paid by just looking at the Linux movement and see what people name stuff.
I mean, heck, lame.
Lame is not an MP3 encoder.
Yeah.
I will admit, I do like the whole, I don't know what you would call it, recursive things.
Yeah, they're cool names.
They're very clever.
I have nothing against them.
I'm just saying, like, anyone that has no idea what the hell we're talking about, some completely, like, some old 80-year-old woman that turns into this show, and she hears GPG, PGP, GNU, Google.
It just sounds really funny.
Sorry.
Hello?
I can hear people in my computer.
Who's Google?
I can't talk to them.
Who's Google?
Mr. Google, are you there?
I'd just like to think of, I'd find it humorous if there was an 80-year-old woman listening to the show.
So anyway, let's actually answer his questions and stop making fun of the names.
I'm going to say a tentative yes.
The problem was, back in the day, when, you know, Phil Zimmerman was creating his Basimatic scheme and PGP-1 was released unto the world, there were two protocols used for the key exchange, I believe.
I'm, this is all, could be completely wrong.
I'm by no means an expert on PGP or GPG or any other thing.
There were two protocols in this era.
One was called RSA, which I believe stands for Rivest, Shimmerman, and Armin, which were the three mass petitions that designed it.
And it was more secure, but however, it was under copyright and was restricted.
However, not anymore, thank God.
The other alternative was DSA, which I forget what it stands for, like Digital Signature Algorithm.
I don't know.
It was less secure, and it was designed by the NSA, so everyone had their little conspiracy hats on.
However, it was free.
DSA was the preferred protocol for GPG, I believe, because it was free.
And back when it started, they kind of gave up on the whole NSA conspiracy thing.
I'm not an expert of PGP, like I said.
Everyone I know uses GNU PG, or GPG, that's what they call it.
So I'm going to send this one out to the audience.
Does anyone have an answer on this?
This is a good question.
Do your homework, because after all, we've only gotten a few emails this week,
and these are the only two that were actual questions and such.
So that wraps up the email.
I don't know the answer.
I'm going to say yes, but it could be for the completely wrong reasons that I do.
I actually did a couple of cursory Google searches on this,
and from the looks of it, it is supported,
but they were talking about removing certain type of key signature algorithms to unsupported
or removing it completely from the program back in 2003.
So your mileage may vary.
You be the judge.
Not null, an offer, surprise, no purchase necessary.
Let's go into personal hacking stories.
Doug, what do you have for show and tell?
Show and tell.
This is where we talk about just any kind of hacking technology-related story?
Yeah, sure.
Right ahead.
It's all you, man.
Just go ahead.
You know, nothing really going on with my life as far as technology goes,
although I do have a story about a friend of mine that got fired about something default-related.
Default?
Was he listening to default radio?
Yeah, then he got fired.
God, Doug kid.
He's a noob.
You can't listen to that here.
And then he got fired by me.
No, actually, there's a story about a guy that a friend of mine,
I'll keep him anonymous, though, because I'm sure he doesn't want to get owned out in the air.
But he was working for this job,
and he got the company interested in changing their long-distance plan
because they were paying about anywhere from $0.10.
They had, I think, Sprint Long Distance or something.
They were paying like $0.10 a minute for their long-distance calls.
And this had to deal with a lot of real estate agents for a real estate company,
like Century 21, that kind of thing.
And they were paying like a shitload of money,
and he found ways to save the company money by switching to Asterisk,
even VoIP as well for their toll freeze,
using something like NuFone for their incoming toll freeze,
instead of paying a shitload of money.
He sold a bill, and it was just outrageous that they were paying this much.
So he thought to the boss,
and he had a whole arrangement of things that you can do to switch over,
you know, how much it would cost you to upgrade the system and all the phones,
and he was real interested in it.
It was one of those, you know, we'll think about it kind of thing.
Well, weeks go by.
We'll just call this guy Billy,
and we'll call the boss Mr. Johnson,
because those names are funny.
So Billy walks into work one day
and gets a memo saying he's fired from Mr. Johnson.
He goes into Mr. Johnson's office and says,
this is some kind of joke.
I've been here for a while now.
What the hell's going on?
Well, it turned out that Mr. Johnson was really pissed off,
because the whole company,
all their voicemails got reset.
All the messages that agents had saved on there for months and months,
all their greetings, all the passcodes,
all the saved voicemail messages that were on there
that had important information,
because I guess they never thought of a thing called a pen and paper
to write down people's phone numbers and clients' phone numbers.
They had to rely on the voicemail.
But apparently everything was deleted.
And this was because Billy pointed out to Mr. Johnson
a week ago that it was how easily it was
to break into a voicemail system
by simply spoofing a phone number
and being able to be into the system
without requiring a password.
And ironically enough,
kind of coincidental that
by telling him that a week later
that that same incident happened.
So Mr. Johnson believed that it was Billy's fault
because Billy was trying to be a smartass
to show, like, see how easy it is to break in.
You should have listened to me
and you should have saved money.
However, Billy didn't do a goddamn thing,
nor did Billy even tell anybody.
Billy didn't tell anybody
except his boss about this
and some other co-workers.
And he believed that not any of his co-workers
would have any idea
on how to spoof a telephone number.
Unless they were to, I don't know,
maybe research it online
and get, like, a spoofing service
that's out there.
You know, one of those
web spoofing services that are out there.
Star 38, man.
That shit's leet.
Yeah, it could be something like Star 38.
Isn't Star 38 closed?
I don't know.
I think it is.
I think, like, the only one left is,
what's it called,
Telespoof.
There's Telespoof,
and, yeah, you know what,
there's, like, two or three other ones
that went down recently, too.
Spoofing services are dying.
Well, Telespoof's been around for a while.
They've been pretty good.
Yeah.
But, yeah, so Billy got really screwed
in the ass
by showing his boss his skills
and showing him how,
by trying to save the company,
he ended up getting screwed.
So someone either at the company
screwed him over
or someone was just scanning around
and finding out that,
oh, hey, this system's on default.
Or there was just a massive
catastrophic failure
at a very, very, very bad time.
Which is kind of one of those things
where, as much as someone
that you may know at work,
I don't think you should ever
tell anyone everything you know.
Exactly.
It scares them.
It scares them to death.
If you know all this stuff,
they don't want you to know.
I've seen a lot of people
and businesses
that have shown them things
like, hey, you know,
you could do this
and you could break into this
really easily.
You should really fix that.
Even though you're trying
to help them,
they kind of don't trust you
because they don't know you
well enough.
So it's a good idea
to keep your mouth shut
about everything
and just do your job.
Yeah, well, not even that.
I mean, it's just more of,
oh, well, hell, he can do it.
You make a...
Now that they know
that you can do it,
you make a very convenient
scapegoat on what it is.
I mean, it's not even just,
you know,
them figuring out
what you can do.
It's just, I don't know.
It's a whole sticky situation
and I personally agree with you.
Just, you know,
eyes forward, nose down.
