Well I heard he is stuck between the preparation of his exams, pdf exploits analysis, other interesting statistics to run on information samples (looks very promising atm) as well as the hack.lu CTF orga and the eternal disclosure policy problem.
So don’t worry he’ll be back, sooner or later, with interesting stuff
As one can read on the hack.lu page the ctf of the hack.lu 2010 edition will be organized by the FluxFingers:
This year’s CTF contest will be held by FluxFingers, the CTF Team of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany).
FluxFingers have been participating in CTFs since 2007 and are excited to organize their first CTF at hack.lu. The CTF will be challenge-based, similair to e.g. DEFCON Quals, Codegate etc.
Topics include (among others): web security, cryptography, reverse engineering and forensic.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate contacting us at our booth. We might even give you some hints for free beer.
I’m looking forward to this event, as I’m a FluxFinger team-member and currently already designing a challenge for it. For me it’s the first time I help to organize a CTF, the learning effect of such a challenge design is really huge 
Yesterday, I met a friend. Nothing special about that, one little detail was different than when I met my other friends. I had never met that friend before. I knew that nice guy from the Internet, I guess I got in touch with him 6 years ago. In that time I was surfing on some hacking boards, and we exchanged jabber id’s. From that time on we stayed in contact, many things changed, there was an evolution. When I think back, I see how things are moving, going on, people getting smarter, changing their ideologies, and following different goals. Many people gave up hacking during that time, this guy, and myself are still following the same goal, we want to understand how things really work. So yesterday, eddy14, came to Bochum, and I showed him the university, the nice side, with the parcs, ice seller, girls, sun,… and the not so nice side, dark, concrete, no nature, nerds, … no girls. He was quite impressed. After we went to my place and hacked some common air card, type 3 to make it compliant with a normal PCMCIA port. Quite good result I have to admit. I can only recommend to read his blog, yesterday he released a very interessting tool but read for yourself 
Not very interesting for my readers, but yeah, I wanted to write something about this event.
Kind regards,
Kabel
This is only a little update, I wrote a script to allow me to query the vrr.de (Verkehrsbund Ruhr-Rhein) page to know when the next “train” is leaving. It is a simple shell UI, that is not completely implemented yet but as I don’t seem to want to invest more time in it (and it is working for my purpose) I’ll publish it, so if you need it you don’t need to start from scratch.
Nothing special about the script, I find it quite useful and I use it as a permanent “widget” in my xmobar, so I’m always up to date when the next U35 leaves, and I don’t lose time waiting for it.
So here you go: vrr-client.tar.bz2
Registration for Haxogreen Camp is open
The number of participants is limited to 100 people. So register early.
Kind regards,
Kabel
Today I was very motivated and decided to cook something. I’m not used to cook special things, and wanted to do dig into it for once. This is why I picked up a recipe here, bought everything that was needed and tried hard to make the best of it, the result:
It tasted very good, and was quite fun creating it, so maybe I’ll do it more often
Kind regards,
Kabel
PS: As people keep telling me that it does not look good, I have to say the following: Please consider the obfuscation performed by my mobile phone camera and the bad light conditions in my kitchen. Honestly it looked very good.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HaxoGreen 2010 SummerCamp July 22-25 2010, Dudelange, Luxembourg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
”’HaxoGreen 2010”’ is the second iteration of the annual four-day outdoor camp in early summer 2010 organized by C3L [0] and syn2cat [1]. This rather informal and cosy camp takes place ”’from July 22nd till July 25th 2010”’. Whether you want to attend lectures and workshops, hack on your projects or just share 3 midsummer nights outdoors, socialising with other hackers, artists and geeks, ”’HaxoGreen”’ is the place to be. No need to be a 1337 H4X0r, we welcome all inquisitive people from around the globe. The camp is organized by the community around Luxembourg’s Hackerspace syn2cat and the Chaos Computer Club Lëtzebuerg. We appreciate your participation, be it by holding a lecture, a workshop or presenting your projects and ideas during a 10 min lightning talk. Also don’t miss the movies and music in the evenings on our big screen!
– LOCATION
The camp is located at the scouts’ ground near the city of Dudelange in the southern region of Luxembourg. The camping ground features adequate restrooms and shower facilities. Indoor rooms for lectures and workshops are also available. The nearby town of Dudelange, near the borders to France and Germany, offers access to shops and markets for all of your grocery needs.
