Cybercrime Adventures at the Eugene Modern Web Developers Meetup
Last night's Eugene Modern Web Developer's meetup was a lot of fun. Nick told the story of his real life adventures tracking down a very serious cyber-criminal. This included reverse engineering rootkits, walls of assembly code printouts with pins and strings to help explain the code (just like you'd see in the movies (well, the pins and string thing, they aren't usually stuck to code)), and building small programs to help investigate (and lead to the apprehension of the primary evil-doer). He told the story very well, and it was a great time.
This morning I sent the group a bunch of links to things that came up during the talk, or, in the 3 hours after the talk that Rob (@robhudson), Nick, and I hung out and continued to talk. A bunch of books were mentioned throughout the night, and I think I've covered all of them below, as well as Nick talked a bit about PLT Scheme, and so on. Here are the links I'd sent out to the group:
- "The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage", by Cliff Stoll
- "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", by Stieg Larsson
- "Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School", by John Medina
- "Coders at Work", by Peter Seibel and "Founders at Work", by Jessica Livingston
- PLT Scheme
- Emerging Languages Camp (in Portland, July 21-22)
- FlightCaster (which predicts airfares, and uses Clojure, Hadoop, etc.), and here's an article/interview about some of the tech FlightCaster uses
- NP-Complete problems (such as Traveling Salesman or rucksack problem):
- Photos of an Amazon fulfillment center