My boss does, you know,
a little bit of what I can do
and that I'm into phones
and I can do silly things
on the phones
and make them cry out
people's numbers
and add a touch of a button.
Make phones ring.
Yeah, make phones ring
if I just, you know,
dial some strange number
and then flash the hook.
If you dial some strange number
that's associated
with someone's cell phone
that seems to ring.
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
I just, like,
dial someone's number
and their phone rings
and I'm just like,
yeah, I did that.
Which is new to me.
I'm still learning
how that works.
Except if you're in New Hampshire
and use Verizon.
Yeah, or if you live in Louisiana
and you get a reorder.
So, yeah, it's,
it's a whole interesting tip.
Use your judgment
and always watch your back.
Yeah, so just remember
everything is always on default
including co-workers
and their brains
and acknowledging people's skills.
They're scared of you.
Exactly.
So if you're into hacking
or you're into any kind of technology
and you know a lot of shit,
don't be a smart ass.
Just keep your mouth shut.
True words have never been spoken.
Or you will get owned.
Yeah.
Save all your knowledge
for a radio show
or an article
or, you know,
any kind of TV show.
Come on,
do a radio.
Do a nice topic
and I'll get you on there.
I mean, look at Dr. Zygman.
I once again,
I was going to say,
shout out to Dr. Zygman
for last week.
That was, like,
one of our best episodes so far.
And he's probably
getting very embarrassed
because I've said this
like 1,500 times so far.
What did you guys talk about?
Digital video editing.
Oh, cool.
See, if you listened to the show,
you would know.
I shouldn't have told you.
I told you.
I listened to
one full episode
and then I turned it off
and then I was disgusted
and then I waited
the next week
and I just listened to it again.
It was better.
But then I got, you know,
tired and fell asleep.
You should listen to it more
because apparently
we're cool now or something.
That's cool.
I've got to tune
into another video one
because I usually
when I look at the show
and I see there's a topic
that I mentioned
and so far
since you've been
doing the show,
I've seen a lot of topics
that you've been interested.
I know that Stink
really didn't touch upon a lot.
You guys do do
a lot more telephony
than Stink Dog did.
Yeah, much more
than some people sadly.
Well, you know,
I agree 50-50 with them.
I think it's good
that there's more telephony
in the show.
You know,
it's a very strong point
in technology and hacking.
It's a very, you know,
telephones come first
before computers do with hacking.
You can do a lot more
with telephones
than you can do
with computers.
Computers you can kind of
do other things with.
But at the same time,
you don't want to just
change the whole show format
to just phones.
Exactly.
You don't want to change
anything in technology.
And that's what a lot
of people are fearing.
Like, oh,
Strom and Black Ratchet,
both phone freaks.
You know,
the whole show's changing.
And that's not true.
So, yeah,
that's why we try to keep
that whole 50-50 thing going.
And I think we've kept
to that so far.
I mean,
we're having a computer topic
this week,
so just to let everyone know.
We're not going to tell you
what it is yet.
So, fear.
Yeah.
Any more topics
or anything?
Fun stories
about people being on default
and getting fired?
No,
I have an off-topic story
if you want,
an off-technology building
experiment that I'm working on.
Sure,
what's up?
That I've talked to you about
on AIM earlier today?
Yes.
If anyone's familiar
with a very,
very,
very good,
probably my favorite
sci-fi show of all time,
Sliders,
with Jerry O'Connell
and the door from
Lord of the Rings.
I can't think of his name.
I don't know.
The guy who played
the professor on the show.
Yeah.
The guy who was a dwarf
in Lord of the Rings.
Yeah,
the guy that was a dwarf
in Lord of the Rings.
That's all you need to know.
Very,
very good sci-fi show
that sadly was canceled
like every other good show
in the world.
But the premise
of the show
was being able
to transport
between different
alternate dimensions.
How throughout the timeline
in each different world
something changed
one another,
you know,
different kinds of histories
and things like that.
And their purpose
was to keep traveling
through all these worlds
to find a way back home.
Well,
the device they used
was called a timer.
And ever since
I first saw the show,
I always wondered
what exactly they used.
They had two different
kinds of timers
throughout when the show
was on.
The first one,
I did a little research
on recently,
thanks to Google
and the worldwide interweb.
I found out
that they used
a Motorola flip phone
to make the first timer device.
And basically,
by modding the flip phone,
I found instructions online
on how to build
your own sliding timer.
Now,
this won't transfer you
to a different world,
unfortunately.
I'd looked into that,
but it wouldn't work.
But you can have
an actual countdown timer,
and it looks exactly
identical with the flashing lights
and the knobs and everything,
exactly like the timer
and sliders.
The first one was built
off of a Motorola flip phone,
and the second one,
that case was built off
an RCA universal remote control.
And it looks really,
really cool.
So check out my website
for when I start building this,
and I'll put pictures of it.
If I can't order one online
for a cheap price
with someone to build it,
then I will get the instructions,
and I will post it
on my website
and show you how to make one.
And I'll take pictures
and maybe even make a video
for Doug TV
about building
your own timer device
and then make a little
science fiction movie
with Lucky.
Oh, man.
I can't picture
sickle sliders with Lucky.
They get stuck in,
like, you know,
the communist dimension,
and he's like,
oh, owned.
I think Lucky's a god.
You know,
I think if we make a show
about building your own timer
and then add a little
sci-fi into it,
I think that's what
I'm going to do.
I plan on doing
with some cheesy
science fiction effects,
but the timer
looks really cool.
I'm going to post
some pictures
that I saw on this website
and post the website
on my website today,
which is spam,
cdouglas.org.
Nothing wrong
with the shameless plug.
I mean,
heck,
we're going to talk about it.
It really is
a cool design,
though,
I think,
because it's one
of those things
that was...
There's always been
a couple of sci-fi gizmos,
like the Hoverboard
and Back to the Future 2.
I've always wanted one.
Not one that flew,
but just the design
of it looked cool,
you know?
I don't want
the pink one,
personally.
No.
If it was blue
or something,
yeah,
definitely.
I totally agree
with you there.
I also totally agree
with you on the
slider's phone.
I mean,
I always liked that
when I actually
first started
watching the series
back in 94,
was it?
Oh,
man,
way back when.
And,
you know,
I was watching
Jumanji the other day,
and I remember
when that movie
first came out,
and they had
a board game.
Milton Bradley
made a game
version of it,
and I was
thinking,
because I was
young and really
dumb,
that fucking,
when you were
to get the game,
that it would
actually look
exactly like
the Jumanji board,
like with the
opening wood doors
and everything,
and how it would
open up,
the pieces being
like really the
dice,
you know,
just how it
looked.
I knew that
obviously they
weren't going to
spend too much
money to have
like a little
globe in the
middle float up,
or have any
of the pieces
move,
but the design of
it would have
been cool.
Of course,
when I got it,
it was a cheap
piece of crap,
Milton Bradley
board game,
but I was
looking on
eBay,
and no one
has ever
invented or
come up with
an actual
duplicate of
that board,
and that would
just be another
souvenir,
not really a
souvenir,
just some kind
of little toy
to have.