– SUGGESTED PRESENTATION AND WORKSHOP TOPICS
Participate with your lectures, panel discussions, workshops, or lightning talks. (Though you can give a lightning talk without submitting its topic) Your lectures and workshops don’t have to be limited to technology. Lectures with a background in society, community, science and art are welcome as well. These are some examples of the inter-disciplinary fields that our audience would be interested in:
* Green IT and Green Hacks
* Virtualized Environments
* Cloud Computing
* Darknets and Hackerspaces
* Computer Security Incident Response and Mitigation
* Do-it-yourself Science
* Molecular Gastronomy
* Wilderness Survival Tactics
* Amateur Robotics
* Radio and Mobile Communications (GNURadio, etc.)
* Electronic Art (vj, dj, installations etc.)
* Net Neutrality, Intellectual Property and Privacy Aspects
* Active/Liquid Democracy and Political Activism
* Sustainable Housing and eco-friendly Living …and anything that is not on the list.
– DEADLINES
* Deadline Abstracts: March 31, 2010
* Acceptance Notification: April 14, 2010 Papers are welcomed, but not mandatory. Submitted papers can be published on the camp website/schedule. Please send your proposals, before the deadline, to camp@hackerspace.lu, making sure we can get back at you. Don’t forget to mention any hardware or software requirements that your talk or workshop includes. We would be happy for every distributed version of the CfP.
– INFO
The camp is organized by the community around Luxembourg’s Hackerspace syn2cat and the Chaos Computer Club Lëtzebuerg. For any questions about this camp, send an email to camp@hackerspace.lu
Website: http://events.hackerspace.lu/camp/2010/
Yesterday, I planed to drive back to Luxembourg for the weekend. Due to the bad weather and the bad driving conditions, I finally decided to stay in Bochum.
My hacker colleagues form the University had already some plans for the weekend, and they managed to convince me to join them for a nice evening. So, my Friday night began at 18:47, with a “U-Bahn” that did not come, due to the bad weather… fortunately the next was able to pick me up, and I drove to the “Bochum Hauptbahnhof” where Joshua, a nice guy form the uni lives. tmh and h0yt3r were already there and we went to Joshuas place to have some chill-out time, with some beers, food and a movie. It was fun, until I literally exploded his chef seat :S (I bought him a new one today, knowing the time one passes on such a chair when you study at the RUB, I know I had to do it, and the faster the better).
After this we left the building at 23:00 and took the U-35 to the university. We weren’t alone, unfortunately a group of very “strange” young people were singing, and making stupid things in the train… we hoped they would get out of the train before the university. We were hoping wrong … they all got out of the train at the RUB, like we did. We were lucky, as we found out that there was another party at the uni, the Theology guys had orgnaized one too… the strange people all went there 
The rest of the night, we spend chilling and listening to music in the front of the lecture halls. There were plenty of people and the ambiance was just perfect.
So, I had a great time with people I knew for quite a while (tmh, h0yt3r were people I got in touch with in my early Internet times and I was following their progress for all this time). So you see, Geeks, Nerds and whatever names people want to give us, we also socialize sometimes, and go away from our PCs, and out of our dark rooms.
As a conclusion I have to say that the party was good, but I’m not a very big fan of parties and I could not party all weekends, but for once in a while it is okay, looking forward to the next “IB-United” party!
Best regards,
Kabel
P.S: I put a new page online: “about me” The page is briefly describing the author of this blog.
If you know me:
Feel free to tell me, if you find that the description is not matching my personality.
Else If you don’t know me:
Feel free to get an impression on who I am.
Hey, as some people wanted to see my home office, here you go, please enjoy KOC: Kabel Operations Center
Sorry for the bad quality of the picture my phone cam was not able to do better.
Note that the I can operate all these laptops with only one mouse and keyboard, thanks to synergy, a TCP KVM Switch running on, at least, the 3 operating system you can see on this pictures. Furthermore, copy & paste from one OS into the next is no problem, which is providing a lot of comfort in everyday life.
I’m currently using the following operation systems:
You may have noticed all these lights and lava lamps etc, of course they can be piloted by the PCs you see but more on this in one of the next blog posts.
Regards,
Kabel
Hello out there!
Just a short note to inform you that my blog can now be reached over 2 new domains:
0xbadcab1e.lu and badcab1e.lu
Of course you can still access it over ipv4 as well as ipv6.
I’m modifying my blog at the moment, some features will be added that you’ll notice others you won’t. I’m mainly increasing the security and automating some boring tasks.
Have a nice evening,
Kabel