They make
lightsabers,
they sell them
for hundreds
of dollars on
eBay,
but they don't
make a
slider's timer
device or
a hoverboard.
These are
things,
get away from
Star Wars,
let's go
focusing on
other science
fiction and
fantasy movies.
Well,
funny that you
bring you up,
a brother of a
friend,
is actually
a huge
Star Wars,
not Star Wars,
oh god,
see what you
got me doing,
is a huge
Ghostbusters
freak,
and he's
nuts,
and what he
has done is
he has built
not only
four backpacks
or whatever
you call them,
ecto-containment
units or
something,
four traps,
he also has
built not
one,
but two
Ghostbuster
mobiles,
or whatever
they called
it.
Oh,
wow.
Yeah,
like,
he had one
where it
was a
Cadillac
ambulance,
which I
think was,
it looks
extremely similar
to the
original Ghostbusters
mobile,
I don't know
what they
actually call it,
the car they
used in the
movie,
and he
restored it,
and it
looked a lot
like it,
and I
think that
his website
said,
anyway,
I was going
through this,
and I actually
found the
original model,
and it was
for sale for
like,
a thousand
bucks,
so I bought
it,
and I'm
actually going
to restore
this one,
too.
Oh,
man.
Yeah,
the guy's
insane,
he's got the
skills,
but still,
wow,
holy crap.
You know,
I got a
buddy of
mine,
because he's
graduated with
a master's,
and he has
a well-paying
job,
so he's
allowed to
buy things
like this.
He bought
himself a
hundred,
I think it
was a
hundred or
hundred
fifty
dollar
lightsaber.
I mean,
I'm getting
back into the
Star Wars
crap that
everyone always
has,
but this
lightsaber
really was
cool as
shit.
I would
love to
own one
of these.
Everyone has
seen those
lightsaber toys
where you
just pull it
out,
and the tube
comes out,
and it has
the cheesy
lights that
you can
turn on.
Well,
this thing,
the tube was
always out.
It was made
out of glass,
and they were
LED lights,
so when you
turned it on,
the light would
actually fade on
all the way to
the end like it
does in the
movie.
If you were to
see it in the
dark,
it looked exactly
like the one
in the movie.
It looked so
real.
It had the
sound effect,
too, of course,
when you turned
it on,
that noise.
When you moved
it, by the
sensors, it would
actually make
identical to the
sound, and when
you would hit
something,
I hit my
friend's leg
with it, it
would have the
realistic sound
to it when you
would hit an
object.
It was really
cool as hell.
It had LED
lights.
I think it
was a green
one.
No, it was a
red one.
It was a red
one.
It was really
cool, but again,
it was 150
bikes.
That's what
they call
geek rich boy
toys.
Exactly.
When you have
a master's, and
you're making
a shitload of
money for some
big corporation,
you're a lot
of bike crap
like that.
But to me,
I'm not about
the lightsabers.
I'm about the
flighter's timer
and the Jumanji
board game.
Oh yeah, so by
the way, it's
John, I'm going
to pronounce his
last name
correctly,
Rhys Davies,
R-H-Y-S-D-A-V-I-E-S.
It's hyphenated.
I guess it's
Rhys or
Wrists or
something.
Okay.
So that's
Professor Maximilian
Arturo, I
believe his name
was.
Yes.
See, I remember
some things.
Yes, he was
the best one
on the show.
I got to agree
with you right
there.
That show was,
even without when
he left, they
still did a good
job, but it
just wasn't as
strong.
Indeed.
You could tell
that it died
down.
Anyway.
My story is
up.
I went to
Vaughn.
Vaughn was very
cool.
Everybody is
into VoIP now.
It's freaking
creepy.
The word of
telephony is
ending, and
now it's all
about VoIP.
Yeah, I
know.
Dude, Microsoft
was there.
Who else was
there?
Just like
companies I
never heard
of.
I actually
picked.
I have this
flyer.
Actually, no,
it's not in
front of me.
What a shame.
Through some
company, and
they're offering
cheap CNAM
access.
I really
wanted to
submit a
request for
a quote
from them.
I have
their number.
I think I
should fax
them.
Oh, man.
That's cool.
Yeah, I know.
It's pretty neat.
It was much
more geared
toward providers
and people
who actually
have budgets,
and there was
literally no
swag there.
the things that
really jumped
out at me
is Sun's
coming out
with an
instant
messenger
server that
is jabber
based, but
it has all
kinds of
crazy wipe
capabilities built
into it, and
that seemed
kind of cool.
Wow.
That was the
only thing that
really stood
out to me.
IBM had some
interesting things
for mid-market
type stuff.
I mean,
nothing exciting,
nothing that
really blew my
socks off,
and I was
yeah, whatever.
Also, I'm
actually going to
upgrade my new
computer, and I
got to say, I
now know why I
never do it,
because upgrading
a new computer
sucks ass.
Just buying all
the parts and
everything and
figuring out what
works and what
fits and what
you got to buy
and whether or
not all your
current stuff will
work on the new
motherboard.
Oh, Jesus
Christ.
It's just
annoying.
I always like
building my own
PC, but it's
frustrating sometimes.
Christ.
Hopefully, I'll
have a new
case come
tomorrow and
along with
other things
that I'm
going to buy
and have
everything
hopefully set
up by the
end of the
week.
Here's open.
At which
point, I'll
go from a
P3 733 to
an Athlon
1500.
I'll still be
behind the
curve, but a
little less.
That's good,
though.
2100 XP, so
it's like 1500
megahertz or
something.
I don't know
how it sets
in.
AMDs are just
weird.
Oh, it's got
2100 on it,
but you can't
run it that
fast.
Well, what's
the point
then?
Anyway, those
are my two
stories.
I haven't been
doing much
else.
Specific show
topics tonight.
Tonight, we're
going to talk
about WordPress.
WordPress.
The reason why we
have Doug on
here is we've
both become
WordPress whores,
as Doug put
it.
The reason we
have Doug on
here is because
no one else
wanted to be on
to submit it.
We need to
get you on
more.
I was last on
the list.
Actually, no, you
were the first
on the list
because I had
no topic today
because I was
busy this weekend.
I had a bit of
a family emergency.
So I basically
came into work
this morning and
said, oh, shit,
it's Monday.
I have to tape.
And I was just
like, okay, what
can we talk about?
And I said, oh,
WordPress.
I upgraded to
WordPress.
I can do a review
of it and talk
about it.
Who else do we
want to get on
here?
Oh, Doug just
upgraded to
WordPress.
We can get him
on here.
Yeah.
And thus, Doug
was here.
And then Strom
sort of had to
bow out at the
last minute.
So it's just us
for your listening
enjoyment.
Yeah, my
screensaver is
really transfixing
me right now on
my laptop, so I'm
going to turn
that off.
What kind of
screensaver is it?
It looks like
it's a gravity
simulation of
orbiting planets,
and it's just, I
find that kind of
stuff fascinating
because I'm a
geek, so.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
What's wrong
with that?
Anyway, what is
WordPress?
According to the
website, WordPress
was born out of a
desire for an
elegant, well-architectured
personal publishing
system built on
PHP and MySQL and
licensed under its
VPL.
And if you do some
research on it, it's
the official
successor to
something called
B2, which I
believe was a
successor to
something called
Cafe Blog.
Right, yeah.
B2, it used to
be called B2
Blogger.
Yeah, I
actually remember
playing around
with that and
saying, boy, this
sucked.
No, I've always,
that's why I like
WordPress, because I
always was a big
fan of B2 Blogger.
And then I guess, I
don't know, I
thought they always
changed their name
to WordPress.
I don't know if
they got bought out
or if they changed
their name, but to
this day, I'm still
a fan of the same
system.
They've had a nice
new, a lot of new
features, but we'll
get into that later.
Yeah, well, B2 was
cool, but not what I
wanted at the time.
Uh-huh.
It was going to be
hard to working into
my existing site, and
that's something that I
didn't want, so that's
why I opted out of it.
But I know, it was
cool.
I liked it.
It was very elegant and
very well designed.
And I believe, actually,
what you were talking
about, WordPress was a
fork of B2, and
basically, the guy who
was running B2 or
something said, oh,
okay, we'll just sort of
move over to this, because
this guy's doing all
this kind of cool stuff.
And thus, WordPress was
born.
WordPress is kind of a
fresh software, but,
you know, I think B2
started in, like, 2001
or something.
I don't know the date.
Yeah, around 2001,
yeah.
Yeah.
Pretty mature and
stable, and what they
try to do is they focus
on the user experience
and web standards.
And it's pretty much a
unique tool out there.
The only thing that I
can really compare it to
is something called
movable type.
And movable type is
another web blog
software.
All these semi-official
blogs, I don't, the
only one that I know
that uses it, two that
I know, are Wonket and
Little Green Football,
which are two political
blogs, left and right
wing, respectively.
And those are the only
two that I know.
I believe a lot of
those tech TV or
former tech TV, whatever
the hell they are now,
a lot of those people
use movable type,
that commercial
software.
Isn't it movable type
of commercial software,
isn't it?
Yeah, movable type,
is commercial software.
Anyway, that's a
movable type, just so
you know, is a
sixapart.com slash
movable type.
And I believe they
have a free version,
but it's really
restricted.
And their small
version costs $39,
and their major
version costs $69.
However, WordPress,
free, looks exactly
the same, and you'll
just have a much
warm, fuzzy feeling
when you use it or
something.
So anyway, when I
was basically looking
to update it to
some type of content
management software
that was kind of
low impact, and
something that kind of
looked elegant and not
too ugly.
So I was torn between
WordPress and another
web-blocking utility
called Poseidon, which
I completely forgot the
URL.
And those are the
two that I was
fiddling with, and I
started playing around
with movable type first
because I used
Poseidon before, and I
liked it.
It was really nice and
just a very smooth
user interface.
Also, there's more
than a few things I
liked about it, and a
lot of it's listed on
their website, is that
it's fully standard
compliant.
All their little HTML
and everything they
generate is fully
compatible with CSS and
XHT.
I believe it's XHTML
compatible.
It's some W3C standard.
I'm not sure which
one.
Something that I, the
other one that I was
looking at was
Nanoblogger, which is
what bellsmind.net
uses, because I was
looking for something
that, like I said,
relatively low impact.
However, the thing that
really drove me nuts
about Nanoblogger, and
movable type for that
matter, was that every
time you update your
site, you have to
rebuild it.
You have to run a
command, and it
regenerates all the
files, which...
Oh, that's annoying.
Yeah, isn't that
stupid?
That's pointless.
Yeah, why would
anyone even want to
do that?
So, yeah, that's sort
of blue Nanoblogger
right out, along with
movable type.
So, WordPress doesn't
do that.
Neither does
Poseidon for that
matter.
What I also like about
WordPress is that it
was a real content
management site.
Like, for example, you
can have pages that are
not part of the whole
blogging thing.
I hate that term,
anyway.
Like, I have...
Yeah, blogging.
Blogging!
I'm a blogger.
Dude, just call
yourself internet
journalist or something.
It sounds a whole lot
more official and less
sappy.
So, yeah, it has pages
like, you know, all my
stuff for Defcon, I put
on a separate WordPress
page, and, like, two or
three other things that I
had that were on my old
site, I moved over to
WordPress, and it was
relatively simple.
I mean, I had to create
the pages, and I had to
figure out how to do
them, but other than
that, it was just sort of
straight copy and paste.
I took all my old HTML and
just pasted them into the
new pages, and WordPress
picks it all up, made them
look pretty, and everything
worked fine.
WordPress has everything,
like, all built into its
interface, like, you know,
links.
On top of that, you can have
your own little blog rule,
which I'm not exactly sure
what exactly it is, but
it's called a blog rule,
and I believe what it is
is it's a bunch of links,
but what it does is it
updates, like, you know,
say I have, like, you
Lucky and Stank on my
blog rule.
If Stank updates, he
moves to the top, and
then if you update, you
move to the top, and Stank
moves down one below you,
and it just keeps on
moving around and have
the most up-to-date,
fresh content on top.
Yeah, I believe that's
how it works.
Some want to email me
and correct me if I'm
wrong.
Like I said, I'm all new
to this whole blogging
thing.
Oh, boy.
WordPress has a ton of
themes, and some of them
are very elegant.
I settled on one that was
right on their, linked
off their front homepage,
but there literally are
hundreds of ones you
can choose from.
You didn't choose
stuff all themed, did
you?
No, I actually just used
my own HTML layout, and
I just imported the
HTML code, which is
really easy to do, over
to whatever new layout
I was using.
So, like, all your
stuff that you had, you
just sort of directly
imported into WordPress?
Yeah, whatever design
that I have or that I'm
working on, I can simply
just import.
I use the, I've always
used B2 or WordPress
now as mostly just
designed for a news
system.
It was easier to post,
like, news updates on a
website, like, for
example, when I was
working on the Doug
Show website, which was
supposed to be a radio
show, whenever we were
going to update news
about the show, like
what this week's episode
was about and things, I
would just paste or write
everything in the B2
blog or WordPress, I'm
so used to B2, into
WordPress and just submit
it, and it would be on
the front page of the
website, and it would be
there and done with.
And it was just, that's
what I always used it for.
A lot of people use
things like that for their
blogs to write about
their day or write what
they're working on, which
is what I use on my
website now.
I use it to anything
that I'm working on or
anything like that, that's
what I use it for.
But I never liked, I'm
always, I'm never a fan
of any kind of engine and
using their default themes
and layouts, because a lot
of people usually
automatically judge you on,
you know, what you're
using, like, oh, this
guy's a WordPress noob,
this guy's a movable type
noob, you know, things
like that.
So that's why I've always
used custom themes, and I
would just import the PHP
code like that.
Yeah, I just used one of
the themes I pulled off
their main page.
It was not completely
different, but at the
same time, it kind of
stood out.
And basically, that's
exactly why I kind of
moved over to WordPress,
or just some type of
content management type
system thingy.
Yeah, it makes life
easier.
Yeah, it makes life
easier.
Yeah, I just want to
have something where I
could update it all the
time, just on a whim.
Because my site, I
didn't update it within
for, I'd say, for about
two or three months, and
I finally said that, you
know, I'm not making any
new content.
Let's just post something
where I can post random
things on there.
And I, like, if you go to
my webpage right now, the
top story is for me is
something called This
Disturbs Me, and it's a
picture of a city toilet
in Boston, and it says
right on top, city toilet,
and then if you look right
below it, it has a little
sign that says, this
property is protected under
electronic surveillance.
And it's just something
that I ran across, it's
like two blocks from my
building, and it was
just something that I
said, oh, well, where the
heck can I post this?
And I said, oh, I can
put it on my website.
And WordPress just made
it that easy.
Yeah, that's exactly why
I made my own website
recently, was just so I
could post anything that
I'm, any little thing,
or, like, for example,
right now I just post it,
I'm going to be on
Binary Revolution Radio,
if you care, listen to
it.
You know, if you know
who I am, if you're
actually interested in
shit that I'm doing,
it's a good website for
that, or if you want to
show some friends
something that, you know,
you're working on, or
some rant you want to
talk about, and that's
also why I have a
gallery for, I like to
take pictures a lot, and
now I finally have
something that I don't
have to worry about
because it's on my own
hosting.
I can post pictures,
just upload JPEGs, and
then automatically it's
going to be on my
website.
It makes life so much
easier.
Oh, hey, I just
checked out cdouglas.org,
and I found out that
you're going to be on
BinRev Radio Tuesday at
6.30pm PT slash 9.30pm ET.
Actually, you might want
to change that.
If you listened to a
couple weeks ago, you'll
turn out that you're
technically not on Rant
Radio Talk.
You'll be on Rant Radio
Talk next week.
Oh, wait, what?
You guys changed the
system now?
No, they changed the
system on us, and they
pull it off the podcast
now.
In case for anyone who
didn't know, if you're
listening to this on Rant
Radio, technically you're
listening to last week's
episode, if you're
listening to it right
now, if you turn over
to the ddpradio at
ddphackradio.org, I
believe, go over there
and you'll pick up the
fresh, steaming new
episode that we just
put out.
Oh, man.
They get it from a
podcast feed?
Yeah.
Like I said, it's a
lot easier to me, but
you can listen to this
rant on episode 110, I
think it was.
It's a lot easier for me,
but at the same time,
I mean, I don't like,
because I think that
Rant Radio has a much
larger stream than we
have, but whatever.
It's the only way they
want to do it.
They basically sent an
email to Stank saying,
hey, we're doing it
this way now, and we
said, yeah, fine, okay,
whatever.
Still, though, so wait
a minute, do they do
this for every show?
They just get a podcast
and it's going to be a
week delay?
I'm assuming so.
Well, no, if you want
to update your podcast
early, that's fine, but
for us, that wasn't an
option.
So, okay, they get
the show from a podcast
and it's up to the
host, like, as soon as
they upload it, that's
when they're going to
broadcast whatever the
latest podcast is.
Yes.
Okay, I think, well,
why don't you just
upload the podcast the
same time you upload
DDP Hack Radio?
Because we upload DDP
Hack Radio after the
show kicks off at 930.
We've already discussed
this.
Listen to the old
radio show.
Well, let's go move
back to WordPress.
To me, it just seems
that's really stupid of
Rant Radio.
I don't know why they
would change something
that worked.
Personally, I agree
with you.
I think it's kind of
silly, but anyway, it's
your radio station,
whatever.
When I met one of
those guys at Rant Radio,
I asked about, you
know, what the hell
are they thinking of
and he kind of
agreed with me.
So, at least I know
it's not all Rant Radio,
it's just specific
people in general that
work there that don't
know what they're
doing.
Well, technically,
this is the internet.
No one knows what the
hell they're doing.
Moving back to
WordPress.
Moving back to
WordPress.
Some of the cool
stuff, like I was
talking about the
blog rolls, they have
cross-redblog
communication tools.
What that is, is if,
for example, if
Charlie, yeah,
if Doug links to my
site and links to one
of my entries, I can
see it, I get an
email message saying,
hey, someone linked
to your site, check it
out, you know, this is
what they said about
it.
And they have all
kinds of stuff where
it's...
They have?
They have that?
I didn't even notice
that.
Oh, yeah, they have
it.
It's called, like,
trackback pings.
You have to enable
it, I believe, but
it's...
I know, I actually
think it's enabled by
default.
Like, for example, I
posted...
I accidentally linked
to one of my
articles, and I got
this email message
saying, hey, check
this out, blackratchet.org,
link to one of your
articles.
And I was like,
oh, no shit.
I did it.
So, and they also
have, like, the blog
roll capability where
you can do it by hand,
and it's pretty
interesting, all the
stuff they've kind of
developed around this
whole system.
It's pretty cool, I
gotta say.
That is cool.
Comments.
People can leave you
comments.
I think one person
has left me a comment.
You can actually turn it
off if you want, in
case you don't like
comment spam and
everything.
Like, for example, I
don't believe you have
comments enabled.
No, you don't.
No, I took that in the
actual PHP code on the
website after you
couldn't see any
comments or anything
because I don't really
think anyone has
care enough to comment
anyway.
Dude, I want to
comment on those
Rant Radio stories.
You noob, you can't
do it on Rant Radio.
Yeah, I fixed it.
So, a lot of people
turn off comments
because of spam, and
what they do is they
basically, you know,
leave you a comment.
Hey, that's a really
interesting story.
You should really
check out my website
at XXXHotBabes.com.
So, you can disable
comments.
However, WordPress
also has spam
protection.
Good shit.
What they do is they
have all kinds of
interesting stuff where
they have, like, you
know, blacklisted URLs,
blacklisted words,
context management.
They don't let people
just post tons and
tons of links.
They'll say, hey, you
need to actually include
some text in there.
Also, another way of
presenting spam is they
have user registration.
Like, for example, well,
I have to register to
post articles, and if I
wanted to have Doug
post on my site, he'd
have to register, too.
But if you want to
leave a comment on my
site, I believe, I'm
not sure if I have
anonymous comments
enabled.
You can make it so
that only people who
are registered on your
site and provided a
valid email address and
actually go through the
registration process
are the only people who
can send you comments.
You can password
protect posts for some
reason.
You can have it so
that you can only post
little articles that
only certain people can
get into if they know
the secret password.
LiveJournal has this.
I thought it was a
stupid back then, and I
still think it's stupid
now.
Send a bloody email out
to your friends if you
want to review it.
Yeah, that doesn't make
much sense to me.
The other thing that
they do, well, we'll get
into this later, is that,
for example, if you're
into a multi-author
environment, if we
shared a website and you
created something and you
password protected, I
couldn't go in and sneak
in and edit it unless I
knew the password.
But I guess that's kind
of important, but if
you're running a website
with people, hopefully
enough you can trust them
so they won't edit your
articles maliciously.
They tout that it's
easily installed and
upgrades, and I've got to
say that they are
completely right.
It is just a breeze to
upgrade and install,
because I think they've
upgraded once since I
started using it, and
it was basically unload
this tar file, give us
your password for your
database so we can write
it down, and then we'll
take care of the rest.
And installation was a
breeze, too.
I'll get into that
later.
Easy importing, like
Doug said right there,
you can basically do
anything, and they also
have built-in importing
for movable type, text
pattern, gray matter,
blogger, and B2, which
are all different blogging
softwares.
Something that I found
interesting is they have
an XML RPC interface,
which is a fancy way of
saying we have an open
way of actually controlling
posts and everything, so
you can basically download
clients and update them
from wherever you want.
Like, for example, there's
a few ones where you can
run directly on your PC
and have it update your
website.
I've got www, I'm sorry,
not www, blogtk.sf.net,
which is Linux.
It's a GTK blogging client
software updater thingy.
Windows, well, that's what
it is, technically.
Windows has something
called WBlogger, which is
W-B-L-O-G-G-A-R dot com,
not E.
And there's also one for
Mac.
Mac has this, surprisingly,
doesn't have a lot.
I was kind of shocked at
this.
Do you have a dashboard
plug-in if you have, what
is it, 10.4, I think it
was?
And that's paniris, P-A-N-R-I-R-I-S
dot com slash wordpress dash.
Pardon me, I just had
supper.
So, what that is, basically
what happens is you run this
in your, you know, your
laptop, your desktop, you
don't have to log into your
website and use all their
interfaces.
And WBlogger, I found
that it was very nice.
I haven't actually used it,
but I was oogling the
screenshots today and
saying, wow, I should
actually download this and
use this, and that way I
won't have to log in and go
to my website and
everything.
One of the things they
tout is workflow.
Like, for example, what you
can do is you can have a
website with multiple
people, and certain people
can't publish directly to
the website, but they can
submit articles to you, a
lot like slash dot.
And you can choose what
goes to the website and
what doesn't, which is a
very interesting feature.
Yeah, it's kind of cool.
I would think it would be
fun to actually have
something where we can
have, like, you know,
news-related stories.
If, if, what I was
thinking is, like, for
example, we could have,
like, two or three
different people.
If, if, if we didn't
have the binary revolution
radio interface already,
this would be a pretty
cool thing that we could
have for a bin rev radio.
We can post the show
notes and everything, and
have someone who can just
edit the articles and add
show notes, and it'd be
pretty cool.
They have, I don't know
what you would call,
various typographical
niceties.
The, the engine that they
use to convert all your
stuff over to HTML and
XHTML and CSS, it's,
it's, it's pretty
intelligent, and it can
take, pretty nasty, and
not make a complete
butcher job out of it.
Um, like I said,
multiple authors.
What you can do is
basically, Doug and I,
if we wanted to, we can
create our own website.
We can both create
articles and edit and
add, and we won't have
to worry about intruding
on each other's website,
because it'll just all
update it automatically.
Um, bookmarklets, which is
a fancy way of just
having links.
It's basically an easy
way to have, uh,
controllable blog rolls
and everything.
Um, what WordPress does
is something called
Ping-O-Matic, which is a,
one of the first blog
rolling engines.
Basically, if you don't
have all this fancy stuff
at your fingertips, you
can just sort of subscribe
to the service, and it
will, uh, update it
automatically for you.
So, my, my impressions
is that it was a, it was
a breezed install and
set up.
Basically, I fed it a
password, and it created
everything automatically,
and I think the install
process from start, from
me un-tarring the tar
ball to running the
software and actually
making my first post was
around 15, 20 minutes.
How long did it take
you, Doug?
To set it up?
Yeah.
I'd say, yeah, it'd
probably be around the
same time, 15, 20
minutes.
It's, it really is an
easy thing to do.
All you have to do is,
you pretty much unzip the
package, you add a
data space, and then you
run the install PHP file,
and it's as easy as
that.
It gives you a password,
you set it, you change
it, you're done.
You know, it's, it's,
Like, if you're not
doing any kind of custom
themes or anything, and
you just want a basic
blog on your website,
WordPress is probably the
way to go.
Definitely.
More likely, because
they're just, it's so,
it really is easy, and
I'm a complete noob when
it comes to any kind of
database configuration,
or any kind of Linux
installation, or any
kind of that crap.
You know, when it comes
to this, it's really
easy.
If you know HTML, you
can do this.
I personally like the
UI, the user interface,
and everything.
It's very clean, and
they have a control panel
that they have, or not
really control panel, but
the administrator panel,
it's real, really easy.
Yeah, it's pretty sweet.
I enjoyed it.
Too many complicated
themes.
Like, some of the themes
they have to download are
just insane.
It's a hawk, it's a lot
easier to download and
install them.
Well, let me say it's a
lot easier.
It's very easy to download
and install them, but
actually, like, the layout,
looks of some of them,
it's, people just put
way too much time and
effort into this, in my
opinion.
Yeah.
They basically had one
where it would look like
an old-style newspaper on
your web browser, and I
just looked at that and
said, ooh, who would want
that?
But, sure enough, there
were, like, five people
that I saw who were
linking off the website
that said, oh, yeah, they
use this every day.
And I was just like, you
sick, sad people, you.
Yeah.
Personally, the one
complaint I had about it
is they lie.
It's very hard to add
non-blog content.
Unless, of course, you're
talking about static
HTML.
Like, I had all my
photos there, and I had a
hell of a lot of time to
actually update them and
install them.
And I still don't think
they work correctly yet.
I still need to work on
that.
Like, but what I wanted
to do is I just wanted to
have something where it
would pick up a random
photo and display a
thumbnail on one of the
corners.
And that is just
apparently way too hard for
anyone to figure out.
So I'm willing to have
to go sit down on the
WordPress source code and
go figure this damn
stuff out and run my
image magic and
everything.
Do you have any
complaints about it, or
is it so far so good for
you?
So far so good.
There's not, I haven't
discovered any real bugs
or anything, any kind of,
you know, major exploits or
anything like that.
I know that some people
have gotten shut down with
WordPress, like older
versions.
But usually nine times
out of the ten, like
HackerMedia got shut
down.
Someone owned HackerMedia
and they were using
WordPress, but he never
updated the version.
I think that's what
happened.
Well, basically you're
going to run into that
no matter what software
you run.
Something discovered
is cool and you're
screwed.
Yeah, no one wants
software.
That's why you've got to
make sure you keep
everything updated.
You check the website
once a week to make
sure there's not a new
version out.
Well, the really cool
thing that I liked about
it is in the
administrator panel, it
had it right there
saying you basically
looked at their,
they had like embedded
their website and they
had like new version,
out, you know, two
weeks ago.
And so if you ever
log in directly into
your WordPress site,
you'll see, oh, hey,
there's a new version
out of it.
I'll download it.
Huh.
You never saw that?
No, I never did.
There's a lot of parts
of it in the newer
WordPress that I haven't
even seen yet.
Well, no, it's like when
you first log in, you
go to something called
like dashboard or
something.
At least I have it
in mind.
I don't know.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah.
Overall, thumbs up
from me.
I enjoyed it.
It's a very small,
low-impact system and
apparently you can go
pretty complex with it
and it won't mind.
So.
And as always, it's
free, so it's a lot
better than WordPress.
I'm sorry,
it's a movable type,
whatever it is.
WordPress is the
shizzle in the story.
Indeed.
So we have no
announcements.
No one sent that in.
I guess we can start
plugging.
A week after next is
your local 2600 meeting,
wherever that may be.
Do you go to your 2600
meeting?
Is GWASTI 2600 still
active?
No, GWASTI 2600 I don't
think was ever active.
I think maybe it was
active once and that was
just me lucky in accident.
That was about it.
But it wasn't really a
2600 meeting.
It was mostly let's just go
to Denny's and eat some
samplers and what was that?
Oh, isn't that what it
all?
I think that's where 2600 is
anyway.
Basically, you get there,
you eat food, and that's
about it.
And it's always at Denny's
for some reason.
Well, I don't know.
It could be a Southern
California thing.
For us, it's usually the
most potential food.
Well, you guys have real
diners.
That's the difference in
Southern California.
We don't have real food in
Southern California.
I have to say, after being
in New York for a weekend,
and it's been a while
since I've been in New
York, but being able to be
there for a longer time to
experience the food,
everything in Jersey and
New York, I have to say
that California really sucks.
That's the only thing I
like about California.
I think they're going,
no!
Well, yeah, Nattis will
disagree with me a hundred
times, because Nattis is all
about California.
He thinks California is way
better than New York, and
he thinks New Jersey is a
shithole.
There's a lot of places in
New Jersey that is a
shithole, don't get me
wrong.
Dude, I watch some
photos.
I know how New Jersey
works.
Yeah, I mean, as far as
Jersey City goes, and
there's a lot of other
towns out there that I've
heard of, Madison, things
like that, the East does
kick California's ass
big time.
The only thing about
California that I
truly do like is the
weather.
That's it.
Because you're a pussy
and you don't like snow.
Yeah, well, snow sucks.
I don't want a shovel!
Yeah, screw that shit,
man.
In California, you walk
out any time of the day
you want without having to
worry about dying.
The thing we get out
here is...
Dude, go walk into
Compton and say that.
How about that?
The thing we have in
California is, at worst,
is just, what, heavy rain.
That's about it.
Heavy rains, mudslides,
earthquakes.
Mudslides in ghetto areas
like San Bernardino,
that's it.
Ask Strom about that.
Even he will tell you
that parts of California
like that, you know,
it's the only place you're
going to get mudslides.
Earthquakes?
Earthquakes happen very,
very rarely.
Compton.
You guys get Compton out
there.
I play San Andreas.
I know how the ghetto
works.
Yeah.
You learn shit from
fucking The Sopranos
and Grand Theft Auto.
Man, that's how it is.
They're all documentaries.
All I have to say
is food-wise, though,
I don't eat that much
because, as you know,
I'm very skinny,
but if I were to live
in back east,
that would change.
That would change big time.
Everything out there
is good,
and a lot of it is
just because of the bread.
The breading out there
is unbelievable.
I can't believe food
would ever taste it
that good.
No wonder...
The breading.
The bread.
Bread out there
is so much fresher
than it is out here.
Really?
Everything.
Are Californians
unable to bake bread?
I don't know.
I thought bread
was always bread,
blah, bread, you know?
But fucking out there,
I ordered from Pizza Hut,
and Pizza Hut,
they made it the same
way they do out here,
but the bread
tastes better.
Like, the breading
of the pizza tastes better.
Everything out there
tastes better.
Of course,
New York has got
the best everything
food-wise,
the best pizza
and everything,
but even from Pizza Hut,
you know,
just a normal pizza joint.
Chicago kicks New York's ass
in the pizza department.
I'm sorry.
All right.
Well, I don't know.
I have to say that
New York has some
pretty damn good pizza.
They have good pizza,
but I'm a much bigger fan
of deep dish myself.
All right.
Well, I will have to
come down to Chicago
sometime and try it out,
but I have to say that
back east,
I can now see
what people are talking about.
I'm not going to say
that they're crazy.
I used to always be like,
California for life,
it's California,
but New York probably
is maybe not the best.
I won't go that far.
But it is a damn good city.
Yeah, because we all know
Boston is the best.
Well, I don't know about that,
but I have to say that
people like Natis
disagree with this too
because he lived
in New York for a while,
but I got a better vibe
from people in New York.
People seem to be,
I don't know,
I guess 9-11
really did change a lot,
but everyone out there
was respectful.
The bums,
everyone,
everyone I was trying
to solicit,
you know,
you should try
and sell shit to you.
Everyone was just nicer
than they are in Los Angeles.
So, I don't know,
maybe it's just me.
I just noticed that
it was more friendly
out in New York,
which is,
you know,
it didn't used to be like that,
but now it is.
Well, we now have a review
of New York
on MinRev Radio
from our friend Doug.
That's totally off topic,
but you know what,
I don't have my own radio show,
so I have to rant somewhere.
Yeah.
Anyway,
do you have any announcements
you want to make?
Listen to Geek Love Radio
next week
because I'll be on it.
Oh, sweet.
I will be sure to.
You should post that
on your blog.
Yeah,
I will post that
on my,
what did you call it,
what did you call it earlier,
your internet journal.
Internet journal,
that's what it is,
really.
My internet journal.
Have you read most of these?
It's like people saying,
oh,
I ate soup today.
It wasn't that good.
I am sitting in Starbucks
on my power book
talking away
and I'm just admiring
the people on the street
and I'm gul
because I have a power book
and they do not.
I will use the internet journal
on my website
to post certain rants
or opinions,
but I'm not going to post
about,
oh my God,
my friend is such a dick,
he totally stole my car
and fucking,
my sister overdosed
on drugs and heroin,
I'm fucked,
I have no money.
I'm not going to post
like a 14-year-old teenage girl.
You know,
you've got to post,
it's about things
that you discover
that are interesting,
you know,
like you do
on your internet journal.
Anything that's big going,
any project
that you're working on,
any project
that I help working on,
it's that kind of thing.
Yeah, yeah.
Not to post about
every day of my life,
about every single detail,
that's just absurd.
Yeah,
I know like certain people
that post like,
you know,
at least every day,
like two or three times a day
and they just,
it's,
there's no content
and you just go,
why are you posting?
What's the point?
Live journal.
Oh,
MySpace.
Yeah,
that's another damn thing,
MySpace.
Everyone and their mother,
literally,
their mother,
has a MySpace.
I was going on MySpace.
I used to have a MySpace
for a while
and then I deleted it
because I just got tired of it
but then someone suckered me
into getting one again
and sure as shit,
when I got one,
I modified it.
You know,
I fucking,
I changed all the,
the bands,
the movies that I'm interested in.
I made it look good
because I don't want my shit
to look default
for some reason.
That's just me.
I have this thing about
not looking,
not looking default.
If you have a MySpace
that's on default,
you're a noob.
But anyways,
fucking,
I got into it
and then I started searching
for people
because I was like,
what the hell?
You know,
I wonder if these people have it.
I started going through
friends in elementary school
and I typed their real name
and sure as shit,
they had a MySpace too.
And that's the cool thing
about it was being able
to keep in contact
with people I haven't talked
to in years.
And then I found out
that even my family members,
people,
family I don't even talk to
that had MySpace
and it kind of freaked me out
because a lot of it too is,
I found some old friends,
like this one girl
I used to talk to
when I was in fourth grade
and she was a really cool girl.
She was one of those,
you know,
good girls in school,
got straight A's.
She was one of those
smart asses,
you know,
kind of girls
and she was really smart
and nice.
Sure as shit,
I pop in her name
and I see her in MySpace,
she's gotten,
you know,
she's more developed now,
she's fucking hot.
But the problem is,
not that there's anything
really wrong with this,
but every sentence
that she typed
was every other letter
was capitalized
in lowercase,
everything that she was asked
with was a Z
and her class
was totally different.
The kind of guys
that she talked to,
everyone knows
what I'm talking about.
It was just horrible
to see some like
of your cool friends
from elementary school,
these nice people,
turn into this kind
of character.
And I was like,
well,
I was thinking about
adding her as a friend
and sending her message
and saying,
hey,
I found you,
but I think it's best
that I just don't speak
to this person
because I'm kind of afraid
to find out their history
and what they've been
going through.
Oh my God.
Because like,
I couldn't be able
to speak to them.
They would just start
talking to me
in a completely different way
and it's just,
it's not the same person.
It's just horrible.
And then I find out
some other friends
that were going on
that these girls' mothers
now have MySpace.
Oh,
that's just wrong.
And it was horrible
because these girls,
like their boyfriend
and stuff,
I guess the mom
was posting comments
on their MySpaces,
like,
I don't want you
talking to my daughter
like this.
And it's just really horrible
how much this Tom guy
that invented this,
how big it has gotten.
Tom,
you're a curse
to all mankind.
But there was one guy
that sent me a link
that looked exactly identical.
Someone cloned
the MySpace design,
but it was kind of a,
somewhat of an anti-MySpace site,
even though it was,
it had the exact same,
engine of it.
It was like open source,
though.
And it was like,
over here,
we're not like Tom
trying to steal your money.
It was like,
exactly just like MySpace,
but it didn't have ads.
So I think some guys
trying to compete,
some guys trying to compete,
I wish I could remember
the website,
but I don't.
But some guys trying to compete
with MySpace.
You should post that
on your internet journal.
I'll post it on my blog.
I'll write about my blog.
Right after you complain
about your soup.
Before I go to bed
and when I have my ice cream,
I'll write about my blog
so everyone can read it.
Yeah,
MySpace,
it's disgusting.
It's fucking,
everyone has it.
So if you have one too,
go ahead and feel free
to add me.
I gotta say though,
MySpace is funny.
Just reading all these
random people out there
and just looking at them
and you can feel
a lot better about yourself.
And I'm sure people
like if I had one
or they visit my website
and they say,
they feel much better
about themselves
when they look at me.
But you know,
that's what the internet is.
It just makes the world go round.
A lot of it is just sad though
because one of the reasons
I got it too
was a lot of my friends
from high school and shit,
it seems that this is
the only way they think
they can communicate.
There's this thing
called email.
There's this thing
called instant message.
There's this thing
called picking up
a fucking phone
and calling somebody.
And it seems that
the only way
that they can keep in contact
is through MySpace.
It's like,
do you have an email address?
No, I don't.
Well,
didn't you have an email address
to register this
MySpace account?
And it was like,
no,
I only got a Yahoo account
so I could set this up
in the first place.
No, I don't check it.
Like,
why would you want to email me
when you can just
send me a message right here
where everyone I can talk to
is in the same group?
And it's just,
it's horrible.
Because it's lame.
Anyway.
People are such noobs.
But yeah,
anyways,
back to the original thing.
As George Carlin always says,
nail two pieces of shit together
that have never been
nailed together before
and some asshole will buy it.
I believe that was George Carlin.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
George Carlin is the man, though.
Yes.
But next week,
listen to Geek Love Radio
because I have an actual
interesting story to talk about.
Oh, that's cool.
Perfect for the Geek Love audience.
I believe that's
geekloveradio.com?
Yes, geekloveradio.com.
Okay.
Just so everyone knows.
Side of the week.
I've been fooling around
with this lately.
I've been cracking my own
wireless encryption protocol keys.
I'm not sure if it's ever
been mentioned on the show.
I assume it has been.
Webcrack.
W-E-P-C-R-A-C-K.
And that's,
that word spelled out,
.sf.net.
It's on SourceForge.
It's Linux.
And what you do
is you feed it
a bunch of packet dumps
from sniffing wireless,
like your own wireless,
because we wouldn't want
to use this
to break into
someone else's network.
And you just sniff it
and you crack it
and you can find
people's wireless
encryption keys
because of a weakness
in the wireless
encryption protocol method.
Really interesting
and very,
very,
very scary.
Email,
as always,
radio at binrev.com.
Our voicemail,
213-415-1047.
And for those of you
who are listening now,
at the end of the show,
I have an announcement.
Hopefully,
next week,
if all goes according to plan,
will be
Introduction to Freaking
and this will be
Binrev Radio's
first live show.
And, oh boy,
you guys are going live, huh?
Yeah, we're going to,
well,
it's going to be
a once in a while thing.
And we're going to be,
it's,
I've been very hesitant
to do this
because there's a very
small margin of error
and if we screw up,
basically,
there's going to be
no show,
I think.
I'm not sure
what's going to happen,
to be honest with you.
So,
actually,
are you taking call-ins?
Is that the deal?
Yeah,
we're taking call-ins,
so get ready
and have your shows
on Freaking,
have your questions
on Freaking Ready
or email us
because nobody's
emailing us anymore
and it makes me sad.
And just get ready
and hopefully,
we'll be there,
but if you,
if we,
if we tape next week,
we'll put it right
at the beginning
of the show
that it's not live
and I'll make an announcement
in the IRC channel
on the forums.
But hopefully,
if all goes
according to the planet,
we'll be live.
So,
our closing music tonight
is Compost
and 100 Comes Along
is the name of the song.
So,
once again,
we will see you next week,
same hack time,
same hack time.
We'll see you next week.
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we'll see you next week.
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